Akanksha Thakore Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Ripple Effect (RE Community) works with foundations on Strategy, Program Design, Content Design, and Training on new and existing initiatives. Our work with schools is with teachers on personal and professional growth programs, and with adolescents on essential Life Skills. The teacher workshops are focused on on-going, in-service learning that has a.

Using applied psychology and evidence-based practices from the field of positive and preventive mental health to inform strategy, program design, impact assessment, content, and training across programs that serve mental wellbeing and social-emotional learning needs of disadvantaged children and youth at NalandaWay Foundation. My role is to deepen the.

NI is the training and consulting arm of NalandaWay Foundation, offering capacity-building, tools and resources, and strategic partnerships. We’re looking to bridge gaps in the sector in - - The understanding of mental health and implementation of mental wellbeing programs - Using and assessing art and play-based programs in formal and informal learning.

Designing and delivering volunteer training programs based on the Developmental Relationships framework to help create a transformational relationship between the volunteers and children in institutional care.

Helping expand impact through exploring and developing strategic partnernships with larger organizations serving disadvantaged children and youth.

Responsible for strategy, program design, impact assessment framework, content, and training on two new programs - one serving vulnerable adolescent girls and another being a school-wide positive mental health intervention for primary school children in government schools in Chennai

Chennai Area, India

Delivering arts-based behavioural skills programs across corporate organizations. Worked so far with clients such as Walmart Labs, Ashok Leyland, Sun Pharma, and TVS Logistics.

India

Designed and delivered a professional development program for 300 municipal school (BMC) teachers from G-South Ward in Mumbai in its foundation year. Led an immersive two-day workshop for coaches who provide on-going, year-long support to the teachers. Conducted the Training of Trainers in its subsequent two years of expansion to different locations across.

India

On-board as an expert on Design-Thinking for Innovation Excellence and Personal Growth programs. Designing and delivering high-impact interventions for individuals and organizations.

Mumbai Area, India

Designed and facilitated a two-year Personal Growth Lab program for 300 students of Grade 11-12 (Class of 2018) through weekly classroom sessions based on the Life Skills for adolescents mandated by the CBSE. Held regular counselling sessions with students and parents over the course of the two years, resolving issues of varying severity in addition to.

Mumbai Area, India

Mumbai Area, India

• Blue Ribbon Movement Creates and nurtures leaders who meet social challenges through community building and civic engagement.
• Facilitator for leadership workshops as a part of ‘Avanti Young Women Leadership Program’ by Avanti Foundation; facilitated 13 workshops for over 500 school and college girls across institutions over 2011-12 and.
• Part of the content design team, contributing to strategy and other functions on an on-going basis
• Part of the selection panel of the second South Asian Youth Conference (SAYC) to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan in November 2012, bringing together 120 youth leaders from SAARC countrieso Contributed to organization of.
• Conceived, designed, and executed an 8-month leadership-building program for youth through a hands-on social project
• Responsible for setting up and designing the pilot batch of the program, organizing workshops and training, driving the on-ground project, and handling participant-interface

Mumbai Area, India

Designing and delivering drama programs to schools as an integrated part of the curriculum and to enhance the learning experience for students in the classroom.Presently working at B.D Somani International School with grades 1 - 6 and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Municipal Secondary School (Worli) with grade 6 - 7 (Hindi and Marathi medium)

Mumbai Area, India

• White Light HR is a new age HR advisory collective that works on transforming individuals and organizations by unlocking their potential (the white light).
• Managed a Personal Reflection project for Kaivalya Education Foundation on behalf of White Light
• Responsible for client interface and overall coordination for the entire project, and facilitation of a three-day residential reflective workshop for the Gandhi fellows from the Ahmedabad cohort

Mumbai Area, India

Worked with FSG as an independent consultant on a project for UN Women South Asia Sub Regional Office (SASRO) titled 'Evaluation of UN Women's Gender Responsive Budgeting Program' for the period of the evaluation study.Responsible for launching, planning, and organizing the study; conducting data collection (document reviews and interviews), data analysis.

Worked with RIL on Reliance Foundation, a professional philanthropic organization. Responsibilities included researching for and creating a business plan for a rural secondary education initiative, collating a monthly newsletter for the Reliance Industries Ltd. top management on development news from India and around the world, and supporting the setting.

Post-Graduate Programme In Management (Pgp), Education, Brand Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Talent Management

Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Club, IIMACTS (IIM A Cultural and Theatrical Society), Chaos (Choreography Cell Coordinator).

Master'S Degree, Psychology