‘Evening with a Corporate Leader’ seminar organised by Colombo School of Business and Management

Colombo School of Business and Management or CSBM is the only business school in Sri Lanka governed by a combined structure of both visionary corporate leaders and respected senior academics. The philosophy on which the business school was built is to develop world-class corporate leaders with multiple competencies who thrive in the global business environment and to craft leaders with strong business acumen, creative and intellectual insight, global understanding and professional integrity.

In achieving this objective CSBM has planned for a thematic seminar series called ‘Evening with a Corporate Leader’. This series of talks have been organised to create a platform for knowledge sharing, discussion and debate on various business related topics and to provide space for corporate connectivity and networking that will enable social capital and business opportunity creation. 

These sessions are organised ‘every other Thursday’ as two-hour evening sessions and are free for the participants. Each session is organised as a sponsored event with one exclusive event partner.  The inaugural seminar took place on Thursday, 23 June with a full house and the first corporate leader to feature was Kishu Gomes who spoke on ‘Personal Branding’. Gomes explained the audience the different strategies one could deploy to build their own brand successfully and sustainably while sharing his personal experiences of successes and failures. 

The second session was held on Thursday, 7 July with Dilith Jayaweera, Group Chairman, George Steuart & Co, Chairman Derana TV, and Managing Director of Triad Advertising, who spoke on ‘Take your belt off’; there is no safe path towards success. Jayaweera was talking about his corporate journey and the hardships faced. He urged the future leaders to ‘Lean the theory, challenge the theory and then break the theory’ which he said he practiced throughout his journey which has given him much success. 

Both these sessions were of high demand and gave the much needed platform to network and to learn from the corporate leaders their successes and failures.