Leadership Academy Nepal: Inculcating Advanced Skillsets To Build Impactful Leaders

Arun R. Joshi

CEO

Arun R. Joshi

CEO

SKills development has been identified as a critical factor in job creation in South Asia, with educators and workforce experts frequently agreeing that an individual requires advanced skill sets to enter the global job market. Developing new skillsets is becoming an integral part of an individual’s journey in the fast-modernizing countries of South Asia, as it is elsewhere. And the education sector is undergoing tremendous advancements to provide compelling and capable outputs to meet the growing demands for highly capable and flexible workforce. In this regard the Leadership Academy Nepal (LAN) has been innovating and working relentlessly to provide compelling learning experiences that inform and educate leaders in the private and public sectors. LAN provides these world-class learning opportunities in collaboration with globally renowned institutions such as Rice University. Dr. Arun R. Joshi, Founder and CEO of the Leadership Academy Nepal, engages in an exclusive interaction with Asia Business Outlook, wherein he walks us through the exceptional programs and unique traits of LAN. How Would You Like To Introduce The Leadership Academy Nepal And Its Key Objectives? Leadership Academy Nepal (LAN) is a private institution with strong social and developmental agendas. We are in the business of strengthening competencies and skills, and inspiring leaders to make a difference in their institutions and societies, and in the broader national, regional, and global economic ecosystems. Specifically, LAN focuses on building adaptive and contemplative leaders with strong core values, ethical standards, and essential knowledge and skills as well as a global outlook, through high-quality learning and development interventions. Could You Tell Us About The Various Courses You Offer With Key Emphasis On Your Flagship Service?

One of our flagship services is the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP), which we custom design to deliver to C-Suite executives to help them further reflect on and strengthen their leadership skills and competencies. These are facilitated and led by worldclass faculty from Rice Business School, our key academic partner, with a lot of emphasis on case studies and peerto- peer learning. LAN operates flexibly and provides learning and development services for both private institutions and corporations as well as for public sector institutions and NGOs. By operating at the intersectionality of the private and the not-for-profit sectors, LAN aims to transfer innovations and knowledge from the private to the non-government sectors and vice versa. Tell Us About The Unique Benefits That Participants Can Expect After Attending Your Courses. Our courses are always evaluated by participants and LAN courses are almost always rated above 4 on a 5-point scale. Most participants note their satisfaction with learning new tools and approaches to tackle the daily challenges as they lead their institutions, as well as tools and skills to operate during stressful periods, such as during the pandemic. Most importantly, our participants go back more confident as leaders to introduce positive changes in their institutions. Of course, our courses also offer participants an excellent opportunity to make new friends and engage with other partners. Throw Some Light On The Methodologies You Deploy To Gain Best Outcomes For The Participants. LAN has a heavy emphasis on developing and delivering courses that are designed with the participants in mind. Our faculty have hands-on experience in the areas they are teaching. We do not offer the same ‘generic’ theoretical courses to everyone. LAN offers a blend of face-to-face and online courses with expert faculty using pertinent business cases and practical learning opportunities. LAN’s pedagogical emphasis also includes peer-to-peer learning during the highly interactive learning sessions.

LAN operates flexibly and Provides learning and Development services for Both private institutions and Corporations as well as for Public sector institutions and NGOs
Arun R. Joshi, CEO

Tell Us About The Future Roadmap Of Your Company. We aspire to be highly adaptive to the fast-changing economic and business contexts in Nepal, South Asia and elsewhere. What we do is consistently focus on the quality of our delivery and we seek to build strong and strategic partnerships, which is the only way to produce impact and build a strong institution for the long term. Geographically, we will go where we can add value. For example, we have already started to operate in East Africa, where partners have started to request our support. We take quality seriously and each participant’s learning is important to us. We aspire to grow optimally and organically, not frantically.