Arvind N. Agrawal (Author) Arvind N. Agrawal, managing partner, Lead Associates, is an executive coach and a consultant with extensive corporate experience, having held senior positions in leading organizations like RPG Group, Escorts Construction Equipment and Escorts JCB. He was awarded the National HRD Award in 1992. He served as the national president of the National HRD Network from 2000 to 2002 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award by Businessworld HR Excellence Summit and Awards in 2021.
T.V. Rao (Author) T.V. Rao is currently chairman, T.V. Rao Learning Systems. He has been associated with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the last forty years in various capacities: first as a professor (1973-94), a visiting or adjunct professor (1994-2014) and, until recently, as a member of the IIMA Society and the board of governors. Dr Rao worked as HRD adviser to the Reserve Bank of India and he is the co-founder and first president of the National HRD Network.
Leaders in the Making includes in-depth interviews of thirty HR leaders, drawn from public as well as private sectors. These life stories provide highlights of their early childhood, education and career over the years, and touch upon the inflexion points in these leaders' lives, their major influences and the lessons they learnt to become who they are. The authors provide an analysis of these thirty stories to establish a pattern of the life journeys, competencies and values these leaders displayed.
The book has excellent lessons for parents, heads of schools and colleges, teachers, managers, HR leaders, CXOs and CEOs. It also includes self-help tools to assess competencies, values and the careers of readers so that they can plan for self-development.
