LEAP Entrepreneurs' Mentoring Board (LEAP-EMB)

Start Date: Nov 9, 2024 End Date: Feb 8, 2025
Last Date for Application: October 25, 2024 Last Date for Early Bird: October 18, 2024
Programme Fee: 300000 INR

Plus, GST

Early Bird Fee: 279000 INR

Plus, GST

“Coaching helps you stop the crazy mind chatter in your head that tells you all the time that you are not good enough” – Oprah Winfrey
 

Coaching and mentoring are essential for honing leadership and business skills. Successful Indian organizations such as the Aditya Birla group, Wipro, Godrej, and many others are using coaches on a regular basis to advance behavioral as well as business skills of their leaders.

 

Recognizing the need for learning as well as coaching and mentoring for leaders of enterprises, the LEAP Entrepreneurs’ Mentoring Board (LEAP-EMB) offers an exceptional platform for leaders of small, medium, as well as large enterprises to connect and learn from experts, and also one another.
 

The program revolves around three fundamental pillars:

  • Masterclass: Power-packed, weekly, experiential workshops by IIMA faculty as well as Mentor and Visiting faculty on life as well as business skills.
  • Group Mentorship: Networking and mentorship provided by expert faculty and fellow board members to address personal as well as business challenges.
  • Executive Board: An active professional board that works with leaders to review past performance as well as plan for future growth, while also addressing any challenges being faced by them.

LEAP-EMB will target the development of:

  • Leadership skills: Learn skills to lead your organisation
  • Emotional intelligence: Help leaders build sustainable relationship with their family members (spouses, children) and also at work.
  • Authentic performance: Excel at strategy development, execution and achieve results
     

LEAP-EMB is designed to connect leaders in a trusted and confidential space, creating opportunities for business growth and personal development. Through masterclasses and board meeting sessions led by our faculty, participants will tackle various leadership and business challenges ranging from life, family, relationships, business performance and career success for self as well as next generation.

 

LEAP-EMB OBJECTIVES

  • Develop leadership and emotional intelligence skills.
  • Learn business management skills required to excel at the entire lifecycle of business.
  • Network with expert faculty with fellow participants and learn from their experiences.
  • Collaborate with LEAP-EMB participants to solve personal as well as professional challenges.
  • Create a close-knit board like structure for the participants and benefit from the varied experiences of the group.
     

LEAP-EMB UNIQUENESS

  • Skill Development: Engage with qualified faculty and fellow entrepreneurs on leadership, communication, and strategic management.
  • Sustainable Relationships and Career Mentoring:  Special Sessions/ Meetings planned for spouses and children of participants to provide inputs on life skills, emotional intelligence, and career planning.
  • Networking: Connect with like-minded leaders in a structured environment to learn personal and professional skills. Generate business by working together as a united group and by exploring the power of recommendations!
  • Mentorship and Collaborative Future Planning: Receive one-on-one support from faculty and peers for personal and professional challenges. Work with faculty and participants to plan for business expansions, future challenges, and bottlenecks

PROGRAMME DATES

The program spans three months, from November 9, 2024, to February 8, 2025. Classes will be held on Saturdays from 8:45 am to 1pm at the IIM Ahmedabad campus. 

Detailed schedule of the LEAP-EMB program is given below:

Month

Dates*

Timing

November, 2024

November 9, 16, 23,30

8.45am - 1pm

December, 2024

December 7, 14

January, 2025

January 4, 11, 18, 25

February, 2025

February 1, 8

* Dates are indicative and some changes may be made depending on the preferences/availability of the program participants
 

LEAP-EMB DAY STRUCTURE
A typical half-day of the program will look as follows:

Time

Session Title

Indicative Topics

8.45am-10am

Masterclass

  • Self-Awareness
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Mindfulness
  • Personality Development
  • Decision-Making
  • Change Management Skills
  • Culture Development
  • Strategic Management
  • Marketing and Selling
  • Project Planning, Execution and Management
  • Customer Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Future Planning and Forecasting
  • Commercial and Cashflow Management

10.15am-11.30am

Board Meeting and Mentoring Session

  • Presentation of Business Challenges and Growth Plan by Participants
  • Brainstorming on the Possible Solutions

11.45am-1pm

Board Meeting and Mentoring Session

  • Presentation of Business Challenges and Growth Plan by Participants
  • Brainstorming on the Possible Solutions

 

PROGRAM FACULTY
Prof. Vishal Gupta (Faculty Chair)
Professor in the Organizational Behaviour Area at IIM Ahmedabad, 15 years of training and research experience, covered by top newspapers in India, and is widely known for award winning leadership skills course on the Coursera platform: https://www.coursera.org/learn/leadershipskills. Vishal’s full profile: https://www.iima.ac.in/faculty-research/faculty-directory/vishal-gupta

 

FACULTY TESTIMONIALS

“Vishal, I have to admit that I wasn’t sure what would be involved with your course, but I consider myself very blessed to have been a part of it. The historical aspect was fascinating by itself, and I enjoyed the way you incorporated the epic with current leadership practices. Thank you very much for this unique opportunity!” - Class Participant 2023, University of Northern Iowa
 

“Prof. Vishal: Thank you for such wonderful mentor/coach/guide/teacher. The way you put up the topic is so interesting; I am loving it. Your examples are such live and it makes the topic more interesting and easier for me.” - Group Head, HR, Rushil Decor Limited

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Entrepreneurs leading SMEs
  • Family business owners
  • First-generation entrepreneurs
  • Startup owners
  • C-level executives and top management professionals
     

APPLICATION PROCESS

The application for the program will happen in two parts:

STEP 1: Interest form and online interaction: To register for the programme, fill in the interest form through the link given on the program page (APPLY ONLINE button)

All applications will be reviewed by the programme faculty and shortlisted candidates will be invited for an online interaction over Zoom.

 

STEP 2: Payment and Registration: Once the candidature is accepted for the program, the participant will be sent a payment-cum-registration link for making the fee payment and registration for the program.

 

A formal acceptance letter will be sent to the selected candidates.

Applicants are requested to make their travel plans only after receiving the acceptance letter.

Faculty Chair

Vishal Gupta

Programme Faculty



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