Workshop by Abhyutthana School of Financial Inclusion, Research and Education (ASFIRE)

Promoted by Abhyutthana Group, and launched in the “Seminar on Digital Financial Literacy For All”, on July 24, 2017, in the august presence of Shri A.P. Hota, then Managing Director and CEO of NPCI , ASFIRE, has the proud privilege to conduct a “Workshop on Leadership Challenges for Financial Institutions” in Hotel New Empires, Bhubaneswar on 9 September 2017.Officials from banking, insurance sector, former senior officers from RBI, NABARD, commercial banks, Government of Odisha, NGO etc participated in the day-long Workshop.

Management and Insurance Guru, Dr K.C. Mishra, Director, Doha Bank, former Director, National Insurance Academy,  former Vice Chancellor of Sri Sri University, Cuttack delivered the Key Note address. Dr Mishra covered the various types of leaders, flagged the leadership challenges in new age institutions and advised the participants how to become a successful leader.

The Workshop was conducted by Dr Ashok Mangaraj, Director , BRAINSTAIN, and an experienced financial consultant and National Level trainer in the corporate world, Dr Suchitra Pal, Associate Professor, Organisation Behaviour, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar.
Dr Mangaraj spoke about the managerial responsibilities, key issues in leadership, Decision making, Interpersonal skills, Resource Management, Conflict Management and Stress Management.

Prof (Dr) Suchitra Pal, explained Emotional Intelligence based Leadership and work-life balance and conducted a psychometric test.

Tapan Mishra, a motivational speaker, visiting faculty to Indian Institute of Business Management (Patna), Faculty Member of Art of Living Foundation, International ( so far trained more than 30,000 participants), spoke brilliantly and interacted with the participants.

At the outset, S Choudhury, Member, Advisory Group, AFLC welcomed the guests and participants. D.Mishra, Founder of ASFIRE spoke about the objectives of the institute and gave introduction of the guests.

Eminent and former executives/ senior officers  S.K. Mitra, former Executive Director, NABARD, K.R Das, former Regional Director, RBI, Hyderabad, T. Maharana, former CGM, NABARD, RC Das, former CGM, RBI, B.M Patnaik, Coordinator, Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM), S. Padhi, Government of Odisha, Premananda Dash,   Sudarsan Sahu, P..K. Swain  former bankers and Deenabandhu Sahu, Managing Trustee Swapna Trust participated.

S.K. Mitra, Adviser , AFLC gave the valediction address. K.R. Das, President , ASFIRE gave away the Participation Certificates.

ASFIRE is thankful to Manoj Satapathy, General , IFFCO Tokio for shaping the outline of the Workshop.