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The Fellowship in
AI-Native Enterprise Leadership.

A six-month, weekend-format fellowship for senior professionals preparing for enterprise leadership roles in GCCs.

6 months
24 weekends
60 seats
pods of 6
Built and taught
by GCC leaders

Application received.

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India's next growth engine is already running.

A new GCC opens in India
every other day.

One in three Fortune 500 companies now runs a GCC in India.

Deloitte

$50bn to $98.4bn in six years. 2,117 centres. 2.36 million professionals.

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5,000 GCCs by 2030. The national target.

Ministry of Finance

GCCs out-hired India's entire IT services industry in FY26.

Industry hiring data, FY2026

$121bn and 3.5% of GDP by 2030.

Economic Survey of India
THE OPPORTUNITY

6,500 leadershipseats today.30,000+ by 2030.

These are not project management roles. These are the seats that run global businesses from India.

Site &
Centre HeadsRun the centre as a business. P&L, board, HQ.
Global
Functional HeadsOwn a function worldwide. Engineering, Product, Data & AI, Finance, HR, Operations.
Founding
TeamsThe first five seats of every new centre.
Global Process
OwnersOwn one process end to end, across every geography with the decision rights that go with it.
Site & Centre HeadsRun the centre as a business. P&L, board, HQ.
Global Functional HeadsOwn a function worldwide. Engineering, Product, Data & AI, Finance, HR, Operations.
Founding TeamsThe first five seats of every new centre.
Global Process OwnersOwn one process end to end, across every geography with the decision rights that go with it.
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70% of leadership demand has no ready supply.

Out of 100 leadership seats, only 30 have a ready supply. The remaining 70 are unfilled.

30%AVAILABLE SUPPLY
70%NO SUPPLY

Enterprises are looking one level down.

With limited supply at the top, development focus is shifting to the level below.

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30,000 seats. No pipeline. Someone has to build one.

THE PERSON BUILDING THE PIPELINE
“I built the leadership academy myself. Three times. Because no one else had.”
Sandeep Dhar ·
Co-founder and Dean, GCC Foundry. Thirty years in the GCC ecosystem.
Every seat at the table.

He built it inside the centres he ran, at Citibank in the 1990s, as CEO of Tesco HSC, as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, because there was nowhere to send good people. The leaders those academies produced went on to run GCCs and functions across the industry. Now India needs 30,000 of them. So he is building it for the country.

CitiCITIBANK, 1990s TescoCEO, TESCO HSC Goldman SachsMD, GOLDMAN SACHS Wipro and CapgeminiBUILT WIPRO'S GCC PRACTICE
GCC Foundry
INTRODUCING

India's leadership institution for the GCC economy.

THE FELLOWSHIP

Six months that close the gap between running a function and owning an enterprise.

SIX HIGHLIGHTS
01

18 modules, taught by operators. 190+ hours live.

02

A weekly pod with a seasoned GCC leader.

03

The AI Studio: build working AI tools from Month 1. No coding required.

04

12 ready-to-use Blueprints: operating models, business cases, playbooks.

05

A panel every month. The room is the assessment. There is no exam.

06

Add-on certification from IIM Sirmaur, plus the Fellow's Mark, cast in bronze.

THREE PILLARS

Three capabilities. Taught together, because the job uses them together.

GCC LEADERSHIP

Can you run a centre as a business?

AFTERWARDSYou can run a centre as a business, not a delivery function.
AI FLUENCY

Can you decide about AI without borrowing someone else's answer?

AFTERWARDSYou can make and defend an
AI call as your own.
EXECUTIVE PRESENCE

Will the most senior person in the room back you?

AFTERWARDSYou are considered for the
seat before the role is posted.
CURRICULUM, BY MONTH

Six months.
One direction.

M1
See the Enterprise.Stop describing your function.
Start describing the business.
M2
Own the Economics.Argue in money, not effort.
M3
Build for Scale.Design a capability, not a team.
M4
Earn Trust.Be trusted with something that can break.
M5
Expand the Mandate.Ask for work nobody gave you.
M6
Prove It.Defend all of it, in one room, in one hour.

Seasoned GCC leaders. Yours, weekly, for six months.

Not guest speakers. Each mentor leads one pod of six, reviews your work every week, and tells you exactly how far you are from the seat.

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Advisory Board

80+ GCC leaders shaped this Fellowship. When you pitch a panel playing HQ, these are the people playing HQ.

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THE POD

Six people who will know your thinking better than your own leadership team does.

One hour midweek, every week.
Your real work on the table: the investment case,
the build-versus-buy memo, the mandate pitch.

“HQ will kill this on slide three. Here's the version that survives.”
THE KIND OF SENTENCE YOU'LL HEAR ON A TUESDAY.
THE CIRCLE

Sixty fellows a year.
One room for life.

These seats move person to person.
Now you know the persons.

MONTHLYThe cohort meets every month.
QUARTERLYThe bench joins every quarter.
ANNUALLYEveryone, once a year, in Bengaluru.
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CAREER PATHWAYS

The seats you leave ready for, and what they pay.

Site /
Centre Head ₹1.5 to 4 Cr+ with a growing million-dollar club at the top end
Global
Functional Head ₹1 to 2.5 Cr
Head of AI /
Platform / Data ₹80L to 2 Cr+ carrying the 40 to 60% AI premium
Founding seat,
new centre ₹1 to 2 Cr plus equity

Indicative, varies by company, city and mandate. MICHAEL PAGE INDIA SALARY GUIDE 2026 · TEAMLEASE

Walmart Global Tech
Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan Chase
Wells Fargo
Target
Tesco
Bosch
Shell
Lloyds Technology Centre
Mercedes-Benz R&D

AND THE 3,000 CENTRES YET TO OPEN

Company names indicate the market, not affiliation.

Nobody promises you a role.
We make you undeniable when one opens.
SELECTION

Sixty seats.
Six stages.

10 to 20 years You lead something quantifiable today Depth in at least one function AI awareness, no coding required Bachelor's or above
APPLY IF
  • You run something real.
  • Your next move is the enterprise layer.
  • You want the scrutiny.
DON'T APPLY IF
  • You want coding depth.
  • You're collecting credentials.
  • You can't protect the weekends.
THE DOOR
  1. 01
    Application
  2. 02
    Screening
  3. 03
    Readiness test
  4. 04
    Mandate round
  5. 05
    Presence round
  6. 06
    Board decision

FAQs

What senior professionals usually ask before applying. If your question isn't here, write to the admissions team.

Directors, VPs, AVPs, senior managers and principal specialists moving to enterprise-wide mandates, and crossover leaders from IT services, GBS and shared services. Typically 10 to 20 years in.

No. The Fellowship builds decision-grade AI fluency: architecture, build-versus-buy, economics, governance.

10 to 12 hours a week: weekend sessions, one pod hour midweek, and a mentor-led intensive every fourth weekend.

The add-on certification from IIM Sirmaur, the Fellow's Mark, and a portfolio: a launched AI solution, an investment case, a risk report, a mandate proposal, a defended capstone.

No. Six months of your work in front of seasoned GCC leaders makes you the one considered when a seat opens.

₹8,00,000 plus GST. No-cost EMI, corporate sponsorship and L&D invoicing supported. A ₹5,000 application deposit adjusts against the fee.

Six stages, ending in a decision confirmed by the advisory board. The cohort is composed like the pods it feeds.

The seats are opening. Be forged before they do.

Sixty seats. Six stages. One question:
will you be ready when the seat opens?