SATYAJIT SENAPATI: Complete Biography and Life Journey
Published: 2023-08-09 11:55:59

Satyajit Senapati is a **renowned author**, **[best public speaker](https://satyajitsenapati.com)** and career mentor, known for his best-selling book "Work, Workmanship & Winning".  An MBA from IIM Lucknow, Satyajit has two decades of corporate experience working in global leadership roles. 


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Satyajit's book "Work, Workmanship & Winning" has been a runaway success, winning critical acclaim and praise from readers and experts alike. In the book, Satyajit shares his insights and experiences on leadership and management, offering practical tips and advice that can help individuals and organizations achieve success.

As a **public speaker**, Satyajit is known for his engaging and thought-provoking talks, which he has delivered at TEDx events, corporate conferences, and academic institutions around the world. His speeches are known for their clarity, humour, and practicality, and he has inspired thousands of people to become better leaders and managers. 

Satyajit has established himself as an authority in the field of leadership and management. With his core belief that "A great career should not be a privilege for a few", Satyajit helps working professionals create successful career paths for themselves with his mentorship.

- Name – Satyajit Senapati
- Satyajit Senapati Father Name – Shri Rabinarayan Senapati
- Satyajit Senapati Mother Name – (Late) Smt. Bandana Tripathy
- Satyajit Senapati Wife Name – Smaranika Somadarshini
- Hometown – Bhubaneswar
- Age – 42 Years
- College – IIM Lucknow
- Hobbies – Painting, Youtube, Public Speaking, playing Violin

Early Life & Education

Satyajit Senapati was born on 14th December in temple city of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bhubaneswar. He was an outstanding student, he was in Top 5 in +2 science stream in odisha, a gold medalist in both UG and PG and a Director Medal’s winner in IIM Lucknow.

Corporate Career

Satyajit started his corporate journey with Infosys as a Software Engineer. He did very well and quickly climb up positions and won many awards and accolades. He then moved to TCS- another software company. He kept on exceling at work until an itch to do an MBA got him into one of the premier MBA colleges in the country – Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML). After passing out of IIML, Satyajit joined Deloitte as a Management Consultant. Thereafter, one role led to another, one job to another, one country to another. Satyajit worked in some of the most marquee names in the industry such as Deloitte, KPMG, Jio, Novartis and Accenture in India and abroad in leadership roles.

A journey of personal transformation

Satyajit’s life has been straight out of a textbook. Study well, get into a good college, get into a good company, work hard, get ahead – this is how his life was cruising along. Then in April 2021, everything changed. 

In April 2021, Satyajit, who was staying in Mumbai at that time, came for a vacation to his hometown in Bhubaneswar. It was the second-wave of Covid. Little did Satyajit know what was waiting for him round the corners. In April 2021, first his mother got covid and was admitted in a hospital. While she was recovering, she had a cardiac arrest and passed away all of a sudden. This was followed by covid gripping his entire family – Father, Wife, 8-year-old daughter and himself. Satyajit in particular had a severe infection which led to further complications such as fungus, virus, bacteria and it went on for more than 6 months. Under these circumstances, he also had to quit his high-paying corporate job as he didn’t wish to move out of Bhubaneswar under these conditions. Usually, one setback is enough to put anyone out of track for life and yet Satyajit was facing three setbacks in life, all at the same time – losing a loved one, battling life-threatening health issues and vacuum of no job and income. He was literally in dark trenches.

Satyajit realized that perhaps it’s a signal from God that he will have to find his way out himself. Armed with this new powerful thought, Satyajit decided that it is his second chance at life and he wanted to do things differently.

What followed is a personal transformation journey. He started exploring many things such as writing, youtube, public speaking, **[best career mentoring](https://satyajitsenapati.com)**, start-up, painting, writing in social media etc. In Feb 2022, his first book Work, Workmanship & Winning was published and it instantly became a best-seller on Amazon. Interestingly, his book was a best-seller in a category called workplace which is often dominated by foreign authors. His public speaking career also took off as he was invited in many esteemed platforms such as Tedx, Corporates such as TCS, Nestle, Academic Institutes such as IIMs, Narsee Monjee, KJ Somaiya, SIBM etc. His posts in social media also started getting traction with some of his posts getting more than millions of engagements. In this period, he also mentored 1000s of working professionals and students to unlock their true potential and guided many start-ups based on his experiences in Strategy, Investments & Funding. 


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Currently, as a **[best selling author](https://satyajitsenapati.com)**, he has signed a book deal with one of the top publishers in India, runs a youtube channel, shares information about work, workplace and career on linkedin and instagram, mentors working professionals and start-ups. He has been featured in many print and online media, the leading ones include Moneycontrol, The pioneer, 92.7 BigFM.

If you ask him about his success, he just smiles and tells “If I have a best-selling book, then I am still to write many more. If my posts get million+ views, there are many which get views in 1000s and if I have spoken at eminent platforms, there are many platforms I aspire to be part of. If I have impact 1000s of working professionals to discover their true potential, then there are millions out there whom I want to reach out to. These contrasts remind me that success is not the outcome; it is a journey and it is always on-going”