Turning the ‘what if’ into what is!
By Dinithi Perera
Sometimes, pursuing the unknown and exploring the “what if’s” lead to......
Diving Into the John Keells Family
By Nidheesha Ellawala
Two and a half years ago, I was given the opportunity to join the John Keells Group ...
Looking back on my “MBA on Steroids” as a JKHMT
By Kalindu Gorokgodage
It was July last year, I was about to apply for the John Keells Management Trainee programme, after many recommendations on it by my peers and mentors....
Life of a JKHMT
By Minoshala Nissanka
In 2018, I graduated from the University of Kelaniya with a degree in marketing management, earning the highest GPA in the Faculty of Commerce and Management. In addition...
A dive into the deep end – The Journey of a JKHMT
By Sashara Wijeyeratne
Once, I read a quote which said that our lives are defined by the journeys we take and not the destinations we reach.
Induction week of the ‘thirteenth’ batch of management trainees
By Shenali fernando
On the 1st of August 2019 six enthusiastic individuals started their 15-month journey at John Keells as the “thirteenth” batch of Management Trainees.
Our “Project Factory” – the story of youth clubs that changed the neighborhood youth
By Devni Wickramasinghe Youth can be the compelling agents of change, full of radical ideas that demand change and could be inventors of their own theories and ambassadors for communicating change. As a part of the MT programme, I was assigned a CSR project...
Enjoying my choices and benefiting from my decisions; my stint as a JKHMT!
By Gopalan Lashanthan The million-dollar question running through my mind as I write this blog, is “how in the world am I going to cover a 15-month journey as a JKHMT, in just a couple of pages?” But hey, that’s what management trainees do...
Organizing John Keells Foundation’s first public campaign for project WAVE
By Nibasanda Yapa Abeywardana I joined the John Keells Management Trainee (JKHMT) Programme in August 2016 and all 6 of the JKHMTs were assigned a CSR project as part of our training. I was given the task of organising the very first public campaign of John Keells Foundation (JKF) under Project WAVE (working Against Violence through Education) and I was very anxious...
Empowering rural youth- volunteering at the Mahawilachchiya rural BPO.
By Lahari Jayawardena
Upon being inducted into the 2015/2016 JKH Management Trainee Program, we were instructed that as a new addition to the program, we would each have to get...