Leadership Shastra: Lessons from Indian History - 15 Feb 2022

Discussion on the theme of the Book TUESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER, CHENNAI

R SESHASAYEE VICE CHAIRMAN HINDUJA GROUP

VENKY RAJGOPAL

S L NARAYANAN

PRADEEP CHAKRAVARTHY

CHAIRMAN INDIAN TERRAIN FASHIONS LTD

GROUP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER SUN GROUP

AUTHOR, HR CONSULTANT AND HISTORIAN

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History is the past. Surely, it’s irrelevant today? Is it, though?

What if history could be made to work for us in very real ways?

SISPONYS

In Leadership Shastra, Pradeep Chakravarthy does just that. He studies the lives of wellknown historical figures like Shivaji, Babur, Ahilyabai Holkar, Sankaradeva and many others with a view to understanding their motivations, actions and legacies. The book examines how developing a comprehension of our past could be the key to understanding our own selves, our actions, motivations and of those around us. This view of history as both useful and inspirational is unconventional: it is revealed here as a discipline that can be used for self-assessment and self-motivation.

Engaging and enthralling, this is a book that will leave history buffs with much to think about, as much as it will serve as an introduction to the newbie.

5:15 PM

Registration & High Tea MMA Management Center

6:00 PM

Welcome Address

Mr R Srikanth Managing Director, ABI-Showatech (India) Pvt Ltd &

EMMARGORP

Past President, MMA

Launch of the Book & Address by the Author on the theme "Leadership Shastra: Lessons from Indian History"

Mr Pradeep Chakravarthy Author, HR Consultant and Historian

Mr R Seshasayee Vice Chairman, Hinduja Group

Mr Venky Rajgopal Managing Director, Indian Terrain Fashions Ltd

In conversation with Mr S L Narayanan Group Chief Financial Officer, Sun Group

Q&A 7:15 PM

Vote of Thanks

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Sesh is a Chartered Accountant, having started his career with Hindustan Lever Ltd in 1971.

He Joined Ashok Leyland in 1976, rose to become Managing Director in 1998. He Led Ashok Leyland's transformation into a self-reliant, globally competitive technology leader seeking growth through globalization and diversification, via acquisitions and joint ventures. During

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his tenure as Managing director from 1998-99 to 2010-11 Ashok Leyland's trunover increased five times from Rs 12093 Cr, net profit thrity times and market cap fourteen times. He stepped down from Ashok Leyland as its Non Executive Vice Chairman in July 2016. Sesh was also the Chairman of IndusInd Bank from 2007 till August 2019. During this period,

R Seshasayee

market cap of the Bal increased fifty three times. An active Leader of CII, he was President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) during 2006-07. He was the President of Society of Indian automobile industry during 2001-03. Seshashayee has also servred on several goverment

and

professional

committees.

He

is

presently

Chairman

Committee of Krea University and Vice Chairman of Hinduja Group.

of

the

Executive

Venky Rajgopal was born into a family of police officers and he was a fourth generation who entered the IPS and belonged to to the 1979 batch and borne on the UP cadre.

Having served 11 years, with a final three year stint as SSP Kanpur, he resigned his service and went south of india to Chennai, to seek a life out of uniform.

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Thus was born a small garment manufacturing facility called a celebrity fashions in 1990. The company went public in 2006.

The year 2000 saw the founding of an apparel brand ‘Indian Terrain‘ for India, and is today a premier menswear brand and truly national in sweep and presence. This went public in 2010.

Venky Rajgopal

Venky Rajgopal has been president of the MMA, held office in CII Tamil Nadu as Chair of task force on nurturing entrepreneurship, was Co-chairman of CII National MSME Council.

Been Captain of the Kodaikanal Golf Club. Is a member of the YPO Chennai chapter for over 20 years, and has been the chapter chair during 2014.

Venky is an avid cyclist, loves to read, a passionate golfer, and plays some music. And being fit is what he places at the Center of any effective leadership. He is married to Rama, and has two children Anjali and Vidyuth.

Finance executive with more than three decades of

experience,

cutting across FMCG,

telecoms, IT & BPO services, healthcare, aviation, sports, media and entertainment. Extensive

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global exposure over the last two decades, with a proven track record of execution.

Specialties: strategy,

S L Narayanan

new

business

debt/equity

development,

raising,

capital

corporate allocation,

planning,

performance

structuring

management,

alliances/joint

ventures,

negotiating mergers, divestitures & acquisitions, investor relations, treasury, global taxation, corporate communications.

Born in 1975, Pradeep Chakravarthy was educated in The School KFI, Jawaharlal Nehru University where he studied

Madras Christian College,

International Relations and the London School of

Economics where he studied Human Resource Development. He is currently pursuing a PhD on

the

administration of the Pandya kingdom.

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Pradeep began his career by working in the family business, the TVS Group. He later worked at Cognizant, Infosys and McKinsey. In all these organisations, he worked in HR and Learning and Development, with clients, to improve performance through behaviour change.

For the past few years, he has specialised in conducting workshops, one-to-one coaching sessions

Pradeep Chakravarthy

and heritage tours that seek to impart leadership and life lessons from Indian history and philosophy.

Leadership Shastra is his ninth book. His earlier books include ones on Thanjavur, Kodaikanal, the temples of Tamil Nadu and Ashok Leyland. His work on a children’s history of south India and a translation work are currently in press.

He lives in Madras.

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