Stories Over Spreadsheets

Rahul Gupta has recently founded the Pune Children’s Zone with a vision to reach all children in Pune over the next ten years and help them achieve successful life outcomes. He aspires to do that by ensuring a host of wrap-around services apart from education, for all children, during their ‘womb to work’ trajectory. Rahul believes in education as the biggest equalizer. He believes that if we support our children with a holistic education and empower their families, then positive life outcomes are possible for all. http://www.punechildrenszone.org/

HundrED.org is a not-for-profit organization that discovers inspiring innovations in K12 education. HundrED's goal is to help improve education and inspire a grassroots movement through encouraging pedagogically sound, ambitious innovations to spread across the world. Saku Tuominen founded Broadcasters, one of the most successful Finnish independent tv production companies with Juha Tynkkynen in 1989. They sold the company twice, both times to Sweden but to different buyers, first to MTG and then to Zodiak Entertainment. In 2009-2010 Saku Tuominen was the Chief Creative Officer of Zodiak Entertainment, the world’s 3rd largest tv production company in London. During his 20 years in television he has produced thousands of hours of programmes and created almost 100 tv formats. In 2009 Saku Tuominen founded Idealist Group, a production company of ideas. The mission of the company is to improve the world with bold ideas that are executed well. At the moment he concentrates only on improving K12 education globa

*This interview was recorded at the Teach For All Social Innovator Global Gathering in Kuala Lumpur in July 2018. Sanju is the founder of the education charity RISE, which she set up as a teacher after winning the 2008 Teach First Learmonth School Project Award for the youth social enterprise programme she created. Passionate about helping disadvantaged young people, she oversees RISE's education programmes in the UK and India in volunteer capacity whilst working as a Management Consultant at Accenture where I specialise in Talent & Organisation in Financial Services.  RISE is passionate about raising the aspirations of disadvantaged young people in the UK and rural India. Their innovative model enables students in both countries to meet virtually - a life changing experience that broadens their horizons and inspires them to aim higher. In West Bengal, where 46% of 10- year-olds are at least 3 years behind their expected reading level, RISE runs a literacy programme, Yearn to Learn, for children most at ris

Moonshot edVentures founder Christine DeLeon has a wide range of experiences in leadership development, entrepreneurship, and new school models. She began her career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and later became the Los Angeles lead for The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation’s leadership development portfolio, focusing primarily on school leadership preparation programs. In 2010, she founded the Analyst Fellowship for Education Pioneers, which has grown from 10 to more than 100 fellows annually in fewer than five years. Christine spearheaded efforts for districts (including Denver Public Schools), charter networks, and city-based nonprofits to develop and support innovative new school models in conjunction with Next Generation Learning Challenges and Education Cities. She also led the recruitment of the second cohort of Summit Basecamp schools, growing the program from 19 schools to more than 130 schools. She possesses experience in cultivating entrepreneurs through her time as a