Advisory Board

Linda, Ed.D., is the first Executive Director of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship in the US, an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and serves on numerous non-profit boards both locally and nationally. As an experienced leader in education, she actively mentors teachers and principals, and consults nationally and internationally on issues of educational reform, leadership and teaching with a commitment to equity, and the critical role of arts and creativity in schools. She also facilitates workshops and conversations about issues of race, equity, and culturally relevant pedagogy for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students across the nation.

In the capacity of an advisor on strategic issues including infrastructure development, talent attraction, curriculum design, teacher capability development, and standard operational procedures, Manit has been actively involved with The Heritage Schools.

He has personally championed and led several change initiatives to transform the school into an experiential learning school. 

With a vision to bring about purposeful curriculum to Indian education scenario, Manit has played an instrumental role in establishing Heritage International Xperiential School with the vision to provide children with deeper and authentic learning. He believes that education should be child-centric that enhances a child’s skills, opens up their minds and, fosters an ethical relationship to work. With an outlook to prepare children for the 21st century world with relevant skill set, Manit aspires for HIXS to change the hearts and minds of people towards the purpose of education.

Dr. Natasha Mehta comes with an experience of 3 decades in the pre-K12 education sector. Her experience ranges across the spectrum of the learning ecosystem, as a science educator, Head of schools, and curriculum and instructional leader. She has authored about 52 books in Science for the national and international Boards with Pearson and Marshall Cavendish Education, Singapore.

Her immediate past experience was as the Head of Academics for India at the Aga Khan Education Service where as a member of the senior leadership team, she provided programmatic and instructional leadership to improve the quality of teaching and learning to raise the profile and performance of the network schools.

She has a Masters in Zoology and PhD in Education Psychology She believes that this is a great time to be in school education, with an abundance of new thoughts, the freedom to innovate and education truly opening its borders.

Prajodh conceptualized and started EuroKids International in 2001 and has been the driving force behind its growth from 2 pre-schools in 2001 to 1200 pre-schools currently.

He enjoys an enviable reputation in the industry, for his pioneering efforts in early childhood education in the country, besides creating a fertile ecosystem for education entrepreneurship.

He is a proud recipient of the ‘Special Recognition for Contribution to Franchising’ by Indian Franchise Association, Education Leadership Award 2016.

He has also been named as one of the ‘50 Leaders changing Indian Education’ by a leading Education Magazine.

Spokey has successfully led, transformed and reviewed schools and their networks, working with government, commercial and not for profit organisations, international agencies and universities throught his career spanning UK, Singapore, Germany and India. He co-founded Adhyayan Quality Education Services Pvt. Ltd., an educational leadership movement that is helping to transform the learning and lives of children from the poorest and the most underprivileged families. Spokey has led the strategic planning, development and delivery of a leadership programme designed for over 7800 school principals in government schools across Kerala, Pondicherry, Maharashtra and Rajasthan for the National Centre for School Leadership. He has also provided sustained strategic and operational guidance as the international education consultant for The Open University’s ‘Teacher Education through School-Based Support’ across various states in India. His previous work also includes designing and developing ARK’s ‘School Leaders India’ programme while serving as a teacher training consultant for the World Bank in India. He has a B.Ed Hons and MA from Sussex University. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Tapaswini has been involved with several school reform projects focusing on curriculum planning and implementation, professional development of teachers, assessment and evaluation of children and led the project for developing the “National Education Framework” for Bhutan. Tapaswini has a Doctorate in Educational Psychology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and an M.Phil in Education from Cambridge University.

Vishnu has over 15 years of experience in leadership development, school leadership and school administration. He is responsible for new school initiatives and strategic projects for the group including curriculum development, instructional leadership, continuous school improvement, technology integration and leadership development. In his prior roles, he has been the head of the Senior School, grade IX economics teacher and a trekking instructor. A proponent of experiential learning, he has visited over 50 experiential and deeper learning schools worldwide. Among his other administrative responsibilities, he is keenly interested in building instructional leadership capabilities, cognitive neuroscience, education technology, college readiness and placements, student leadership development, adolescent coaching, authentic assessments and deeper learning curriculum. He has also been a management consultant and worked with organisations like Accenture and Right Management in the areas of leadership development, organisation change management, learning design. He has delivered projects in India, USA, South East Asia and Europe. In 2009, he co-authored (along with Swami Mitrananda) Se(a)king – a travelogue on a 14-day sojourn across the Arabian sea on a cargo ship. He is a practitioner of Yoga and Vedanta and believes that his work is a medium to reach his deeper self. He is also a proud father of a daughter who has Down syndrome. You can read Vishnu’s blog on https://medium.com/@vishnukarthik.

Yogesh has over 30 years of experience in the international, national curricula as well as educational services. She specialises in mentoring schools in designing curriculum, strengthening their standards for IB and CIS evaluation and accreditation design and strategically planning the professional development of their teachers. As the erstwhile Academics Director and Founding Member of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, she was instrumental in establishing and managing its International Baccalaureate^® Diploma Programme and International General Certificate of Secondary Education. She is the founder of Course Leap Education, an organisation that offers unique tailored solutions to schools and students to achieve excellence through the application of strong academic principles and practices. Yogesh has two Masters degrees, one in Education from the University of Bath, UK, with specialisation in Educational Leadership and Management and the other in Mathematics from Delhi University. She also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Physics (Hons.) and Education from Delhi University.