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.
How to enhance leadership skills? | Great Lakes Custom Leadership Journey Solution
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
20Years of Transforming Lives
3rdOutlook India Top Standalone Institution
9thBusiness World One Year Programs
31stNIRF 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.
Organisation Cohorts
Custom Leadership Cohorts
Duration: Sponsor-definedFormat: Cohort learningAudience: Managers and leaders
Tailored leadership journeys for organisations building stronger managerial judgment, execution discipline, and cross-functional leadership depth.
Assessment Discovery
Free Tools & Assessments
Duration: ImmediateFormat: Digital toolsAudience: Individuals and organisations
Accessible diagnostics and psychometric-style tools that help executives and sponsors identify priorities before a custom programme conversation.
Corporate Learning
Custom Programs for Organisations
Duration: Sponsor-definedFormat: Custom cohort designAudience: 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.
25Jun 2025
Published Event
Orientation and Commencements
The latest published campus-wide commencement date currently visible on the official Great Lakes Chennai events listing.
08May 2025
Published Event
PGPM Inauguration
The official Great Lakes Chennai events page lists this as one of the latest published cohort milestones on campus.
09Mar 2025
Published Event
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 Program BrochureCustom 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.
Thought Leadership
Building future-ready business leaders
6 min read
A Great Lakes view on building analytical, responsible, and business-ready leadership through teaching, research, and corporate connection.
Thought Leadership
Leadership in a digital and AI-shaped business context
7 min read
Why institutions and executives cannot remain passive observers as AI and digitisation reshape markets, roles, and customer expectations.
Thought Leadership
Why cohort learning still matters for senior professionals
5 min read
Why immersive peer learning still matters for senior professionals balancing reflection, application, and long-horizon networks.
Partner Story
State Street HCL Services and leadership incubation
Partner story
A public participant voice on how Great Lakes learning helped leaders position themselves more strongly with clients and global stakeholders.
Partner Story
Hanon Systems and capability-building design
Partner story
A public organisation-side perspective on tailoring modules in innovation, strategy, leadership, and financial acumen to business needs.
Partner Story
L&T Construction and proposal-business leadership
Partner story
A customised residential intervention for business leaders handling large portfolios and broader strategic responsibility.
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 assessmentSelf-awareness
Johari Window
Reveal blind spots, feedback opportunities, and openness in leadership relationships.
Launch assessmentDecision style
Jungian Type Index
Explore preference patterns in decision making, collaboration, and change response.
Launch assessmentPeople capability
Empathy Quotient
Measure interpersonal sensitivity, listening orientation, and people leadership potential.
Launch assessmentJudgement
Situational Judgment Tests
Test how leaders respond to ambiguity, trade-offs, and complex managerial situations.
Launch assessmentPersonality profile
Big Five
Interpret behavioural patterns across openness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and more.
Launch assessmentTemperament
Eysenck Profile
Explore temperament-linked traits and behavioural readiness in professional contexts.
Launch assessmentMotivation
Enneagram
Reflect on underlying motivation, reaction patterns, and leadership tendencies.
Launch assessment
Stay in the Loop
Discover new executive solutions, upcoming campus events, featured faculty conversations, and fresh perspectives from Great Lakes Chennai executive education in one regular stream.
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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