Leadup Universe Hosts CXO Summit

Leadup Universe, the career acceleration organisation, hosted a powerful summit featuring academia, CXOs and emerging CXOs discussing the capabilities, challenges and opportunities for the 'New Age CXO' in Bangalore International Center, Bengaluru. The event was brought together in partnership with XLRI, XL Bangalore chapter, BeyonDiversity and Core HRIR on 12 November 2022. The summit was part of a CXO summit series that started in Gurugram on 16 September 2022 and it is now slated for Pune followed by Noida and Mumbai.

Nearly 80 CXOs and aspiring CXO leaders attended the summit. The personalities included Krish Shankar (Group Head HR, Infosys), Dr R K Premarajan Prof XLRI, Raj Narayan (Former CHRO, Titan), Dr NS Rajan (Former Group CHRO, Tata Sons, Member of the board of governors XLRI), Vijay Iyer (Managing Director, ValueBridge Capital), Suvro Raychaudhuri (Director HR - Asia Pacific Soln, CGI), Ranjith KP (Director HR, Palo Alto Networks), Prerna W (Chief Executive Officer, Action for India) and Aparna C (Vice President - HR, Akna Medical) among others.

The programme opened with Dr NS Rajan, member of the board of governors at XLRI and Raj Narayan, president of the XLRI Alumni Bangalore Chapter, discussing their perspectives on transformation and the necessity for leaders to invest in themselves. Dr RK Premarajan, professor at XLRI Jamshedpur, highlighted how academic institutions around the world are looking at helping bridge the gap in CXO learning. The session was moderated by Rashmi Mandloi, Co-founder of Leadup Universe.