How Leaders Bring Change 
Last date for registration: 02 Feb, 2018
End Date : 14 Feb, 2018
Early Bird Discount Date : 22 Jan, 2018
Residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 68,400
Non-Residential Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 70,000
Non-residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 63,000
Organizations need to grapple with change. While changes may be caused by a variety of external and internal factors, it is the ability of organizations to negotiate change successfully that decides their sustainability and competitive success. How do successful organizations change? While the answer may be complicated, existing research on organizations indicate one unequivocal factor – successful change processes are driven by leaders. In today’s dynamic world, the role of leadership is becoming indistinguishable from management of organizational change and it is this dimension of leadership that this programme is focused on. Based on real life case studies and practitioner oriented research, this programme would facilitate participants
- to think like a leader
- to persuade and communicate like a leader
Focusing on the above two qualities, the programme would create an invigorating learning platform for corporate executives who can thereby lead change initiatives in their organizations.
- Expose participants to aspects of leadership mentioned above for bringing positive change in their organization
- Understand best practices of how leaders bring change through case studies and classroom discussion
- Network with participants who have similar profiles and interact with world class faculty and leaders from industry.
- Time to introspect and internalize the learning.
- Access to world class journals, publications, cases and papers through IIM Bangalore library.
- Serenity of IIMB campus, world class infrastructure and a great staff to make your experience richer.
This programme has various modules that are designed on the following 4 pillars:
Strategic thinking and organizational impact
To help the participants think long term, analyze the dynamics of the industry, customer needs and how it impacts their organizations
Persuasive communication
Creating leaders of tomorrow, and leaders who persuade and communicate for positive action
Fun in the classroom
Games and activities to simulate the scenario and make learning a lot more fun
Inspiration
Inspiring speakers from the industry who will give their own examples
The programme is designed for the following audiences
- Senior managers of organizations who are responsible to manage a business unit within an organization (at least 100 direct reports, revenue of 100 Crores or above, 10+ years of experience)
- Entrepreneurs who have their own venture (at least 3 years in existence, revenues of 1 Crore or above)
- Practitioners or management consultants who work with such organizations mentioned above
In order to derive maximum benefit from this programme, we encourage multiple participants from organizations so that participants and work on change events of their own organizations in groups
Professor Sourav Mukherji is a Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour & HRM at IIMB. He is an engineer from IIT, Kharagpur and a Fellow of IIMB. His major research interests are in the areas of Corporate Strategy and Structure, Organization Learning and Knowledge Management. Prior to joining IIMB as a faculty, Mukherji has worked in the Boston Consulting Group, IBM and Oracle. As a doctoral student at IIMB, he won the ‘Infosys Fellowship’, awarded for research in the IT industry He is currently engaged in studying the managerial and organizational innovations that have contributed to the competitiveness of leading Indian organizations in software services, automotive components and pharmaceutical industries. He has presented papers in international conferences, spoken at corporate forums and published in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to knowledge management and outsourcing of knowledge intensive services.
Mr. Rakesh Godhwani is an Adjunct Faculty of Communication at IIM Bangalore, coaches promising startups and senior managers in the industry, gives seminars and talks in corporate events and colleges, reads a story to his kids every night before they sleep, bicycles, does yoga, writes, earns a fraction of what he used to, but lives a million times better. Rakesh’s research and teaching interests focus on how a charismatic leader builds a persuasive message to impact audiences. His fourth book titled “Public Speaking Kaleidoscope” was released by Business Expert Press USA in May 2017. His earlier book “What to Say and when to Shut Up!” was published by Penguin Random House in November 2014. Rakesh recently launched his online course called “Present with Confidence” designed for young learners from Class 9th and above.
Rakesh has worked in Wipro, Intel and Qualcomm in various profiles ranging from product marketing, sales and business development before he took the plunge to pursue his passion in academia. An alumnus of NIT Karnataka (BE Computers, 97) and IIM Bangalore (PGSEM, 2004), he is pursuing his PhD from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Follow him @godhwani, LinkedIn or Facebook.
Sessions will be a mix of lectures, interactive case discussions /case studies as well as significant peer-to-peer interaction and learning from each other’s experience.
Programme Fee and Payment
INR 76,000/- Residential and INR 70,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.
Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 22-Jan-18 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
- Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 68,400/-(+ Applicable GST)
- Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 63,000/-(+ Applicable GST)
Please Note
All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme. Kindly do not make your travel plans unless you receive the letter from IIMB.
A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
- The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
- In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
- If a nomination is not accepted, the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
IIMB will offer only 3 enrolments per company. Please do not nominate more than 3 participants for this programme.