In 1976, some distinguished professionals in Lucknow, under the leadership of Late Mr. T.N. Dhar then Secretary, Planning, Govt. of U.P. came together and with patronage of the then Chief Minister Sri Narayan Dutt Tewari, Lucknow Management Association was formed as a local chapter of AIMA. Establishment of IIM at Lucknow in 1984 gave fillip to LMA’s endavours in proliferation of Management knowledge and taking the management movement forward. LMA hosted a number of distinguished management speakers in its lecture meetings, a practice which still continues.

Over time, LMA grew in size and stature and linkages. Sometime in 2000, it decided to work beyond management and, after considerable internal brainstorming, LMA adopted for itself a set of Mission, Vision, Values and Beliefs, which are recited in all LMA meetings and which thereafter guided all its activities. In the same year 2000, LMA got its first recognition with an AIMA award for best local management association in category 4. Since then, it has been a steady growth and LMA graduated to higher AIMA categories.

“We got the Best LMA Awards in category 2 in the two consecutive years 2006-07 and 2007-08. LMA continued to improve the number, diversity and quality of programmes over all these years. Based on our membership strength, LMA came in AIMA's category 1 in 2008-09 but in 2013-14, were reverted to category 2 with change in AIMAs’s criterion of categorization of LMAs. We got Best LMA Award in category 2 in 2013-14 and subsequently again in 2014-2015 AIMA also included us among the top eight local management associations in the country and gave us non rotational membership on the AIMA Council. This fulfilled one of the two visions articulated by LMA about 10 years back and strengthened our committement to work towards the larger second vision, i.e. making a contribution in making U.P. Uttam Pradesh in time to come.”

LMA Annual Convention is its flagship event has become one of the largest and most prestigious management events in this part of the country. LMA Annual Conventions being organized in unbroken succession since 2002 have addressed a variety of public policy issues. LMA Conventions attract a large number of eminent personalities as also well known subject and domain experts who articulate their out of the box ideas on various theme related issues. The themes addressed so far are as under A theme paper outlining the current status on the theme and subthemes together with objective of each of the technical sessions is developed in house by LMA. A theme based Journal edited by one of the IIM Lucknow professors is released in the inaugural session which provides useful information and findings on the themes and subthemes. Convention proceedings are comprehensively documented and circulated among the various stakeholders. Some of the proceedings brought out as priced publications have been posted on this website.

LMA has been organizing many programmes for Young Managers and students in collaboration with AIMA such as Management Game Chanakya, a computer simulated decision making workshop, Management Quiz and SYMP (Shaping Young Minds programme) etc. LMA has been allotted five SYMPs which have been successfully organized by LMA. Eminent/iconic professionals interacted with Management Students in these programmes on how they achieved what they did in life to inspire them. Many achievers like R. Mashelkar, E Shreedharan, Vikram Mehta, Arun Maira, Sanjeev Bickchandani, Muzaffar Ali, Suresh Prabhu, Suhas Gopinath (World’s youngest CEO),Sachin Pilot, Arun Shourie, Meera Sanyal, Parikshit Sahani, Gen V P Malik, Raghunath Medge & Gangaram Talekar (dabbawallahs), Rajiv Pratap Rudy, to name a few, who have participated in these interactions.

LMA has initiated a LMA Global Thought Leadership Series in 2010-11 in which people of international eminence in different disciplines share their thoughts with LMA members and a select invited audience. The first speaker in this series was Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University and Chief Financial Advisor to Finance Ministry who had an interactive session on 21 May, 2010. This was followed by an interface with Dr. Ramchandra Guha, a famous modern historian and author who delivered the JK Kharbanda Memorial Lecture on Challenges to Indian Democracy Today on 21st of October, 2010. Thereafter in this series, there was a popular lecture by Professor Richard Robert Ernst a Swiss physical chemist and 1991 Nobel Laureate on 6th March 2011. Mr. O.P. Bhatt, Chairman, State Bank of India was hosted in this series on 14th March, 2011. Talks onScientific Research and Human Daily Life by Professor Kurt Wuthrich, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA and on Portable MRI by Dr. Bernhard Blümich, Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen were organized on 5th January, 2012. On 15th July, 2012 Dr. Harsh Vardhan Singh Dy. Director General, World Trade Organization Geneva spoke on Importance of WTO for Good Governance and Enhancing Opportunities and on 15 December, 2012, another internationally acclaimed scholar, Padma Vibhushan Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar spoke on Searches for Extra-terrestrial Life”.Dr. Nirupam Bajpai Professor Columbia University, New York and Director Columbia Global Centres I South Asia who spoke on India: What Will It Take to Go Back to a High Growth Trajectory and What Can U.P. Do to Get Thereon 28 March, 2014."Famous historian Professor Irfan Habib addressed LMA members on The Evolving Vision of Free India in the Leadership of National Movement.on 8 November, 2014.

Besides the above, LMA has been organizing a variety of other programmes in which the Members get an opportunity to interact with galaxy of eminent persons across different sectors. Overtime, LMA has hosted in its various programmes, Mr. Vinod Dhall Acting Chairman Competition Commission of India, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah Chief Information Commissioner, Mr. Arun Seth, Chairman British Telecom, Mr. Bharat Wakhulu Director Tata Sons, Mr. Prakash Singh Former DG Police & a well known Police Reform activist, Mr. Yogesh Chandra CMD, IDBI Bank, Dr. Ajay Mathur Director General Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Dr. Geetam Tewari TRIPP Professor of Transportation Engineering, IIT Delhi, Professor Satish K. Tripathi President, the University at Buffalo, United States, Dr. Subir Gokarn Dy. Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Mr. Diwakar Gupta, MD & CFO, State Bank of India, Dr. Sailendra Narain Former CMD, SIDBI and many others. LMA’s past programmes with photographs can be viewed on this website.

LMA has a huge multidisciplinary resource base among its individual and institutional members comprising distinguished professionals and leverages this valuable resource in its various programmes.

VISION

A high profile vibrant body of professionals, contributing to make UP as Uttam Pradesh.
One amongst top in India, with permanent representative on the national apex body-AIMA

MISSION

We sensitize and catalyze individuals, institutions and communities to actualize their potential.
To create and sustain a movement of professional management in and around Lucknow by reaching out to working and future managers and facilitating their participation and involvement in the proliferation of principles and practices of management.

VALUE

We are equal among equals. We believe in involvement, commitment and mutual respect.

BELIEF

Build the Dreams, Repeat the Dreams and the Dreams Build you up