parminder singh raparia
(founder, disha india centre for learning)
Parminder has led four whole school transformation projects with varying challenges and complexities, including one at The Heritage School, Gurgaon. He believes education must empower children for life through designing learning processes in a real context. Inspired by Gandhian principles of work-centred education, he founded Disha India with a vision to develop schools as centres for learning and empowerment. Through the last decade, he has been working in the areas of 'personal mastery and leadership' and 'learning how to learn'. An engineer from REC, Kurukshetra and an MBA from Symbiosis, Pune, Parminder is also a long distance runner.