Soumyashree Chatterjee

Behavioural Facilitator | Certified Corporate Trainer

Enabling Conversations for Learning and Growth.

Soumyashree Chatterjee designs and facilitates practical learning experiences for leaders, managers, sales teams, channel partners and customer-facing professionals across India.

23+ years of professional experience · Former sales leader · Corporate trainer

Soumyashree Chatterjee, behavioural facilitator and corporate trainer
  • 23+ years of professional experience
  • Kolkata and Delhi
  • Available across India
  • In-person, virtual, indoor and outbound delivery

Who Soumyashree works with

Built for the people who do the work

Leaders and managers

Communicate direction clearly and hold performance conversations without damaging trust.

Sales and customer-facing teams

Move from product pitches to consultative, needs-based customer conversations.

Frontline employees

Build confidence and consistency in day-to-day customer and workplace interactions.

Channel partners

Strengthen product knowledge, process adherence and field execution.

Emerging leaders and first-time managers

Navigate the identity and skill shift that comes with a first promotion.

Corporate and institutional audiences

Build workplace communication and collaboration across functions.

Programme families

Six areas of practical capability building

Sales and Customer Capability

Programmes for sales professionals, relationship managers and channel partners who need to structure customer conversations, handle objections and close with more discipline. Built on Soumyashree's own years carrying a sales target, not on theory alone.

  • Consultative selling conversations
  • Negotiation for sales professionals
  • Objection handling and closure conversations
  • Channel partner capability building

Sales teams, relationship managers, channel partners, customer-facing staff

View programmes

Leadership and People Capability

Programmes for managers and leaders moving from individual contribution to leading people, covering communication, feedback, team effectiveness and the behavioural shifts that come with a promotion.

  • Leadership communication
  • First-time manager and role transition
  • Feedback and difficult conversations
  • Team effectiveness and shared ownership

First-time managers, mid-level leaders, senior leaders

View programmes

Managerial Capability Building

Practical skill-building for people who manage day-to-day execution: delegation, escalation handling, coaching conversations and decision-making under pressure.

  • Manager as facilitator
  • Coaching conversations for managers
  • Delegation and accountability
  • Escalation management

Frontline and middle managers, team leads, supervisors

View programmes

Change, Agility and Organisational Effectiveness

Programmes that help teams work through change without losing productivity: readiness, adaptability, resilience and the mindset shifts that organisational transitions demand.

  • Change readiness
  • Adaptability and learning agility
  • Workplace resilience
  • Stress management

Teams and leaders navigating restructuring, new systems or new ways of working

View programmes

Communication and Workplace Effectiveness

Foundational workplace-effectiveness programmes covering business communication, presentation skills and collaboration across functions and teams.

  • Business communication
  • Presentation skills
  • Collaboration across teams
  • Workplace behaviour and professional effectiveness

Corporate and institutional audiences across functions and levels

View programmes

Experiential Team Learning

Simulation and activity-based sessions designed around the outcome a team needs, not a fixed script: collaboration, planning, negotiation, trust and structured reflection, delivered indoors or outbound.

  • Collaboration and shared ownership
  • Planning and resource management under constraints
  • Negotiation and decision-making
  • Trust and leadership behaviour in a team

Intact teams, cross-functional groups, leadership cohorts

View programmes

Why Soumyashree

What makes the facilitation different

Commercial experience in the room

Former sales leadership experience connects learning to targets, customers, channels and execution, not just theory.

Participation, not passive listening

Simulations, role plays, group challenges, discussion, practice and structured reflection replace one-way presentation.

Context-led programme design

Activities and scenarios are adapted to the audience, industry, business need and expected behaviour, not delivered off the shelf.

Application after the session

Clear takeaways, practice and action planning are designed to support real workplace use, not just a good day in the room.

Facilitation approach

How a programme comes together

  1. 01

    Understand the business need

    A conversation about what's actually happening: the gap, the audience and why it matters now.

  2. 02

    Define the audience and desired behaviours

    Clarity on who is in the room and what should look different in their day-to-day work afterwards.

  3. 03

    Design the learning experience

    Scenarios, activities and discussion built around the organisation's real context, not generic templates.

  4. 04

    Facilitate practice and reflection

    Live practice, role play and structured reflection, not one-way presentation.

  5. 05

    Capture application and follow-up

    Clear takeaways and an action plan participants can use immediately, with follow-up where commissioned.

Experience and associations

Selected organisations

  • HDFC Bank
  • Axis Bank
  • NIIT
  • Havells Group
  • Balmer Lawrie
  • Wellspun Group
  • Tata AIG General Insurance
  • Kotak Bank
  • Primetals Technologies
  • Momenta Learning
  • IEM Kolkata
  • Silver Turtle Solutions

Selected organisations Soumyashree has delivered training and facilitation programmes for. Shown as text, not logos, pending confirmed logo-usage permission for each organisation.

Insights

Recent thinking on facilitation and learning

Manager Capability

Navigating Identity Shifts After a Promotion

A promotion changes the job description immediately. It changes how someone sees themselves at work much more slowly, and that gap is where most first-time managers struggle.

· 3 min read

Planning a leadership, sales or behavioural learning intervention?

Tell Soumyashree about the audience, business need, location and preferred format. He will respond to discuss the requirement and determine an appropriate starting point.