<div>The School of Inspired Leadership, also known as SOIL, is a private business school located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It was founded by Anil Sachdev who was formerly the CEO of the consulting firm Grow Talent Company Limited before the consulting business was sold to the American HR Consulting firm Right Management. The name Grow Talent Company was retained and SOIL functions as a unit of Grow Talent Company.<br><br>“Many leaders like Ratan Tata, Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji among others who I’ve dealt with over the years as clients and batchmates who have inspired me to form a curriculum for students to become future leaders in their own field,” says Anil Sachdev, Founder & CEO, SOIL.</div><div> </div><div>The B-School was established by a consortium of 32 companies including Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), Infosys, Birla Group, Dr Reddys, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Johnson and Johnson, Kohler, Larsen and Toubro, Mahindra, Max, Maruti Suzuki, Nokia, SAS, SAP SRF, Schneider, Symphony, Tata Steel, TVS Motors, Volvo-Eicher among others.</div><div> </div><div>The school faculty that are mostly from the corporate world coach some of the top leaders of the company on leadership. Sachdev himself has coached LIC and IRDA top executives. “The industry consortium’s involvement is what makes us who we are. They have been part of our visioning and have helped us through each stage of growth in the past several years. They joined hands with us to literally ‘co-create’ a business school that addresses the needs of corporate India,” says Sachdev</div><div> </div><div>Forty per cent of the entire curriculum focuses on spiritual learnings, yoga, travelling to spiritual places. It encourages students to work for social development as every week a student is mandated to work with a non-profitable organisation (NGO). “With so much corporate corruption around we teach our students to be honest and ethical,” says Sachdev.</div><div> </div><div>SOIL is now opening another institute in Manesar that will under graduate to post graduate courses on Design Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship among the regular Masters in Business Administration (MBA). The other university will be established in Pune in the next 5 years.</div><div> </div>