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.
January 24, 2026
