Harnessing Human Wisdom

Deepak Ramola is the Founder & Artistic Director of Project FUEL. An organisation that documents and designs human wisdom. Through his methodology, recognised as the world’s top 100 innovations in education, he has worked with the women of Maasai tribe to young girls in Afghanistan and to sex workers of Kamathipura, learnings from earthquake survivors in Nepal to Syrian refugees in Europe and migration-affected villages of Uttarakhand, India. In this unscripted conversation with host, Michele Nevarez, Deepak will talk about:

The intersection of wisdom and education
What Deepak has gleaned from documenting the life lessons from 195 countries
How we can all consistently be proponents of true lifelong learning

The conversation is scheduled for 30 minutes and the final 15 minutes will be reserved for Q&A.

Learn about the speakers

As Founder and CEO of Beyond EI’s Coaching and Training programs, Michele’s vision is to democratize Emotional Intelligence as a means of igniting personal and global agency.

This driving force is at the core of how the programs she has designed translate EI from theory to a powerful and practical vehicle for meaningful transformation and lasting habit change. It isn’t enough to leave our insights of Emotional Intelligence at the level of theory. We must operationalize EI in a manner that we come to know first-hand what it means to embody the wisdom of EI in our own lives.

Michele brings 25+ years of executive leadership experience working for industry leaders in healthcare, investment management, management consulting, and manufacturing. A founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute based in Kathmandu, Nepal, Michele has been studying Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practicing the wisdom at the core of its contemplative meditation practices for 29 years.

Michele received her B.A. in Religion from Bryn Mawr College and Master of Science degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

An eternal optimist, Deepak Ramola believes in enriching the human experience and helping people meet their highest potential. He collects life lessons from people all over the world and turns them into interactive and performance activities, to pass on the learnings. The passing on happens by way of workshops, seminars, and sometimes even over coffee.

Every life is important and so is what each person’s life teaches them. At FUEL, life lessons are continuously collected, documented, thought about deeply and then turned into performance activities. This ensures that you don’t just hear someone’s lesson in words but experience it tangibly, and apply it practically in your own life. The organization seeks to build a community of young adults who live, learn and share in order to make meaningful psycho-social and emotional contribution to their lives, and the society at large.

Deepak’s further accolades include becoming a recent Harvard Graduate, writer, TEDx speaker, and has served as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP.