Notable Speeches

It was a pleasure to give a speech in the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Congress 2025 at The American University in Cairo (Egypt).The presentation covered the Satara Pattern of Technology integrated Entrepreneurship Education (EE) with the various pilot experiments and innovations that I did with my team in teaching novelty, creativity, its measurable impact, student transformation, and Global replicability of the invented models of EE over the past three decades. The talk also covered the details of experiential learning using Google tools and Gemini to empower rural youth nano-entrepreneurs of the marginal community. Dr. Wade Halvorson (Australia), Dr. Nabil Shalaby (Egypt), Prof. Mario Carrassi (Italy), Dr. Ashraf Sheta, Dr. Ayman EI Tarabishy, Ahmed Osman, Dr. Ki-Chan Kim, Dr. Winslow Sargeant (USA), Dr. Baldegger Rico (Switzerland), Skye Blanks (USA).  Many thanks to the team of ICSB and AUC! 

Gave a talk and led a three-hour workshop on "Leadership and e-Governance" yesterday. To make it more engaging Jotform, Mentimeter, and other tools were used. Approximately forty faculty members from different schools and universities attended the session and further engaged in productive conversations. Wonderful experience to share! Thanks to Dr. Sachin Surve and team of SP Pune University, MMTT Center (UGC-HRDC).

It was a pleasure to interact virtually with 60 faculties of the University affiliated colleges as a resource person on "Skills Development and Entrepreneurship": NEP-2020 Orientation, Sensitization & implementation organized by UGC-MMTTC of SP Pune University. Thanks to Dr. Vaibhav Jadhav and team!

It was a joy to present GCED activities of 2024 in the "Asia Pacific Regional Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Network Annual Meeting". Thank you team UNESCO, Bangkok! 

It was a pleasure to speak at the Google Head Office, Gurugram in Google for Education Champions Energizer 2024 on "Career Mapping Using Google Tools: A practice-based scientific activity that was held for Maharashtra's rural youths in the regional Marathi language for “Career Planning” over the period of three decades. Thank you, Ms. Sonia, Ms. Rohini, Ms. Hema and team Google India & LLF

Recently, I shared experiences ​of working with numerous National and International funding ​​organizations as an Advisor and Reviewer for research proposal evaluations. Giving inputs with years of experience on my study for current and forthcoming trends was a pleasure. Around 30 HEI faculties took part in these interactions & exchanges. Thanks to SP Pune University's PMMMTT Centre (UGC-HRDC).

It was a pleasure to present the activity report on "Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Awareness" in the rural community of Maharashtra (India) and reach out for the distribution of digital and print materials on GCED in the regional Marathi language. Happy to know and understand the "ACER-APCEIU Global Citizenship Education Monitoring Toolkit" from Rachel Parker: one of the authors of the toolkit and activities from other country members. Thanks for the extended support of Ling Tan Faryal Khan @Asia-Pacific Regional GCED Network UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) Namjilmaa. G & others.

Yesterday, I conducted a virtual session on skills development as part of the NEP-2020 Orientation and Sensitization program, organized by the UGC-MMTT Centre of SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, and SNDT Arts and Commerce College, Pune. Around thirty teaching faculty members attended the session. Thanks to Prof. Jayashree Shinde Ph.D. and the team of SNDT Women's University!

Today, I presented experimental and field research of practice over three decades, entitled “A Study on Competencies of Career Advisors from Counselling Practices,” authored by me and Dr. Giri Y.L., in an Online conference organized by the Career Lead Network of "European Scientific Network on Career Guidance." Around 60 vocational experts and Career Counselors across the Globe attended the conference. Thanks to Rudolf Schröder, Anna Wawrzonek, and Małgorzata Rosalska, Chair of the Session on "Competencies and Roles of Career Counsellors." It's also a pleasure to contribute to Working Groups on Digitization, Sustainability, and the Heterogeneity aspects of Career Guidance

Yesterday, I spoke on "Empathy to Testing of Innovation: Solving Problems that Matter" with Design Thinking integrated two case studies practiced on the field with Entrepreneurship Educators and IT Edu-Products. A great experience to connect with Senior Academicians and Principals. 

Thanks to Bhanu Goel and Ashok Goel 🙏

Yesterday, I have delivered an interactive session on “Empowering Futures: Lessons from India’s Journey in Career Guidance and Skills Development.” Around 25 career counselling experts from Nigeria and European countries actively participated. I presented the evolution and innovative experiments of Career Guidance held in India over the last 50 years, which I witnessed along with skill mapping for the future.

I thank the “Network of Nigerian Career Development Practitioners & Researchers and European Scientific Network on Career Guidance” for organising this webinar and inviting me to present India’s scenario of Career Guidance.

A great start for Career Guidance collaboration with @Institute for Economic Education, Oldenburg, Germany Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

@PACE Career Centre University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW Covenant University Osun State University Lagos State University Baze University @Pace Career Centre @University of Delta Sanjay Ghodawat University VidyaDeep Foundation 

Thanks to the moderator of the session, Adedayo Odukoya, Ph.D, and the team Rudolf Schröder, Christof Nägele, Olawale OLATUNDE (RCDP), and @Prof. Jide Adekeye @Prof. Ben Agoha @Dr Moromoke Raji for Global Dialogue through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).