Strategic Leadership by Prof. Lalit Johri

Bombay Management Association in collaboration with Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies will be conducting this LeaderNXT Programme on 15 February 2023

Synopsis

During the seminar we will discuss and reflect on:

1. What is strategic leadership?
2. What is the purpose of strategic leadership?
3. What are the building blocks of strategic leadership?
4. Why should I learn and practice the art and science of strategic leadership?
5. What lessons can I learn from some of the great strategic leaders of India?
6. How to master the power of strategic leadership?

Presenters

Lalit Johri, Professor, has been an innovative academic for over 45 years. His areas of expertise include strategy and leadership in international businesses, alliances including public–private partnerships, public policy, and institutional reform. He holds an MSc degree in physics and MBA and PhD degrees in Business Policy and Strategic Management. Until October 2019, Lalit served as Senior Fellow in International Business and Director of the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme (OAMLP) at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Currently, he is based in Thailand, leading research and people and team development initiatives and advising policymakers and business leaders in public and private enterprises in several countries. Earlier, Lalit served as Professor of International Business at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), where he was a Founding Director of the School’s Executive MBA. He was also a tenured professor at the University of Delhi in India. He has led research, consulting, and executive education programmes for senior leaders in private and public sector organisations and government agencies in the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He has attended the Aspen Seminar and was awarded the Aspen Scholar of the Year by the Aspen Institute, Washington, USA, for his outstanding professional accomplishments and public contributions.

Prasad Ramakrishnan is Chief Operating Officer of Motiv Power Systems, the Silicon Valley based leader in the 2 to 6 tons commercial electric truck market. He is a mobility partner at SNGLR, a startup VC based in Switzerland, and a consultant at Stanford University’s Seed Program which mentors scale-ups in Africa and Asia. A transformational global leader and change agent with a distinguished career at Ford, Triumph International, Alstom and General Electric, he has lived and worked in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Prasad’s education has been in physics, electrical engineering, and administration. He is an alumnus of Oxford’s Said Business School’s Advanced Management and Leadership Programme. He was an adjunct faculty member at the Swiss Federal Technological University (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at Babson College in Boston, USA. He enjoys reading, tennis, travel and learning about different cultures.

Anshul Sonak is Principal Engineer and Global Director of Digital Readiness Programs (Global Government Affairs Group) for Intel Corporation. Based in California, he advises social enterprises, start-ups, government bodies, and multilateral organisations on making technology inclusive and expanding digital readiness for all. Anshul has implemented several social education programmes in digital literacy, inclusion, STEM disciplines, youth techno-entrepreneurship, and technology for good. He is a regular speaker on social impact at programmes organised by UNDP and the Asian Development Bank. He has a master’s degree in rural management from the Institute of Rural Management, India. He has completed the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme. He is UNDP Asia’s first regional Youth Co-Lab Champion from the private sector.

Readings

1. Johri Lalit, Katherine Corich, and Gay Haskins, Mastering the Power of You – Empowered by Leader Insights, Routledge, UK. 2023.
2. Haskins, Gay, Mike Thomas and Lalit Johri, Kindness in Leadership, Routledge, UK. 2018.