BWI: World’s first Change Leadership Awards in Exclusive Association with Who Moved My Cheese? to be launched by LeapVault

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Source: LeapVault
Monday, May 10, 2010 02:02 PM IST (08:32 AM GMT)
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World's first Change Leadership Awards in Exclusive Association with Who Moved My Cheese? to be launched by LeapVault
Mr. Curtis Bateman to conduct the 'How to Lead Change' workshop in India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, May 10, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- LeapVault, a premier Indian player in organisation development consulting, training and recruitment, in exclusive association with Who Moved My Cheese?, the global leader in change coaching, training and consulting, will launch the first-ever global 'LeapVault Change Leadership Awards' in India. The awards, a unique initiative, and the first of its kind in the world, will be announced in a glittering ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel.

The LeapVault Change Leadership Awards will focus on those select leaders who broke new ground,and paved the way to inspire millions to believe in their dreams. The contenders for these awards exemplify that game-changing quality through their actions and attitude. The awards aim to recognise Change Leaders across all walks: business, politics, media and entertainment,sports, healthcare, social change and non-profit.

According to Kumaar Bagrodia, CEO, LeapVault, "India is at the precipice of change and the world has its eyes on us. Over the years, we have evolved as an economy and are seen as a global hub for talent and businesses across sectors. This has been possible through the vision and ability to adapt to and lead change exhibited by Indian companies and entrepreneurs. The LeapVault Change leadership awards are an initiative to recognize the game changing behaviour of such individuals and encourage many others to come forward and adopt the change philosophy"

The LeapVault Change Leadership Awards will be awarded in the following categories:
Sniff award for New Product Innovation, Scurry award for creating new category / segment, Green Change Leadership, Social Change Leadership: Education, Social Change Leadership: Healthcare, Change Leadership: Entertainment & Media, Change Leadership: Sports, Change Leadership: Politics, Lifetime Change Leadership Award, Global Indian Change Leader, Game Changing M&A, Game Changing M&A (global), Corporate Change Leadership: Re branding, Corporate Change Leadership: Restructuring, Corporate Change Leadership: Business Turnaround

The eminent jury for the awards consists of stalwarts across sectors like Mr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, IAS - Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, Mr. Govindraj Ethiraj, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg UTV, Mr. G P Gupta, Former Chairman of IDBI, Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President of Nasscom, Mr. Anupam Kher, veteran actor, Dr S. Parasuraman, Director Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Dr. Gita Piramal, Business Hisotrian, author and Chairman, Ergo. Global audit firm Grant Thornton, are the process advisors for the awards. The awards are being held in close partnership with BloombergUTV.

"Change is here to stay! The recent economic activity has illustrated yet again just how important it is for organizations and individual leaders to be experts at change. This is particularly true in India, a country that is growing fast- changing! The companies that can develop the competency to change quickly will have a key advantage over the next 25 years. Who Moved My Cheese? is committed to our partnership with LeapVault and is excited at the establishment of the world's first Change Leadership Awards. This could not be more important in any country than India where change shall be the watchword for survival and success." Says Dr. Spencer Johnson, author, Who Moved My Cheese?
Who Moved My Cheese? is the largest selling business book in the world.- Amazon.com

The LeapVault Change Leadership Awards event is also certified as a Carbon Neutral Event. The orgnaizers have offset all expected emissions by contracting the planting of biofuel trees.

The trophy for the LeapVault Change Leadership Awards has been designed by Rahul Patil, a class IX student from the NGO Akanksha. This was part of LeapVault's initiative with Akanksha for their Learn to Lead Programme.

Mr. Curtis Bateman, President & CEO, Spencer Johnson Foundation, Who Moved My Cheese?
will also be conducting their flagship workshop on "How to Lead Change" for the first time in India. How To Lead Change provides executives and managers with simple yet powerful tools to not just manage change but lead it, where participants also discover their individual 'change' potential. Mr. Bateman has worked with some of the world's largest companies and has helped them not only succeed in their change initiatives, but to transform change into real competitive advantage. The workshop is ideal for business leaders, functional heads, senior executives in HR and training, and such other fields. An exclusive screening of The TellyT Award-winning movie based on "Who Moved My Cheese?" has also been organised for the participants of the workshop.

Details about the workshop:
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm
Place: Hotel Four Seasons, Worli, Mumbai
E-mail: register@leapvault.com

About LeapVault

LeapVault is an organization development consulting, executive training and executive recruitment company. It offers comprehensive solutions that are superlative and path breaking to cater to the needs of premier organizations and individual professionals. The company is spearheaded by Mr. Kumaar Bagrodia who has over a decade of cross functional expertise across industries and businesses both as a senior executive and an entrepreneur. He has worked with companies like Progeon (Infosys, Nasdaq:Infy) and WNS (NYSE:WNS) where he was an associate director. An Oxford MBA, he is a certified master trainer, executive coach and facilitator by Spencer Johnson Partners and is the Chief Evangelist for Who Moved My Cheese? in India.

For more information, log on to http://www.leapvault.com




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