User talk:Francis Joseph

Francis Joseph has more than 20 years of Management experience in School Education; in areas that include School Operations, Strategy planning, Human Resource, Technology, and Organizational Development.

He has extensively worked in establishing and managing schools for one of India’s Largest Singly owned/managed & non-franchised Educational group as its COO in India & Middle East (till year 2011), from where he started as a Teacher in year 1993. During this period, he was also the editor & publisher for 2 school education magazines known as “Hello Student” & “Hello Teacher”. He was also instrumental in developing many technological initiatives and revolutionary practices in Schools, both in India and abroad. Francis is also a recipient of the "Limca Book of Record" (Edition 2013) for managing the fastest School admission process (10 days) in the country; which was also appreciated by the HRD Minister of State, Government of India and then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri. Narendra Modi.

Francis Joseph has established and operated several prestigious schools in India and Middle East; pursuing curricula of Indian and International Boards. Francis was also selected as an emerging edupreneur in India (year 2013) for an incubator programme conducted by the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (U.K.) for his efforts in affordable and low-cost education in smaller towns and villages. Francis is also associated with the Archdiocesan Board of Education (Mumbai) and CfBT India in their school development projects. Francis is the Vice-President of Early Childhood Association (India). Francis Joseph is the director of RMinds Education, a school development company and the co-founder of Schools Leaders Network™, being developed as a professional network of schools leaders in the country focused on school improvement and development; specially working with affordable private schools in the country. Since its inception, the network has a reach to more than 300 schools at present

His core strengths are school operations at the ground level, high-level networking, communication skills, people management, technology enabler, service oriented, grass-root level experience in establishing schools and developing strategy related to perception building, marketing and scalability.