Amidst various business challenges, Vidula Bal, global leadership development director at Mars Inc., and her team were tasked with creating leadership development programs that would give the company a competitive advantage.
by Site Staff
November 19, 2012
VIDULA BAL
Global Leadership Development Director, Mars Inc.
To meet this need, Bal created a leadership development curriculum for Mars University in 2009, which will be fully implemented next year. When the curriculum was launched in 2011, more than 167,000 hours of leadership training were recorded. Mars continues to develop and use metrics, and collects feedback and data on an ongoing basis to ensure its efficacy.
Bal also develops customized learning offerings for the company, including Leadership@Mars — a three-part learning journey designed to help managers hone the skills they need at different levels of leadership. She also developed the Asia Leadership Forum — a customized learning program created following a needs analysis for leaders in the Asian market.