“Leadership is service,” believes Kaushik Mahapatra, Founder of Indian Leadership Academy (ILA) and leadership lessons have the innate ability to come from unlikely sources. Hence on the occasion of India’s 73rd Republic Day, ILA, a premier people development company based in Bangalore, curated a first-of-its-kind in India, Certified Leadership program – The Himalayan way. This 4-hour long program not only inspired new insights on how the Himalayas offer a unique environment for building personal and professional leadership skills in modern day leaders, but also centered around how marrying the eastern and the western philosophies of leadership can become the genesis for new leadership mindsets.
Attended by 200+ participants from across the globe, the esteemed speakers and Leadership experts, Kaushik Mahapatra and Brig Arun Gupta (Retd), through their discussions anchored the audience by providing stirring metaphors, personal experiences and collective introspection for overcoming challenges and attaining goals also making them reflect on questions such as – what does it take to reach the summit? What are the different approaches one can apply to take balanced decisions?
“The Himalayas are a reminder that leaders need to be collaborative, physically and mentally durable, and prepared to lead people across boundaries while letting go of their rigidities to meet their shared goals,” said Brig Arun Gupta.
In the larger scheme of things, Kaushik believes that, a great leader is born when they marry the western philosophy of intellect with the eastern philosophy of intuition, in their leadership style. He also opined that there are three mantras for leading a happy life – Forget the good you did to others, forget the bad done by others to you; understand that Leadership is your responsibility to yourself and that leading a happy life comes from progress.
“The climb to the top is hard but not impossible and the one belief that will make the experience more meaningful for your self while impacting the others is, if you can’t you must, added Kaushik.
Think “Kintsugi”, advised Kaushik further – a Japanese philosophy; one that celebrates problems, teaches you to accept the flaws in situations around you, in people around you because the beauty of one’s leadership growth lies in reframing past failures as points of learning and by doing so, a leader provides inspiration and hope for those who are following behind.
ILA also took this opportunity to run its 3rd edition of Global Outstanding Leadership Awards-2021 on this esteemed day to honour people who have excelled in their own fields in service to humanity.
Out of a very large no of nominations received from across the globe, 16 achievers and budding leaders – Arif Pasha, Salema Veliu, Dr.Manoj Kumar Sahoo, Seema Vikas Gadiya, Uma Vangal, Rashmi Jaipuriyar, Kate Lee, Gaurav Duggal, Pradip Mistry, Ashinsanie Weerasinghe, Niharika Chaturvedi, Katherine Peter, Priyanka Verma, Irene Mokobi and Kiriti Joshi were selected, purely based on their immense contribution towards Training, Coaching, Innovation, Leadership, environmental care, education, Mental health, Humane work and much more.
Other than India, the awardees were also selected from, Singapore, South Korea, Botswana, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.
The awards were distributed by Kaushik Mahapatra who believes that “Leadership is love for humanity”, and it is imperative to notice and nurture consistent acts of achievement in this regard.
Indian Leadership Academy will continue to make an enduring attempt to recognize many more of such achievers in the future too purely based on their extraordinary and consistent achievements towards leadership excellence in various fields. The next edition of Global Outstanding Leadership Awards-2022 is scheduled to be held in the month of Apr 22.
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