Doing Business In Harmony with Nature

Join us as we dialogue with some leading companies in India to understand their perspective on doing business ‘In Harmony with Nature’.

Biswarup Banerjee: Program Manager, Renewable Energy, IKEA Foundation

Jainee Nathwani: Head - Corporate Social Responsibility, United Breweries Limited

Ambika Prasad Nanda: Head - Corporate Social Responsibility, TATA Steel Odisha

Aditya Petwal: Subject Matter Expert, Centum Foundation

Learning Sales Virtually to Drive Business Growth

With the change in the nature of sales function in itself, the skills essential for being an effective sales and services professional are also undergoing change.

Jagmohan Singh Rishi: AVP - Talent Development, Business Excellence & Digital Strategy, Wockhardt

Prashant Sharma: Founder & Head Coach, Coach Prashant

Digitizing SSC’s Core Capabilities

While the shift towards digitization in areas like QP development, Content Development, Training of trainers & assessors, Assessment & certification, and delivery modes are not new, circumstances caused by the pandemic have expedited the need for these changes.

Sunil Marwah: CEO, FICSI

Arvind Bali: CEO, TSSC

Col. Anil Kumar Pokhriyal (Retd.): CEO, MEPSC

The Fortune at the Middle of the Pyramid

Traditional ways of leadership development are losing steam in a rapidly changing world. As companies move to less hierarchy and simplified managerial levels, work is more about cross-functional teams which are increasingly remote. The manager’s world is changing too..

Gaurika Tandon: Head, Learning & Engagement, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

Akash Chander: Managing Director & Principal Coach, Strengthscape

Skill Development under CSR to address COVID Challenges

Skill development programs have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The challenges faced by formal TVET (Technical & Vocational Education & Training) and short-term skills training for out-of-school youth and current workers are unprecedented.

Manish Prakash Sahu: Chief Operating Officer, RPG Foundation

Bhaskar Natarajan: Head – Programme Execution, Tata STRIVE

Arvind Bali: CEO, TSSC

Building capabilities towards business resurgence in Insurance sector

Research is indicating that 60% of the current jobs will be replaced by new jobs. This indicates that there would be a requirement for the new set of capabilities.

Maurice Amogola: CEO, Minet Uganda

Peter Kagia: General Manager- Life Insurance Business, The Monarch Insurance Company Limited

Empowering Mid-Level Leaders for Accelerating Business Growth

As a mid-level leader, one often finds oneself surrounded with huge accountability and less freedom to make decisions or work independently. It is thus critical to explore – how to empower mid-level leaders for accelerating business growth? And, as a mid-level leader - How to win empowerment from senior leaders?

Seema Singh: CEO, Cosmo Looks

High Impact Virtual Selling

Virtual selling is here to stay, requiring professionals to rethink approaches and pivot to newer channels. But being a great virtual sales team doesn’t simply mean conducting video calls, there’s a lot more to it.

Ravi Sharma: Lead, Learning & OD - India and Manager, Sales Training - APAC, Avery Dennison

Pritha Dubey: Sales & Leadership Coach and Founder, Success Vitamin

Managing & Training Teams Effectively for the new Normal

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact not just on public health, but also on education and businesses. While it’s important to focus on near-term survival, it is also vital to think about how businesses will operate once the pandemic subsides.

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Susan Onyach: HR Director - Kenya, Airtel

Digital Learning: The Next Frontier

Digital learning has been an area of keen interest for businesses for a long time, but its importance has jumped significantly higher in the past few weeks. How to implement and launch a digital learning platform is no longer the key question, it is this: how do you ensure that your digital learning keeps evolving.

Varun Mathur: Head – Capability Building, Airtel India

Mamatha Devi Bhat: DGM – HR, TTK Prestige

Developing Mid-level Leaders

It has never been easy to be a middle manager, and companies need great middle management now more than ever. While front-line team members are in the trenches with tactical work and senior leaders spend their time casting a vision, mid-level leaders have to do both.

Gaurika Tandon: Head, Learning & Engagement, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

Rachita Sahgal: Solopreneur, Leadership Development Expert

Ravi Sharma: Lead, Learning & OD - India and Manager, Sales Training - APAC, Avery Dennison

L&D in a Post-COVID World

We are wading through one of the toughest times in human history. The fact that business has to continue and organizations need to converge with their customers, through various digital mediums creating unique challenges for business leaders as well as HR and L&D team members.

Sabharatnam Narayanan: Head Retail Training, Titan

Pooja Dudani: Associate Director, Cars24.com

Harshvardhan Mishra: Training Head - Sales Excellence, LIXIL Water Technology