Active Learning - Shaking Up Education Silos | Sharndre Kushor | TEDxUOA

Sharndre’s life passion is helping our generation to discover their capabilities, confidence and leadership potential. She explores how active learning can be used as a tool for building a diverse, creative and future focused society. As Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Crimson Education, Sharndre has helped turn a small start-up into a hundred-million-dollar global education company, spanning 20,000 students. In the 2015/16 admissions round, 90% of New Zealand students who gained admission to Ivy League Universities were Crimson students.
In 2016 Sharndre graduated from Auckland University with a Bachelor of Health Sciences specialising in Population Health. The same year she oversaw Crimson expand its offices from Auckland and Sydney to: Melbourne, London, Bangkok and Singapore. The Crimson network now includes over 2,000 tutors and mentors, and over 20,000 students.
This year Sharndre was featured on the 2017 Forbes Asia - 30 Under 30 list. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx