The Right Choice: Shiva Shivakumar Resolves Career Dilemmas for Extraordinary Success

Shiva Shivakumar addressing at AIMA’s 39th LeaderSpeak Session

Shiva Shivakumar addressing at AIMA’s 39th LeaderSpeak Session

“An individual is solely responsible for his career,” says Shiva Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group. However, he also belted out tips on how to handle the career dilemmas from his new book- ‘The Right Choice: Resolving 10 Career Dilemmas for Extraordinary Success’ at AIMA’s 39th LeaderSpeak Session. 

Having an illustrious career across different industries and having his views on leadership and strategy widely known, Shiva Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group talked about his maiden book, ‘The Right Choice: Resolving 10 Career Dilemmas for Extraordinary Success’ that became a bestseller, at AIMA’s 39th LeaderSpeak Session.

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“Beyond Covid-19 Pandemic: Sanjiv Bajaj talks about redrawing India’s financial economy growth map

Sanjiv Bajaj addressing AIMA’s 50th LeaderSpeak Session

Sanjiv Bajaj addressing AIMA’s 50th LeaderSpeak Session

Many sectors including the Financial Services were hit badly by the pandemic but with digitisation and risk management practices in place, companies can strengthen their ‘resilience’ to come out of unprecedented events like the pandemic, said Sanjiv Bajaj, Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Finance Limited at AIMA’s 50th LeaderSpeak Session.

The economy had recovered from the shadow of the pandemic and the GDP growth had bounced back. There had been major growth in every segment of the economy and consumer confidence had improved significantly. But the omicron variant of covid hit the economy again, hence the economy map had to be redrawn. Digitisation came as a revolution even in the financial services sector, as everyone opted for digitised transactions of money. The arena of financial services had to be broadened to offer lending, saving, insurance and investment products at all levels of the economic pyramid.
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Net Zero to Net Positive: Jayant Sinha Recommends A Green Frontier Development Model For India

Jayant Sinha addressing AIMA’s 53rd LeaderSpeak Session

Jayant Sinha addressing AIMA’s 53rd LeaderSpeak Session

To build a sustainable, competitive and resilient economy, India needs a new development model- a green frontier development model, that’ll take India on a Net Zero trajectory, said Jayant Sinha, Hon’ble Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) at AIMA’s 53rd LeaderSpeak Session

It has become difficult to ignore the harmful changes in our planet’s life-supporting ecosystem because of humanity’s accelerated consumption of nature. The biggest source of climate change is the excessive burning of fossil fuels to fire up the engines of economic growth. The West can be accused of the hypocrisy of teaching about conservation after taking advantage of the planet’s bounty, but we can’t ignore the fact that humanity will suffer if the earth’s environment heats up further.

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India’s Neutrality: Stay On Course Or Switch: Amb Shyam Saran clarifies

Amb Shyam Saran addressing at AIMA’s 57th LeaderSpeak

Amb Shyam Saran addressing at AIMA’s 57th LeaderSpeak

India is feeling the heat for being reluctant to condemn Russia’s current actions. Amb Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary and Former Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board clarified that India’s interest lies in adjusting to the existing global order conditionally and not accepting it fully at AIMA’s 57th LeaderSpeak.

India has long-standing diplomatic ties with Russia but India’s economic prospects are tied to the USA, which also plays a role in influencing India from being involved in Russian affairs, which translates to India being “neutral”.

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Indian Aviation Navigating Covid Turbulence & Chartering A Future Course: Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

Jyotiraditya M. Scindia addressing AIMA Foundation Day 2022

Jyotiraditya M. Scindia addressing AIMA Foundation Day 2022

Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Minister of Civil Aviation talked about how Indian Aviation inched back to form post covid and how it now will be the backbone of Indian transportation both because of its physical reach and its cost-effective economic rates, at AIMA’s 66th Foundation Day.

Aviation was one of the most affected sectors during the pandemic, yet the services it provided to the people during that time have been admirable. The Civil Aviation Ministry remained unmovable during the very difficult time and has played a major role in the transportation of logistics in the country. Continue reading

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A Multipolar World: Inevitable or Wishful Thinking- Amb Kanwal Sibal

Amb Kanwal Sibal addressing 56th Leaderspeak Session

Amb Kanwal Sibal addressing 56th Leaderspeak Session

There have been talks about the world having multiple Super Powers, but a peaceful transition to a Multipolar World is a debatable topic, said Amb Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary of India at AIMA’s LeaderSpeak Session.

AIMA had organised the 56th LeaderSpeak live session on ‘A Multipolar World: Inevitable or Wishful Thinking’. Amb Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary having a distinguished career as a professional diplomat and having served in many countries that were key to India’s geopolitical security and economic interest, was rightly qualified to deliberate the session.

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India’s March towards being a Manufacturing Powerhouse: Dr Pawan Goenka

Dr. Pawan Goenka addressing in Management Cafe Session - Episode 3

Dr. Pawan Goenka addressing in Management Cafe Session – Episode 3

India is already amongst the world’s leading producers in many key sectors. Dr Pawan Goenka, Former Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd shared his perspectives and forecast of the different sectors of India and how can it be a global supplier at AIMA’s Management Café.

While India is already amongst the world’s leading producers in many key sectors like automotive, metals, and pharmaceuticals and is being seen as one of the high prospects for the global supply chain for almost everything, AIMA had organised the 3rd Management Cafe live session with Dr Pawan Goenka, wherein he shared his acute perspective, analogies, and forecast for the different sectors in India.

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The Art of Management: By Shiv Shivakumar

D Shivakumar addressing the session during his book launch

D Shivakumar addressing the session during his book launch

AIMA had organised a special session on the launch of a new book- ‘The Art of Management’ by D Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group & Past President, AIMA. D Shiv Shivakumar not only shared the insights of the book but also shared tips on managing self, organization and business.

AIMA had organised a session on the launch of a new book- ‘The Art of Management’ by D Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group & Past President, AIMA.

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Boosting India’s health: Adar Poonawala on producing vaccines during the pandemic

Adar Poonawalla addressing AIMA National Leadership Conclave 2022

Adar Poonawalla addressing AIMA National Leadership Conclave 2022

Mr Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India explained how the Institute had to raise export and capacity, and also empower the team, to be able to produce vaccines on such a large scale. He also emphasized how capacity and resilience have to be built to ensure India’s health security at AIMA’s National Leadership Conclave 2022.

Mr Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India addressed the audience from the panel in one of AIMA’s National Leadership Conclave sessions on how strong measures have to be taken to build capacity and resilience in the health care supply chain to ensure India’s health security under all circumstances, in addition to narrating the journey of how his company produced vaccines during the pandemic.

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Future Proofing Yourself – Catherine Wolfram addressing AIMA

Catherine Wolfram, Acting Associate Dean & Prof of Business Administration, Haas School of Business talking about Mentorship and Future Proofing Yourself at AIMA’s women-centric programme, PRAGATI 2019. Excerpts –

Catherine Wolfram at AIMA

Catherine Wolfram, Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at Haas School of Business, University of California- Berkeley

I wanted to start by giving a little background on myself and then share a couple lessons. I’m an economist, I earned a PhD and I’ve been a professor for over 20 years. My research focus is on energy and I’ve done several projects in India, although much to my great regret I don’t have a current project ongoing in India. I’m moving into the role of associate dean which is about as close in academics as you get, to being in a management position. In general, academicians are kind of single-minded and they don’t have much taste for being managed. It’s a very non-hierarchical environment, but as I said the associate dean is kind of as close to management as you get. I wanted to share my experiences, though I know that since I’ve been in the US and I’ve been in academics and not in business my experiences have been different from yours, but I think there’s still some general lessons that I can share.

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