Sandeep Gupta is a global citizen in the making - a Brit national, originally from New Delhi, India and now living in the sunny Middle East region and having worked across EMEA and India in his corporate career that is coming close to completing three decades.

Sandeep grew up in a small nuclear family where a few things just could never be compromised - education being in the forefront of that list and the need to develop perseverance was just a given. From running after local buses to reach school to studying on borrowed monies and books, the experiences have kept him grounded.

It was the pursuit of education again that took Sandeep to Cranfield School of Management in the UK and what an year it was...something he would be glad to do again (without the fees, this time of course).

With so much of unlearning and relearning that...