Leading industrialists launch School of Inspired Leadership

NEW DELHI: Leading industry captains including Max India chairman Analjit Singh, former director Eicher and founder Eicher Consultancy Services and Grow Talent Anil Sachdev, former Chairman of Crompton Greaves KK Nohria, and few others on Thursday announced the launch of School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) in Gurgaon.

The institute, positioned as a leadership and management school, will focus on building sustainable organisations.

Others involved in the project include Nucleus Software founder Yogesh Andlay, former Chairman Eicher Group Vikram Lal, former Director IIM Ahmedabad Pradip Khandwalla, and member GMR Holding Board K. Balasubramaniam.

SOIL founder and CEO Anil Sachdev said in a statement: "We have a leadership crisis globally. We have joined hands to create this institution to develop leaders that create sustainable organisations of consequence."

Added SOIL President Nishchae Suri: "Our leadership development programmes include a special focus on ethics, values, community partnerships, inclusiveness and diversity."

SOIL has two inaugural programmes- HR leadership and business leadership, with enrollment capacity of 60 students in each of the two programmes. Both are one-year programmes and are targeted at graduates and experienced managers respectively. T

he Gurgaon-based institute will enroll its first batch of students in July '09, a press release issued by the institute said.