The Knowledge Conglomerate launches Executive Education

The Knowledge Conglomerate, an independent subsidiary of MTI Consulting dedicated to knowledge based businesses in Sri Lanka, has announced the launch of their Executive Education Series.

The knowledge Conglomerate is intent to high performance knowledge-based business in Sri Lanka. The concept believes knowledge-based business will grow in size, importance and dominance and offers exciting, high potential opportunities to functional specialists, young corporate entrepreneurs and inventors looking for blue oceans and green fields.

MTI Consulting , levering on its equity and strengths, has setup The Knowledge Conglomerate as an independent entity and will progress the subsidiary units through business planning and process establishment.

The target audience for the Executive Education program will ideally be the corporate sector. Exec-Ed is comprised of six eminent corporate figures; among which three are Sri Lankans who have led numbers of organisations with their skill, talent and judgment, the rest are international professionals of high calibre.

9 July: The program will be starting with Deepal Sooriyaarachchi’s workshop under a timely topic, ‘Leading your Business in Challenging Times’. He is the Management Development Consultant and the former MD of AVIVA NDB, the Commissioner/Chairman at Sri Lanka Inventors Commission. He serves on the boards of AVIVANDB Insurance, Sampath Bank, Panasian Power and Hemas Manufacturing.

6 August: The second workshop will be conducted by Asanka De Silva who is a professional expert on branding. He will be sharing his knowledge and experience under the course title; ‘Brand Management Based on International Case Studies’. He counts over 12 years of cutting-edge brand experience with the likes of John West, Typhoo Tea, Chartered Brands (in the UK), Coke, Reckitts and MTI Consulting (in Sri Lanka) and he became the winner of Scotland’s ‘Young Marketer of the Year’ 2007.

18 August: The third workshop will be conducted by Imal Fonseka, under the course heading, ‘Leading Organisations for Results’ which would be of immeasurable value to the would be CEOs. He is the Managing Director of CBL (Foods) and former MD of Hemas Consumer. He counts over 20 years with Chevron, GSK, Coke, Unilever, JWT across 10 Asian and Middle Eastern markets. He obtained his executive education at Wharton and Kellog Business Schools.

The three foreign speakers who will be visiting Sri Lanka to participate to the Executive Education program will insert their international corporate experience and will make this event a complete Executive Education program.

11 September : The fourth workshop will be led by Dr. Sunil Gupta, who is a world renowned corporate personality and an international educator. He will be conducting his workshop under the heading, ‘Innovate or Evaporate’. He is the Chief Learning Officer at Ideas Management Consultants- India/Oman/UAE/USA. He has obtained an advanced training in HR at New York University, USA. He has done his M.Phil and  Ph.Din Management. With 32 years of academic, industry, training and consulting experience in 38 countries, working with different diversified background it would be without doubt an excellent opportunity for attendants to improve their knowledge.

25 September: The fifth workshop will be led by Wali Zahid; the CEO of SkillCity. He is a unique personality with an outstanding talent to inspire people and he will be delivering his knowledge sharing on the topic, ‘The Leadership Challenge’. He is the CEO of SkillCity - [Asian answers ... to Asian questions], an international consultant, speaker, leadership trainer and executive coach. He has trained thousands of managers and business leaders of mostly from the Fortune 500 companies in the past 20 years. As a lifelong learner, he received training and education in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Taiwan, Austria and Singapore.

30 October - Our final workshop which would be beneficial for those who are striving for excellence and it will be conducted by David Parker under the interesting heading, ‘Pre-Paid Cards- the Undiscovered Opportunity’. He is the CEO of Polymath Consulting (UK), a leading expert on Prepaid Payment Cards and Mobile Enabled Payments. His practice covers banks, Telco’s and Retailing businesses across Europe, Africa and Middle East.

All these events will be taking place at Hotel Galadari from 8.30a.m. to 5.30p.m. The ticket price for a workshop will be Rs. 14.500, including lunch, refreshments, certificates and other material needed.

The official print media partner is Wijaya Newspapers and the official telecommunication partners are E-TV and E-Fm and our advertising partner is Sign Tech.

Our Airline partner is Oman Airways and our hospitality partner is Hotel Galadari.

For more information visit our official website, www.theknowledgeconglomerate.com Also, log on to our Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/heKnowledgeConglomerateFollow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/tkc_sl. For more inquiries e-mail [email protected] or call 586 9514 (Imali)