The ILSS Leadership Program
Program Dates
Residential Program: 10-18 May 2024
Online Program: 2 August 2024 onwards
Program Duration
Virtual (11 Weeks)
Venue
Residential Program: Delhi NCR
Do you
know?
14
of the 15 most polluted cities are in India
India is 115
- among 158 countries on the Human Capital Index (in 2017, we were at 103)
36%
of children under five are stunted
India's top 10
of the population holds 57% of the total national income
What can
you do?
Be aware
of India’s social, environmental, and economic challenges
Comprehend
the sector's work, culture, people, and strategy
Explore
the connection of the self with the sector.
Contribute
through active engagement with the sector
How The ILSS Leadership Program Can Help
The Program offers a comprehensive learning experience designed to orient participants in India’s development narrative. The Program imparts crucial knowledge, essential skills, and a cultural mindset, empowering leaders to drive meaningful change in the dynamic realm of social impact
19 Editions
of the program so far
360+ Alumni
completed the Program
100+ Faculty
& Speakers
150+ Alumni
Transitioned to the sector
Program Overview
80 hours of teaching-learning
30-33
sessions
A day of
field visit
100+ faculty members (since inception)
360+ alumni network (since inception)
Key objectives
- Sectoral Understanding: It unravels the sector's foundation by comprehending its entire landscape
- Engagement in the Sector: The Program equips you to navigate full-time, part-time, or internship engagements effectively.
- Experiential Learning: Our pedagogy embraces active methods, including group work, case-based learning, discussions, presentations, and field visits.
- Peer Learning: Beyond expert-led sessions, the Program creates spaces for learning from the rich experiences of peers across diverse backgrounds.
- Reflective Synthesis: Facilitates individual reflective journeys, fostering a profound connection with the sector.
- Sectoral Immersion: Immersion in grassroots SPOs to learn firsthand the contexts and experience the work as it happens on the ground.
Key elements
- Foundation Module: The core premise is to unravel the social sector through lenses such as constitution, history, complexity, leadership, and more.
- Building Blocks: The practical application of the foundational module for impact areas like education, health, gender, environment, etc.
- Cohort Connect: Facilitated spaces for creating a platform among impact practitioners, leveraging each other’s experiences and skills.
- Field Visit: Hands-on understanding of perspectives in action through visits to organisations.
- Individual Synthesis: Spaces fostering reflection to guide individual journeys within the sector.
Some of our Placement Organisations
ILSS Alumni Transitions
Ishmeet Singh
Senior Vice President - Health, Piramal Foundation
Anjali Hegde
Executive Director, Udayan Care
Barsha Chatterjee
Managing Director, Perkins India
Jalpa Vyas
Vice President – Strategic Operations, IITB - DRF
Kanishka Chatterjee
Director and Head, The/Nudge Prize The/Nudge Institute
Amit Gupta
Chief Operating Officer, The/Nudge Institute
Vasudha Narasimhan
Vice President - CSR, IIT Madras
Smeeta Basak
Program Director - Digital microPension for Women, pinBox Solutions
Yogesh Chopra
Chief Officer - Strategic Partnership and Growth, Anudip Foundation
Suman Kaul
Director - Retail Development, Ashoka University
The ILSS Leadership Program Placement Support
Transition Planning Conversations
Access to Executive Coaches
Connect with Industry Mentors
Interview Coaching & Feedback
CV Reviewing
and Restructuring
Alumni Engagement
Alumni Weekend
Cohort Connect
#ILSSOnline
One-on-One Meets
City Chapter Meets
Networking Events
Featured Faculty & Speakers
AK Shivakumar
Development Economist, Professor and Policy Advisor
Adil Zainulbhai
Chairman, Quality Council of India (QCI)
Anurag Behar
CEO - Azim Premji Foundation, Chief Sustainability Officer - Wipro
Anshu Gupta
Founder, Goonj
Chandrika Bahadur
President, SDSN Association
M Hari Menon
Director, India Country Office Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jyotsna Siddharth
Country Director, Gender at Work
Mihir Mathur
Founder DESTA Research LLP
Nachiket Mor
Visiting Scientist, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health
Rani Bang
Co-Founder, SEARCH
Seema Bansal
Director, Social Impact & Development Practice, BCG India
Shaveta Sharma Kukreja
Managing Director Central Square Foundation
Tanvi Nagpal
Senior Fellow, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University - Foreign Policy Institute
Urvashi Butalia
Feminist Writer, Publisher, ActivistWho can apply
- Candidates with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience in a mid-senior level role.
- Candidates working in the corporate sector, or who have already undergone a career transition into the social sector not more than 3 years ago.
- Social sector candidates can also be nominated by their organisations by writing to us. However, they still will need to go through the full application process.
- Candidates currently engaged in the CSR or Diversity & Inclusion initiatives within corporates.
- Senior executives who wish to explore careers in social impact or simply wish to build their knowledge of the social development space.
Upcoming Program Details
- Program Dates
Residential Program: 10-18 May 2024
Live Online Program: 2 August 2024 onwards - Program Fees
Residential Program: 1.60 lakh + 18% GST (The Program fee is inclusive of meals and accommodation during the Program)
Live Online Program: 1.40 lakh + 18% GST - Venue
Residential Program: Delhi NCR - Application Procedure
To know more, email us at admissions@indialeadersforsocialsector.com or call us at +91-9355303033