The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organising an Institute Lecture on Thursday, November 3, 2022.

The details are given below:

Title: Inspired Leadership: What does it take?

Speaker: Mr. Vineet Nayar, Founder, Sampark Foundation, Former CEO -  HCL Technologies

Abstract:

Mr. Nayar believes that turbulent times need "managers" who can transform themselves into "inspirational leaders". Those who inspire are trusted, respected and deliver results others find difficult to even think as possible. Inspirational leaders are unconventional, bold, fearless, honest, passionate, caring and, most importantly, they know their teams will climb the Everest, if needed. So how does one learn to be such an "Inspirational leader"? In this session, Mr. Nayar will share one possible systematic approach to become one. The focus would be on practical ideas and his own life lessons from transforming a legacy IT company (HCLT) and now transforming rural education (Sampark Foundation). These lessons may be very relevant for leaders aspiring to transform the world and make it a better place in their lifetime.

About the speaker:

Mr. Vineet Nayar is Founder Chairman of Sampark Foundation and Former Vice Chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies and author of the highly-acclaimed management bestseller, "Employees First, Customer Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down" (Harvard Business Press, June 2010). 

A management visionary and radical thinker, Mr. Vineet Nayar led the transformation of HCL Technologies into one of India's fastest-growing global information technology service company, which under his leadership grew from a $0.7 billion in 2005 to a $4.7 billion global technology service company with over 85,000 employees across 32 countries by 2013. This radical transformation led Fortune Magazine to recognise HCLT as "the world's most modern management", while Business Week named HCLT as "one of the world's most influential companies". His innovative management practices at HCLT were taught as a case study at both the Harvard Business School and London Business School.

Mr. Vineet Nayar quit HCLT in 2013 to focus on Sampark Foundation, which he co-founded with his wife Anupama Nayar, to catalyze 'large-scale transformation in primary education through frugal innovation'. Today, Sampark Foundation is improving learning outcomes among 1 crore children studying in 84,000 rural schools across 7 states in India: Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra at less than $1 per child per annum. This large-scale transformation is now a 'case study' at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Vineet Nayar completed B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's in Business Management at the XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur. He joined HCL in 1985 and in 1993, he founded Comnet, a technology start-up. In 2005, he became President, and in 2007, the CEO of HCL Technologies, where he spearheaded a remarkable turnaround.

Mr. Vineet Nayar is currently also the Chairman of the National Stock Exchange Foundation and is on the Board of the National Stock Exchange. He is on the Advisory Board of the Uttarakhand Government and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He was on the Advisory Board of the Millions Learning Project led by the ex- Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gilliard, and was a Former Governor of ICT, member of the Global Advisory Board of Women Leaders and Gender Parity Program at the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of NPC Tech Platform, National Focus Group (Educational Technology in School Education) of Ministry of Education, Government of India. As a mentor to multiple technology start-ups, he continues to follow his passion for technology and has served as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey Leadership Institute, ChrysCapital and many Fortune 1000 companies.

To learn more about what Sampark Foundation is doing, you can visit their home page https://www.samparkfoundation.org/
and see this video: https://youtu.be/ojpD7wjuwsk