CAFRAL, CEEI to launch financial sector leadership programme

NEW DELHI: The Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) has come into partnership with Catallyst Executive Education Institute (CEEI) to enhance leadership capabilities in the Indian banking and financial services sector. The collaboration will aim at advancing research, learning and development in the banking and finance domain.

The CAFRAL is an autonomous body set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) while CEEI is a leadership development institute aiming to develop leaders in the financial sector. The programme has been designed and developed by CAFRAL additional director Indrani Banerjee and CEEI managing director Rajnish Dass.

The CAFRAL-CEEI competency framework focuses on two critical aspects – strategic planning and strategic execution. Under the strategic planning framework, leaders will be equipped with a strategic mindset, customer centricity, digital smartness, and innovation acumen. Meanwhile, strategic execution is honed through competencies such as adaptability, collaboration, risk intelligence and execution excellence.

Online coaching for participants

This initiative represents a joint endeavour by CAFRAL and CEEI to introduce a leadership development programme. Participants will undergo intensive training but will also engage in rigorous online coaching and mentoring for real-life problems that they would pick up as high-impact areas to address. The uniqueness lies in the strategic initiatives participants will develop for their respective organisations, presenting them in front of a top-level industry panel created by CAFRAL and CEEI.

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The programme curriculum will cover critical topics such as leadership competencies, macroeconomic and banking policy landscape, digital business models and transformation, strategic mindset and execution excellence, risk intelligence, customer centricity, fostering innovation, and governance challenges. Participants will also engage in hands-on simulative experiences such as mentored action learning projects and group leadership coaching.

The programme is tailored for professionals across various echelons of the financial sector, including middle management, senior leaders, and emerging leaders within regulatory institutions, banks, financial institutions, and non-banking financial companies.