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Sanjay Mukherjee

Fractional Strategy Consultant

€744/day
Pune, IN
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Sanjay

I bring senior strategic and learning capability to organisations at two distinct moments: when they are building, and when they are scaling.

For early-stage companies and startups — particularly in e-learning, digital learning, and AI-native business automation — I operate as a fractional Chief Strategy Officer and startup consultant. I work alongside founding teams on business model creation and validation, organisational design, go-to-market narrative, and the operational architecture needed to move from product-market fit to sustainable growth. If you are building in the learning technology or AI automation space, I bring 23 years of startup consulting and domain depth, including hands-on AI product development experience. My mainstream journalism and publishing background — 1,800+ published works — extends naturally into content creation across thought leadership, product marketing, and long-form editorial.


For corporates and enterprises — I deliver as an Instructional Design specialist, Learning Consultant, and Content Strategist. In executive and senior consulting roles within vendor organisations, I have delivered for client environments where learning outcomes are non-negotiable — across complex, multi-layered stakeholder relationships including WHO, IATA, Flight Safety International, Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways, Microsoft, General Motors, Applied Materials, and Cigna. Engagements cover Applied AI Workflow Reengineering, Multi-Agent Architecture for Instructional Systems, blended and digital learning transformation, instructional design solutions, and talent development architecture.

I work at the intersection of learning strategy and communication — where capability building and organisational narrative have to move together.


Available for project-based work, retainers, and interim mandates across India, Europe, and APAC. Open to work travel for on-site engagements.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Pune (up to 50km), Mumbai (up to 10km), Bengaluru (up to 10km), New Delhi (up to 10km), Gurugram (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Eduriti Product Studio
    CONSULTANT & SYSTEM ARCHITECT
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    January 2026 - Today (7 months)
    Pune, India
    Operating as an independent product studio and executive advisory practice, designing AI-native business infrastructures and providing fractional operational oversight for early-stage B2B tech entities.
    • • Operational Automation: Encoded complex instructional design frameworks and business analysis into structured, deployable AI-native automation engines.
    • • Governance & Compliance: Engineered an EU AI Act compliance layer and integrated localized backend systems including Razorpay and GST-compliant invoicing frameworks.
    • • Applied Research: Deployed autonomous AI reasoning systems via The Learning Equilibrium to model responsible machine collaboration and transparent governance within the corporate learning sector.
    Applied AI Lean startup Product management Multi-Agent Architecture AI-native Business Automation
  • Redstone Summerhill Pvt Ltd
    FOUNDER & STRATEGY ADVISOR
    HUMAN RESOURCES
    September 2013 - January 2024 (10 years and 4 months)
    Pune, India
    Retained by early-stage tech, media, and services entities to resolve structural bottlenecks, manage risk, and anchor growth trajectories.
    • • Built and managed high-caliber distributed consulting teams to deliver complex strategy, content automation, and corporate solution suites for international markets.
    • • Guided seed-stage CEOs and executive management boards through business model innovation, go-to-market architecture, and operational scalability.
    Start-up Consulting Training Design Thinking
  • Mountain Walker Pvt Ltd
    Founder & Strategy Advisor
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    March 2016 - January 2023 (6 years and 10 months)
    Pune, India
    Founded and scaled a regional social enterprise platform and publishing ecosystem designed to connect local service providers, homestays and content creators from the Himalayan states directly with mainstream markets.
    • • Content & Brand Engine: Architected a high-output digital asset library, producing a 1,000+ post publication engine, authoring 5 published paperback and eBooks, and directing 40+ long-form and short-form documentary media assets.
    • • Partner Operations: Built, vetted, and operationalized a distributed cross-border partnership network of 50+ localized micro-service providers, heritage properties, and hospitality assets across Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
    Corporate strategy Product management Partnerships Business model Revenue Management

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Education

  • Post-Graduate Degree in
    Savitribai Phule Pune University
    1997
    Post-Graduate Degree in
  • Master of Arts in
    University of Bombay
    1996
    Master of Arts in

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