Career
She studies emerging trends in K-12 education and its impact on the future of learning. A strong advocate of the ‘innovation ready over career ready" paradigm, she is better known for her "Discover Tomorrow Progressive Principals Workshops". As an education futurist she studies the emerging global trends and the challenges and opportunities they throw up in the context of K-12 education.
She believes that human capacity to dream and to lead enriched and fulfilled lives in the future depends on the choices we make today and that ‘future is not something that happens to us, it is something we create.’ Within this context her quest for a ‘preferred’ future as compared to a ‘possible’ or ‘probable’ future drives her work and commitment to the future of learning.
She advises and consults with country governments, education boards and progressive school leaders. Across India, Middle East and Africa.
Ashish is the chair of the advisory board of the Economic Times Education Initiative – ‘Future of Learning (2014–2016)’. She sits on the board of Ricoh India Limited, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Open Knowledge Community and the North East Development Foundation.
She spearheaded the creation of India’s First National Policy on Information and communications technology in Education as a strategic advisor to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
She also led the development of the ‘Rajasthan Education Initiative’ a multi stake holder education project in partnership with the Government of Rajasthan, World Economic Forum and Confederation of Indian Industry. An expert on multi stake-holder partnerships in education she has several publications to her cartulary-register She is an invited speaker to national and international forums including the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the World Economic Forum (WEF), World Bank and United Nations meets in Asia, Africa and Europe.
She also serves on the jury of several Information and communications technology and Education Awards.
Ashish is a gold medalist with Honors in English Literature and a national scholarship award. She also holds a degree in Education and Human Resource Management.