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.

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.

4. Some beautiful moments

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