Experienced and committed leader committed to improving individual lives and whole communities of practice through focused and innovative collaborations with experts in nonprofits, school and university systems, and industry. Joyeeta is deeply passionate about education and strongly believes in nurturing talent. She is entrepreneurial in her outlook.  A corporate citizenship professional with a unique experience of working with Government and Non -Governmental organizations, multilateral funding agencies and corporates on primarily improving the quality of education in both K-12 and Higher Education. At her current role at IBM, she leads education, skilling initiatives driving high-quality digital citizenship and integration with multiple education stakeholders, to improve 21st-century learning and professional development skills.

Her other interests are reading, yoga, cycling, writing short stories and walking. She is deeply interested in sitting by the ocean, watching the ocean waves rolling in and feeling the rhythm of a gigantic cosmic dance. He loves to play with dogs and treasures to give company to paint with her 12 years old daughter.

In the following conversation with Deepak Nanda from CSRBOX, she talks about Future skills, integrating AI into curriculum and harnessing it to solve complex real-world problems and striking partnerships to enhance an intervention.

1. What according to you would the 21st century skills comprise of?

2. As part of IBM and its varied initiatives, how are you ensuring that the skills are able to reach the students and now more than ever when the classes cannot happen offline?

3. IBM already is a technology leader but how does that expertise transcend into its learning initiatives and enrich the same?

4. Although the online space is filled with free courses and modules for a student to go through, yet the motivation to leave them mid way is high among them given either the content not being engaging enough or the pace of the course not able to align with their schedule. How do you tackle these aspects in your programs?

5. For many of its initiatives IBM already has leveraged multiple government and institutional partnerships but when it comes to skilling, is there a specific model that you are following for partnering to strengthen the initiatives by establishing expertise?

6. Lastly, how do you see the post COVID demand around specific skill sets and how is IBM working towards educating more individuals in them?

Impact-Talk is a series of views and interviews of CSR heads, impact leaders and change-makers, addressing development challenges in India. If you have an impact-maker in your network, please suggest/share details at shilpi@csrbox.org