Shalinee Sharma

CEO and cofounder, Zearn

Why you should listen

Shalinee Sharma is a math expert and the CEO and cofounder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization behind the top-rated math-learning platform used by one in four elementary school students and by one million middle-school students across the US. In addition to her role at Zearn, she serves on the Braven board of directors, is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow and serves as co-chair of the Brown University Advisory Council for the College. She has a master of business administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. As a mom of twins, she is passionate about universal access to an excellent education. Her national bestselling book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, is a one-of-a-kind resource for parents, educators and policymakers.

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Dare to discover: The talks of TED@BCG 2024

September 20, 2024

We can discover new ideas to design the world we want — if we dare to push through boundaries. In a day of talks and performances, 15 speakers explored precisely how we can break through entrenched obstacles in order to invent and innovate a bold future. The event: TED@BCG: Dare to Discover, the fifteenth event […]

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