Dr. ARPITA DUTTA (h.c.)
Founder and Director – Cherryskillz Learning Private Limited
SUMMARY
Arpita is a seasoned Human Resources and Learning & Development professional with over 18+
years of excellent track record in HR & Learning Consulting, Leadership Development,
Organisation Capability, Culture Transformation, Employee Engagement, Performance
Management and Talent Management practices.
Her passion for skill development projects helped her bringing in transformational changes
across multiple organizations.
She has created web-based content for a premier university that benefited over 2 Lakh
students across the country, started successful line of business contributing to business
growth.
She is the case-study champion for a premier university contributing to top 15 real-life HR
business cases. She is the talent engagement champion facilitating people-centric programs
with cross-cultural interactions and received several recognitions.
She was the Adjunct professor for Manipal University and Sikkim Manipal University for post
graduate management students and working professionals.
She has worked for corporates like ATOS (previously SchlumbergerSema), Invensys Skelta (now Schneider Electric Software), Manpower Global (deputed in Freescale Semiconductor, division of Motorola) and start-ups.
She is a Facilitator having trained more than 8000 working professionals and students. The leadership and soft skills programs are customized and delivered according to the objectives laid down by the client. The methodology adopted are both cognitive and mainly experiential learning methods.
She is the Faculty for Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) for their flagship L&D Diploma program of working professionals in Bangalore.
Educational Qualification
- BE – Instrumentation & Electronics, R.V. College of Engineering – 1993-1997
- MBA (Systems Management), IISWBM-Kolkata (Rank holder) – 1999 – 2001
- EPHRM, IIM-Lucknow – 2010-2011
- Honorary Doctorate Degree in HRM, Young Scientist University, USA in 2018
Certifications
- Transactional Leadership Development program from XLRI, JSR in 2000
- TRAIN THE TRAINER certificate from Dale Carnegie in 2013
- NLP Practitioner & Diploma in NLP from ABNLP, IAPCCT in 2019
Awards & Recognitions
- Received Certificate of Honour as “Top 10 Women Leaders in Soft Skills Industry – 2020” by Women Entrepreneur India 2020
- Awarded “Emerging Company Award” by Indian Achievers Forum in the “National Brand Impact Summit & Awards 2020”.
- Recognized as “Leader of Tomorrow” by Asia Pacific HRM Congress.
- Awarded “Exemplary Learning Professional” by Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD).
- Awarded “Best Woman Employee of the Year” by ISBR, Bangalore.
- Presented research paper and received the award for Best Research Paper “Balancing and Bridging Corporate Expectations in MBA program design” by CMR University.
- Awarded “Excellence in HR” by Women Leadership Empowerment & Entrepreneur Development Forum.
- Recognized with “Business HR Case Study Champion” award by Manipal Global Education Services
- Awarded “Excellence in HR” by Women Leadership Empowerment & Entrepreneur Development Forum (WeLEED).
Supporting Team
Experienced Facilitators / Trainers / Teachers / Coaches are involved in complete training life cycle from requirement gathering and analysis stage to designing and delivering programs. We follow the ADDIE process for the training effectiveness.
Industry veterans are associated as Advisors.
