The Fellowship in
AI-Native Enterprise Leadership.

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

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

Experienced leaders with typically 10 to 20 years of experience who lead a team, function, platform or capability today. Fellows include Senior Managers, AVPs, Directors, VPs, Engineering and Delivery Managers, Principal Architects, and data, AI and corporate-function heads. What unites the cohort is not the current title but the scale of the next mandate: a site or centre head seat, global functional ownership, capability leadership, or a founding role in a new centre.

Yes. Part of every cohort crosses over from services and shared-services backgrounds. The Fellowship builds the GCC operating-model fluency that is hard to gain inside a services firm: captive economics, cost recovery, HQ mandate dynamics and matrix reporting.

No. The Fellowship builds decision-grade AI fluency: architecture, build-vs-buy, economics and governance. You will build working prototypes using no-code and AI-assisted tools. Fellows with an engineering or platform mandate can elect the Enterprise Engineering track from Month 4.

Six months, 24 weekends. Saturdays (4 hours) cover enterprise leadership and executive presence. Sundays (4 hours) cover AI decision capability and hands-on labs. Add a weekly one-hour session with your pod mentor, and a mentor-led intensive every fourth weekend.

A working AI-native prototype tested with real users, a business case you have defended before senior leaders, a mandate proposal for work your centre does not yet own, twelve ready-to-apply GCC blueprints, and a 90-day plan for your next role. Everything comes together in an integrated capstone presented at Capstone Defence Day.

Fellows who complete the Fellowship receive a certification from GCC Foundry, along with an add-on certification from IIM.

Cohort One has 60 seats, filled through six stages:

• Application: your profile, your current mandate, and a short statement on the seat you are preparing for.
• Screening: every application is reviewed against the eligibility bar.
• Readiness test: an assessment of business judgement, structured thinking and how you reason about AI decisions.
• Mandate round: a conversation about what you run today, the scope, the numbers and the decisions you own.
• Presence round: senior interviewers assess how you carry an argument under pressure.
• Board decision: the final call is confirmed by the advisory board of experienced GCC leaders, against the composition of the cohort.

The process usually takes 7 to 14 days from application to decision, depending on panel availability.

Yes, and it is designed to outlast the six months. Your closest working group is your pod: six peers and an experienced GCC leader as your mentor, reviewing your work every week. Beyond the pod, you learn, debate and build alongside the full cohort of 60 leaders across functions, industries and GCCs, through weekend sessions, simulations and cohort meetups. You also work with a wider bench of GCC leaders who teach, review and sit on panels.

The network continues after the Fellowship. Alumni come together through offline meetups, quarterly events with the leader bench, and an annual alumni gathering that brings every cohort into one room. Alumni can also audit new modules as the Fellowship adds them, and extend mentorship for six months after completion. Enterprise seats are often filled through networks before they are posted. This is the room where those conversations happen.