Gaurango Chattopadhyay

Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay is CEO, Chattopadhyay Associates: Organisational Consultants & Personal Counsellors; Professor Emeritus; Academy of Human Resources Development, Ahmedabad (India). He has held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (India); Manchester Business School (UK), Graduate School of Management, Swinburne University, Melbourne (Australia); University College of Swansea, (UK); and Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University; has been UNDP/CFTC Adviser on Modern Management Techniques, East African Community, Tanzania; Consultant at the Leicester Group Relations Conferences (GRC) of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, also group relations conferences held in UK by The Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies (London), by Emeritus Professor A. John Allaway in Nottingham, by Patrick Behan in Sheffield, in Lorne & Melbourne of the Institute of Socio-Analysis, Australia, Amsterdam GRCs of Group Relations Nederland, OFEK's Israeli GRCs and a Trinidad GRC of IFSI (France), as also numerous Indian GRCs. Gouranga has directed more than 50 of the above group relations conferences. His expertise is in organisational problem diagnosis, problem solving, and management training, which he has applied as a consultant in Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe. He also offers personal counselling to managers. He organises team building programmes with indoor and outdoor exercises, including outward bound programmes and concept sessions. He has completed personal psychoanalysis in 1983; is trained in Yoga at the Bihar School of Yoga and was initiated there as Karma Sannyasin Tattwaratna by Paramahamsa Niranjanananda Saraswati in 1995). His publications include 5 books and 106 articles in the professional area of work, 4 volumes of poems (in English) and an English translation of a Bengali novel. Work in progress: sixth professional book, fifth collection of poems, and a translation of Tagore's poems & songs. His hobbies include making walking sticks.