Imon Ghosh

Profile Synopsis

Summary: My career objective is to lead strategic business or institutional initiatives and enhance lives as a trainer, economist and author..

What do I have to offer (Haves): Strong corporate training design, development and delivery skills. Good leadership, teambuilding and mentoring abilities. Inspiring writing, editing, and program evaluation skills. Innovative thinker with a passion for poverty reduction, enhancing lives.

What do I seek (Wants):  Networking: If you or any of your contacts are interested in actionable ideas for making poverty history, and achieving the United Nation's poverty-related Millennium Development Goals, I would be happy to email you a paper (soon to be a book) I've writt.

Imon Ghosh's Profile Overview

Current Company Director at Academy of HRD
Department: Top Management, from Apr 2010 till now

Job Description : The Academy of Human Resources Development (AHRD) is India’s premier institution, specializing in human resources development for all organizational forms..

Past Company Head of Training at Metro Cash and Carry India Private Limited
Industry : Retail
Department: Human Resources, from from Oct 2005 till Mar 2010

Job Description : METRO Cash & Carry is a pioneer and global leader in the business to business Cash & Carry wholesale format. METRO offers hotels and restaurants, traders and institutions a wide assortment of food and non-food products.

Accomplishments:

+ Organised the trainings prior to launch for all the Staff, Supervisors, Department Managers and Floor Managers at METRO Cash & Carry India’s Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata Distribution Centres.

+ Designed and delivered training on Visioning/Goal Setting, Team Leadership, Communication Skills, Delivering Superior Service, and Interviewing Skills; and delivered Train-The-Trainer, Induction, Project Management, Time Management and other training sessions.

+ In 2008, METRO Cash & Carry India has conducted 559 training sessions for 7,824 participants during 5,835 training man days, with a 96.6% participation rate and 99% plus participant satisfaction rate, within the allocated training budget.

. Manager, MD's Office at Seychelles Marketing Board
Industry : Manufacturing/Industrial
Department: Top Management, from from Jul 2003 till Aug 2005

Job Description : The Seychelles Marketing Board (SMB) has been tasked with ensuring food security at stable prices for the 85,000 inhabitants and 115,000 visitors per annum to the Seychelles, a picturesque small island developing state. Besides importing and distributing a variety of products, SMB fulfills its food security mandate by manufacturing over 100 varieties of processed meats, tetra-packed milk and fruit juices, as well as yoghurt, jams and sauces, pasta, mineral water, snacks, tea and coffee, and prawns etc.

SMB has 1,900 staff and a turnover during the 2003/4 fiscal year of 713 million Seychelles Rupees (130 million USD).

My responsibilities as Manager in the MD's Office included developing and delivering corporate training modules for SMB Managers and Staff, serving on a Management Task Force that revamped SMB retail and manufacturing operations prior to privatisation, besides being a member of the corporate News-gathering Board, Training Committee, Annual Report Committee and a technical committee responsible for all SMB brand positioning and marketing communications.

Accomplishments:

+ Served on the Editorial Board for corporate publications, and contributed a column, 'Build The Future', for Newstalk, the SMB corporate newspaper.

+ Drafted/edited the narrative (non-financial) sections of SMB's Annual Reports.

+ Contributed to the deliberations of a corporate Task Force and drafted/edited its final reports.

+ Conducted leadership development workshops for 200 SMB Managers and Supervisors.

+ Provided training in sales, delivering superior service, teambuilding, communication and interviewing skills / HR processes to HR & A staff, sales team, duty free staff, supermarket staff, and corporate security staff.

+ Participant feedback of my training workshops has been very positive. (Available on request.)

+ Built a corporate training resource library from scratch.

+ Authored a corporate training participant handbook.

. Economics Faculty at Nopany Institute of Management Studies (NIMS)
Industry : Educational/Training
Department: Others, from from Aug 2002 till Jul 2003

Job Description : The Nopany Institute of Management Studies (NIMS) was founded in August 2002. Laxmi Mittal, the Steel Magnate, studied at the Nopany School well before the Management Institute was established.

Accomplishments:

+ Ranked one of the Management Institute's most effective teachers in a student evaluation of faculty.

+ Arranged an Institutional Membership for NIMS at the Calcutta Management Association, and encouraged my management students to attend lectures by industry leaders.

+ Organized field trips for students, including one to the Reserve Bank of India where students had an opportunity to meet the Banking Ombudsman and other senior RBI officials.

+ The corporate training workshops I held for students and faculty of NIMS received excellent participant feedback.

. Visiting Faculty at National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS)
Industry : Educational/Training
Department: Others, from from Aug 2002 till Jul 2003

Job Description : The National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) was founded in July 1999 as a national level institution of excellence in the higher learning of law in India.

On the invitation of the founding Vice-Chancellor of NUJS, Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon, I taught classes on Economics and Environmental Law, and also participated in research on globalization and the impact of the WTO on Indian agriculture.

Accomplishments:

+ A paper I wrote on Reducing Rural Poverty has been included in the NUJS syllabus for a course on Agricultural Law and Law relating to Local Self-Government besides being abridged and published on the Editorial page in all editions of The Times of India on 4 April 2001, and noted in the records of the Indian Parliament. The ideas outlined in Reducing Rural Poverty could help the United Nations achieve its poverty-related Millennium Development Goals, and I am currently expanding them into a book.

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Educational Information M.Phil at Academy of Human Resources Development
from Jun 2008 till Jun 2008

Imon Ghosh's Additional information

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Imon Ghosh's Personal Details

Gender:Male

Interest:If you'd like to explore possible solutions to the current economic downturn, financial sector reforms, accelerating economic growth, and achieving the UN's poverty-related Millennium Development Goals (…which currently look elusive), please visit my bl