Gopal Mahapatra is a Professor of Practice (OB & HRM area) at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. He is a Fellow from IIMB and comes with more than thirty years of HR leadership roles in MNCs and Indian conglomerates. He has been Programme Director and faculty member in Advanced Management Programme, and many other Executive Education Programmes at IIMB, in addition to serving as Chairperson Weekend MBA. Prior to this, he served at IIM Indore, and is also visiting faculty at IIM Kolkata and IIM Udaipur. Prof. Mahapatra was President, National HRD (NHRD) Network Bangalore 2006-08, which is an autonomous, not-for-profit, professionally managed organization of HR professionals. He has co-edited three books between 2002-2006, and edited two special issue of NHRD Network Journal on ’Organisation Development’ in 2008 and ’Neuro-Science and HR’ in 2018, in addition to having many papers in international and national journals to his credit.