About Center

Center for Academic and Corporate Leadership (CACL)

About Us

The center for Academic and Corporate Leadership (CACL) is aimed to augment a collaborative academia-business interface that steps up the development of academic leadership and progresses corporate leadership practices with the aid of collective experiences, insights and researches. At CACL we develop leaders with ignited minds and souls, who can transform chaos into order, challenges into opportunities and ideas into wealth. We develop passionate and creative thought leaders with high potential to steer the industry for high growth, market leadership and sustainable futures. We also connect the talent and their ideas with MNCs and leading companies.

CACL also focuses on developing content and practice of leadership, learning innovations, research excellence, intellectual autonomy, engagement projects, institutional image, corporate relations, and global outlook. CACL is ardent to strengthen the academia-business interface and the leadership effectiveness with conviction, commitment, and capability. The activities of CACL revolve around working on the following seven Is:

1. Instructor development
2. Instructional resources
3. Instrument design
4. Intellectual inquisitiveness
5. Innovations
6. International connect
7. Industry Liaison

Objectives

  • Developing innovative learning techniques, teaching strategies and research leadership.
  • Providing opportunities for faculty professional development needs.
  • Monitoring the quality of learning and development with the global accreditations.
  • Creating opportunities and structures for global collaborations with Institutions/ Universities.
  • Identifying problems and action areas to improve academic and business acumen.
  • Bringing collaborative and collective policies, practices and philosophies by augmenting the academia-business interface.

Our Team

1. Prof. Padmakumar Nair
2. Dr. Piyush Verma
3. Dr. Gurparkash Singh
4. Mr. Pradeep K. Gupta

Services

1. Corporate Interface, Creativity and Leadership Programs
2. Academic Innovation and Leadership Programs

Contact Us

Center Coordinator

Pradeep K. Gupta, Assistant Professor
LM Thapar School of Management
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Derabassi Campus
Village-Behra, Derabassi-140507
SAS Nagar - Mohali (Punjab) India.

E-mails:pradeep.gupta@thapar.edu & gupta.pk1977@gmail.com
Phone: +91-8437908922, +91-9356225822
Website: http://lmtsom.thapar.edu