Crafting Leaders through Contextualizing Learning

Dr Prabhat Pankaj is a postgraduate in economics and a Ph.D in applied economics. He is an international researcher on happiness and well-being. He teaches course on happiness to B-School students. Dr Prabhat is a Harvard trained leader in higher education and currently working as the Director of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur. In his 30 years plus teaching career, he spent 7 years in Bhutan and worked closely with Center of Bhutan Studies on the subject of happiness. He was also invitee to the World Government Summit 2019 in Dubai by the Ministry of Happiness, UAE. Dr Prabhat received the title of ‘National Unicorn of Happiness’ by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Recently, he delivered keynote address on teaching happiness in B-school to 300 plus attendees in AACSB’s Asia Pacific Conference in Bangkok. Dr Prabhat has engaged happiness sessions for a large number of institutions and organizations cutting across sections such as students, faculty, corporate managers and top leaders. He has created a ‘Happiness Laboratory’ where Individual’s Energy Field Analysis is carried out using Electro-Photonic Imagining technology. Participants get a full report, which is a non-medical analysis of the energy levels of body organs, stress level analysis and 7-chakras balance. Individual prescriptions have helped many in restoring health and reducing stress in life. Dr Prabhat is an avid trainer and a resource person on effective teaching, teaching leadership, student centric teaching-learning, effective student engagement and outcome-based education (OBE). Indian Institute of Management–Ahmedabad has written a Case Study on ‘Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur’ focusing on student engagement which Dr Prabhat has initiated at Jaipuria, blending of formal and non-formal learning. Dr Prabhat runs a blogpost titled The Learning Corridor (http://student-learning.in) dedicated to research and experiments based writing on student learning, life and happiness.