Alex Bell "I am passionate about Education..

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An award-winning leader in creative education and leadership strategy at school, local authority, national and international level. International facilitator and conference speaker.

Episode # 60: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Alex Bell, Director of www.PortlandEducation.co.uk with over 2,000 hours of leadership coaching experience and six years of bespoke vision-to-strategy consultancy for schools in the UK and globally. He was named Hundred’s global ambassador of the year for 2020 and is co-founder of non-profits www.Xtalks.org included in the HundrED global collection 2020 and www.LinkOnlineLearners.org included in the OECD/HundrED Covid-19 solutions spotlight. He is co-founder and curator of www.Our-Chance.com, the world’s first free online film festival about education futures, co-founder of global innovation www.Leadership-Lemonade.com and runs leadership development programmes for schools on and offline throughout the year. Alex shares how he grew up in harmony with nature, daydreaming in the countryside, and still claims to have the childlike simplicity in him! He feels that like Picasso was very clear, we need to unlearn and keep it simple, a futurist must do that. There is the need to be simple and clear and he loves the way, Sir David Attenborough in A Life On Our Planet shares the need for harmony with nature and peaceful co-existence, as the first step for saving the world, which is crumbling due to the rampant industrialisation and human consumption. There is the need to reinvent an organic model for learning, if the child does not feel the warmth of relationship, the child will perhaps put the village on fire. Love and Fear are two diametrically opposite ends, and we must all work to build relationships, this alone is the meaning of education.

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Leadership - Prakash Dangi

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Leadership refers to the quality of leading people. Probably, it is one of the most important aspects of life. Above all, Leadership has led to the progress of human civilization. Without good Leadership, no organization or group can succeed. Furthermore, not everyone has this quality. This is because effective Leadership requires certain important characteristics.

Confidence is the most quality. A leader must have strong self-confidence. A person lacking in confidence can never be a good leader. A person must be confident enough to ensure others follow him. The leader must have confidence in his decisions and actions. If he is unsure, then how can people have the desire to follow him.

Honesty is another notable quality of a leader. Honesty and Integrity are important to earn the love of followers. Above all, honesty is essential to win the trust of the people. Probably, every Leadership which loses trust is bound to fail. 

Mahatma Gandhi was an excellent example of a good leader. He was a staunch believer in non-violence. With his brilliant Leadership skills, he made the British leave India.

A good leader must be an excellent innovator. He must display a creative attitude in his work. Most noteworthy, innovation is a guarantee of survival of a group or innovation. Without creative thinking, progress is not possible. To conclude, Leadership is required in probably every sphere of life. Good leadership is the door to success.

Prakash Dangi

The Fabindia School

pda@fabindiaschools.in

Meet Saku Tuominen "Iam passionate about Education...

Episode #29: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Saku Tuominen an idealist, entrepreneur, innovator, creative director, executive producer, restaurateur, author, keynote speaker, an olive oil producer and right-wing (in ice hockey). He is of the firm belief that for all the challenges for Education, the solutions exist and we must find them. As founder HundrED he helps schools change by seeking and sharing scalable innovations in K12 Education. The ambitious goal is to be the world leader in this field. Saku is sure that step-by-step the change will happen, every child is different, so is every teacher, every school, every community and every country. The problems we face in the world must be solved, globalisation and partnering with stakeholders across the world is a necessity. He hopes to have every child's dream of quality education come to life.

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More about Saku
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 mainly on improving K12 Education globally through his education company HundrED. In addition to this, he is a co-founder and creative director of Financier Group, a quality-driven restaurant group based in Helsinki.

He has been teaching creativity and innovation in more than a hundred companies around the world, and in Aalto University in Helsinki. He has also written 12 books; about innovation, the future of office work, good life, human belief systems, everyday creativity, decision making and Italian cuisine.

At the moment he is also a board member of Nordic Hospitality Partners, one of the leading restaurant groups in Northern Europe.

As a hobby, he has written music criticism for over 20 years, cooks daily, produces olive oil from Piantone olives in Le Marche, Italy and has won a silver medal in old-timers world championship in Ice Hockey in 2009 in Quebec City, Canada.

He shares his time between Helsinki, Finland and Paterno, Italy, with Sara (an author), Siiri, (a daughter) and Hilma (a golden retriever).

Information from the website http://sakutuominen.com/