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Raj Bhargava
Educator. Entrepreneur. Mentor.
Raj teaches a graduate level course at Stanford University that is titled: ‘Maximizing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self’. Raj also teaches at the Stanford Continuing Studies a course titled: ‘Your Next Life Chapter: Achieve your potential with joy, meaning and creativity’. He teaches Meaningful Entrepreneurship online for high school students and for underrepresented high school students at Eastside College Preparatory School. He has taught Global Business Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking and Behavioral Science for high school students at Stanford Pre-Collegiate.
Raj is a seasoned high-tech entrepreneur and executive in Silicon Valley. He also spends time mentoring social ventures. In 2015, he was appointed to the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, granting him a one-year fellowship to study design thinking, leadership, and preventive healthcare. He was co-founder and Board Member of Jaspersoft, a leader in business intelligence software, which was acquired by TIBCO. Raj also served as Senior Vice President at Agile Software, which was acquired by Oracle, and as the CEO of TRADE Inc, an information business start-up. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard and held global leadership roles in California and Germany.
Raj enjoys pickleball, racketball and tandem biking.
Education:
Fellow, Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University, Stanford
M.B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, StateCollege
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi
Entrepreneur activities:
Your Next Work Chapter, Waverley Creations Inc., Founder & CEO. Funded by National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research.
Educator activities:
Stanford Continuing Studies for Adults
April 2025: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
September 2024: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
January 2024: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
September 2023: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
January 2023: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
October 2022: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
April 2022: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
August 2021: WELL 11 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
February 2021: WSP 381 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
November 2020: WSP 381 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
January 2020: WSP 381 - Your Next Life Chapter: A Design Thinking and Behavioral Science-Based Approach
Lecturer, Stanford University (for Freshmen to PhD students)
Spring 2021: EDUC 426: Unleashing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self (PSYCH 264)
Fall 2020: EDUC 426: Unleashing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self (PSYCH 264)
Fall 2019: EDUC 426: Unleashing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self (PSYCH 264)
Adult Group Coaching
September 2021 to December 2021: Circles Next Life Chapter - group coaching for an intimate group of WELL 11 graduates to launch their next life chapter
April 2021 to June 2021: Circles Next Life Chapter - group coaching for an intimate group of WSP 381 graduates to launch their next life chapter
January 2021 to May 2021: Circles Next Life Chapter - group coaching for an intimate group of WSP 381 graduates to launch their next life chapter
Public Lectures
July 2022: Unleash Personal Potential, Diversity & Inclusion Program for medical students hosted by Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Department at Stanford School of Medicine
October 2021: Your Next Life Chapter, hosted by Santa Clara Public Library
Middle & High School
Summer 2024: Meaningful Software Innovation Program in collaboration with Codecraft Works for 6th graders.
Summer 2023: Meaningful Software Innovation Program in collaboration with Codecraft Works for 6th grade to 12th graders.
Summer 2022: Meaningful Entrepreneurship Program online summer camp for students from across USA, LATAM, Paraguay, underrepresented high schools
Summer 2021: Meaningful Entrepreneurship online course for Latin America high schoolers
Summer 2021: Meaningful Entrepreneurship Program online summer camp for students from across USA, LATAM, underrepresented high schools
Summer 2020: Meaningful Entrepreneurship Program online summer camp, California
Summer 2019: Global Business Entrepreneurship camp, Medellin, Colombia
Summer 2019: Your Personal Potential workshops, Stanford Pre-Collegiate, Stanford campus
Summer 2019: Entrepreneurship Panel moderator, Stanford Pre-Collegiate, Stanford campus
Winter 2019: Global Business Entrepreneurship camp, Lima, Peru
Summer 2018: Global Business Entrepreneurship workshops, Stanford Pre-Collegiate, Stanford campus
Summer 2018: Entrepreneurship Panel moderator, Stanford Pre-Collegiate, Stanford campus
Summer 2017: Design Thinking camp, Singapore
Summer 2017: Global Business Entrepreneurship workshops, Stanford Pre-Collegiate, Stanford campus
Winter 2017: Global Business Entrepreneurship camp, Bogota, Colombia
High School underrepresented
Summer 2022: Meaningful Entrepreneurship Program online summer camp for students from across USA, LATAM, Paraguay, underrepresented high schools
Summer 2021: Meaningful Entrepreneurship Program online summer camp for underrepresented students from Bay Area California and Brazil, with high school students from across USA and LATAM
Fall 2020: Face of Change course for Sophomores, 8 weeks for credit during school curriculum
Fall 2019: Purpose & Resilience workshop for Residential Staff leadership
Fall 2019: Purpose & Resilience workshop for Alumni attending college
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