ICASL, INSEAD launch leadership programme

The ICASL Business School together with INSEAD, launched the groundbreaking four-day long Global Leadership Programme at a ceremony held last week at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, in the presence of the country's high-end corporate glitterati and a special delegation from INSEAD.

The launch was a prelude to the sold out four-day programme which commenced on June 15 and concluded on June 18 also at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo.

The leadership programme will be conducted by the renowned Professor of Leadership and organizational behaviour of INSEAD, Prof Thomas Mannarelli from the faculty of the INSEAD Business School.

The course aimed at high-end professionals and business leaders will see a thought provoking outline of topics covering a wide array of areas, aimed at enhancing the leadership qualities of the country's corporate movers and shakers.

Among the topics that would be covered in the programme are vision and leadership transition, creative thinking outside the box, influence without authority, leading organization change, leading high performance teams, decision making under uncertainty, negotiation dynamics and influencing for change.

The four-day programme received an overwhelming response with organizers having to increase the number of participants by several folds to accommodate the high demand.

Meanwhile, the Business School of ICASL has already commenced intakes for the second ICASL-INSEAD global leadership programme scheduled for September 2011.

The ICASL has always been in the forefront, striving to provide the country's business community the best of services and opportunities and as the national accounting body of Sri Lanka, the ICASL has continuously endeavoured to partner with the world's best organizations and the four-day programme with INSEAD is one such initiative.

Prof Mannarelli, who holds a PhD from the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkley and a B.S. in Business Administration from the Indiana University, is a specialist in issues related to creativity, innovation and leadership in organizations. He is backed with an impressive portfolio having provided his consulting services to top notch globally recognized organizations in the likes of Standard Chartered Bank, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Shell, Nissan, ABN-AMRO, Philip Morris, Visa, Singtel, Adidas, IBM and the Chartered Accountants of Ireland.

As one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools, INSEAD is a pioneer of international business education based in Europe. With campuses in France, Asia and Abu Dhabi, and a research centre in Israel, INSEAD's business education and research spans three continents. Its 145 renowned faculty members from 36 countries inspire more than 1,000 participants in MBA, Executive MBA and PhD programmes, and also executives exceeding 9,500 who participate in INSEAD's executive education programmes.