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Akanksha Thakore

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Self-growth Trainer , Social Sector Consultant Akanksha Thakore is a consultant in the social sector and a self-growth trainer. Her past work involves working with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Sales & Marketing, Corporate Responsibility) and Reliance Foundation. At Reliance Foundation she helped setup the Education Pillar with a specific focus on a rural secondary education initiative. She has worked with Blue Ribbon Movement for five years in its earlier form, and presently is the Program Director of the Social Leaders Program (SLP). SLP is an 8-month leadership building program training participants through a hands-on social project. The first batch is running a cleanliness campaign called 'I Clean toh Mumbai Clean'. She also takes workshops for schools in self-growth for teenagers and has taken an orientation session for 450 students of IIM, Ahmedabad, incoming batch of 2010. She is trained in Reiki (levels I &II), Art of Living, and practices different forms of meditation. She is passionate about theatre, dance, and writing. Akanksha is an Alumnus of NM College. She is an Institute Scholar and Best All-rounder from IIM Ahmedabad (PGP batch 2007)

Self-growth Trainer , Social Sector Consultant Akanksha Thakore is a consultant in the social sector and a self-growth trainer. Her past work involves working with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Sales & Marketing, Corporate Responsibility) and Reliance Foundation. At Reliance Foundation she helped setup the Education Pillar with a specific focus on a rural secondary education initiative. She has worked with Blue Ribbon Movement for five years in its earlier form, and presently is the Program Director of the Social Leaders Program (SLP). SLP is an 8-month leadership building program training participants through a hands-on social project. The first batch is running a cleanliness campaign called 'I Clean toh Mumbai Clean'. She also takes workshops for schools in self-growth for teenagers and has taken an orientation session for 450 students of IIM, Ahmedabad, incoming batch of 2010. She is trained in Reiki (levels I &II), Art of Living, and practices different forms of meditation. She is passionate about theatre, dance, and writing. Akanksha is an Alumnus of NM College. She is an Institute Scholar and Best All-rounder from IIM Ahmedabad (PGP batch 2007)

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Summer Shopping - (An article on Summer Placements at IIM)

First year Bschool students all over India are busy dusting their shopping bags, looking around the job marketplace, and deciding what fancy brands to handpick and apply for; which ones to aggressively aim for and make sure they have in their kitty at the end. It isn’t very different from

Dramatically Yours

There’s an odd bunch that moves about on the green lawns of Louis Kahn Plaza*, through the quiet corridors of the classroom block, muttering incoherently in the wee hours of morning at Café TANSTAAFL** and quite often boisterously piercing the pre-exam silence with their post-rehearsal madness. They prefer being looked

The Balancing Act at IIM Ahmedabad

Do you really have to leave it all behind? One of the many forms that pre-MBA anxiety takes is the worry that one won’t have time to give to the leisurely pursuits of life, or even to non-academic passions. I have often been asked (even from incoming batch freshers at IIM