Leadership Initiative for Visually Challenged Women Professionals taken by IIM Ahmedabad

By: WE Staff | Tuesday, 25 April 2023

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) is a premier global management institute that started an initiative named One-Of-Its-Kind for visually challenged women professionals. The programme was developed by Professor Rajesh Chandwani, an IIMA faculty member and the Dr Lal PathLabs Chair in Healthcare at IIMA. The initiative aims at providing knowledge and skills to the participants to prepare them for leadership activities.

The initiative was joined by eleven other professors from IIMA and the Blind People's Association (BPA) who are experts in various other academic fields. They all have come together to lead the workshops for the participants on various topics.

The IIMA Endowment Fund and Lal PathLabs collaboratively working on this programme. Through CSR activities, skill development and creating awareness initiatives, Lal PathLabs is prioritising the social development of this programme.

Director of IIMA, Professor Bharat Bhasker; Managing Director of Dr Lal PathLabs and alumnus of IIMA, Om Manchanda; General Secretary of BPA, Mr Bhushan Punani, PhD student at IIMA, Tarun Vashishth; CEO, IIMA Endowment Fund, Ms Chhavi Moodgal and Faculty Chair, Programme on Leadership and Strategic Thinking for Social Sector, Professor Rajesh Chandwani along with the participants and other faculty members attended the opening session of the programme.

The programme was attended by 25 participants who belonged to a variety of organisations based in Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. They were provided training about Strategic Thinking for the Social Sector Governance and Compliance Issues in NGOs and Financial Literacy: Issues Challenges and Opportunities to Managing Negotiations to Leading Self in the Social Sector and many more topics which were needed.