-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Ranjita Raman is the Mumbai-based CEO of Jaro Education Pvt. Ltd (JE, estb.2009) — a constituent of the Jaro Group of companies. JE is an edtech company that provides world-class executive education, certificate and degree programmes included, to enable junior, middle and senior-level working professionals to upskill and advance their careers.

Since inception, Jaro Education has impacted the careers of over 3 lakh working professionals through its 30 learning centres countrywide. The company has agreements with over 20 academic partners including IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Trichy, University of Toronto/Rotman Business School, Imperial College Business School, UK, WeSchool among others, and over 1,000 corporate partners including Accenture, American Express, Axis Bank, Tech Mahindra and Infosys.

Newspeg. Last October, Jaro Education launched a series of innovative joint programmes including its Future Leader programme, a collaboration between leading advisory services firm KPMG in India and Australia’s high-ranked Deakin University.

History. A fashion technologist and business management alumna of NIFT, Mumbai and IIM-Ahmedabad, Raman began her career in 2007 as a talent acquisition associate with NetHR, a Jaro group company. In 2009, she was inducted into Jaro Education’s core management team. “Since then, I have handled various and diverse responsibilities, starting as a team lead, senior manager, general manager, vice president, director, COO and eventually CEO. My journey has been through all stages of the company’s growth from ground level to strategy,” says Raman.

These achievements have been duly recognised. Raman was conferred Business Leader of the Year Award 2021 of the World Leadership Congress, Woman Icon Awards (Leadership) 2020 by Times Applaud and the Devang Mehta Foundation’s Young Achiever Award, 2015 among other encomiums.

Direct talk. “As an essentially executive education company, our goal is to bridge the industry-academia gap by upskilling working professionals and entrepreneurs. Recognised by all corporates, our six-month to two-year programmes offer immersive 360 degree learning experiences through virtual classrooms aka learning centres, in 30 cities countrywide. Highly qualified faculty drawn from our academic partners deliver live lectures from on-campus studios with the support of our robust technology team. These virtual classrooms are interactive and enable peer-to-peer learning and group discussions — a combination which helps to retain student interest. We offer a range of skilling programmes such as postgrad certificate programmes in business analytics and applications, digital strategies and marketing analytics and advanced management programmes of 10-12 months duration at an average fee of Rs.2.5 lakh. We also provide career mentorship support,” says Raman.

Future plans. Raman is encouraged by the positive public response to JE’s executive programmes despite the pandemic and believes the future is bright. “We recently finalised a blueprint to establish global cohorts of learners and plan to expand our current academic portfolio to include executive development programmes of Ivy league universities and institutions,” she says.

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