Business Management students at ARU London recently experienced a tailored and focused keynote: ‘Applied Leadership and Let’s be Career Ready’ delivered by Wasim Khan. With over 60 students in attendance alongside the support of their lecturers: Vivek Badhwar, Mark Cleary, Dr Mark Panton and John Threlfall – the atmosphere, sharing of stories and knowledge was truly electric!
Wasim Khan is a renowned entrepreneur, who cofounded “Productiva Group”, in May 2010 in Bangalore, India which is primarily a famous “Global Executive Search firm”, operating from its 5 country-wide operations. He has been a successful leader, and entrepreneur, and is based out of Richmond, London. He has worked with some of the best-known corporates like HERO Group, Polaris, and Infosys Technologies Limited prior to embarking on his entrepreneurship journey. We, at ARUL were only delighted to secure his time, energy, wisdom and commitment and are forever grateful.
Wasim spent approximately 2.5 hours with ARUL’s final-year students and selflessly offered them insights into navigating the world of work, understanding the intricacies of digital leadership, and lessons on how to remain optimistic. His thoughtful leadership approach ensured the students could become involved in role-play activities, confidence booster exercises, and a Q&A.
Some of Wasim’s messages centred around those very first days and weeks in a new place of work. He reminded the students: that as future graduates and employees, many of them will be starting from ‘ground zero’ and strongly encouraged the students to ‘make good efforts in finding a common ground’ in their new place of work. This, he noted - can be achieved, ‘through general observations’, ‘asking questions', ‘working on motivation’, ‘less cribbing’, and ‘helping others’!
The keynote was a great success. Students commented on the morning as ‘fantastic’, Wasim as ‘opening my eyes, ears, and heart to leading both myself and others’, and ‘Wasim having a powerful influence over my vision for my future’. ARU London students thanked Wasim with a signed ‘Thank You’ card smothered with notes and signatures reflecting the best of wishes!
Authors: The Undergraduate Major Project (Leadership in Practice) Teaching Team
Guest Lecture from Wasim Khan on ‘Applied Leadership and Let’s be Career Ready’