Adaptable is a collaborative network of leaders, coaches, facilitators, educators and specialists. We bring real-world experience into every conversation—shaping learning that is relevant, engaging and designed to move people and performance forward.
Adaptable’s leadership combines learning architecture, coaching, commercial experience and people development—keeping every intervention connected to both human potential and business reality.
Mentor & Executive Coach
A senior pharmaceutical sales and learning leader who combines commercial insight with practical coaching to strengthen leadership growth and business performance.
Founder & Mindful Leader
Nearly four decades across learning, business development and performance coaching, connecting human potential with meaningful organisational outcomes.
CXO Leadership Pathfinder · ICF-PCC
An ICF-PCC executive coach with 25+ years of global cross-industry experience, coaching Heads of Department to C-suite leaders across 30+ countries.
COO & Business Operations Consultant
A management and operations leader with 34+ years across healthcare, banking and tea, including full P&L leadership of a 400+ bed tertiary-care hospital.
Head · CRM & Stakeholder Management
A strategic consultant and trainer helping organisations strengthen CRM, stakeholder alignment, customer experience, engagement and digital sales adoption.
Sr. Consultant - Learning & Development and Performance Coaching
A pharmaceutical sales leader with 30+ years building process-driven, high-performing teams across India and Nepal, with deep experience in turnarounds, field coaching and All-India sales management.
Head · Outbound & Experiential Learning Operations
A former CISF ASI/Executive and certified physical-training instructor who leads safe, disciplined and engaging outbound learning experiences.
Educator & School Leader
An educator and school leader with 20+ years across classroom teaching, academic administration, staff mentoring and holistic student development.
Pharma Sales Leadership Expert
A pharmaceutical sales leader with 26+ years of experience, focused on field-force effectiveness, managerial capability and leadership growth.
Digital Innovation Architect
An IT and digital innovation specialist working across research, web development, middleware data processing, access management and security.
Customer Experience & Conversion Catalyst
A research-led customer experience professional focused on understanding perspectives, resolving concerns and strengthening service interactions.
Head · Content Creation & Storytelling
A content professional with a background in Journalism and English, bringing curiosity, precision and fresh perspectives to learning narratives.
Regional Lead · L&D, Operations & Skill Development
An L&D and operations leader with 17 years of corporate experience and a further decade supporting Government of India MSME development initiatives.
Regional Lead · Business, Education & Training
A multidisciplinary leader whose career spans engineering, automotive sales, entrepreneurship, academics, vocational education and corporate training.
Regional Lead · Facilitation & Talent Transformation
A facilitation and talent-transformation professional with 20+ years across CRM, behavioural learning, performance coaching, retail, compliance and e-learning.
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Debashish Basu is the founder and mindful leader behind Adaptable Consultancy. With nearly four decades of experience, his career spans learning architecture, business development, performance coaching, sales effectiveness and organisation-wide capability building.
He has designed and led training solutions, competency frameworks, assessment centres, e-learning and coaching interventions, while supporting the adoption of global practices that enable organisational change. His work is grounded in the belief, “People would, if they could”—a philosophy that places context, capability and human potential at the centre of development.
His focus includes leadership development, behavioural learning, change management, NLP-informed approaches and meaningful learning experiences that translate insight into sustained performance.
Ashish Ghai brings extensive experience across pharmaceutical sales leadership, training, development and executive coaching. He served as Head of Training & Development at Emcure from 2019 to 2023 and as Director of Training at Sanofi from 2014 to 2019. Earlier roles included Business Unit Head, National Sales Manager, Regional Business Manager and Area Sales Manager.
A certified coach since 2017, Ashish combines commercial understanding with a practical development mindset. He has led international teams, consistently delivered sales outcomes, received recognition for marketing excellence and completed multiple leadership and coaching certifications.
At Adaptable, he mentors leaders and supports programmes that connect personal growth with stronger business performance.
With more than two decades in facilitation and talent transformation, Sanghamitra Kakati leads Adaptable’s work across North-East India. Her experience spans CRM, behavioural and soft-skills programmes, performance coaching, retail and compliance training, and e-learning.
She works across instructor-led training, on-the-job learning and outbound workshops, enabling her to adapt the learning method to the audience, context and desired outcome. Her focus is on practical interventions that strengthen leadership capability and business performance.
Priyadarshi Amar brings a multidisciplinary career spanning engineering, automotive sales, entrepreneurship, academics and learning. A graduate of MIT, Chennai, with an MBA from A.M. Jain College, Chennai, he began his career as a Service Engineer with Telco and later progressed to General Manager – Sales at Maruti Udyog.
In 1999, he established his own enterprise, working across academics, vocational training and corporate development. He has also contributed as an adviser to universities.
Beyond business and education, Priyadarshi contributes to sport and youth development as Vice President of the Olympic Association of Jharkhand and through his association with Wushu, Sepak Takraw, Equestrian and Youth Hostels in Jharkhand.
Sameera Rath is an L&D, operations and skill-development professional with around 17 years of corporate experience across petroleum, telecom and skill development.
Her leadership roles include State Head at the Telecom Sector Skill Council (2014–2015), State Head at Empower Pragati (2013–2014), Head of Training & Development at Aircel, Odisha (2009–2013), and State Operations Head at NIS Sparta (2004–2009), where she worked with Reliance Petroleum and Reliance Life Insurance.
She also brings around a decade of consulting experience with Government of India MSME programmes, including SFURTI. Her approach combines business discipline, continual learning and a commitment to practical capability building.
Somnath Roy is a pharmaceutical sales leadership expert and learning-solutions partner with more than 26 years of industry experience. He designs tailored programmes to strengthen field-force effectiveness, managerial development and leadership capability.
His work translates sector experience into practical interventions for sales teams and people managers, helping them improve execution, confidence and performance in the field.
Sushmii Basu brings more than 20 years of experience in primary education across reputed English-medium schools in Kolkata and Chandigarh. Her career spans classroom teaching, academic administration and school leadership, with a consistent focus on holistic child development.
She began at Stepping Stones Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh (2004–2006), teaching English and Social Science. From 2009 to 2023, she served in the Nursery Department at South Point School, Kolkata, managing large classroom groups and developing deep practical insight into child psychology and classroom dynamics.
As Principal of Apple Blossom Preparatory Playschool (2024–2025), she oversaw admissions, mentored staff and managed academic and administrative operations. She has also taught Class 3 at Loreto House, Kolkata, and served as part-time faculty in personality development and personal grooming at Mahadevi Birla Girls’ High School and Horizon Aviation Academy. Her earlier experience includes an HR role at STEX Software Ltd.
A graduate of Shri Shikshayatan College, Sushmii holds a primary teacher-training certification and a TEFL certification, alongside courses in learning and development and personal grooming. She is passionate about ethical, engaging environments in which children can build confidence and life skills.
Prabir Poddar is a strategic consultant and corporate trainer specialising in customer service excellence, CRM implementation, stakeholder management, employee engagement and sales force automation.
He helps organisations build connected customer-experience models by aligning people behaviour, process efficiency and digital adoption. His interventions cover CRM mindset development, customer-journey mapping, service communication, complaint handling, service recovery and customer loyalty.
Prabir also coaches leaders and teams in influence, expectation alignment, conflict resolution, cross-functional collaboration and trust. His employee-engagement work supports stronger communication, motivation and cultural alignment, while his SFA and digital-adoption expertise helps sales teams improve productivity, forecasting accuracy and customer insight.
Known for a practical, interactive and business-focused approach, he designs learning around real organisational challenges and measurable performance improvement.
Paritosh Pal brings more than two decades of disciplined service in the Central Industrial Security Force, with a career grounded in physical fitness, instruction, safety and the development of security personnel.
A certified Physical Training Instructor, he completed both Basic and Advanced PT Instructor Courses at CISF RTC Deoli and served in instructional roles at CISF RTC Deoli, Sidhabari and Arakkonam between 1990 and 2012, alongside commando-training experience.
As Head of Operations for Outbound & Experiential Learning at Adaptable, he safeguards the physical safety and emotional well-being of participants across experiential and game-based programmes. He helps create environments that are structured, immersive and enjoyably challenging, enabling people to learn through experience with confidence.
Prakriti Basu leads content creation and storytelling at Adaptable. With a background in Journalism and English, she brings intellectual curiosity, broad reading and a strong appetite for new ideas to the development process.
She works with discipline and precision, translating research and fresh insight into clear, engaging narratives while maintaining a thoughtful and balanced approach to creative work.
Rituparna Guha brings a research-led approach to customer experience and engagement. She seeks to understand different perspectives, respond thoughtfully to queries and resolve concerns with clarity and care.
Her focus is on turning each interaction into an opportunity to strengthen service quality, trust and conversion.
Rahul Pal is an IT specialist and digital innovation professional with interests across research, web development and middleware data processing. His capabilities also include access management and security.
He brings an experimental, improvement-oriented mindset to digital work—using reflection, continuous learning and practical problem-solving to strengthen systems and user experiences.
Krishnaprasad Kekunnaya is a pharmaceutical sales leader with more than three decades of experience building and managing high-performing sales teams across India and Nepal. He specialises in creating process-driven teams through well-designed frameworks, disciplined follow-up and early-warning signals, with practical solutions that turn underperforming territories around.
He has led teams at Zonal level across North, West and South India and, for the last decade, at the All-India level. This breadth of experience has given him deep insight into diverse team cultures and mindsets, enabling him to adapt his approach to the people, geography and performance challenge in front of him.
His philosophy is simple: “Different strokes to different folks.” Read the team first, then choose the approach that will actually move them. He has trained and mentored more than 200 pharmaceutical professionals through on-the-job coaching and has facilitated workshops in sales management, marketing management and interviewing skills.
Samir Singh is a management professional with more than 34 years of diversified global experience in operations, management and sales across healthcare, banking and tea in Bangladesh, India and Canada.
Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Evercare Hospital, Chattogram, holding full leadership, management and P&L responsibility for the city’s prominent 400+ bed multi-specialty tertiary-care hospital.
His work brings together clear strategy, disciplined execution and accountable teams, with particular strength in end-to-end operations, organisational performance, governance, business growth and cross-border leadership.
“Strong operations come from clear strategy, disciplined execution—and people who own the outcome.”
Srideep Sarkar is an ICF-credentialled PCC executive coach with more than two and a half decades of global, cross-industry experience, blending commercial acumen with deep insight into human behaviour.
Based in London, UK, he coaches senior leaders—from Heads of Department to C-suite—across 30+ countries. His clients include leaders from Fortune 100 organisations in technology, life sciences, FMCG, advertising and banking.
His style is warm, credible and challenging yet encouraging, creating conversations that are engaging, reflective and forward-moving. His experience includes leadership development at Amazon, work as a BetterUp Premier Fellow Coach, leadership and talent roles at Glenmark, and earlier HR and OD roles at Cadbury, Saint-Gobain and GTB.