Inspirational Leadership Skills for the Post-Pandemic ERA: Insights from Bhagavad Gita 
Last date for registration: 01 Oct, 2023
End Date : 14 Oct, 2023
Early Bird Discount Date : 20 Sep, 2023
Residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 1,08,000
Non-Residential Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 1,00,000
Non-residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 90,000
Programme Overview
The pandemic and the associated developments have brought to the fore the complex realities of managing business organizations successfully. During the pandemic and thereafter Individuals faced huge challenges in the workplace and also in balancing work with their personal life, at times leading to questions related to one’s “existential” nature. Business managers have realized that a strong “inner will and strength” is required to face the uncertain world and self-inspire and lead others. Among other things, managers the world over has understood that skills required to lead organizations in such an environment are not merely those related to handling the “world outside”. Handling one’s “inner world” is paramount in the process. This program is designed to address this emerging need.
This program uniquely contributes to this theme by drawing from Eastern wisdom to address issues related to the world inside and Western wisdom to take this further by correspondingly addressing the related issues in the world outside. The program copiously draws from the Bhagavad Gita to showcase valuable leadership and self-development paradigms. Through contemplations and dialogues, and a few meditative practices the program seeks to bring out fresh insights, new paradigms, and applicable practices to develop inspirational leaders in organizations.
Program Objectives
This program will enable the participants to strengthen their inspiration and catalyse self–transformation, resulting in positive corporate performance aligned with individual joy. The specific objectives are:
- To help the participants appreciate the myriad leadership challenges that they currently face in a structured framework
- To introduce a new framework of Inspirational Leadership based on the Bhagavad Gita
- To provide specific inputs from the Indian scriptures that will enable the participants to develop specific skills and practices to address some of the leadership challenges
- To provide a host of tools and techniques from the Western paradigms of leadership to enhance leadership effectiveness
- To help participants learn in a reflective mode thereby positively influencing their thoughts and action
Program Structure
The program begins with an overarching framework to analyze the leadership challenges that organizations face today. The uniqueness of the program lies in its ability to seamlessly integrate the insights from the East and the West and show the intricate connections between the two. Throughout the program, insights from the Gita provide an overarching framework to bring out larger issues affecting an “individual” and its relationship to leadership excellence. Correspondingly, the well-known methodologies and instruments from the Western paradigm are introduced to highlight the role of an “individual” in addressing these aspects. With these building blocks, the program is anchored on four themes (Self Inspiration, Authenticity, Accommodation, and Joy) to develop new insights and practices that can fully develop the idea of inspirational leadership into a workable concept.
Some of the topics covered in the program will include:
• Inspirational Leadership: Lessons from the Gita
• The notion of Failed Leadership (Insights from the Gita)
• Values for self-transformation and behavioral authenticity
• The psychological construct of an individual – The tri-guna framework
• Meditation & Mindfulness for enhanced Leadership performance
• Planning tools for mitigating the adverse effects arising out of ambiguity & uncertainty
• Understanding the fundamental nature of work and outcomes
• Approach to work situations – The idea of Karma Yoga
Programme Participants
This program is mainly targeted at the Top and Senior Management of organizations, who are already in leadership roles or are imminently moving into leadership positions in the organization. It is ideal for leaders and managers with 20+ years of experience of which 5+ years would have been in senior leadership positions. Senior Leaders from Business Organisations of different sectors of the industry and the Government, PSUs, and Not-For-Profit Organisations are welcome to attend.
Programme Fee
INR 1,20,000/- Residential and INR 1,00,000/- 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 20-Sep-24 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 1,08,000/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 90,000/- (+ Applicable GST)
Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization..
Please Note
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.
All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be shared with the organisation if sponsored or to the participants on selection. Kindly do not make your travel plans unless you receive the offer letter from IIMB.
A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
Programme Directors
B Mahadevan is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been teaching since 1992. He was also the Dean (Administration) of the institute and a member of the Governing Board of IIMB for four years. He is on the Governing Board of IIT, Chennai, and IIM Kashipur. He was the founder Vice Chancellor of Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, a University for Sanskrit and Indic Knowledge where he created a new generation of academic programs in the higher education space that seamlessly blends Ancient Indian Knowledge traditions with Contemporary Knowledge Systems. Professor Mahadevan was an Independent Director on the Board of Indian Oil Corporation. He co-authored a book, “Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications”, the first of its kind in India.
Professor Mahadevan has more than 30 years of wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, consulting, and academic administration at IIM Bangalore and other reputed institutions such as IIT Delhi and XLRI, Jamshedpur. Professor Mahadevan is a member of the editorial board of the Production and Operations Management Journal and the International Journal of Business Excellence. He served on the editorial board of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage. He is also on the International Advisory Board of California Management Review.
Professor Mahadevan has been recognized for his excellence in teaching both at IIM Bangalore and outside. He has been consistently rated among the top five professors in IIM Bangalore’s teaching and executive education programs. He was also conferred the ICFAI Best Teacher Award by the Association of Indian Management Schools in 2005. Prof. Mahadevan was one among the 40 nominated globally for the Economic Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Business Professor of the Year Award, 2012. Professor Mahadevan has been playing a very significant role in the field of Sanskrit and Samskriti for the past 25 years and had been awarded the Visishta Samskrita Sevavrati award by MHRD in 2016. He has delivered lectures on Vedanta, Gita, and Indian knowledge systems to a diverse audience in various parts of India and abroad.
Gopal P Mahapatra is a Professor of Practice, OB & HRM at IIM Bangalore. He is on the Editorial Board of the National HRD Network Sage Journal. He has more than thirty years of corporate, consulting, and academic experience in leading: Strategic HR, Organisational Transformation, Leadership Development, and Executive Coaching. He served in large Corporations such as RPG Group, Oracle, BPL, and Gujrat Gas. He has been a successful Organizational Transformation Practitioner and Leadership Coach ardent about building Institutions and establishing systems for organizational and individual excellence.
He is a Doctorate (FPM) in Management from IIM, Bangalore & Post-Graduate in Personnel Management & IR from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi. He is trained by London Business School in Strategic HR, and Total Quality by JUSE, Tokyo, in Coaching by Marshall Goldsmith, and a Certified Executive Coach by BCC, ICF, Results Coaching and Ericson Coaching; also Future Search, PDI, Mercer, CEB and MBTI by Dr. Linda Kirby, APT. He has designed many Leadership Development Programmes and delivered sessions for many MNCs and large conglomerates; including 360-degree feedback /Coaching and Development Centers for more than 2000 senior business leaders and executives.
He was earlier the President, National HRD Network, Bangalore. He has been a visiting faculty member at IIM Kolkata & IIM Udaipur and a Professor of Practice- OB & HRM at IIM Indore. He has been serving on the Academic Council/Advisory Board of many key institutions and of leading B-Schools and Associate Editor, South Asian Journal of HRM (Sage). In addition to the corporate experience, he has co-edited three books, Co-edited a Special Journal Issue of Sage & NHRDN on “Neuro-Science & HR”, edited a Special Issue on “Organisation Development”, written several papers, and participated in many international and national conferences.
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