Masterclass With Fearless Educator

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After completing Computer Science Engineering, Ranjan worked with tech giants like IBM and GE for nearly 9+ years. An entrepreneur at heart, he decided to co-founded Learnyst with Shankar in 2014. Since then, Ranjan has been instrumental in helping teachers & coaching institutes in India, launch their academies online. Besides helping teachers cross the technology barriers, he guides them towards building their own profitable online teaching business through his live webinars.

He is an avid listener and loves knowing about people. Back in 2014, Shankar Mahesh (CEO) & Shivaranjan Kumar (CFO) with a cumulative experience of almost 25 years, kick-started their entrepreneurial journey through a small market survey – enquiring teachers who owned coaching institutes about what kind of solution would help them go digital.

Having started its journey in 2014, Learnyst today is one of the fastest-growing LMS companies, catering to 1000+ institutes with more than 3 million students online. The company provides a technology platform for online education - a proposition wherein any educator developing good content can start & grow their online academy without worrying about the technology.

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Akshal Agarwal is a young and dynamic leader who is settling into his new role at NatureNurture. He is the Director, Operations and is heading the efforts to find progressive school in the country that can work with NatureNurture. His entrepreneurial ambition started at a very young age,whilst pursuing law from the National Law University, Mumbai, a leading law university of the country. Here he secured an All India Rank 13.

His interest in education developed after he was exposed to global pedagogic practices when he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. He also attended the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany. He has also researched at University of Oxford about shaping Indian entrepreneurship in the years forward. Furthermore, he has earned a post graduate certification in branding, communication, and digital marketing from MICA.

He has spoken at several international forums and his vision for the company and country involves crossing social boundaries to ensure that the Right to Quality Education, enshrined in Article 21A of the Constitution, becomes a reality for all.

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Saumil represented EduSports on India's leading Social Activism Platform on Television - Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate Spor ts episode – where EduSports was chosen as the sustainable & scalable model of getting children to play. He has also received the CII Emerging Entrepreneur Award and has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Leaders influencing Education” by Education World. school boards, parent forums, federations, brands, ministries and regulatory bodies In his student days, Saumil was selected for the Maharashtra Badminton team and represented IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore in Football. Saumil is a core committee member of the CII National Committee on Sports and regularly builds the case for a more inclusive and funbased approach to Sports at forums involving school boards, parent forums, federations, brands, ministries and regulatory bodies. In his student days, Saumil was selected for the Maharashtra Badminton team and represented IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore in Football. 

Prior to starting Sportz Village, Saumil was the Founder-CEO of QSupport (one of India's first remote tech support businesses) and worked with Wipro (Global R&D) in the International marketing team. Saumil holds a B-Tech degree & is a Distinguished Service Alumnus from IIT-Bombay, a PGDM from IIM-Bangalore, a Basic Mountaineering Degree from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (Uttarkashi) & a Black belt in Karate. He continues to follow his passion for sports & outdoors through regular karate, Himalayan treks, badminton, football, and cricket.

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Er Dushyant Kumar is a distinguished Educationist. A self made man, Mr, Kumar face a lot of difficulties in his intial days and struggled to make his way to IIT Roorkee and compeleted his mechanical engeering, which has remained a dream for many. 

Unlike others he was not fascinated with the attractive paying scale of the multinational companies, and rejecting all the offers he stepped into teaching students who aimed to become doctors and engineers and making their dreams come true. 

Er Dushyant kumar has an experience of over 15 years in teaching chemistry. He started with a batch of 10 and until now he has taught lacs of students onlince and offline. He has authored many books and is keen on innoviating educational transaction. He was the first in India to introduce the idea of digital books for higher education. His unflinching dedication and remarkable contribution as a teacher is commendable.

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Mr. Manish Naidu founded Brainwonders in March 2011. BRAINWONDERS is the largest career counselling organization in the field of Biometric and Psychometric Tests for identifying inborn potential. Mr. Manish Naidu, works with a vision to recognise and channelise one’s abilities to perfection and aim to facilitate growth in the areas of Academic Excellence, Talent Maximisation and Professional Development.  Brainwonders provides well-rounded services for quantitative and qualitative enhancement of the individual. Under his leadership, Mr. Manish Naidu has revolutionized the concept of Education and Career Counseling through: Interest-Aptitude Test, U.S. Patented DMIT Test, Personality Test, Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) Test, School-Connect Programmes, Corporate Assessment and Trainings, and Child-Parent Workshops.

Mr. Manish Naidu has built Brainwonders on years of involvement and expertise in the industry. This body is endorsed by experienced professionals and leaders. Today, Mr. Manish Naidu has 108+ centres and continues to grow to cater to the career counselling demand in India. In a global scenario, the world has come closer, which has accentuated the magnitude of his team to reach every customer at the earliest possible hour. This has led to the Brainwonders’ story often being a cover feature of various channels like Deccan Chronicle, Business Standard, United News India, Silicon India (Cover Feature), Economic Times and Zee News. For the noted services since 2011, Mr. Manish Naidu and his team of Brainwonders has been a recipient of several recognitions.  

Mr. Manish Naidu and his team of BRAINWONDERS has been associated with several educational organisations including AHAISI, MISA and ECA. The long-term career guidance services of Brainwonders has also laid down its path to partnerships with corporate institutions like Aditya Birla Capital, NSDL e-Governance, Grauer & Weils, HDFC Bank, Vidyasaarathi Scholarship Portal, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, Poly Medicure Ltd., Aakash Educational Services and Viraj Profiles Ltd. and many more.

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Aneesh Bangia is an alumnus of IIT Madras. After working in Ashok Leyland for a year, he discovered his love for teaching. He started teaching children and then turned into an entrepreneur to solve the more fundamental issues with the school system. He is the co-founder of a revolutionary start-up called Open Door. 

Aneesh started Open Door in 2014 along with his college mate Abhishek Kariwal with the vision of making students better self-learners. In the first year of inception, they started teaching children in small batches in their learning centres in Pune and Bangalore. They used to teach by mainly asking questions and allowing children to understand difficult concepts by themselves. 

Aneesh strongly believes that the teachers in classrooms should speak less, ask more questions and once they have asked a question, they should allow children the time to think. The purpose of teaching should mainly be to develop thinking habits among children, with learning of the topic being a by-product.

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An IT marketing professional, passion & love  for sports drove Jay to enter the field of sports  in 2002, eventually leading to the founding of  TSG, one of India’s first private grass root sports firms. Jay, also a certified Yoga teacher which also forms the basis of the coaches training program of TSG, believes that  “sports in the country does not suffer due to  lack of places or funds only but essentially lack of ideas and initiatives from people''. In the last 18 years he has been working to promote sports &  promote sporting communities and infrastructure at the local level. His creative ways of creating sports spaces led him to create India's 1st full size tennis court on a terrace of a building which was the result of his beliefs of creating unique ideas for sports to work. The work was published in Hindustan times for the unique creation.

Under his leadership, TSG‘s sports idea was selected  amongst the Top 40 (among 16,000+)  business ideas across India at the Economic  Times Power of Idea Contest in 2010. This led to him being selected for a training program at IIM Ahmedabad and The Sports Gurukul also received a grant  from the Dept. Of Science & Technology, Govt of India, probably one of the only companies during that time certifying the sports gurukul ideas as one of the ideas which would shape the future of India. He was recently inducted in the Karmaveer  Global Fellowship Hall of Fame with a Karam  Veer Chakra bronze medal in recognition of his  many years of service in the field of sports. Mr. Jay Shah is dedicated to the cause of promoting sports and fitness in every child of India and continues working with the only aim to see every child as a fit and active child for life.

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Dr. Komala Krishna having 33 years of diversified experience in establishing and administrating schools, associated with universal scouts and guides as commissioner for Andhra and Telangana and got appreciation from president of India and Drona Award. 

She has been conferred with a national award, south Indian women achiever’s award, gurubrahma award. RADHA Krishna saman award, APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence award and excellency in education award from UAE and China serving through education to nation is her passion.

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Anil Pradhan (a.k.a. Ideas Man of India) is an Indian engineer, innovator, and revolutionary educationist. He is the founder of Navonmesh Prasar Foundation and School for Rural Innovation (IPSFRI), which was founded in 2015 to educate the less-privileged students of Odisha through an interdisciplinary curriculum. He is also known for designing innovative labs, teaching tools, indigenous rockets and projects which solves real-life problems. 

After completing his engineering from UCE (University College of Engineering, Burla), Anil has quit three cushy jobs to follow his dreams. His mission is to create a thirst for innovation among students so that every student, regardless of background, becomes an achiever and, in the process, our country progresses. Engineering students go for jobs. However, Anil is exceptional. He founded a school in a rural pocket of Cuttack to boost the zest for creativity among students.  

Prior to incorporating Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Anil worked on projects with L&T, TATA and other during his undergraduate course in Engineering. He also the Chief Designer of V.S.L.V., Asia’s first Multipurpose Student Rocketry Mission and developed a satellite to monitor Hirakud Dam.

As an innovator, he felt engineering and innovation should not be restricted to a specific branch of engineering. He has designed various sustainable solutions such as a technology to maximise daylight in buildings, thereby reducing electricity consumption. This technological innovation led to him being listed among the top seven innovators in India by Larsen and Toubro (L&T). He was the lead design engineer for the VSSUT Student Satellite Team, which is India’s first multipurpose students’ rocket mission to monitor Hirakud dam. He was also the structural designer of the robot presented by the VSSUT Robotics team at the Asia Pacific ABU Robocon. Being an outstanding civil engineer, he was appointed an Affiliate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

SWAMI RAM CHANDRA: He was born in Purkot, Gulmi District Lumbini zone in 3/11/1963. When he was just 12 years he left for India. Being many months in the streets he joined Indian army but did not like the service and left the Army to start learning Sanskrit. Later he became Vaishnava. He was inspired by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother after reading a book by Sri Aurobindo. And feeling the nectar of his life in Pondicherry he went to Pondicherry in 1983 and settled there for 12 years. After almost 2 decades came back to Nepal and got the inspiration to start the Ashram, Named Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir to Materialize the Ideology of Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 24th April 1993.  Since then he has been working arduously for this work along with guiding many people spiritually and suggesting the way of life. It’s been small 18 years and this ashram under his single-handed effort has reached a present position as today. Apart from the Ashram in Kathmandu, he has also opened another branch in Kolhuwa, Nawalparasi aiming to spread the task of Divine work everywhere possible.  He does not believe in fleeing from the world to have divine experience for oneself, he wants the whole of fellow brothers to have the experience and show them the true way of life. Which will result a quantum leap in evolution of mankind. He is a real Karmayogi and is a a divine worker who lives a life of struggle for the purpose of Divine Work. Believe it, this task can be a cornerstone for the change. The only condition is that there should not be the deficit of people aspiring for progress.