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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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Amrita Burman

A passionate educator who believes that it is only through education that India’s destiny can change, Mrs Amrita Burman, Deputy Director, Sunbeam Group of Educational Institutions has been associated with Sunbeam for well over 22 years now. With a masters in Management degree and a passion for education, Mrs Burman has also undergone a course in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

She has been a pivot around whom the Sunbeam precept has been built and closely monitors the unpacking of the Precept across 24 Sunbeam Schools. She takes an active interest in training teachers on how to deliver the Sunbeam Precept and loves interacting with parents and kids alike to get feedback on how to improve the Sunbeam delivery system.

She has travelled widely both in India and abroad and is in complete sync with happenings in the field of education all around. She presented a paper in ‘India & Career skills in Turkey’. She was also part of an educational delegation to understand school delivery systems of Singapore, Italy, Finland and other countries. She has facilitated several conferences and seminars of repute in India and abroad including taking up sessions during the Sahodaya National Conference and during the Mentor Conclave just to name a few and has also edited a complete English series for Pearson Longman – the world’s largest publisher.

She is also a part of the AFS Think Tank besides being Head of Round Square of Sunbeam School. She was part of the FICCI delegation which visited London in February 2019 to attend Learnit and will be attending the Microsoft World Educators’ Conference E2 in Paris in the first week of April.

She has headed the Sunbeam Schools to varied achievements, being ranked by Education World as No 1. Schools in India on various parameters on various occasions and Sunbeam Schools being recognized as one of the Future Ready Schools of India for two consecutive years just to name a few.

She believes in holistic development in students and is herself an avid reader, a music lover, a keen badminton player and an excellent orator.

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She has been acknowledged and awarded by several organizations but Sunbeam students winning accolades all over is what gives her the most happiness.

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Ammara Habib

Over the past few years, Ammara has worked across various fields, which enabled her to diversify her perspective on life and its dealings. Her experience in the field of education, coupled with her passion for everything branding and marketing, has led her to the inception of Mad About Ed, India’s first Edvertising Agency. While working with over 350+ schools from across India, she has closely witnessed the passion and hard work that educators put in every single day. This has also helped her identify the gaps in marketing and branding in the education sector. She strongly feels that the right tools and research-driven insights can help organisations and educators unlock their potential and optimise their results.

These insights and the professional engagements with educators strengthened her knowledge of the education sector enabling her to engage with an even larger audience. A Master of Science in Applied Psychology, Ammara is also a staunch advocate of the Violence Against Women Movement and has worked with victims of domestic violence.
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