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Building leaders of tomorrow

Why, how and who?

LeadLab bySangeeth Varghese


What Would We Discuss Today?

• Speaker introduction• What are we trying to do?• How are we trying to do?• What is your role in this?• Interaction and Q&A session


Speaker Profile

• Sangeeth Varghese is an acknowledged leadership thinker, and the founder of LeadCap.

• Is the author of the bestseller 'Decide to Lead' and writes a popular column in ET. His columns have appeared in Forbes, TOI and he has appeared in BBC and CNBC. Varghese guest edited the 2008 New Year edition of the TOI as a “young star making a difference”.

• Feb 2008, Bombay Stock Exchange Journal rated Varghese as one of the most influential leadership thinkers.

• Did his masters and research London School of Economics with a scholarship.


Building a Nation of Leaders

• LeadCap is nurtured by thinkers from the Ivy League with a vision to build the first leadership democracy in the world; to build India as a nation of leaders.

“Is there an Indian equivalent of the American Dream? LeadCap is striving to identify it:” Forbes


All leaders, no followers?

• Why should we be a nation of leaders?

– Slumdog millionaire story - Vegetable vendor,chaos

– Demographic dividend

– Other nations examples

• If we are all leaders, who would be the followers?


Our beliefs

- Teaching how to fish is better than providing fish: Helping individuals discover their true potential would help them more in the longer term than any other aid. This way they would help themselves, as well as the society.

- Leadership is a decision, not a position: Individuals who emerged as some of the greatest leaders had nothing extraordinary about them. Anyone could be a leader irrespective or birth or living conditions, if willing to decide

- Leaders breed more leaders: More individuals would embrace the leadership mantle, if they are made aware that leadership is a decision. Hence, true leaders are those who nurture more leaders, not followers


Million leader mandate

• LeadLab is created with a mandate of creating a million leaders: where we empower a million individuals in India with leadership opportunities, beyond their birth and living conditions.

• Driven by 20 primary leads – who would take lead of their zones and build more leaders.


The gentle push

• Our approach is different• We approach leadership as a decision, not as a

position or as a set of skills• Leadership decision requires deep understanding of

human psychology and motivation• LeadLab sessions enlightens people to take that

decision• Gentle push towards that decision

• Leadership is not a destination, but a journey


What all would we do?• Online LeadLabs:

• Creating more leaders, supported by:• Leadership Counseling, networking, physical projects

• Offline Leadlabs:• LeadCapper:

• Platform to enable group action• Leadership Cafes:

• Leadership open houses. Tie up with existing cafes.• LeadCap Ventures:

• Providing entrepreneurship opportunities


3 routes towards our goal

• Primary Leads:• Leading from the front• Influence

• Mailers:• Friends/acquaintances• Database

• Media: • City event announcement• Articles• Columns• Bylines for column


Who are the leads?• Upkar Kaur: Gurgaon, IT community• Col. Navinder Narang: Delhi, strategic

partnerships• Ajith P: Gurgaon, Academics• Karan Jindall: Delhi, Sponsorships

• Milli Das/Deepti Bhat: Ahmedabad, HR community• Tarun Soni: Ahmedabad

• Neelmani Chawla: Jalandhar, Projects• Amit Gupta: Jalandhar, Engineering colleges

• Deepak Narsinghani: Mumbai, Business schools• Anjali Grover: Mumbai, Business schools


Who are the leads?

• Kris/Vik: US, LeadCapper• Sathvik: Singapore

• Swagath KV: Bangalore, Business school/marketing

• Rajah Raghuraman: Bangalore, US/Aus• Balu: Bangalore, Blogging• Rochele: Bangalore, Corporate world• Varun Sidhu: Bangalore, IT community

• Mohan Reddy: Andhra, Rural


What would each one of us strive to do?

• Invites:• Email signatures:

• Join the Million-Leader-Mandate @ www.leadcap.net

• Posters in colleges/offices:• Forwarding weekly presentation:


What roadblocks would we face?

• Balu quote• Like drinking milk• Buying low and selling high:


What will motivate motivators?

• 5 star model:• Recruiting members:• Recruiting colleges:• Media story:• Live projects:• Sponsorship:• Website stories/blog:


Leadership Takeaway

“Give me a iron rod long enough and I shall move the world”


Next Session

• Next week: “Starting to Never Stop: What can Make you Keep Going”

• Another engaging, interesting and inspiring session• Till then spread the word about LeadLab, because

every individual inspired is another leader won for nation building.