Sanjay Mukherjee is a multi-faceted creative professional with over three decades of experience in journalism, workforce development, and management consultancy for small and new entities (including startups). His career has spanned 5 different industries (travel, hospitality, print media, technology-enabled training and digital media). His ability to connect ideas from diverse fields has earned him recognition as a thought leader in digital media content and instructional design, while the quality and sheer volume of his work has established his reputation as a performance-driven professional.
“I started working as a newspaper delivery boy at the age of 16 and have since invested time in different industries building skills and domain understanding. I am known in different networks as a journalist, creative professional, and designer with domain expertise in Instructional Design, Communication Media, Publishing and creation of training products.”
Sanjay has been a trainer (technical, soft-skills, design and cognitive skills) and on-the-job coach (customer experience) for 30 years; served as subeditor and resident music and food critic
for the city-edition of a national newspaper for 6 years; founded 3 companies (shut one down); served as strategy advisor to CEOs/COOs of small entities, designed more than 3000 hours of training content for clients in Pharma, healthcare, aviation, BFSI, automotive sectors; have written 4 non-fiction books, authored 1800+ articles, columns, blogs, reviews and other published journalistic works, written more than 200 poems, lyrics, songs, short stories; have conceptualised and produced 4 music videos, shot more than 150,000 photographs and videos, and created 200+ charcoal sketches, oil-on-canvas paintings and AI-enabled digital art.
Academic Qualifications
Master’s in History, University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Degree in Journalism and Communication, Ranade Institute, University of Pune (graduated top of the university in 1997)
Diploma in Hotel Management, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology, and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai
Professional Certifications
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Building Systems with ChatGPT API
Professional Certificate in Business Model Innovation
Certificate for Instructional Design and Technology: Learning Theories
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract
Recent Awards and Recognitions
MUSE Creative Awards 2024
Gold Winner Social Media (Campaign) - Best Use of Video
Gold Winner Social Media (Campaign) - Experimental & Innovation
Gold Winner Social Media (Campaign) - Music & Performance
