Connect with Isha

Consulting, workshops and speaking for better schools.

Isha works as an education consultant, workshop facilitator and speaker with educational institutions, school networks, foundations, research teams and conveners in India and internationally.

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Portrait of Isha Kakkad Lakhani

Ways to engage

Begin with the question your institution is actually facing.

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Educational institution consulting

Thought partnership for schools and education organisations working on learning design, student experience, programmes, culture and whole-school change.

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Understanding education in India

Grounded context for international organisations, foundations, researchers and education teams seeking to understand India’s school system beyond policy summaries.

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Teacher development workshops

Participatory learning for educators on facilitation, learner agency, classroom relationships, relevance, well-being and the conditions that make good teaching possible.

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School management alignment

Facilitated workshops that help promoters, management teams and school leaders clarify intent, surface misalignment and connect vision with everyday structures.

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Learner-centred school models

Insight across mainstream schooling and approaches often labelled alternative, including familiarity with Waldorf and other child-centred models, without treating them as marginal to education.

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Speaking and public conversations

Keynotes, talks, panels and moderated conversations for conferences, festivals, leadership gatherings and communities that want a substantive education voice.

India, in context

For teams that need more than a map of the system.

Isha’s work connects policy and system-level strategy with what learners, teachers and school leaders experience on the ground. That makes her a useful partner for people in India and abroad who need to understand how education in India is organised, lived and changing.

The starting point may be a research question, a new programme, a school model, a leadership challenge or an international team entering the Indian education landscape.

Isha Kakkad Lakhani speaking from a teak podium

Speaking themes

A clear voice on education, grounded in the life of schools.

  • The Indian education system: policy, practice and lived experience
  • What learner-centred education asks of the whole school
  • Teacher conditions, agency and professional growth
  • School culture, belonging and the hidden curriculum
  • Childhood, technology and the future of learning
  • Moving from isolated innovation to whole-school alignment
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For schools, organisations and conveners

Bring a real education question.

Share the context, the people in the room and what you hope the engagement can make possible.