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“Leadership is not about knowing the future. It is about enabling it.”

SIIB Leadership Series is the flagship event of SIIB. This conclave held every year since 2002, cherishes and celebrates the spirit of leadership. This event has come to become an exceptional platform where some of the finest and most successful personalities of India Inc. have shared their experiences with budding managers of SIIB and delegates of prominent B-Schools.

Some of the eminent speakers who have graced the event in earlier years were Mr. Homi Khusrokhan, MD, Tata Tea (2003), Mr. Adi Godrej, Chairman, The Godrej Group (2004) Mr. Habil Khorakiwala, Chairman, Wockhardt Ltd (2004), Mr. Jagdish Capoor, Chairman, HDFC Bank (2004) , Mr Richard Rushton, Managing Director, Sab Miller India (2005) Mr. A.K. Purwar, Chairman, SBI (2005), Mr M.N. Singh (Ex-IPS) , Chairman, Invent ARC Pvt. Ltd. (2006) , Mr Bala Swaminathan, Managing Director, Regional Head- Client Relationships India & South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank (2006) , Mr T.R Doongaji, Managing Director, Tata services Ltd (2007) and Mr. Lakshminarayan, Joint Managing Director ,MICO Ltd.(2007).

"Leadership Series 2008"

The theme this year was “ Journey to Success ”. SIIB's flagship event of the year, Leadership Series 2008 was organised on September 21^st, 2008. The Chief Guest for the day was Ms. Ranjana Kumar, Vigilance Commissioner of the apex body created to address governmental corruption. Besides her, the eminent personalities present for the event were

Mr. R.R. Balakrishnan, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas India Pvt. Ltd
Mr. Ravi Kastia is the Global Head of Aditya Birla Group
Mr. Prabir Kumar Aditya, Director(IT) ,United Health Group
Mr Gautam Rajadhyaksha, one of India's best known celebrity portraitist
Mr.Vipin Ghate, Head HR, Suzlon Infrastructure Services Ltd
Mr. Ramesh Chandak, MD& CEO of KEC International Ltd.

The event was inaugurated by Ms. Ranjana Kumar in the esteemed presence of Dr.(Mrs.) Rajni Gupte, Director SIIB.

"Lighting the Lamp"

The event commenced with the inaugral speech by Ms. Ranjana Kumar, Vigilance Commissioner of the apex body created to address governmental corruption. Ms. Ranjana spoke about success, the elements of success, the behaviours for success, the mindsets for success. She stressed upon the fact patience, persistence & perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Difficult should be a word erased from out vocabulary was what she firmly advocated. Also touching upon the behaviours for success and the mindsets for success, she advised successful persons chase their dreams vigorously . Quoting famous writers like Napoleon Hill, Benjamin, Franklin A B Alcott, Colin Powell to illicit the meaning of success, she enchanted the audience with her real life experiences as a "Turn around queen" for Bank of India.

Mr. R.R. Balakrishnan, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas India Pvt. Ltd. was the first speaker of the day. He is credited with creating some of India’s most recognized advertisement campaigns such as Idea, Surf Excel, Tata Tea, Lifebuoy, Havell etc. and has also directed the movie “Cheeni Kum.” Balki, as he is popularly known as, gave valuable insights about the advertising business which he termed as The Factory of Minds and also what it takes to be a leader in such an industry. “A leader needs to protect the people’s mind and

help them achieve what they want to achieve” said he. He also spoke about how advertising highlights problems of the society and offers solutions to them in a creative manner. He showcased some of his work from the past which included some advertising campaigns of Idea, Tata Tea, Surf Excel and took the students through the creation of these advertisements in a lucid manner which the students could connect well with.He also added that advertisements should be termed to be successful, not just because they win awards but more importantly only if they can connect well with the Indian consumers. Further, he shared his experience of directing Amitabh Bacchan and Tabu in his movie “Cheeni Kum”. He also differentiated Indian advertising from the rest of the world in terms of style, culture and mindset of Indian people.

Mr. Prabir Kumar Aditya, Director(IT) ,United Health Group a $ 70 billion company specializing in health care and services. Mr Prabir spoke Keeping with the theme of SIIB leadership Series "Journey to Success" about the growth of United Health Group in India and how difficult it was to scale up the function in health care sector with too many regulations by Government. He empasized on the growing additional working force of 83 million by 2010 and the educational capacity going up to 195 million and thus the opportunities it brings to

companies like UHG. Mr Prabir further explained the recipe for the success of UHG highlighting the fact that the approach should be a bottom up, starting with a motivated individual to good team harmony and co-ordination and moving upto to the organization aligning with the ultimate goal. He explained through equations like CQ + EQ> IQ stating that its actually competitive quotient plus emotional quotient should be greater than Intelligent quotient. He thus motivated students to take up challenges in life and not be scared to innovate and take risk.

Mr.Vipin Ghate ,Head HR, Suzlon Infrastructure Services Ltd has over 22 years of industry experience in HR & Administration. The theme ‘Journey to success’ was apt as Mr.Ghate described how Mr.Tulsi Tanti, the founder of Suzlon energy grew the company from a small organization of 20 employees to the leading wind turbine manufacturing company in Asia.. Mr.Ghate also made everyone aware that the journey to success is not an easy one. He narrated many challenges which Suzlon tackled to make sure that it reaches

the position where it is today. Mr.Ghate also highlighted the CSR activities undertaken by Suzlon. And finally, Mr.Ghate concluded by saying that ‘Journey to success’ is not over once you reach a particular milestone, but it is just one small step in the long journey to success. Mr.Ghate said, with the development of offshore technology in the wind power generation industry, the successful journey of Suzlon hasn’t ended, it has only just begun

Mr. Ramesh Chandak, MD& CEO of KEC International Ltd. which is one of the largest power transmission infrastructure companies in the world and a part of the RPG group. Mr. Chandak’s talk was centered around the theme - ‘The journey to Success’, and he used the KEC case study to illustrate the same. While talking about what it meant to be successful, Mr. Chandak spoke of Failure- as being the first step to success, Accomplishment- as the second step to success, Success- as a string of accomplishments, and True Success- as when the need is felt to redefine success itself.

Mr. Ravi Kastia is the Global Head of Aditya Birla Group and also the Managing Director & CEO of Essel Mining & Industries Limited. Mr. Kastia started off with showing a small video on Aditya Birla Group and showed how Late Shri G. D. Birla contributed to the independence of the country and social upliftment of the masses. He told how in the late 80’s Shri Aditya Birla took over the reins of the company and started the business in South East Asia which was an open market.

Mr Gautam Rajadhyaksha, one of India's best known celebrity portraitist, having photographed almost all the icons of the Indian Film industry, had graced the Leadership Series at SIIB as one of our esteemed guest speakers. He completely enthralled the young audience with the celebrity photographs from his famous book FACES. He adorned it with anecdotes in his speech, describing what happened when photographing them or while just chatting with them. The students were spellbound with the intricacy of the

soft-focus technique that he has pioneered. He pepped up the young crowd by asking them to “feel like a star” and more importantly to “follow their heart”. The audience chuckled with delight at his witty one-liners. It was a rendezvous to remember for times to come.