Bipasha is a Design Thinking Consultant, an internationally Certified Facilitator in LEGO® Serious Play® Methods and Materials, Certified UX Designer from IDF and a Practitioner of NLP. She is a visiting faculty for ‘Innovation & Design Thinking’ courses & MDPs at SPJIMR Mumbai; IIM Kozhikode; IIFM, Bhopal; Calcutta Business School, Kolkata; Indo German Training Centre, Mumbai; Flame University, Pune; Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai; etc.

Course - Design Thinking

Ashraf is  one of the co-founders of Pravah, and ComMutiny the Youth Collective, both organizations working deeply in the field of promoting ‘inside – out’ youth leadership using the 5th Space framework. With Pravah and over 100 members in the collective she has been part of  shaping the youth work field in the country developing world class designs and high impact interventions with young people and youth focused organizations including promoting young women social entrepreneurs. She is currently part of bringing together a cross sectoral formulation called the vartaLeap Coalition in India which is working towards the mission'Every youth a Jagrik, Every space nurturing Jagriks’.
Ashraf is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Jubilant Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Award of the Year (SEOY, 2020). She was also awarded distinguished Alumni XLRI, 2015.
A graduate in Physics from Delhi University and a postgraduate in PM&IR from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Ashraf began her professional life in the field of Human Resource Development in the corporate sector.

Engages at 2 levels:
1. Course - Strategic People Management
2. Workshop - Networks, Alliances and Partnerships

Aruna comes with more than 2 decades of deep engagement in domains of Natural Resource Governance, Institution Building, Organisation Studies and Sustainable Livelihoods. She started her career with IIM-Ahmedabad and the HoneyBee network, leading an international applied research project to foster innovation and knowledge exchange amongst communities and modern science institutions. She moved on to lead and manage multiple initiatives with national and international agencies. She has received the Young Analyst Award from EU and DPG, the prestigious M. K. Tata Prize, the NTPC gold medal for her research at TISS (Mumbai) and the Felix Scholarship Trust award for her PhD at SOAS.
Aruna currently works as a consultant, developing research and intervention strategies that embed systems thinking and equity in non-profit initiatives. She also teaches post-graduate courses on Environment and Development, Systems Design and Research Methods. Until recently, Aruna served as the Director for Research at the Indian School of Development Management.

Course - Research Methods

Kenwyn Smith is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Pennsylvania.

Workshop - Group Dynamics

Course - Introduction to Finance

He is currently a visiting faculty member for Economics and public policy at Ashoka University, Indian School of Business, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
He is an advisor to the United Nations and other agencies and has served as a member of India’s National Advisory Council as well as other national and international academic, research, and civil society organisations.

Guest Speaker for sessions on development mainly. The Context of Development (Social and Economic) in India.