1. Over the years being in the management consulting profession, -  first as a member/partner of McKinsey & Company and them my firm Partha S Ghosh & Associates, I have gotten lot of exposure to leadership issues both from micro-economic (business) and macro economic (government) perspectives, -  across more than two dozen nations. Increasingly it became clear to me that given the increasing complexities of geo economics and geo-politics, there is an emerging deficit of quality inspiring and compassionate leadership on our planet. In the capitalistic-era that we are now in, leaders have become too shot sighted and transactional in turn they are compromising with the longterm possibilities; so clearly there is a need to shape young minds who will be driven by a bigger purpose - to address what I call the 3E issues - Energy(Clean and renewable), Ecological(better harmony with nature) Equity(more equitable advance of civilization).
   
   
2. Almost 30 years ago while I was a partner of McKinsey & Company, I have had the opportunity to design and develop a leadership program for the CEOs of Malaysian state owned enterprises which was sponsored by the Prime Minister Mahatir himself. My respected collegue Dr. Ken Ohmae who had a very good working relationship with the PM encouraged me to develop the program. Since then I have been a student of Leadership and perhaps organized more than five dozen workshops on Leadership around the world. Increasingly realized that Leadership is all about being a good student, being humble and taking full responsibility of a situation one is in; it is not about bossing, not about commanding and ordering, definitely not in believing that the boss is always right. The programs that I developed were increasingly being influenced by eastern philosophies in contrast to western constructs. Then when Prof. Charles Vest (Ex President of MIT) gave me the opportunity to covert some of my programs into short leadership course for MIT's IAP, I did bring together my observations, insights and thoughts into a Leadership model which fuses both Eastern and Western thoughts.
   
   
3. India with more than 1.2 billion people, with philosophical richness from the past and many individual success stories around the world, still scores poorly in (i) Humans Development Index,(ii) GDP/Capita with widening gap between rich and poor) (iii) honesty index (iv) global economic presence (in terms of share of global exports) - clearly needs a new generation of problem solvers with leadership qualities that will enable them to come out of the current inertia of lack luster performance. India needs a place, a program which will help students and executives to immerse themselves in an environment which will provide the intellectual and spiritual ferment that will foster higher order thinking and living, in turn cultivate self confidence.

As you know, since its inception in July 2001, The Boston Pledge (TBP) as an incubator of voluntary public service, is silently working on several different initiatives including (i)Entrepreneurship Development to facilitate bottom-up enterprising (ii) Annual conferences to raise consciousness of people on development issues (iii) Rural development (iv) Youth program to connect school students between privileged and underprivileged regions:

Entrepreneurship Spring Program(ESP) our flagship project launched in 2001, has helped people at the base of the pyramid write more than 1000 business plans of which about 15% are being mentored and nurtured towards becoming full fledged businesses. The process essentially entails organizing 3 to 5 hour workshopsfor the participants who are typically high school drop-outs and/or unemployed covering three distinct objectives including: Confidence building, Business skill building and business plan writing and development, covering about 6000 men and women. At the completion of workshops, they are encouraged to submit their business plans following the guidelines/formats provided during the workshops.

In parallel we launched the second initiative - annual conferences in the US on global issues related to equity, ecology and ethics to draw the attention of young professionals to raise their interest in public service. So far we have organized about 17 such conferences, each attended by 150 to 300 professionals

The third focused on Rural Development was launched in 2007 to help the development a small village (Lakhikantapur) 70 miles south of Kolkata to become model village in the Indian subcontinent. Over the past ten years TBP have contributed to development of a library and guide the overall socio-economic development of the village.  We are now building a rural Innovation Center in this village.

The fourth launched in 2017 is a product of the above  â€“ TBP Youth program, which through a digital platform connect school students in developed regions with youth in rural areas in under developed regions. It is our hope this initiative will be able to raise substantive funds to make the digital platform fully operational there-by scale all the initiatives in a rapid fashion.