Jim Kouzes is the author of the book “The Leadership Challenge.” He talks about how to overcome the challenges faced by different leaders throughout history.

Lawler King is the author of the book “Passion at Work: How to Find Work You Love and Live the Time of Your Life.” He talks about the advantages and reasons for bringing passion to your workplace.

Tony Schwartz talks about the need to meet the rising demand by focusing on four energy sources: physical (quantity), emotional (quality), mental (focus), and the energy of the human spirit (purpose).

Vinod Khosla co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, talks about the renewable energy solutions which will address the problems of energy crisis.

Behavioural coach Marshall Goldsmith, points out the need to change in behaviour with oneself & to stop wasting on people who don’t believe changing.

Dr. Srikumar Rao is a professor at the London Business School. He talks about behavioural change, mental challenge, mental chatter & the “me-centered universe.”

Entrepreneurship today is an idea which instigates the ideation capability of most young people. Young mind is gradually turning towards setting up their own ventures rather than working for others and here comes the role of Head Start. The Startup Saturdays conducted by HeadStart across 12 cities is outstanding in its effort to help these budding entrepreneurs, to make the rough terrain of their journey towards success a smooth one.

The June chapter of start up Saturday, Gurgaon was an enlightening session. The theme was “Meet the investors”. Mr.Pradeep Gupta (Chairman and managing director CyberMedia), Mr.Vikas Kuthiala (Member, Indian Angel Network),Mr.Varun Khurana (Member – Indian Angel Network) were the speakers for the evening. Their insight on the investment scenario in our country and how the business plans are screened for investment was something of great help to the entrepreneurs who have already started their start up or people who aspire to do so.

While submitting a business plan its often only assumption about the facts that may be taken into concern by the investors but, this unique effort named “Startup Saturday” HeadStart have really bridged the gap and enabled to understand the investors point of view and what exactly is the ingredients they are looking in a business plan to trust their capital on it.

The question and answer session with the investors from the Angel network assured people like me, who want to start up business, almost out of nothing that, it’s the strength of a clear and organised idea that can generate investors trust and support for your venture.

Thus, overall the experience of the evening was invaluable and endowed with immense learning and clarification of facts that was otherwise in darkness. This great initiative on the part of head start is truly appreciable and I and my friends from SOIL (School of inspired leadership) are really looking forward to start-up Saturdays, as a platform for learning and opportunity in the near future.

Rosemary Bhokta
Marketing Leadership Program | Batch 2013-2014

Don Tapscott, is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation. He talks about solving the world’s problems through cooperation, problem solving and governance.

Professor David Grayson CBE, director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, talks about change in the functioning of corporate responsibility. He also talks about how these coalitions are collectively self-regulating, promoting good behaviour and responding to societal challenges.

In 2008, Barack Obama was running for the president of United States Of America. He addressed a gathering at the Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to deliver his innovation agenda & way ahead for USA.