Great Lakes Executive Education introduction
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Great Lakes Chennai combines an industry-driven curriculum, world-class faculty, and customised executive learning to help professionals build in-demand skills, expand networks, and drive business growth.
Whether this is your first major investment in professional development or part of a lifelong learning journey, Great Lakes Executive Education helps you build in-demand skills and grow your professional network.
These experiences are designed for working executives who want contemporary management insight, practical application, and peer learning in a Chennai campus setting.
Open Tools HubGreat Lakes Corporate Learning & Development is built around customised learning solutions for corporate enterprises and organisation-specific business priorities.
These tailored interventions support leadership development, upskilling, and future growth while helping teams strengthen day-to-day performance in uncertain environments.
Discuss Custom LearningMeet the Great Lakes Chennai faculty leaders featured on the live Corporate Learning and Development page. The cards are fully interactive, horizontally scrollable, and tuned for executive-education discovery.
Professor - Marketing
View ProfileProfessor - Economics
View ProfileAdjunct Faculty - Strategy, Finance & Accounting
View ProfileAssociate Professor - Operations
View ProfileProfessor of Practice - Marketing
View ProfileProfessor - Entrepreneurship and Strategy
View ProfileDr Bala V and Vasantha Balachandran Chair Professor of Marketing
View ProfileProfessor - Organization & Human Resource Management
View ProfileAssociate Professor - Entrepreneurship & Strategy
View ProfileDirector, Great Lakes Institute of Management
View ProfileSr. Associate Professor - Finance
View ProfileProfessor of Practice - Finance
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View ProfileProfessor - Strategy and Marketing
View ProfileAssociate Professor - Digital and Social Media Marketing
View ProfileProfessor of Practice
View ProfileProfessor of Practice - Operations & Analytics
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View ProfileAssociate Professor - Marketing
View ProfileGreat Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai brings together two decades of management education, an industry-driven curriculum, strong faculty depth, and an established alumni network to support executive growth.
Its Corporate Learning & Development approach is built around personalised solutions that help leaders and teams develop in-demand skills, strengthen professional networks, and prepare for future growth.
This is anchored in the institute's mission to develop future-ready business leaders and entrepreneurs with analytical mindsets through contemporary teaching, research, and social engagement.
Select a sector to preview matched client logos, brochure-backed programme examples, capability themes, and the most relevant custom-learning direction before navigating deeper.
Preview how Great Lakes can frame leadership, commercial, risk, and customer-value capability for banking, NBFC, fintech, and financial-services teams.
Current Great Lakes Chennai pathways for organisational sponsors and executive learners, aligned to custom capability building and assessment-led discovery.
Tailored leadership journeys for organisations building stronger managerial judgment, execution discipline, and cross-functional leadership depth.
Accessible diagnostics and psychometric-style tools that help executives and sponsors identify priorities before a custom programme conversation.
Organisation-specific executive education designed around business priorities, leadership capability, and contextual learning outcomes.
No 2026 executive-education event calendar is publicly posted yet, so these cards use the latest published Great Lakes Chennai dates from the official site.
The latest published campus-wide commencement date currently visible on the official Great Lakes Chennai events listing.
View EventThe official Great Lakes Chennai events page lists this as one of the latest published cohort milestones on campus.
View EventA published Great Lakes Chennai ideas platform with a clearly dated campus event page and strong community relevance.
View EventThis workflow pack focuses on sponsor-led custom learning, capability diagnostics, and the executive-education contact path for brochure or discovery support.
A tabbed editorial module inspired by the global benchmark executive education pattern, now adapted to Great Lakes Chennai faculty voices, thought themes, and partner stories.
The dean-level point of view can frame how Great Lakes Chennai connects contemporary management education with real organisational challenges.
Read ArticleAn economics-led view on how leaders improve decision quality by understanding incentives, policy signals, and behavioural bias.
Read ArticleA strategy-and-execution perspective on how managers move from functional strength to enterprise thinking in uncertain conditions.
Read ArticleA Great Lakes view on building analytical, responsible, and business-ready leadership through teaching, research, and corporate connection.
Read ArticleWhy institutions and executives cannot remain passive observers as AI and digitisation reshape markets, roles, and customer expectations.
Read ArticleWhy immersive peer learning still matters for senior professionals balancing reflection, application, and long-horizon networks.
Read ArticleA public participant voice on how Great Lakes learning helped leaders position themselves more strongly with clients and global stakeholders.
Read StoryA public organisation-side perspective on tailoring modules in innovation, strategy, leadership, and financial acumen to business needs.
Read StoryA customised residential intervention for business leaders handling large portfolios and broader strategic responsibility.
Read StoryExplore practical diagnostic tools that give professionals and sponsor teams an immediate way to engage with Great Lakes Chennai before moving into custom programs.
Each tool is positioned as a practical diagnostic with a direct launch path, a clear benefit, and a natural bridge into Great Lakes custom learning solutions.
Understand behavioural style, communication tendencies, and team interaction patterns.
Launch assessmentReveal blind spots, feedback opportunities, and openness in leadership relationships.
Launch assessmentExplore preference patterns in decision making, collaboration, and change response.
Launch assessmentMeasure interpersonal sensitivity, listening orientation, and people leadership potential.
Launch assessmentTest how leaders respond to ambiguity, trade-offs, and complex managerial situations.
Launch assessmentInterpret behavioural patterns across openness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and more.
Launch assessmentExplore temperament-linked traits and behavioural readiness in professional contexts.
Launch assessmentReflect on underlying motivation, reaction patterns, and leadership tendencies.
Launch assessmentGreat Lakes executive learning is rooted in a residential Chennai campus environment that supports immersion, peer connection, and focused learning away from day-to-day noise.
Connect with the Great Lakes Chennai executive education team for programme fit, corporate learning conversations, brochure requests, or cohort updates.
Location: Dr. Bala V. Balachandar Campus, East Coast Road, Manamai Village, Tamil Nadu 603102.
Email: rajashekar.r@greatlakes.edu.in
Phone: +91 76619 62233
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