1. Leadership Research
The centre will seek external funding to finance original and meaningful research projects in support of the research agenda of CSL.  Interested faculty members at the NUS Business School and other schools will be invited to lead such research projects with an objective of building up a body of knowledge on strategic leadership and claim expertise in certain leadership disciplines.  Smaller grants are awarded to faculty members or graduate/senior undergraduate students working under the supervision of a faculty to develop Asian cases or industry reports that reflect real-time leading challenges or innovative leading practices in the region.

2. Asia CEO Roundtable/Summit
CSL plans to organize Asian CEO Roundtable discussions highlighting topics of relevance to the new economic or social landscape of Asia and showcasing best practices in Asia’s emerging industries or markets. It may eventually become an annual CEO Summit involving a consortium of business schools with active Asian involvement. Monographs or books can be published on selected articles.

3. Business Community Outreach
CSL will nurture and maintain ties with the business community, policy makers and media, utilizing its expertise and resources to help decision makers and the public better understand the challenges of leadership during times of turbulence and change.

3.1 Executive Dialogue Series
CSL will initiate a series of 2-3 hour Executive Dialogue Seminars to bring to campus global/regional business leaders and our alumni and engage in meaningful dialogue with our faculty/graduate students on topics of business relevance.

3.2  Leadership Learning Online
a) A web portal will be developed to link the Centre’s sponsors, the students of NUS, and our executive alumni to insightful reports, survey findings and meaningful publications on leadership

b) An executive brief will be created to disseminate leadership-related publications and notes of interviews with seasoned executives

c) Leadership cases or industry reports developed by the Centre faculty will be disseminated with charge 

4. Building Bridges between Academics and Practitioners.
CSL will serve as a catalyst and focal point for interactions within scholarly communities, as well as between academics and practitioners. The centre will organize or co-organize international conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, and executive roundtables on specific business topics. It will host the short or long-term visits of visiting scholars or professors. This will help support the research agenda of CSL investigators and stimulate collaboration with leadership scholars from around the world.

5. Consulting Projects
CSL will undertake pay-based consulting projects at the invitation of our corporate clients. Proprietary instruments developed by the faculty of NUS Business School can be made available to conduct surveys and build databases for our corporate clients.

6. Customized Executive Development Programmes.
To meet specific demands of the business community, the Centre will work with the Executive Education Office of NUS Business School to develop fee-based customized executive development programs and action-learning projects on selected leadership topics.

7. Students’ Consulting Practicum
The Centre for Strategic Leadership will generate consulting practicums for our senior undergraduate and MBA students. These consulting projects allow our students to undertake research and generate solutions to current leadership issues.