In this episode, Khushboo Awasthi reflects on her leadership journey, the discomfort that led her to start ShikshaLokam and Mantra4Change, and her evolving relationship with scale. She unpacks the mindset shifts that shaped her as a leader and System Orchestrator while sharing candid insights on champions, conflict, and Goa!About the speaker:Khushboo Awasthi is the co-founder and COO of ShikshaLokam. She is also the co-founder and director of Mantra4Change, an organisation that works with national and state government institutions to co-design large-scale, sustainable school improvement programs. She is a member of the National Mission for Mentoring's working committee, where she explores agency, systems thinking, and the role of technology in social movements. Khushboo is a recipient of the Women Transforming India Award by NITI Aayog, a Schwab Social Innovator, and an Ashoka Fellow.About ShikshaLokam:Founded in 2017, ShikshaLokam is an Education Leadership Catalyst under the aegis of Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiative. It is a manifestation of Societal Platform thinking, a systemic method to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably. As a catalyst for education leadership, ShikshaLokam co-creates different solutions with Government Functionaries, Civil Society Organisations and Academic Bodies to address the Education Leadership challenges.Keeping the Societal Platform construct, ShikshaLokam works towards distributing the ability to solve the gaps that exist in the education leadership development space and improving the agency of actors in the ecosystem to drive large-scale educational change programs.Additional reads:

• Read more about Societal Thinking: https://societalthinking.org/
• ShikshaGraha: https://shikshagraha.org/
• Leading is like living in Goa: https://shikshalokam.org/leading-is-like-living-in-goa/
• Micro-improvements: https://shikshalokam.org/micro-improvements-mega-impact-part-1-change-is-natural-when-garbed-as-micro-improvements/
• Building beyond: https://societalthinking.org/blog/dont-build-again-build-beyond/
• Scale and mindset shifts: https://societalthinking.org/blog/scale-is-a-journey-of-mindset-shifts-khushboo-awasthi-reflects/
• Micro-improvements in ECCE: https://societalthinking.org/blog/micro-improvements-in-early-education-for-exponential-change/

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