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Great Lakes Chennai Executive Education

Corporate learning and executive education for leaders, teams, and future-ready organisations.

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.

For Organisations

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.

Great Lakes Executive Education

Great 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.

Faculty

Meet 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.

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Great 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.

About
Great Lakes Chennai Executive Education
20Years of Transforming Lives
3rdOutlook India Top Standalone Institution
31stNIRF Top Management Institutions
AACSBGlobal quality benchmark highlighted on site
Developing future-ready business leaders and entrepreneurs with analytical mindsets through contemporary teaching, research, and social engagement.
Corporate
Learning &
Executive
Education
Great Lakes Chennai
Why Great Lakes
Chennai
1Industry-driven curriculum
2Contemporary teaching
3World-class faculty
4Strong alumni network
5Residential Chennai campus
6Customised corporate learning
7Research orientation
8Social engagement

20 Years of Transforming Lives
3rd Outlook India Top Standalone Institution
9th Business World One Year Programs
31st NIRF Top Management Institutions

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Featured Solutions

Current Great Lakes Chennai pathways for organisational sponsors and executive learners, aligned to custom capability building and assessment-led discovery.

Custom Leadership Cohorts

Duration: Sponsor-defined Format: Cohort learning Audience: Managers and leaders

Tailored leadership journeys for organisations building stronger managerial judgment, execution discipline, and cross-functional leadership depth.

Free Tools & Assessments

Duration: Immediate Format: Digital tools Audience: Individuals and organisations

Accessible diagnostics and psychometric-style tools that help executives and sponsors identify priorities before a custom programme conversation.

Custom Programs for Organisations

Duration: Sponsor-defined Format: Custom cohort design Audience: Enterprise teams

Organisation-specific executive education designed around business priorities, leadership capability, and contextual learning outcomes.

Upcoming Events

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.

Orientation and Commencements

The latest published campus-wide commencement date currently visible on the official Great Lakes Chennai events listing.

PGPM Inauguration

The official Great Lakes Chennai events page lists this as one of the latest published cohort milestones on campus.

TEDxGLIMChennai 2025

A published Great Lakes Chennai ideas platform with a clearly dated campus event page and strong community relevance.

Custom Program Brochure

This workflow pack focuses on sponsor-led custom learning, capability diagnostics, and the executive-education contact path for brochure or discovery support.

Custom MDP Leadership cohorts Assessment discovery Sector pathways Brochure workflow Sponsor discovery
Assessment Discovery
Great Lakes Chennai Capability diagnostics
Executive Education
Custom Program Brochure Custom MDP, sector pathways, and enquiry workflows
In Focus

A tabbed editorial module inspired by the INSEAD executive education pattern, now adapted to Great Lakes Chennai faculty voices, thought themes, and partner stories.

Switch tabs to scan faculty interviews, thought pieces, and partner stories before opening the full article pages.
Interview

Dr. Suresh Ramanathan on executive learning relevance

5 min read

The dean-level point of view can frame how Great Lakes Chennai connects contemporary management education with real organisational challenges.

Interview

Dr. Vidya Mahambare on economics and decision quality

4 min read

An economics-led view on how leaders improve decision quality by understanding incentives, policy signals, and behavioural bias.

Interview

Dr. Suresh Srinivasan on strategy for uncertain times

6 min read

A strategy-and-execution perspective on how managers move from functional strength to enterprise thinking in uncertain conditions.

Executive Tools & Assessments

Explore practical diagnostic tools that give professionals and sponsor teams an immediate way to engage with Great Lakes Chennai before moving into custom programs.

Assessment-first discovery

Use leadership, personality, empathy, and judgement tools as a low-friction entry into executive learning.

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.

  • Self-discovery for individual professionals
  • Team diagnostics for L&D and HR leaders
  • Direct pathway into Great Lakes recommendations
Leadership style

DISC Assessment

Understand behavioural style, communication tendencies, and team interaction patterns.

Launch assessment
Self-awareness

Johari Window

Reveal blind spots, feedback opportunities, and openness in leadership relationships.

Launch assessment
Decision style

Jungian Type Index

Explore preference patterns in decision making, collaboration, and change response.

Launch assessment
People capability

Empathy Quotient

Measure interpersonal sensitivity, listening orientation, and people leadership potential.

Launch assessment
Judgement

Situational Judgment Tests

Test how leaders respond to ambiguity, trade-offs, and complex managerial situations.

Launch assessment
Personality profile

Big Five

Interpret behavioural patterns across openness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and more.

Launch assessment
Temperament

Eysenck Profile

Explore temperament-linked traits and behavioural readiness in professional contexts.

Launch assessment
Motivation

Enneagram

Reflect on underlying motivation, reaction patterns, and leadership tendencies.

Launch assessment
Where You'll Stay

Where You'll Stay

Great 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.

  • Dr. Bala V. Balachandar Campus on East Coast Road, Manamai Village, Tamil Nadu.
  • Campus-based executive sessions designed around cohort experience and concentrated learning time.
  • Direct connection to the wider Great Lakes Chennai academic and community environment.
Request More Information

Request More Information

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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