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Brief Profile
Sunil Kumar Sarangi is currently teaching Communication and Leadership at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has an international (US) certification as a teacher/trainer and taught/trained for a number of enterprises. His area of teaching/training includes different aspects of leadership such as interpersonal effectiveness, motivation, influence, persuasion, customer-focus, communication. For five years now, he has been the Program Director of Basic Leadership Skills (BLS), the flagship Management Development Program of XLRI. He has over 20 years of corporate and academic experience. He holds a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature as a university gold medalist. His area of research/focus is leadership language, entrepreneurship, and neuro-communication. He has worked for Goldman Sachs, Oracle etc. At XLRI, he has designed and delivered/taught Management Development Programs [as Program Director] and as resource faculty for: senior IFS Officers, Allied Officers of Govt of India, Central Labour Commissioners. He has designed and taught the senior leadership of CANARA Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, TATA Metaliks, IndianOil, National Healthcare Nepal, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, Mahindra Comviva Technology, NABARD. He has designed and delivered a unique session on the patient-doctor communication framework to an audience of Neurologists, Neuro-psychiatrists and P.G. students of medical science.
He has designed and has been delivering two iconic programmes for TATA Steel [Foundations of Leadership] and NALCO [Leadership Gen-next].
This year, he has been inducted into the Governing Body of Jamshedpur Management Association. In Sept 2022, he was invited to speak to the Governing Board of State Bank of India (SBI) on Customer Experience Management (CXM) during its quarterly meeting.
He has been mentoring start-ups and new business entrepreneurs for years now. He has taught/trained close to 5000 executives/entrepreneurs drawn from various sectors and geographies as now. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of XCEED [XLRI Council for Entrepreneurship Excellence and Development, a Section 8 company of XLRI]. He is also the Chairperson of Institutional Ethics Committee of Tata Main Hospital [TMH].
Courses Taught
- Post-graduate course on Management Communication at IMT, Nagpur
- IFIM, Bangalore
- IBMR, Bangalore.
- International Marketing at HDF School of Management, Bhubaneswar
In-Company Programs
- Sunil has created, designed and successfully delivered more than 40 customised programmes as a Program Director for various organisations across the industry and the Government in areas such as Leadership, Negotiation, Influence, Communication etc.
Intellectual Contributions (Publications)
Journal Articles-Refereed
- Lincoln`s Contributions to International Law, Vol.26, 2015, Co Author : William D.Pederson, Abraham Lincoln Abroad, An International Lincoln Association Publication.
Paper Presentations-Refereed
- International conference organized by Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) at IIT Madras. Presented a paper on the Emerging Nations or the Global South in Dec 2013.
- Topography of Mind, Society and Culture; Identity Cross-over at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. Nov 2012
Other Professional Activities
Chairperson/Co-Chairperson in Conferences
- Flagship program of IIM - Bangalore - EXIMIUS `Panel of Entrepreneurs - 2011`
- Flagship program of IIM - Bangalore - EXIMIUS `Panel of Entrepreneurs - 2012`
Co-Ordinating/Organizing Workshop/Conferences /MDPS
1. Two Management Development Programmes (MDP) at XLRI for the managers of Bank of Baroda
- Presentation Skill
- Customer Relation
- Time Manaegement
3. Six MDPs/ICPs on communication, leadership and negotiation skill after joining XLRI
- TATA Steel
- Unicharm
- NHPC
- NALCO
- Twice to the Academy of Defence Productions (for the civil servants, IOFS, Nagpur) on Organisational Communication
- senior Indian Forest Officers on communication
- Training programmes on communication for many other organisations like :
- MRF
- Ashok Leyland
- Power Grid
- Indian Oil etc.
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Member on the Advisory Board of Abraham Lincoln Abroad
- Member (Board of Studies Mount Carmel Institute of Management, Bangalore).
Professional Services such as Member/Editor of Editorial Board/ Advisory Committee etc
- Advisory boards of Knolskape and Bioquest Global (two rapidly growing companies in India)
- Member on the Advisory Board of Abraham Lincoln Abroad