Business Ready Program (BRP)

The “Business Ready Program” is a project-oriented training for final year students / early-in-career professionals to learn how the business work, and help them acquire essential mindset to achieve a successful career as Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders. 

We want to inspire next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders who will create jobs, build local economies and create a more equitable society.

What can you expect from the program?

At a very high level, BRP is all about working on a project that you identify in the beginning of the program. The project revolves around a problem, its solution, building a business plan, and presenting your plan as shown in the digram below.

Business Ready Program

Learning Objectives and Program Outcome

The objective of the program is to use an project-based approach and problem-based learning to help students understand problems, collaborate in teams to find solutions, build business acumen, and ultimately be successful in professional careers. The skills they will learn are as follows (in no particular order):

  1. Teamwork, collaboration, equity, diversity and inclusion
  2. Design thinking, system thinking and problem solving
  3. Dependability, business relationships, work ethics, conflict of interests
  4. Taking ownership and being champion of an initiative
  5. Understanding basics of marketing, market research methods, sales
  6. Basics of project management
  7. Building a personal brand, influence without authority
  8. Legal and business structures
  9. Basic financial concepts, terminology, financial reports
  10. Building business case
  11. Value chain and value proposition, what value addition means for engineering projects?
  12. Presentation and communications skills

 Benefits for the Participants

  1. Achieve a Certificate of participation in the program, build resume
  2. Exposure to real-world problems and build people network
  3. Gain soft skills for launching a successful career
  4. Connect with employers and/or investors

Follow on LinkedIn

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Register for the upcoming session

If you want to participate in the program, you should fill out Google Form at https://forms.gle/oCbYsuQnww1vd95k6

After we receive your application, you will be informed if you are inducted into this cohort. The space is limited and your videos mentioned above will play a key role in selection criteria.

Program Cost

This program is completely free for participants.

What BRP Participants are saying?

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Learning about real life problems

“Without a doubt, I am definitely able to use the learnings of this programs in real life societal problem solving. How to work with others like a better team player.” 

Practical life lessons and improvement in confidence level

“This program will help us in our practical life. Increase our confident level and help us to coordinate with diverse people.”

Want to build my own business

“In future, i want to build my own business so the things that I’ve learnt from this program would really help me alot.”

Partner, sponsor, and support!

The objective of this program is to foster entrepreneurship and corporate leadership. It is completely free for participants and is run by unpaid volunteers. You can help this program in many ways:

  • Recruit BRP Graduates – If you are a business, interview graduates of this program for job openings. We strongly believe that participants of the program understand the business and will be much more productive than any other candidate.
  • Be a Mentor or advisor and work with the participants to help in their projects.
  • Guest Speaker – Be a guest speaker in one of our programs to share your life lessons and advice with BRP participants.

For further information about your kind sponsorships, please check BRP sponsorship page.