The basic backbone of the Leadership Academy builds on Partha Ghosh's personal experience of leading and working with Corporate, Political, and Government leaders across cultures in more than dozen nations. It is based on a fundamental premise that irrespective of the background an individual represents, he/she has the innate leadership qualities, -which could be cultivated, in every person's search for a meaningful and an effective life, though well balanced use of the right and left brains in resonance with his/her inner consciousness.

The leadership development model will draw on the best of Eastern (including Buddhist, Confucius, Persian, Shinto, Sun Tzu and Vedic) and Western (including Aristotle, Plato thru John Lock, Kant, Modern business schools) philosophies, - in develop and fine tuning the problem solving skills of the participants from the multiple perspectives and in leading organizations that could explore frontier challenges and opportunities in a compassionate and environmentally friendly fashion

Leadership that we are talking of is not necessarily a set of skills that can be taught by the classical approach to education; they are personal qualities that must be nurtured and developed in experiential learning environment, in a continuum with conventional disciplines of science and technology. It is my hope through such a process the participants of this program as problem solvers, in an era of convergence, could demonstrate greater intellectual resiliency to bring people from multiple backgrounds and multi levels of intellectual preparedness together to bring about mega scale changes.

The basic approach building on the analyses of a full spectrum of leaders from Socrates to Andrew Carnegie to Thomas Edison, from Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore to Mahatma Gandhi, from Mother Teresa to Martin Luther King, will help the participants to identify the essential underlying qualities in a leader and then identify their own inner potentials of the "self" for the good of the greater society.

Building on ancient Philosophies, modern day challenges and self-analyses, the various programs will essentially conclude with an internal search process vis-à-vis the emerging global environment. In turn the participants will be expected to craft a personal development map to unleash his/her inner leadership attributes, and determine the likely positions/stands he/she might be able to take on significant issues in pursuit of a dream or a movement of an organization/society he/she belongs.