COM Lunch and Learn: Unlocking Cross-Generational Insights: Reverse Mentoring as a Way Forward!

Join the College of Management for a discussion of the practice of Reverse Mentoring. In recent times, Reverse Mentoring is a thriving practice in many organizations as they are reaping the benefits of reverse knowledge flow from their younger members. However, due to the sensitive nature of this practice which defies age norms, many organizational pundits find themselves in a dilemma on how to get this right! If you want to learn more about some of the fatal flaws that implementers ignore during its implementation, join Dr. Chaudhuri as she walks us through a step-by-step approach to implementing reverse mentoring. Drawing from her extensive experience, spanning more than a decade of research, teaching, and consulting on this topic, Dr. Chaudhuri’s work has been featured in prominent media outlets such as The Washington Post, Forbes, Star Tribune, HR Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Canadian Broadcasting among others.

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Dr. Sanghamitra Chaudhuri is an associate professor of Human Resource Management at the College of Management in Metro State University. For her sabbatical, she is being invited by the Carlson School of Management to serve as a ‘Visiting Senior Lecturer’ at the University of Minnesota. She has published research studies on reverse mentoring, multigenerational workforce, employee engagement, work-life balance, and women leadership in various national and international journals of repute including MIT Sloan Review, Management Learning, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, Human Resource Development International and others. She has not only won research excellence award from the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) for her article on reverse mentoring, her work has been quoted by leading media outlets including Built-In, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Canadian Broadcasting, Star Tribune, and by HR Magazine. She has also been invited by various organizations for consulting and to present her research including Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, Durham University UK, University of Delaware, Tata Steel, India, Minnesota Organization Development Network, Twin Cities Peer Network, and St. Catherine University to name a few. She is the immediate past-chairperson for the India HRD Special Interest Group (SIG) at AHRD.