Workshop's Leader

About Dr. Sunil Gupta
Lifetime Certified Master Trainer - De Bono Thinking systems

The Creative Guru attained his early education at the University of Bombay. He then worked for his Post Masters Research and Advanced Training at the University of New York, where he completed his Ph.D. in Management.

Dr. Sunil Gupta has special interest and passion for Improving Customer Service, Creativity & Thinking Skills and initiating and sustaining Quality and change processes in Organizations. Dr. Sunil Gupta was personally trained and certified by Dr. Edward De Bono 15 years ago to facilitate seminars on creativity, innovation, and thinking skills. There are over 2,000 certified trainers worldwide, out of which number Dr Gupta himself has certified over 250 trainers on various tools.

Dr. Gupta is among only four trainers worldwide to be awarded Lifetime Certification on the Edward de Bono Thinking Programs on account of his training excellence. This lifetime Certified Master Trainer title is exclusively reserved for those Master Trainers who have been affiliated with the De Bono Thinking systems for at least 10 years, have trained over 10,000 people in the de bono thinking techniques, have demonstrated outstanding platform skills and who exemplify the highest standard in Customer Service. Dr Gupta has the distinction of training over 300,000 people worldwide on the De bono methods and is certified on all the products of Edward de bono.

Dr. Gupta is licensed by Dr. Edward De Bono to offer Lateral Thinking™, Six Thinking Hats™, DATT™ , Simplicity™ and CoRT workshops. He has also been trained by Tony Buzan & Vanda North on the use of Mind Maps for business and is a licensed instructor on Mind Mapping™. Ken Blanchard has certified Sunil to be a Whale Done™, Gung HO™!, One Minute Manager™, and Situational Leadership™. Consultant Dr. Gupta's research papers have been published at several international proceedings His last line assignment was as Corporate Manager, Human Resources Development with Colgate Palmolive Inc. & he is the recipient of "Chairman's You Can Make a Difference Award".

Dr. Gupta has over 30-years of academic and industrial experience. His previous work assignments have been in Singapore, USA, India, Pakistan and the GCC countries with multinationals and Government sector. His core competencies include Management Development, HRD, Organization Development, Human Resource Information System (HRIS) General Management, Creativity and Change Management.

Participants in his training programs have come from 35 countries and 75 nationalities.

About Dr. Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is equally renowned for his development of the Six Thinking Hats® technique and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools™ (D.A.T.T.™) framework.

His techniques and work focus on improving the elements that constitute a perception and the formal design and application of the frameworks required towards innovative and creative action. One may easily say that all the recent (past thirty years) focus on thinking, on creativity, on innovation, on frameworks beyond 'x-storming' etc has taken its lead from Edward de Bono's work. He has written 70 books with translations into 40 languages and has been invited to lecture in 58 countries.

The International Astronomical Union named a planet after Edward de Bono in recognition of his contribution to humanity. There are over 4 million references to Dr. Edward de Bono on the Internet. Dr. de Bono has established the World Academy of New Thinking™ (WANT) which is an association of those who believe in the need for new thinking and the importance of new thinking. Dr. Edward de Bono was recently named one the 'Top 50 Business Intellectuals.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
Dr. Edward de Bono