About Us

GRG Centre for Advanced Studies (GRGCAS) is a unit of the GRG Trust in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The GRG Trust was established in 1956 by Shri GR Govindarajulu and his wife, Smt Chandrakanthi Govindarajulu. Today, the GRG Trust manages about 11 educational institutions from primary to higher secondary schooling to higher education in arts, science, commerce, management and computer science including PSGR Krishnammal College for Women (1963) and GRG School of Management Studies (1993).

The vision of GRGCAS is “to be a leader in providing best-in-class learning and development programmes in management for working professionals”.

The programmes designed and delivered by GRGCAS are of short, medium, and long term duration on multiple formats and platforms – weekend/weekday; on campus and off campus; full-time and part-time; company specific, sector specific, domain specific. GRGCAS offers both open and company-specific programmes.

GRGCAS also offers consulting services in management to organisations.

GRGCAS draws appropriate faculty resources from both within the institute and outside, including from industry to ensure that the programmes provide the most current, contemporary and updated knowledge and skills based on best practices in professional management.

Governance and Management

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

~ Warren Bennis

CLIENT STORIES

Dr A Shanmugavasan

KOB Medical Textiles

""We at KOB Medical Textiles are delighted to have GRGCAS as our knowledge partner for our People Development Process. We have recently successfully completed our first batch of Management Development Program for Executives through them Read More...
Mr P Chella Ramaswamy

Jothi Malleables

"People are the foundations of any organisation that needs to be nurtured from the root for it to be healthy. Training is one of the most important aspects of it. At GRGCAS they make it a point to train people with love and dedication. Our executives had consistently, without Read More...
Mr K Veerabathraswamy

Cameron India

"We took the support of GRGCAS in one of our important workshop on framing Vision and Strategy which involved our CMI leadership team. We were happy to have Prof. Balasubramanian of GRGCAS conducting this day long workshop. He was involved in guiding us from beginning. Finer details Read More...
Mr CN Ashok

Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers

"Employees are invaluable assets to an organization who require periodic input to remain contemporary and competitive in the dynamic work environment. Autoprint has a loyal and committed workforce, many of whom have been serving the company ranging from 5 to 20 years. We selected a Read More...
Mr N Sampathkumar

Roots Industries

"The Productive Time Management ideas in the workshop were outstanding. The examples and content delivered by Prof. Bala were excellent. It was a practical workshop - both informative and entertaining. The workshop has thrown lights on the importance of SMART goal management, effective time management techniques, RESULT oriented approach etc...Overall, an awesome experience! The training programme on Leadership & Team Building was a very effective learning experience Read More...

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