Santosh Sali

Professor Santosh -is FPM from XLRI in Organizational behaviour. Prior he worked in IT in investment banking and carries experience in business planning-consulting. He is passionate about helping individuals and organizations reach their hidden potential (self-actualize). Adept in business planning and worked with fortune 500 firms in Japan Market entry. He loves teaching, books, and reading. He is designing an intervention based on books using reading, writing, presentation that will make professional a lifelong learner.  

Before joining UPES, Prof. Santosh was at the Temple University Japan. And Supported business planning teams with JMEC (Japan Market Entry) and led a team to winning contest.  Prior to that he taught at various business schools including XLRI. During his business schoolwork, he established entrepreneurship cell and helped startups. Before academia, he worked in India and Japan as an Oracle DBA in Information technology, primarily in investment banking environment.  

Prof. Santosh primary interest is how work shapes people for good. He studied job, career, and calling during his thesis journey. Karma Yoga is another topic of his interest. He studied competency and assessment centre and working on developing intervention for improving employability of MBA students.  

Growth mindset (Of Carol Dweck) enables anyone to express one’s hidden potential is the basic premise I follow in teaching. Being a part of business school, I believe in the power of performance, and it is closely linked to competencies. Hence, I design assignments, teaching curriculum from the perspective of competency building. I also firmly believe that teacher can only help this much, but most of learning comes from student and his/her peers.  

Prof. Santosh taught Organizational behaviour, Human resource management and its variants. He taught Creating high performance teams to senior professionals at XLRI. Performance management, Entrepreneurship, Learning and development, and consulting are some other courses, he taught.  Careers is another area of interest for him. and he taught career related course to undergraduate and post-graduates. He had mentored and coached in career related queries.  

Prof. Santosh received the TAP (textbook affordability project) grant from Temple University. This helped him to convert the textbook into the open-source format.  

Prof. Santosh wrote his thesis during my FPM on “Job, Career, and Calling”. And this has triggered his interest in employability and mobility. He engages with scholars and practitioners in OB-HRM area on these topics. “Academic Writing” is another area, that will help Indian scholars to publish at top journals, Prof. Santosh is developing a competency-based workshop in “Academic Writing”.  

santosh.sali@ddn.upes.ac.in