Surya Tahora | Faculty at SPJIMR - Top B-School in India

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Surya Tahora (Zoher Mandjee Tahora)

Professor, General Management

Executive Director, Centre for Wisdom in Leadership

Surya Tahora is a Professor in the area of general Management at SPJIMR. He teaches Spirituality and Leadership to around six hundred MBA and Executive MBA students annually and conducts workshops for various organisations in India, Europe, and Asia.

Surya is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) at SPJIMR. The objective of this Centre of Practice is to create and disseminate ideas for a more responsible and sustainable society by bringing together the domains of leadership and traditions of wisdom from East to West. The Centre seeks to become a global, research-driven, and innovative platform for impacting leadership practices.

Before entering into academics and pursuing his passion for teaching, Surya Tahora had a successful career with multinational companies in Europe and Asia in senior leadership roles in Marketing, International Business Development, and Strategic Planning for 14 Years.

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EDUCATION

Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Institute of Vedanta & Sanskrit, Coimbatore, India

Equivalent to D. of Indian Philosophy, 2013

Paris XI University, School of Pharmaceutical & Biological Sciences, France

Ph.D., 1994
Focus: Pharmaceutical Sciences for the Industry

INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

High Potential Young Manager Programme, 1993

Aix-Marseille University, IAE AIX School of Management, France

MBA, 1988

COURSES

Some titles among the academic courses conducted:

Leading with Wisdom

Insights & Practices for Lasting Success

Journey to Self-Mastery

The Pursuit of Mindful Leadership

The Quest for Meaning and Fulfilment

Practices to anchor yourself in a chaotic world

Contemplative Practices for Leaders

Freeing yourself from limiting mental models

Navigating intelligently through the ups and downs of life

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Economy & Religion Programme, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest, since March 19, 2021

Director: Laszlo Zsolnai, Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest
REVIEWER EXPERIENCE

Human Values and Indian Ethos in Management: The Legacy of S. K. Chakraborty., Springer Nature, 18 June 2020 (Book)

Spiritual and Ethical Decision making with Yogic Yamas and Niyamas, Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 18 December 2020 (Research article)

TEACHING INTEREST

Eastern Philosophy

Contemplative Practices

Cognitive Neurosciences

Leadership Development

Human development

Ethics
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Under the Centre for Wisdom in Leadership, CWIL, SPJIMR

‘Flourishing in a new era: conversations around Ethics, Sustainability and Spirituality’

Organiser and co-facilitator with Jagdish Ratnani of a series of four webinars:

‘Sustainable Futures: Well-Being in the Anthropocene’ with Dr. Paul Shrivastava, 15^th Jan 2021

‘Exploring Ideas and Models on Responsible Business’ with Mr. László Zsolnai, 22^nd Jan 2021

‘Progressive Business Models and Resilience’ with Eleanor O’Higgins, 29^th Jan 2021

‘Spiritual based leadership in business’ with Peter Pruzan, 5^th Feb 2021

‘Past Imperfect: Indian Histories of Business, Politics, and Leadership’

Co-Organiser of a series of four webinars facilitated by Dinyar Patel, conversations with:

-Mircea Raianu author of “Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism” (Harvard University Press, 2021), 3^rd Sept 2021

-Vinay Sitapati, author of “Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India”, 17^th Sept 2021

-Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan, authors of “Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London”, 8^th Oct 2021

-Ross Bassett, author of “The Technological Indian” (Harvard University Press, 2016), 22^nd Oct 2021

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