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and meetings during AIMA’s tenure had to be held online. As the outgoing Secretariat, AIMA also organised the 21st AAMO Triennial Conference online, in which AAMO leaders from India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Macau, Pakistan and Nepal participated.
During the year, AIMA undertook several new initiatives to enlarge its activity portfolio and expand its scope. One of the key new initiatives during the year was the launch of a new Women's Council- AIMA Aspire - with the premise of Strengthening Leadership amongst Women. AIMA has formed a core committee of eminent women leaders from different domains to guide the Women's Council. Dr Preetha Reddy, Past President, AIMA and Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, is Chairing the council and Ms Vinita Bajoria, Chairperson, Nicco Cables, is the Co-Chair. The council recently started its WomenSpeak series - online sessions with exemplary women leaders which have so far been addressed by renowned banker and philanthropy investor, Ms Naina Lal Kidwai; IBM's global leader, Ms Vanitha Narayanan; Delhi Police's Special Commissioner, Ms Sundari Nanda; and India's water warrior bureaucrat, Ms Debashree Mukherjee.
On the learning and education front, over the past year, AIMA has made its education offerings more contemporary and industry centric. A slew of short learning programmes have been introduced to prepare students and executives for the critical new areas of management, such as digital innovation and enterprise transformation, design thinking, sustainability management, cyber security and data privacy. AIMA is now exploring further collaborations with renowned universities for offering contemporary management programmes and also to offer more choices of universities to the management PhD scholars. With an aim to provide more interactive and engaging learning opportunities, AIMA also diversified its Business Simulation offerings with the introduction of online gamification workshops to help management executives hone their learning agility, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration.
Strengthening its portfolio, AIMA's unique Young Leaders Council (YLC) further consolidated its training efforts through new international linkages. Its recent collaboration with Stanford Seed Spark has enabled several young Indian entrepreneurs to take the online global learning programme for early-stage entrepreneurs. The YLC has also reached out to Duke of Edinburg's Commonwealth Study Conference, Canada for a 2-week learning programme for its members.
It has been an exciting and rewarding journey so far, only made possible by the unstinting support of the AIMA Council, its members and the Secretariat. As we celebrate AIMA's 67th Foundation Day, it is a time to acknowledge the outstanding guidance and contribution of the organisation's leaders, both present and past. I thank the Past Presidents and the members of AIMA Council for their precious counsel and support in helping AIMA achieve its mandate.
I appreciate that you are a part of the Foundation Day celebration and I look forward to your continued association with AIMA.
Best wishes
Shrinivas V dempo
President, AIMA and Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies
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