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The Purpose of Money: Prof Vikas Srivastava and the New Logic of Finance
Education Leadership

The Purpose of Money: Prof Vikas Srivastava and the New Logic of Finance

Prof Vikas Srivastava, Professor of Finance at IIM Lucknow, brings decades of experience across global finance, policy, and education. His work challenges how capital, governance, and behavior intersect in shaping credible institutions. From ESG reforms to fintech ethics, he emphasizes that progress depends on judgment, not just data. Through research, teaching, and advisory roles, he advances a new financial logic built on credibility, competence, and moral intelligence, the foundations of systems that sustain growth responsibly.

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When Institutions Learn to Think: What Sameer Arora Teaches Us About Adaptive Leadership
Education Leadership

When Institutions Learn to Think: What Sameer Arora Teaches Us About Adaptive Leadership

Education is not merely preparation for the future; it is the act of shaping it. Sameer Arora reimagines learning as humanity’s most powerful system for renewal, where thinking replaces routine and empathy becomes intelligence. His vision moves beyond achievement to ask a deeper question: can we build a world that not only learns faster, but understands better and sustains what truly matters?

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Root Before Fruit: Rethinking Higher Education Through the Leadership Lens of Dr. Aparna Rao
Education Leadership

Root Before Fruit: Rethinking Higher Education Through the Leadership Lens of Dr. Aparna Rao

As education systems worldwide race toward scale and automation, Dr. Aparna Rao, Deputy Director at RV Institute of Management, Bengaluru, challenges the very idea of progress. She argues that the real frontier lies not in technology or policy, but in cultivating emotionally intelligent, globally adaptive minds. Her philosophy, “Root before fruit”, redefines leadership as design, mentorship as capital, and employability as mindset, placing India’s classrooms within a global movement toward purpose-driven learning.

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The Educator’s Advantage: Dr. Vasudha Neel Mani on Why Emotional Intelligence Is the New Management Science
Education Leadership

The Educator’s Advantage: Dr. Vasudha Neel Mani on Why Emotional Intelligence Is the New Management Science

Dr. Vasudha Neel Mani leads with the conviction that education and leadership share the same purpose: to make people whole. As a Cambridge Ambassador and Principal at Rockwoods International School, she integrates emotional intelligence with strategic clarity. Her philosophy reframes empathy as infrastructure and reflection as performance. Across classrooms and boardrooms alike, she reminds us that emotional depth is not the opposite of excellence, but its source.

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The Discipline of Decency: Dr. Vaibhav Mittal and the Long View of Leadership
Founders & Innovators

The Discipline of Decency: Dr. Vaibhav Mittal and the Long View of Leadership

Dr. Vaibhav Mittal represents a new generation of Indian leaders redefining legacy through ethics, endurance, and intelligence. Rooted in Lovely Group’s heritage and shaped by global experience, his philosophy bridges tradition and change. Across Lovely Professional University, Lovely Autos, and Karmic Beauty, he champions growth with integrity. For him, leadership means building systems where people thrive and values endure. In a world chasing speed, he stands for purpose. His message is simple: build patiently, lead truthfully, and let ethics define success.

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The Anatomy of Excellence: How Skand Bali Designs Institutions That Last Beyond Leadership
Education Leadership

The Anatomy of Excellence: How Skand Bali Designs Institutions That Last Beyond Leadership

Skand Bali’s three-decade journey shows that schools are not just learning spaces but the rehearsal rooms where a nation’s character is shaped, refined, and passed forward. Across military discipline, boarding school culture, greenfield creation, and legacy renewal, he has built an architecture of leadership where rhythm, empathy, reflection, and stewardship form the operating system. His vision for India is clear: institutions must align head, heart, and hand so the next generation leads with clarity, humility, and the emotional intelligence that defines ethical global leadership.

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The Inheritance of Duty: Namrata Sethia on Reinventing School Leadership
Education Leadership

The Inheritance of Duty: Namrata Sethia on Reinventing School Leadership

Namrata Sethia chose classrooms over certainty, building Vardhman into a school where legacy, accessibility, and global readiness work together rather than compete. Her leadership blends rigor with empathy reinvesting every surplus into teachers, infrastructure, and systems that give students real agency, resilience, and cultural grounding. In her hands, education becomes both duty and design, proving that strong schools can honour tradition while preparing children to thrive anywhere in the world.

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The Art, Science, and Soul of Learning Inside Pratima's Four-Decade Journey
Education Leadership

The Art, Science, and Soul of Learning Inside Pratima's Four-Decade Journey

Pratima’s journey from an untrained teacher to CEO is a story of leadership built through humility, conviction, and constant reinvention. She believes schools, like all institutions, thrive when leaders stay centered, people carry the culture, and adaptation becomes a way of life. Her Living School philosophy reminds us that passion, trust, and creativity are not extras, but the real infrastructure of any thriving system.

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Diana Moraru: Making Moldova Matter in India
Policy Shapers

Diana Moraru: Making Moldova Matter in India

Diana Moraru built a bridge no one else saw, transforming Moldova from a forgotten footnote into a trusted partner in India through patience, precision, and persistent credibility. Her leadership rejects spectacle, instead shaping systems that endure, relationships that matter, and narratives that outlast the individual. IndoMold Connect stands as proof that quiet, deliberate diplomacy can redraw maps not with noise, but with trust woven one conversation at a time.

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Dr. Neeta Bali: The Educator Who Measures Success in Lives, Not Grades
Education Leadership

Dr. Neeta Bali: The Educator Who Measures Success in Lives, Not Grades

Dr. Neeta Bali is a four-decade education leader who transforms schools by listening first, aligning people before policy, and leading with empathy rather than authority. She champions resilience, life skills, and emotional well-being over marks, believing the true impact of education is measured in lives shaped, not grades earned. Her philosophy is simple but profound: protect the child, empower the teacher, and build schools that prepare young people not just for exams but for life.

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