High Impact Business Leadership

Date: 16th Jan 2026 to 9th May 2026 (on alternative weekends over 4 months)

Status

Accepting Applications

Format

Hybrid

Location

ISB&M Pune Campus

Lead with vision, inspire performance, and drive your organization toward lasting impact.

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High business impact performances are not a game of probability and only high commitment and hard work. Our business observation and research by likes of McKinsey, tell us that high impact leaders deliver at least 30% better business than average leaders.

Several of successful business and team leaders, do end up believing that their old ways are the best ways despite changing scenarios in business

About This Program

This program is about developing new perspective, openness to rapidly changing business and building teams that deliver superior performance and business result. Learn from ISB&M faculties who have wide business experience and superior quality research in business issues.

Key Program Features

  1. How to do scenario analysis in a rapidly changing environment.
  2. Develop general management perspective, where you evaluate your ideas and plans with markets, technology, process, cost and finances, talent and business result.
  3. Learn the art of customer relations, business negotiations and deal marketing.
  4. Data, insightful thinking and knowledge driven decision making.
  5. Develop performance driven teams, team member relationships and performance & achievement-oriented culture.
  6. Learn to lead business teams.

Program is thoughtfully designed into eight modules to be delivered over 2 days each module. Over 8 weeks, and 4 months

  • Module 1 - Introduction to Leadership and Assessment Centre Approach to Define Each Participant’s Learning Need
  • Module 2 - Understanding Business Marketing
  • Module 3 - Tech Driven Supply Chain Management
  • Module 4 - Business Negotiations
  • Module 5 - Financial Analysis & Planning
  • Module 6 - Data Analytics and Business Decision Making
  • Module 7 - Business Transformation & Change Mgmt.
  • Module 8 - Leading High Performance Business Growth

  • Superior Team Performance: Build teams that deliver superior performance and business
  • General Management Perspective: Develop a perspective to evaluate ideas and plans across markets, technology, financial value & cost, talent, and business results.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Master data, insightful thinking, and knowledge-driven decision-making.
  • Performance Culture: Develop performance-driven teams, strong relationships, and an achievement-oriented culture.
  • Modern Business Analysis: Utilize AI, ChatGPT, and tech-driven approaches for business analysis and plan development.
  • Experiential Learning: Engage in highly collaborative, interactive, thinking, and execution-driven learning.

Program will be delivered with highly collaborative, interactive, thinking and execution driven approach. Aim is to learn to visualize a scenario, think and analyse with creative thoughts & information research, share, discuss and deliberate on ideas, plans and execution.

Program Delivery Methodology
  1. Assessment and development centre approach to define each participants learning needs
  2. Scenario development and analyse to define future of business
  3. Case of industry and companies
  4. Psychological testing and assessment for self-development and personal improvement
  5. Experimental exercise & simulation
  6. AI, ChatGPT and tech driven approach to business analysis and plan development.

Program Leader

Team Member
Dr. Pramod Kumar

Formerly with IIM Ahmedabad; Former Chairperson-Placement, XLRI Jamshedpur; Ex- Director, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune; Consultant to over 80 companies worldwide. Author of over 100 research papers, cases and management games. Research quoted internationally in textbooks and journals. Served on Government of India Committees on Management Education.

Program Module Leaders

Team Member
Prof. Abhishek Sinha

Over 20 years of rich industry experience. Senior leadership roles in reputed organizations like Samsung Electronics, Madura Coats, Akzo Nobel, and Aircel, Consulted for start-ups in health-tech and consumer durables.

Team Member
Prof. S. B. Subramaniam

Over 3 decades of industry and academic experience in large corporates and MNCs. Senior leadership experience as CFO / Head of Finance with Foseco India Ltd, SRF Ltd, BPL Ltd, Platt Pumps Ltd, Force Motors Ltd, Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd, Hummel Filters India Ltd., etc.

Team Member
Dr. Suyog Dharmadhikari

Over 15 years of industry and academic experience. He has worked with LG, Tata Communications, and RCI Cash Management Services. A Six Sigma Master Black Belt from ISI.

Team Member
Dr. Manoj Ghadge

Over 20 years of diverse industry and academic experience. PhD in Organization and Management Studies from TISS, Mumbai. Held leadership roles with Reliance, Wockhardt, Searle, and Merck Group.


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Limited in - house accommodation

Nearby Hotel Details will be Provided and Booking will be facilitated

Participants on the completion of the program will receive a Certificate and alumni status from International School of Business and Media, Pune, enabling access to a network of distinguished alumni and career resources.

The ISB&M alumni will get access to 12000+ alumni network across 45 countries.

Enrolment

Applications are now open for the High Impact Business Leadership Program. Professionals, managers, and business leaders from all sectors are invited to enrol. Seats are limited to maintain an interactive and experiential learning environment. Early applications are strongly encouraged.

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Functional Area - OB & HRM
Official e-mail ID amit.kumar@isbm.ac.in

Amit Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the domain of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at ISB&M, Pune. A BTech from Ranchi University and MBA graduate from IIT (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad went on to complete his doctoral studies in the HR Area from Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include High-Performance Work System, Job Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, and Diversity & Inclusion. He has presented his work at several national and international conferences.

Qualifications

PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

MBA, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

B.Tech, Ranchi University

Research Publication & Books

Journal

Kumar, A., Mukherjee T., and Chandra A. (2023), “Impact of High-Performance Work Practices on Individual and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Impact of Innovative Climate.” Benchmarking: an international journal (Under Review)

Conferences

- Kumar, A., Mukherjee, T., & Chandra, A. (2019). Role of high performance work practices on employee performance: mediating effect of innovative climate. ASBBS Proceedings, 26, 316-316.

- Kumar, A., Mukherjee, T., & Chandra, A. (2018). Role of Human Resource Practices in Organizational Performance. Presented in 2 nd Annual Conference on Banking and Finance, International Management Institute Bhubaneswar.

- Kumar, A., Mukherjee, T., & Chandra, A. (2019). Do High Performance work practices affect the employees in the Indian automobile industry? Presented in 5 th Management Doctoral Colloquium and VGSoM Research Scholars’ Day (MDC & VRS), Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Teaching Area

Core Courses

Organizational Behavior

Organization Structure and Design

HR Electives

Performance Management Systems

Competency-based Human Resource Management