Priya Lakhani OBE⁠ is the Founder CEO of ⁠CENTURY Tech⁠, the award-winning artificial intelligence education technology company. CENTURY is the global leader in AI-powered learning tools for schools and families, working in dozens of countries across the world.

In 2008, Priya left her career as a barrister to launch a successful cooking-sauce business, which through its charitable foundation provided millions of meals and thousands of vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa, and funded several schools.

Chris Menagé⁠ is an interdisciplinary educational leader, consultant, public speaker and the driving force behind ⁠e²⁠.

Chris has over 20 years’ international experience across private enterprise, government administration and education sectors. For the past 15 years, Chris has successfully applied his critical and systems thinking to educational contexts both in Australia & abroad.

Will Richardson⁠ has an international reputation as someone who effectively challenges traditional thinking about schools. A former classroom teacher of 22 years, Will is an author, as well as a blogger, podcaster, leadership coach, and serial entrepreneur. Last year, he co-founded ⁠The BIG Questions Institute⁠ with ⁠Homa Tavangar⁠, which was created to help educators use "fearless inquiry" to make sense of this complex moment and an uncertain future.

Will has spent the last 15 years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks, education, and systemic change.

Will Richardson⁠ has an international reputation as someone who effectively challenges traditional thinking about schools. A former classroom teacher of 22 years, Will is the author of six books, most recently "Freedom to Learn," as well as a blogger, podcaster, leadership coach, and serial entrepreneur. Last year, he co-founded ⁠The BIG Questions Institute⁠ (bigquestions.institute) with ⁠Homa Tavangar⁠. [RE]LEARN Session: ⁠We're Not Disrupted Enough Yet: Why Real Change in Schools Will Take More Than a Pandemic⁠, Monday, November 9 • 20:15 - 20:45 (CEST)

Yong Zhao⁠ is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a professor in Educational Leadership at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. [RE]LEARN Session: ⁠In conversation with Yong Zhao: learning beyond 2020⁠, Thursday, November 12 • 20:15 - 20:45

Bena Kallick⁠ is the co-founder and co-director of the ⁠Institute for Habits of Mind⁠ with ⁠Art Costa⁠ and program director for ⁠Eduplanet21⁠, a company dedicated to online professional learning and curriculum development based on the ⁠Understanding by Design®⁠ framework. She is a consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and public agencies throughout the United States and abroad.

Bena received her doctorate in educational evaluation from Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical thinking, and alternative assessment strategies in the classroom.

Kevin Bartlett⁠ has held leadership positions in the UK, Tanzania, Namibia, Austria and Belgium, where he was the Director of the ⁠International School of Brussels⁠ from 2001-2015. Kevin currently leads the Learning Design Team at ⁠Escuela Internacional Sampedrana⁠ in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he is based.

Kevin is Founding Director of the ⁠Common Ground Collaborative (CGC)⁠, which he established with ⁠Gordon Eldridge⁠ in 2014. CGC is a nonprofit, global community of sense-makers, innovators, educators and partners who share a common goal to co-create a compelling alternative to traditional ‘curriculum’ designs: a coherent Learning Ecosystem that connects learning, leading, teaching and assessing into one simple, systemic approach. 

LearnLife's [RE]LEARN festival is coming up on November 9th - you can find out more and register here: https://relearnfestival.com/

⁠Christopher Pommerening⁠ is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of ⁠Learnlife⁠. Christopher is an entrepreneur and learning visionary on a journey in which he has evolved from an ⁠internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist⁠, into a high impact entrepreneur on a mission to change education positively worldwide. Christopher has engaged a global team of more than 100 learning experts and thought leaders to build an open ecosystem for a new lifelong learning paradigm. His impact goal is to empower 100 million learners to experience the new paradigm for learning that is suited to the rapid and evolving changes in our world and societies by 2030.LearnLife's [RE]LEARN festival is coming up on November 9th - you can find out more and register here: https://relearnfestival.com/

⁠Christopher Pommerening⁠ is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of ⁠Learnlife⁠. Christopher is an entrepreneur and learning visionary on a journey in which he has evolved from an ⁠internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist⁠, into a high impact entrepreneur on a mission to change education positively worldwide. Christopher has engaged a global team of more than 100 learning experts and thought leaders to build an open ecosystem for a new lifelong learning paradigm. His impact goal is to empower 100 million learners to experience the new paradigm for learning that is suited to the rapid and evolving changes in our world and societies by 2030.

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs⁠ is an ⁠author⁠ and internationally recognized education leader known for her work in phenomena-based learning, learning structure design, ⁠curriculum mapping⁠ and integration and developing 21st century approaches to teaching and learning.

Heidi is the Founder and President of ⁠Curriculum21⁠, Curriculum Designers, Inc. and Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute. She works as an education consultant with schools and districts K–12 on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum reform, instructional strategies and strategic planning.

Peter Mott served as NEASC Director of the Commission on International Education at ⁠New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)⁠ from 2012 to 2017. During his time at NEASC, Peter challenged international schools with the notion of Transformative Accreditation through the development of the ⁠ACE Learning⁠ accreditation protocol.

Anne Fischer⁠ is a learning leader and innovator turned UX Designer. With two decades of experience in designing and leading for change and adaptability in schools in Germany, France, Switzerland, Dubai and US. Anne is an expert in Design Thinking and Agile methodologies. She is the Assistant Principal and Curriculum Coordinator at ⁠Phorms Campus Berlin Süd⁠.

Anne is also the co-founder of WomenEdDE with ⁠Angeline Aow⁠.

Anne earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and a Master in Science from the London School of Economics.

Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, ⁠Ewan McIntosh⁠ is the passionate and energising tour de force behind ⁠NoTosh⁠. 

As the name suggests, NoTosh is a jargon-free but game-changing ⁠strategic consultancy⁠ with a passion for learning and a conviction that innovation and creativity can change the way people think, the way they learn and the way they work

A highly regarded ⁠keynote⁠ speaker at events around the world, Ewan is also the author of ⁠How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen⁠ and regularly writes about learning on his ⁠blog⁠ (and previously ⁠here⁠).

Paul Magnuson attributes his progressive views on education to over twenty years of experience working in summer camps. He's done with command and control models that tend to favor conformity and compliance over self-regulation, whether it be for students or teachers. Paul leads educational research at ⁠Leysin American School⁠ and is a frequent blogger for the international school organizations, ⁠The International Educator⁠ and ⁠ECIS⁠. Opportunities for workshops in innovative teaching and learning can be found at ⁠peakchallenges.ch⁠.

In our conversation, Paul draws on inspiration from ⁠eduScrum⁠, ⁠Agora schools⁠ and we talk about NEASC's ⁠ACE Learning⁠ accreditation protocol.

Greg Curtis is an author and independent education consultant.  He is currently based in Beijing and has spent much of his career working with international schools around the world in all-school capacities. Greg has been a technology director, a curriculum and professional learning director and a strategic planner for schools in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.

Greg has been heavily invested in deep, systems-focused school improvement efforts for his entire career. With over 27 years of experience working from early years through high school programs, he has developed considerable experience in leading curriculum revitalization, 21st century learning, technology infusion, assessment shifts and change initiatives.

Oluwatosin Olowoyeye-Taiwo is an activist and social entrepreneur campaigning for equity and access to education for at-risk children in Nigeria. She founded her organisation ⁠Street to School Initiative⁠ in 2009 to sponsor out-of-school children back to school. Through her educational sponsorship programs and school support scheme, Tosin has been able to support more than 20,000 vulnerable pupils into schools. In 2015, she established a tuition-free school in Alimosho, strictly for out-of-school children in Nigeria.

Charles Cassidy is the Director of the ⁠Evidence-Based Wisdom⁠ project. The site translates academic research regarding the science and psychology of wisdom into understandable and helpful resources for the wider public. Charles studied Physics at the University of Manchester in the UK. Following the development of educational research projects with The British Council across South America and Asia, Charles taught Mathematics and Science in London for 15 years. Since the start of the project, he has conducted interviews with many leaders in the field of wisdom research, compiled and translated many of the key papers from the field and created many public-facing resources, including video animations, info-graphics, articles and podcasts. He has also written about wisdom research for publications including ⁠Psychology Today⁠ and The ⁠Huffington Post⁠, as well as appearing on talk radio across the United States.

Steve Peha is the founder of ⁠Teaching That Makes Sense⁠, an education consultancy specializing in literacy, student engagement, and instructional innovation. He has written extensively on developing young people’s literacy and his book ‘⁠Be a Better Writer⁠’, written with his wife, Margot Carmichael Lester, was an Amazon #1 “Hot New Release” in teen writing. The book also won a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award, a 2016 Best Book Gold Medal Award in Young Adult Nonfiction. It has also received an award nomination from YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, part of the American Library Association.

A versatilist and somewhat of a polymath, Carla started her career in the performing arts, before moving into the digital domain. Becoming captivated by the international education landscape and the role of technology for learning, her focus turned to learning with technologies in diverse contexts.

In this episode, Tim Logan is joined by Ulrike Suwwan (from ⁠Guide and Lead⁠) and ⁠Graham Brown-Martin⁠ to talk about the challenges and opportunities of rebuilding something different and more regenerative in our current situation. How can we lead our teams through a great depression, or enable a great transformation? 

Doreen Kessy⁠ is a Chief Business Officer at ⁠Ubongo⁠. At Ubongo, she is instrumental in the growth of the organization, innovating, and finding ways to continually deliver fun learning to over 17 million families in Africa. She has expertise in business development and leadership in the edtech and fun learning space. Doreen has an MBA and BSc in International Business and Economics from Liberty University and has worked at the International Justice Mission in Washington DC, Wells Fargo and Smile for Africa in Zimbabwe. She was named “Entrepreneur of the Year in Education” by ⁠Women In Africa⁠, is a ⁠Global Shaper⁠ at the World Economic Forum, and a 2018 ⁠Acumen Fellow⁠. Doreen loves to have fun, she acts the English voice of one of Ubongo Kids cartoon characters, Ngedere (a playful monkey).