Program Overview

In this VUCA world, what will separate the best from the good will be the quality of Leadership and Strategic Thinking. As is often said, “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast”. Studies have proven that Leaders with high Emotional Intelligence usually outperform their peers who may be more technically qualified. This course provides a seamless gateway to understand how Leadership qualities, underpinned by Emotional Intelligence skills, can propel managers into creating meaningful and sustainable growth for their business.

This program is designed to equip mid and senior-level executives with the strategic acumen, leadership capabilities, and emotional intelligence required to excel in today’s dynamic and competitive business environment. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of how to analyze complex business scenarios, identify opportunities, and make sound strategic decisions that align with long-term organizational goals.

A core objective of the program is to strengthen leadership effectiveness by enabling executives to lead with clarity, vision, and influence. The sessions will help participants explore contemporary leadership frameworks and apply them to inspire teams, manage change, and drive innovation across functions and geographies. By blending strategic insight with leadership practice, the program prepares executives to transition from functional excellence to enterprise-wide impact.

Equally important, the program focuses on building emotional intelligence as a critical enabler of leadership success. Participants will enhance their self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills to foster trust, collaboration, and resilience within their teams and organizations. Through experiential learning and reflective practice, they will learn to manage conflicts, navigate ambiguity, and communicate with impact in high-stakes situations.

Here are the links from HBR for further reading – The Social and Emotional Skills Need Most and Why Emotional Intelligence Is Important in Leadership

Program Objectives

1. Strengthen Strategic Thinking
   • Equip participants with frameworks to analyze complex business environments, identify opportunities, and make sound strategic choices.
   • Enhance the ability to balance short-term results with long-term growth and sustainability.
2. Develop Leadership Capabilities
   • Build skills for leading diverse teams with clarity, influence, and purpose.
   • Foster adaptive leadership to manage uncertainty, drive change, and inspire innovation.
3. Enhance Emotional Intelligence (EI)
   • Increase self-awareness, self-regulation, and empathy to improve decision-making and leadership presence.
   • Strengthen skills in managing relationships, navigating conflict, and fostering collaboration in high-pressure environments.
4. Integrate Strategy, Leadership & EI
   • Demonstrate how emotional intelligence enhances strategic leadership effectiveness.
   • Enable leaders to align organizational strategy with people strategy, ensuring resilience and high performance.
5. Drive Organizational Impact
   • Prepare executives to translate strategic insights into actionable plans.
   • Cultivate leaders who can influence culture, build trust, and create sustainable competitive advantage.

Pedagogy

The conceptual parts of the course will be supplemented with case studies, role-plays, and activities that follow the Learn-Apply-Create model. 

Who is it for?

• The program is for mid-level executives (8–15 years’ experience) managing functions, business units, or regional teams from diverse industries such as IT & technology, manufacturing, services, consulting, finance, healthcare, FMCG, and infrastructure.
• Those seeking to expand into enterprise-wide leadership, lead with empathy and influence, and drive sustainable value creation for the organization will also benefit from the program.

Program Content

GK Suresh (GK) has over two decades of work experience spanning both corporate and academic sectors, primarily in Marketing, Sales, Strategy, and Business Leadership.

Industry Experience: A Corporate Career spanning 22 years with ITC Ltd., across Sales, Marketing & Business Leadership functions. Was part of the start-up team that developed and launched the Personal Care business, the highlight of which was one of the most successful soap launches in the last two decades. He was in a leadership role for over 6 years as Vice President – Marketing when the Foods business grew at 20%+ CAGR ; He subsequently headed new category development, spearheading the launches of Fabelle chocolates & Sunbean Coffee.

GK was also a member of the Divisional Management Committees (DMC) of both businesses. Early on, GK spent a year at Tata Elxsi immediately after his Engineering.

Academic Experience: In 2017, GK switched careers to academia to give back to society and inspire students through teaching, first at KCT Business School and now at PES University. He is a regular visiting faculty at IIM (B) and NMIMS, having handled courses on International Business, Customer Experience, Luxury Management & Marketing Strategy. He is a member of the governing council of IASMS Institute, Bangalore. He was also handpicked for a program on “Competitive Strategy” at Wharton Business School at ITC.

Consulting/Mentoring Experience: He combined his teaching and mentoring roles with institution-building responsibilities in both Colleges by leading the Consulting efforts. GK has advised and mentored a number of Start-ups like Kottaram Agro (Soulfull; acquired by Tata Consumer Products in 2021), Farm Harvest, Chromachemie (Swee10), Ramnath Chemicals (Odorite), Shriram Capital (Q2S), Innovative Nutrition and Aays Analytics. He has also executed projects for more established companies like DFM Foods (Crax), Jakson Group, Khanna Paper Mills, ITC Limited, ASK Automotive, Manjilas (Double Horse), Indian Oil Corporation, Amrutanjan & Sakthi Finance in areas related to Business Strategy, Innovation, Skill Development, Marketing & Sales Strategies.

GK is a designated mentor with organisations like the NSRCEL at IIM(B), Goldman Sachs 10K women entrepreneurship program, the Entrepreneur First Advisor network and the Founder Institute.

Education: GK is a BE (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from FMS, Delhi

Program Schedule

Schedule: Two sessions of 75 minutes each every week – Saturdays and Sundays between 10:00 am and 11:15 pm (two days a week).

The program starts on Saturday, 08 Aug 2026 and would run for 10 weeks.  The program has a total of 20 sessions.

Delivery Mode: Live-Online through Zoom

Application and Enrollment Flow

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The payment and enrollment happen through our enrollment and learning management website – https://lms.labinmotion.com . We offer easy installment plans for all our programs. This can help plan your cash flows. We offer an additional 5% discount on group registrations for 3 or more people from a single organisation. Please email support@labinmotion.com for group registrations, and we will guide you through the enrollment process.

Contact For Queries

Parthasarathy S
Ph. +91 9110614400
Email: partha@labinmotion.com