Sadhan Bhattacharya

Sadhan is a credentialed learning & talent development leader (GTML®, CPTD®), a trained executive coach and an educator with a global and regional work background in the pharmaceutical and MedTech space.. He currently holds the responsibility of a learning leader and a change-agent to redefine organizational capabilities and lead ‘future-ready’ talent framework to create competitive advantages for J&J MedTech (Vision).

A Successful career spanning over two decades in workplace learning & performance and rooted in a business leadership background offers the vantage to proactively partner with business stakeholders and leaders in driving business and people goals.

A capability leader with the working philosophy of “Learning & talent development are less about the functional metrics and all about the business impact they drive” makes him an outlier in the fraternity.

His special interests include Personal Branding, Purposeful Leadership & Research in Coaching Culture.

Thought leadership in the L&D space and strong business acumen drive innovative learning solutions and strategic alliances augmenting people capabilities and organizational effectiveness.

• J&J Vision’s Global Innovation Challenge Award (2022) for creating VR-based digital assets that drive customer value through superior engagement experience and drive down the cost of operation
• J&J DE&I Global Award (2021): It recognized how J&J Vision (India) could lead its DE&I initiatives to improve its gender and industry diversity in hiring and promoting talent within the commercial establishment.
• Represented APJ region in two global learning council conclaves in California (2017) and Barcelona (2019)
• Winner of APJ- Innovation Challenge Award (2018): Peer Coaching to Soar-up Employee Engagement & Development, an initiative to drive coaching culture within the enterprise
• Best country L&D initiatives in APJ region (2017): Successfully integrating an in-house certification program to continuously build individual capabilities and career integration
• Designing a truly global curriculum on Value-based Negotiation (VbN*) (2016): Created and adapted a global program ‘Value-based Negotiation (VbN)’ based on the work of Harvard Law Schools’ Prof. William Ury which is a standard global curriculum that potentially helped save a major cost upwards of $1M from global budget plus annual licensing fees
• Best Senior Leader India (2016): Basis overall transformation of the legacy function in Abbott
• Pro-bono Coach for TISS (2015): Participating executives of the program on ‘Organizational Development & Change Management’ from TISS
• Training Top125 awards by Training magazine (2013,14)awards by Training magazine
• Adjunct Faculty (pro-bono) for the country’s leading B-schools: Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Amritsar) & Goa Institute of Management

(*Modeled on Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation with permission from the authors & researchers)

• Coach for Life (ACC | ICF, International Coach Federation) – 2014
• Member – Association for Talent Development ATD (formerly ASTD)- since 2009
• Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) from NFNLP, USA, 2010
• TED@Work

• Six Sigma (Green Belt), Merck’s Six Sigma academy
• Currently penning down my first book ‘You’re Branded!’ on personal branding in the Social Age
• Professional speaker at industry and HR forums
• World Education Congress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-4GCachhI
• Human Capital Conference, Kathmandu https://youtu.be/gxyvo3626qE
• Contrarian views on various leadership, learning & talent practices through blogging https://sadhanism.wordpress.com