Dr Sushi Singh Story
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Dr. Sushi Singh has had a 22-year career in education and now focuses on corporate social responsibility advocacy. She holds a Ph.D. in environmental science and has worked to empower underprivileged women and rural communities through education initiatives. These have included establishing schools in remote areas and creating programs to promote literacy, health awareness, and vocational skills training to help women become self-sufficient entrepreneurs. Her goal is to continue using education and social work to make a positive impact.
Dr Sushi Singh Story
- 1. “Helping Underprivileged Women Write Their Success Stories”, Well That’s My Story Dr Sushi Singh
- 3. Education to CSR Advocacy My Journey in Brief • With an experience spanning over 22 years in education sector, I am now committed to CSR advocacy. • A Ph. D. holder in Environment Science, associate fellow in H.E. from Lancaster University • An added experience of Harvard Executive Education in CSR brings expertise to my role as CEO, Educomp Foundation and to BRICS CCI as Governing Body Member and Convener, Centre for CSR.
- 5. • An interesting journey of life -Full of challenges, -Some moments of despair and -Occasions of celebrations • Started my career by teaching school children and then moved on to teaching management students Education is Light
- 6. Proud to be pioneer of international exchange program at GDGWI | Lancaster University, UK
- 7. Empowering rural women has been the most gratifying experience
- 8. • Urge to give back to society • Hit upon an idea of ISR (Individual Social Responsibility) and need for developing it in students • I always believed, preached and practiced that an individual needs to be socially responsible first before she / he talks of CSR Education is Light
- 10. Experience Nepal and UK
- 11. Addressing freshers’ in process of churning out true empathetic corporate leaders
- 12. • Life exposed me to the real India while I was working as an educator trying to instill social responsibility amongst students. • Then one thing happened after another and soon I had made a switchover from educator to social worker. • Education still continues to be my passion and remains at the core while I am doing social work or practicing CSR. The Twist
- 13. Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble
- 14. • Starting from primary school teaching in an undeveloped area of Arunachal • Starting of a new English medium school from scratch in Bangladesh • Coming back to India and putting a cheating proof examination system Challenges, Trials and Tribulations
- 15. • Working in Khonsa, a place at Burma boarder with no basic amenities for establishing a police pre primary school in 1994 was a life time experience. • Felt responsible to share my knowledge & experience in Itanagar to provide computer and high school sciences to a school which did not have a facility. Education, health and hygiene were primary issues. • Gratified to motivate students from Environmental Protection Society to keep the city clean and green promoted the campaign of “Stop plastic” to prevent the city from suffocating. My experience of North East
- 16. Some Aha moments
- 17. • When you push people to come out of their comfort zones there is a natural resistance to change, which I have faced often. • Also passionate people are often looked at by some colleagues with suspicion as if they have a hidden agenda. • My passion for holistic education had often put me in such situations Challenges, Trials and Tribulations
- 18. Joy of Giving
- 19. • Today as CEO of a foundation of India’s largest education solution providing company, -I engage with students & community on one side -and in conceptualizing, designing and implementation of social projects on other. The Journey Continues
- 20. Advocating CSR at India International Center, Delhi
- 21. I have successfully created adolescent village girls’ brigade in village Jaitpur to help sensitize women and children regarding • breast cancer, • self defense and • capacity building. The Journey Continues
- 22. Caring for Breast Cancer: with empowered women of Jaitpur village
- 23. A Critical Destination To create women entrepreneurs and self help groups, we follow the steps below • Education • Skill building / vocational training • Financial support Sharing the dream of empowering women in semi-urban areas
- 24. Major awards and felicitations received include Appreciation letter by Vice Chancellor of Lancaster University & British Parliament Member. Trophy of Best blood donor organizer 2013 by Indian Red Cross Society. Awards & Felicitations
- 25. Major awards and felicitations received include National Pride Award (Dr. S. Radhakrishnan National Memorial Teachers & Media Award) 2013 Women achiever award by Nari Udghosh Magazine for selfless contribution in field of education with a focus on women and children Awards & Felicitations
- 26. Humbled to be acknowledged
- 27. Bringing young rural talented women to the platform of acknowledgement
- 28. Savvy Honours & Zee News Big Business Ideas Humbled to be called Community Queen by Honored to be called ‘ Community Queen” by Savvy
- 29. Launch of the Centre for CSR, BRICS Chambers with a mega event of first edition of National CSR roundtable conference -in collaboration with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs -which attracted participation of genuine CSR practitioners as well as media publicity. Talk by David Wilcox, alumni of Harvard Business School at NDIM Campus, New Delhi on “CSR in India & Global Perspectives Latest Initiatives
- 30. The greatest value of having good people around you is not what you get form them, but the better person you become by being with them
- 31. Life is a continuous learning process: Learning from National & International speakers
- 32. • Family has always been a priority as I strongly believe that mother is the first teacher. • A desire to be together creates opportunities to come together. • My family has been supportive of my demanding schedules. • We have found creative ways to spend quality time together. Work Life Balance – A Daily Challenge
- 33. My family, My strength
- 34. My future plan is to contribute in my areas of passion which include education, social work and sports. I keep thinking of ways in which I can club them together and create holistic education models for example. Future Story
- 36. MY JOURNEY HAS JUST BEGUN
- 37. THANK Y U © Convener, Centre of Excellence in CSR, BRICS CCI 2015 Thanks for being there with me throughout the journey! Dr. Sushi Singh