LEAD SCHOOLS LEADER
EducationWorld|November 2019
Sumeet mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD School, a comprehensive K-10 school academic system designed by researchers of Leadership Boulevard Pvt. Ltd, a “double impact bottom line” — social impact and for-profit — Mumbai-based company.
LEAD SCHOOLS LEADER

It provides whole-school academic solutions including textbooks, curriculum-mapped ready-to-use lesson plans, on-demand teacher development and student assessment services to affordable private schools in 300 tier II-IV cities and towns countrywide. Currently, the LEAD School system is being implemented in the company’s four owned and 500 partner schools with an aggregate enrolment of 200,000 students.

Newspeg. LEAD School celebrated its seventh anniversary on October 19 and crossed the milestone of signing up 500 schools as partners.

History. An alumnus of the Punjab Engineering College and IIMAhmedabad, Mehta was campus recruited by the US-based consumer products multinational Procter & Gamble with whom he served in Mumbai and Singapore until 2007. In that year, he switched tracks and was appointed CEO of Zee Learn Pvt. Ltd. After a five-year stint (20072012) with the company, Mehta became aware of the “yawning chasm” — in terms of quality English-medium K-12 education — that separated the country’s Top 3,000 schools and the remainder, particularly in tier II-IV cities and towns of India.

“Both my parents were teachers in the small town of Pathankot on the Indo-Pak border. Therefore, I was interested in education from my formative years. During my years in Zee Learn, I became acutely aware that tens of millions of children in small town India were being unwarrantedly deprived of the benefit of affordable, good quality English medium K-12 education and denied the opportunity to realize their full potential. Therefore, together with my co-founder Smita Deorah — also a former senior P&G manager who was running an education not-forprofit — we conceptualized and designed our LEAD School academic excellence system which we believed would sharply improve teaching-learning outcomes in small town India,” recalls Mehta.

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