Strategic Leadership Development Program

Business Transformation Through Leadership Transformation

Strategic Leadership Development
Program (SLDP) - Batch 7

February 2025 to September 2025

Duration: 8 months

Programme Fees: INR 4,50,000 plus GST

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Program Structure

An exclusive 8 - month program focusing on business transformation through leadership transformation in partnership with IIM Bangalore ( Consistently featuring in Top -3 in B-School ranking according to Financial Times Rankings)
Transformation Business Impact Projects
One to one coaching sessions
Classroom Sessions and Business Simulations
Learning from Industry experts
Certification from IIM Bangalore*

Over the past 20+ years, People Business has helped more than over 10,000 managers and leaders to scale up their competency.

Experience and learn through Best In-class, powerful and concentrated sessions by IIM Bangalore, structured to enhance the learning journey of the participants.

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Faculty & Coaches

PD Jose

Professor Jose teaches core courses on strategy and electives on Corporate Environmental Management, Sustainable Enterprises and Understanding Corporate Failures. Professor Jose was a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and Kenan-Flagler Business School, North Carolina during 1999-2000. He also visited the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as a research scholar on a UNDP/GoI fellowship. He was also an ESRC Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University during 2005-06, and again in 2008.

Ganesh N Prabhu

Professor Prabhu's areas of research and teaching are product innovation, strategic management and entrepreneurship. He has published in leading journals like the Academy of Management Review and Research Policy and was invited to be on the editorial board of the Journal of Management, US. Professor Prabhu has conducted top management sessions for Honeywell, ITC, Qualcomm, Tata Group, Tessaract and Tetra Pak and has conducted strategy, visioning or innovation workshops for senior executive groups at Bharat Electronics, Crompton Greaves, ETA Ascon Holding, HAL, Honeywell, Indian Oil, L&T, Quest, Oracle, Union Bank of India.

Sandeep Krishnan

Dr. Sandeep K. Krishnan is the CEO and Partner at People Business. He is a Fellow (Doctorate) of IIM A hmedabad. In the past, he has worked with organizations like IBM, Infosys, Ernst and Young, and RPG. He is a Visiting Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Indore. Dr. Sandeep has coached CXO level leaders across sectors like Technology, BFSI, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Education. Some of business houses and groups where he has consulted with are Accenture, Capgemini, RBS, Genpact, 3M, Manipal Group, Voltas, UBL, ITC Ltd and TVS. He is the author of the book Making of a CEO, published by Penguin Random House. He is a certified coach from the university of Cambridge and TLC.

Saurav Adhikari

Saurav Adhikari is a global business leader with over 4 decades of experience across diverse businesses. Currently serving on both publicly listed statutory and advisory boards and holds a position of an Independent Director of Goodricke Group Limited. Over the last few years, Saurav has been a coach to a number of CEOs and CXOs. Saurav has also been part of the founding team of the Shiv Nadar Foundation and has been instrumental in building its landmark institutions and driving partnerships with Ivy League Universities and Institutions.

Mervyn Raphael

Mervyn Raphael is the Managing Partner at People Business Consulting. Over a 30+ years career, Mervyn worked with Hindustan Unilever, AT&T and Mercer Consulting as their Founder-Managing Director. He has led several consulting assignments over the last 20 years, primarily in the areas of Defining Vision, Values & strategic intent, Employer Branding, Leadership Transformation and Executive Coaching. Mervyn is an experienced facilitator for top management teams and an Executive Coach for several organizations in India and overseas. He is a certified TLC Coach.

Nalin Mehta

Nalin Mehta was Managing Director of Mahindra Trucks & Buses Limited, CEO Mahindra Truck & Bus Division and Mahindra Construction Division. He currently consults with Mahindra Group on a few strategic projects, is advisor to a startup and is an Executive Coach. He has also held industry positions like Member-Executive Committee, SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), Member - Governing Council, ARAI (Automotive Research Association of India). He has also been on the Boards of a few companies.

What Our Clients and Participants say

RPG has partnered with People Business in our leadership development program for General Managers. People Business, in collaboration with SDA Bocconi, brought in a very relevant and unique design that helped the leadership journey of the high potential participants in their career growth. The program blended learning though advanced leadership workshops, business impact projects, leadership connect, and coaching. RPG is running the second batch of the program and has reaped both leadership and business ROI.

SYED AZFAR HUSSAIN
Sr. Vice President
Learning and Organizational Development
RPG Group

People Business has helped Manipal Education and Medical Group in building robust pipeline of leaders in our diverse business interests. The customized and well integrated design of the programs addresses the development of capabilities required for leaders at various levels. The programs helped the participants in their leadership and career development.

Nishith Mohanty
Global HR Head
Manipal Education and
Medical Group

Thanks for helping us graduate from BACK TO SCHOOL Program at IIM Bangalore. It was enriching, evocative & enjoyable at the same time for all our trade partners. Business took a pause for 5 days of this course & intensive learning from experts took over.
The best part was the customized program delivery with a lot of cases around our industry. It’s been a privilege for me to have shared the journey with all of you and hopefully, you would also carry good impressions of KOHLER brand for a long time

Indraneel Kumar Das
Head- Sales Capability,
Kohler India

The learners are constantly encouraged to innovate and reinvent themselves to stay relevant in this ever-changing world. There has been a paradigm shift in the mind-set of learners who have gone through this experience and have graduated from the program. This course provides a fillip to their careers and develops the young leaders for future.
At KPMG, as we foster learning culture and continue to invest in our people, our partnership with IIM B is a building block to help our people be ‘future ready’.

Rani Belliappa
Director & Head,
Learning & Development, KPMG Global Services

Strategic Leadership Development Program (SLDP)
Batch 7

Business Transformation Through Leadership Transformation

Program Structure

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