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Adhyayan is an education movement of Indian and international educationists, dedicated to improving the quality of leadership and learning in schools. They work alongside school leaders embedding internationally accepted approaches and practices contextualised for India. Kavita is Founder Director of both, Adhyayan Quality Education Services and Adhyayan Foundation.

India Development Review (IDR) is India’s first independent media platform for the development community that publishes fact-based cutting-edge ideas, lessons, and insights in mainstream media. Smarinita Shetty is co-founder and CEO of IDR and has been leading IDR for more than 5 years. Smarinita shares her experience of transitioning between a variety of different work environments, how gender impacted her work and how she managed to maintain a work-life balance, while building an institution with a purpose.

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In conversation with Ramesh Srinivasan of McKinsey & Company and former Fortune editor Brian Dumaine, Swati Apte explores how lessons...

Leadership presence can seem like an elusive concept, hard to measure. But the impact is real. At TAQ we define...

What comes first – the trailblazer or the trail?  Tanvie Hans grew up in India at a time when female...

What can a footballer teach us about leadership? More than we expect. In a recent conversation with Tanvie Hans on...

As work becomes increasingly project-based and expertise more portable, independent consulting is becoming less of an alternative career path and...

Everybody has been talking about VUCA and BANI and how rapid change is such a large part of business today....

Energy is not separate from leadership. It is the source of it. You cannot lead from a constantly depleted body...

Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. While I was introduced to...

People communicate, process information, and engage in discussions differently. And the more diverse the group, the more challenging it can...

Are we aligned? Alignment is not an abstract idea. Strong teams show alignment across four kinds of behavior. Respond to...

We often approach high-stakes conversations in a state of stress. There is a quiet build-up, a bit of tension, anticipation,...

What struck us about Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is that she doesn’t seem to ‘see’ constraints. In the male dominated world...