Women Who Build: Sneha Biswas, Founder of Early Steps Academy on Importance of Confidence and Real-world Skills, Building Education Products for Kids, Building your Legacy, Thinking Long-term.
Description
If schools, a disproportionate amount of focus is put into cognitive skills. A high achiever is defined as the person scoring the “highest” in Math and Science. But as we grow up, we realize that the most successful people possess strong non-cognitive skills like confidence and collaboration and are able to connect the dots amongst several disciplines. But make no mistake, building these skills takes time!
Through Early Steps Academy, Sneha Biswas wants kids aged 8-18 years to build exactly these skills. Early Steps Academy conducts small-group online live sessions on real-world topics such as entrepreneurship, climate change. These sessions are structured in a way that they impart 4 critical skills - Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Creativity. ESA has raised money from the likes of Whiteboard Capital and BEENEXT.
Sneha is one of the most passionate education entrepreneurs I have spoken to. And why not? Education has played the biggest role in her career. Sneha hails from Jamshedpur and has always been a great student - she pursued her engineering at IIT Kharagpur and general management at HBS. She has worked across 4 continents, running small and large teams, and (massive) P&Ls at Schlumberger, and has consulted at Bain. But despite her full-time roles, she was always in classrooms, teaching students of various age groups and backgrounds!
So glad to finally share Sneha’s story with the world.
In this podcast of Women who Build, we will learn -
- How to build products for kids?
- How to think about gamification?
- Why and when an R&D team is important for an edtech company?
- Customers becoming team members.
- Recruiting Growth and Strategy team - skills to look for and the process.
- Measuring customer love.
- Thinking about your careers as building a legacy - what will be yours? How to identify?
- Sneha’s decision-making process + how to manage stakeholder expectations while making decisions?
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