In 2008, Shaheen founded Teach For India, with an audacious vision of providing an excellent education to all children across India through building a pipeline of leaders committed to ending educational inequity in India. Today, Teach For India directly impacts 40,000 children across seven regions in India.
Shaheen is an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, and an Asia Society 21 Leader. She serves on the boards of Akanksha, Design For Change, the India School Leaders Institute, and Teach For All. Shaheen is the author of the book, Re-drawing India.
The event was focused on discussing her story. Shaheen shared with the students of PGDM and PGPM four really touching instances related to her foundation. She shared inspirational stories of children who were provided with an opportunity and focused on the fact that “Opportunity is all the difference”.
The key takeaway from her talk was that the most important things are the simple and little things. She stressed that the problem is too big, but everyone must “Do something”. It is the little things that make all the difference.
The event brought deep insights and helped the students understand that a manager today and tomorrow has to deal with many more complex and unstructured issues.
About the Author:
Alisha Chaturvedi is a PGDM candidate at SPJIMR, Mumbai specialising in Finance.
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