Founder-promoter of Kangaroo Kids and Billabong franchise in Kanpur

 

Mrs. Priti Agarwal Founder and CEO

Mrs. Priti Agarwal Founder and CEO

Founder-promoter of Kangaroo Kids and Billabong franchise in Kanpur she has earned a prominent place amongst the leading businesswomen and social workers in Northern India.

A lawyer, educationist and an entrepreneur, she was the first woman to trade on the floor of the UP Stock Exchange (Kanpur). Cutting her teeth in the world of business managing her family’s business and legal affairs, she was inspired by her daughter’s progress at Kangaroo Kids, still in its early stages in Bombay, and decided to take the concept to Kanpur.

Making significant investments in developing the concept through coaching parents and developing teachers alike, whilst also capturing the imagination of young minds, Priti has cut-through the century-old rote-system based education system, and championed highest quality international education in U.P./North India. She went on to expand the franchise developing new buildings/infrastructure, and extending the school to two new campuses in Kanpur. Affiliated with Cambridge CAIE, Kangaroo Kids Kanpur/ Billabong High schools have come to be regarded as one of the best international schools in North India/U.P. Today, it is also frequented by visiting faculty from some of the leading schools in the world.

Priti has also joined the UCAS and is a part of the Global Career network of UCLA, It is only this year that she has initiated the RULER (Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, expressing and regulating emotions)  Programme in her School in association with Yale & Billabong Kanpur has been declared as an SEL School, integrating Social & emotional intelligence in to their School.