Dr Sunil Gupta

CEO

United Arab Emirates38 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Lifetime Master Trainer certified by Dr. Edward de Bono.
  • Facilitated award-winning innovation projects across 50+ countries.
  • Expert in fostering cultures of innovation and creativity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a global expert in innovation and training methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Training/ Facilitation/ Consulting On InnovationStrategic ThinkingCreativity And InnovationLeadership DevelopmentTraining And Development (hr)Change ManagementHigher EducationTraining Delivery

Other Skills

Design ThinkingBusiness DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementservitizationCritical ThinkingSix Thinking HatsLateral ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingStrategyStrategy Maps & BSCStrategic PlanningTraining FacilitationWorkshop FacilitationTeam Building

About

With over 36 years of experience in training and consulting using Dr Edward de Bono's thinking and innovation tools; I am one of the six Life Time Master Trainers in the world, personally certified by Edward de Bono himself. Exclusive distributor of his signature methods across UAE, Oman, Qatar-GCC , Bangladesh and India. My passion is to help the best entities unleash their creative potential and achieve strategic outcomes. Have delivered several award-winning innovation projects and facilitated workshops for diverse clients across 50+ countries, spanning multiple industries and sectors. I am also an author, researcher, and speaker on topics related to thinking skills, creativity, and innovation. My mission is to foster a culture of innovation and creativity in organizations and individuals, by equipping them with the underpinning Skills and Tools to generate, evaluate, and implement ideas that create value and impact. I love building and sustaining Innovation capabilities and eco systems using Six Thinking Hats, POP, Lateral thinking, Strategic Thinking, Foresight, Strategic Futures, TRIZ and Thinking by Design or Design Thinking.

Experience

International federation of training and development organisations- iftdo

Board Member

Jun 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Switzerland

  • Member of the board of the apex Federation of Training organizations- Non Profit

Creative education foundation

Member Board of Trustees

Jan 2013Dec 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos · United States

  • Board member

Cii

Member

Jan 2012Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Member

Edward de bono methods training

CEO

Jan 1992Present · 34 yrs 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Training and consulting on all Edward de Bono tools
  • Core competence thinking and innovation, strategy and leadership development
Training/ Facilitation/ Consulting on InnovationStrategic ThinkingCreativity and InnovationDesign ThinkingBusiness DevelopmentAgile Methodologies+11

Ideas management consultants

2 roles

Chief Innovation Instigator and Creatologist

Jan 1992Present · 34 yrs 2 mos

  • Life Time Master Trainer( One among 6 globally) , trained personally as a Certified Master Trainer on Thinking skills, Innovation and creative tools by Edward de bono since he established APTT/ DBTS.
  • Distributor de Bono and Trained over 330 trainers globally on de Bono tools.
  • Offices in UAE, Oman and India
  • Watch out for ideation killer phrases:
  • A good idea, but....
  • Against policy
  • All right in theory
  • Be practical
  • Costs too much
  • We've never done it before
  • It's not part of our job...
  • We need more data
  • We don't have a budget...
  • Too difficult, too lengthy...
Creativity and InnovationCreative Problem SolvingLeadership DevelopmentTeam BuildingCritical Thinking

Chief Innovation Instigator

Jan 1992Present · 34 yrs 2 mos

Colgate palmolive

2 roles

Manager HRD

Jan 1987Jan 1991 · 4 yrs

  • Talent selection, T&D, Performance Improvement, Business Development
TrainingTraining DeliveryTraining FacilitationTraining and Development (HR)Change ManagementSales Management+1

Manager HRD

Jan 1987Jan 1991 · 4 yrs

  • T&D

Symbiosis college of arts & commerce

Director

Jan 1987Jan 1989 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Higher EducationTeam ManagementBusiness DevelopmentTraining Delivery

Education

New York University

Post Masters & Doctoral research — Management

Sep 1985Jul 1989

de Bono

Varied Program Certifications and trained directly by Dr Edward de Bono — Thinking skills and Creativity

Jan 1990Jan 2003

ISTD

Diploma In Training & Development — Training

Jan 1985Jan 1986

University of Mumbai

M.Phil — Management

Jun 1984Jun 1986

University of Mumbai

M.Com — Management

Jun 1977Jun 1979

University of Mumbai

B.Com — Management

Jun 1973Jun 1977

St Anthonys High School, Mumbai

School — Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Jan 1966Jan 1973

University of California, Berkeley

Extension courses — Innovative appoaches to Organisational Restructuring

Jun 1993Jun 1993

University of California, Berkeley

Extension courses — Bank Strategy

Oct 1993Oct 1993

University of California, Berkeley

Extension courses — Performance managment

Jun 1994Jun 1994

The University of Texas at Austin

Continuing education — Strategy Maps

Feb 2005Feb 2005

The University of Texas at Austin

Continuing education — Using The Balanced Scorecard

Feb 2005Feb 2005

University of Malta

Edward de Bono programme for Design & Development of Thinking — Thinking Skills

Jun 2002Jun 2003

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