XlRI (Xavier School of Management) organised the theme launch for Ensemble 2014 at its campus. The theme ‘Reinventing leadership, Redefining Strategies’ was revealed as a part of the event ’IGNITO’, with a plethora of activities organised by the different co-curricular and extra- curricular committees of the institute.
At the inauguration ceremony in the Fr. Prabhu Hall, Prof. Pranabesh Ray (Dean Academics) welcomed the audience and urged the management students to form leadership skills and become leaders who have the willingness to take risks. Fr. James Santhanam. S.J (Dean Student Affairs) talked about the rich tradition of Ensemble and urged the management fraternity to employ strategies that challenge the ordinary.
Pruthvi Bharadwaj, Convenor of the Ensemble Core Team which has been organizing the fest for over a decade described a leader as a person who espouses the idea of holistic progress and effectively leads people in the modern organizational context. The ceremony was followed up by an event ‘luminos’, where XlRI students began painting possibly India’s largest canvas with UV paint and a performance by the campus rock band, Bodhi Tree.
Eesha Devgan, junior executive member, Ensemble Core Team informed that the national level fest is to be conducted from Nov. 14-16 2014 and is expected to witness a large congregation of the brightest minds from top 10 B-Schools plus industry thinkers and cultural performances as has been the tradition at Ensemble over the years.