TAPMI tie-up with industry to offer leadership programme with placement

NEW DELHI, JULY 2: T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, Karnataka, has collaborated with the Indian management consulting firm, Mu Sigma, to launch a postgraduate programme in Leadership through Analytics and Decision Sciences (L.E.A.D.). 25 students were inducted in the initial batch of the programme at an event held at the campus.

L.E.A.D is the first postgraduate certificate course of its kind to be offered in the country. The students inducted in the batch will go through 11 months of training at both the TAPMI campus as well as the Mu Sigma campus. Upon the successful completion of the programme, the students will be offered the role of a trainee Apprentice Leader by Mu Sigma.

During the programme, the students will spend the first six months at TAPMI where they will be delivered the foundations of management, business communication, design thinking, behavioural sciences, and leadership. The remaining five months will be spent at the Mu Sigma campus where they will undergo experiential training as apprentices for decision scientists at the firm.

Speaking about the programme Prof. Madhu Veeraraghavan, Director, TAPMI said, “Mu Sigma-TAPMI L.E.A.D. programme offers state-of-art courses in the field of management which will enable leaders to respond to intense competitive pressure, adapt to rapidly changing market conditions, satisfy customer demands at increasingly granular levels, and be consistently innovative.”