The sound of feet against stone, moving in unison. The crack of sticks meeting in rhythm. A circle widening, tightening, spinning faster with every beat. Pure exhilaration! When I was…
“Where is your presence of mind?” When I was growing up, my dad would ask me this question whenever I seemed distracted or careless. It wasn’t a gentle question.…
This week, I’ve been in Gothenburg, where thousands of international educators are gathered for the EAIE annual conference. The days here have been filled with conversations about mobility, belonging, and…
Universities in the U.S. are bracing for the headline everyone has been expecting - a significant decline in international student enrollments. But the numbers are only the surface. Behind the…
At our g2 experience last week, a counselor was telling me about what many are seeing this year. Students feed the same prompt into an AI, and out comes the…
Last Friday, I was sitting at Changi Airport in Singapore, ready to fly to Bangalore — a flight I was looking forward to, because it was taking me “home”. Everything…
On August 6, eighty years to the day since Hiroshima, I found myself espousing the values of being radically human in the age of AI to a room full of…
Mujun no naka ni, shinjitsu ga aru. Translation: There is truth in contradiction. Two days ago, I began a keynote at an international education conference in Kyoto with this…
Last week I wrote about humanness in the age of AI - the truth that our adaptability, empathy, and imagination will matter even more as technology accelerates. But if that’s…
At the IACAC conference last week, I co-presented a session on future‑proofing admissions and counseling in the age of AI - and the response was overwhelming. Not because I have…
I spent the past few days at the IACAC annual conference - the yearly pilgrimage for counselors, IECs, and university admissions representatives. There was camaraderie in the hallways, genuine collegiality…
When I look back at the biggest, boldest, most uncertain decisions I’ve made - leaving India to study in the U.S., starting a couple of companies from scratch, reinventing myself…