Wadhwani ENABLING FAMILY-SUSTAINING WAGES FOR MILLIONS AND

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SKILLING ORGANIZATIONS

Opportunity
About Wadhwani Foundation
Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through
large-scale job creation.

Wadhwani Global Opportunity: Empowers millions of students with core and future job-
ready skills to attain sustainable family wages.

Wadhwani Technology Platform

Wadhwani Entrepreneur: Inspires, educates and enables tens of thousands of start-up
entrepreneurs.

Wadhwani Advantage: Empowers thousands of small and medium size businesses with capabilities
to maximize their growth potential.

Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy: Leverages emerging technology for well-informed
policy formulation, implementation, and outcomes/impact measurement.

Wadhwani Institute for Digital Public Health (Vision): US-based, global platform for
enabling digital transformation of public health organizations and programs to advance their
speed, scale, impact to improve the lives of hundreds of millions.

Wadhwani Charitable Foundation funds Initiatives in:

• Biotechnology: Wadhwani Research Centre for Biotechnology at IITB
• US-India Business Policies: Wadhwani Chair at CSIS
• Electronics Education: Wadhwani Electronic Labs at IITB

Create Jobs • Change Lives • Scale Impact

Vision
Enabling family-sustaining wages by empowering students with core skills to improve their
employability and job progression and accelerating the digital transformation of skilling
organizations.

Objective: WF Global Opportunity, by 2030

• Two million placed globally in sustainable family wage jobs
• 10M globally certified in core employability skills leading to improved wages
• Digital transformation of thousands of skilling organizations
Wadhwani
Global Opportunity (GO)
Providing an integrated digital offering with a rich library
of CORE and DEEP (future-job role) skill content,
technology & wraparound services with full learner
flexibility across career-advisory, learning, tutoring,
placement and progression, in partnership with:
• Students: Fully flexible short-term programs that prepare
them for family sustaining career paths
• Employers: Provide talent with Day-1 productivity to
employers
• CCs/VTIs: Accelerate digital transformation, enhance brand
with students/policymakers opening doors for improved
student intake and favorable govt. grants/policies
Wadhwani GO Value Proposition
For Students:
• Fully flexible short-term programs that prepare them for family sustaining career pathways
• Core skills position them for employability and progression

For Employers:
• Reduce hiring and training costs while expediting just-in-time hires
• Day-1 job-ready candidates
• Apprenticeship programs help select the best and release rest to company supply-chain.

For Training Organizations:

• Superior student completion rates, job outcomes, and overall impact enhances their brand
and standing among students and policymakers, enabling influence on State/Federal
policies and unleashing of Govt. funding
• Expand scale of student-intake that digital delivery affords
• Opportunity to pilot end-to-end digital delivery and expand to majority of their programs
thus accelerating their digital transformation
Wadhwani Global Opportunity Offerings
Learner’s digital journey to a family sustaining career through GO DEEP, GO CORE, & GO ENABLE
Career Advisory Skilling and Tutoring Placement and Progression
Tutoring
Student Fit For Fit for Course Placement Employer Retention Progression
Fit for Job Core and 360-degree Support for
Enrollment Program Aspiration Delivery & Preparation Connect Support Support
DEEP Skills Learning Student
Completion
Success
Student Fitment Assessment and Salary Job-focused Peer Connect, Resume Prep, Help with Mentoring for Upskilling for
Student Industry Nudging, Hinting,
for Program Mentoring to Expectation, Job Technical and Forums, Email, Practice Securing Retention and Progression
Mobilization Lectures, Chatbot, FAQs,
Completion Pick Right Job Availability by Soft Skills Solution Library 1x1 or group Interviews Interviews Progression
Masterclasses
Role Location sessions through
CC/WF Helpdesk

WF on-demand mobile-first technology, content and human-expert support for student success

CONTENT
A rich library of in-demand job-focused core and future job-skills programs
Future Job-Skills: Renewables, IoT, Cloud, Data Analytics, MedTech, Healthcare, eCommerce, Business Accounting, etc.
Core Skills: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Communication, Digital Literacy, Customer Centricity, Teamwork, Attitude, etc.
360-Degree Support: Industry Lecture and Masterclass videos, Solution Library, FAQ; Jobs/Salary Data, Fitment Evaluations Tools

EXPERT NETWORK
Access to peers, forums, coaches, mentors, employers and WF/CC Tutoring and Helpdesk
TECHNOLOGY
A single-window integrated on-demand, mobile-first, student platform that provides anytime, anywhere access to Content and Expert
Network while capturing student analytics to enable AI-powered personalized student services

Impact & Outcome Measurement

Wadhwani Global Opportunity Offering Components

Content and Tools 01

Corresponds to all courses, assessments,
master classes, solution libraries, evaluation
tools, FAQs, as well as job, salary and skills data.

Technology
Software technology that spans across all
phases of the end-to-end learner journey
including counseling, skilling, tutoring,
placement, retention, and progression.

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Services 02
Dedicated support and tutoring services that
help students advance their learning journeys
and careers.
Wadhwani Opportunity:
21st Century Competency Clusters
for Employability
Based on a survey of 1100+ companies, we derived the Top-10
Clusters

Communication: Communication: Customer Attitudes & Digital Literacy:

Basic Workplace Centricity Behavioural Skills Basic

Digital Literacy: Problem Teamwork Workplace Entrepreneurial

Workplace Solving Awareness Mindset

Success in Interview
 Wadhwani Opportunity Skilling Pyramid
700+ hours of mobile and video-centric content on cloud, facilitated by engagement analytics

Key Features Language:

English, Hindi, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese,
Client Specific Skills:
• Experiential learning pedagogy (WTCDE) Delivered by Industry Bangla WIP

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Career Guidance
Information about the top 10 sectors in the Skilling domain

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Wadhwani Digital
Skilling Model
With “Student” as the centrepiece

CAREER GUIDANCE PLACEMENT & POST PLACEMENT

What am I best suited for Apply for the right Job
Passion vs capability Join the right Job
Join the right course Be the best among peers
Confidently progress in life

MOBILISATION TRAINING
Make an informed decision Learn & Practice the competencies
Various sectors Information Active participation in activities
Job growth and competencies required Being confident to face Interviews
Overview of “where are the jobs”
Wadhwani Digital Skilling Model
Student life cycle & offerings

Psychometric Counselling
Test Pack
What am I
good at
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JobRise Career
Series JobWise Content
growth LearnWise LMS
path How & what Digital Assessments
do
Student I learn

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Mentoring
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Prep

*under development
Wadhwani Opportunity:
Benefits for Learners
Equipping job-seeking students with 21st century employability skills

• Career Guidance Solution – Helps learners to know the work domain in details and choose the
right career path
• Digital Learning Platform
• Personalized login to access the platform
• Hybrid Learning solution
• Anywhere Anytime self-learning
• Digital evaluation
• 21st Century Employability Skills Development Content
• Digital, Interactive, Industry Case study based
• JobReady – get ready for the work-environment and requirements
• Success in Job interview – improving interview handling skills for faster selection
• JobRise – Workplace behavioural skills, help in Job Retention
• Shine at Workplace – getting ready for next level
• Mentoring solution for career progression (under development)
• Digital Comprehensive Score Card
• Digital Convocation
• Course Completion Certification
Wadhwani Opportunity:
Benefits for Learning Partners
Enables adoption of employability programs by vocational trainers and academic
Institutes for superior outcomes

• Digital interactive learning content; AT NO COST

• Access to LMS platform for teachers and learners

• Capacity building: Organizing ToT programs for faculty development

• Counselling of students through Career Guidance Portal

• Mentoring learners through detailed program analytics

• Joint certification

• Digital convocation

• Post placement, job retention and training support (digital)

• Content customization (for large projects)

• Joint content creation (for large projects)

Wadhwani Opportunity:
Benefits for Industry Partners
Providing employers with industry-ready students having better capabilities than their
peers

• Talent retention and talent progression solutions for interns/apprentices/new joinees

• Workforce Behavioral Skills Development; Digital solution to impact workforce productivity

• Industry complied training solutions

• Access to the LMS platform for facilitators and learners

• Capacity Building – Organizing Capacity building through ToT/MTOT programs for HR workforce

• Invite to participate in our Industry Advisory Committee for suggesting, evaluating, co-creating
industry relevant digital learning content to impact the workforce

• Joint initiative under CSR to impact the youth

• Mentoring learners through detailed program analytics, helping them to grown in ladder

• Joint certification for workforce

 Skills Scorecard for Learners
Comprehensive Skills Indicators

Learners receive a personalized Comprehensive Skills

Scorecard based on their performance on the program.
• The scorecard is based on the Skills Indicators covered in each
competency
• It is a visual display of the skills that learners have / need to
improve upon
• Learners can also download a copy
Wadhwani Foundation: Leadership
• Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Kela leads the Foundation’s Opportunity & WITP initiatives,
• Until 1999, built three successful companies, the last of globally and is driving its expansion across Asia, Africa and
which was exited at over $9 billion Latin America.
• Founding Chairman and CEO of $3.5 billion Symphony • Expanded Foundation’s initiatives across 20 countries and
Technology Group (1999) enabled over $100M of Govt. investment during the past
eight years
• Founder and Chairman of Wadhwani Foundation (2000)
• Scaled startup Symphony Services to $175M with eventual
• Founding Chairman of PE firm Symphony AI (2018)
exit at $780M
• Member of the Gates Buffet Giving Pledge
• Grew AutoCAD business from $170M to $850M during 10
• Padma Shri 2020 awardee years at Autodesk
• President Obama appointee to the Board of Trustees of the • PhD research on computer graphics lead to multi-million
John. F. Kennedy Center dollar products at GE and Autodesk
• Board Member of Center for Strategic and International • B-Tech, IIT Bombay, India and Ph.D from University of
Dr Romesh Wadhwani Studies, Washington, D.C. Dr Ajay Kela Rochester, USA
Founder and Chairman President – Wadhwani
Global Opportunity & WITP

Johannes leads the Foundation’s US Initiatives and supports the Sunil leads the Wadhwani Opportunity program in Asia and is
build-up of a scalable technology platform for the Foundation’s expanding its footprint in emerging economies
various global Initiatives. • Undertook multi-initiatives at NIIT:
• Was Chief Commercial Officer and SVP Strategic Partnerships • Contributed to building Industry connects for
at edX, the global online learning destination and open-source placing 200K students
technology platform founded by Harvard and MIT
• Co-founded a new business venture ‘Stackroute’
• Grew edX from two founding institutions to over 180 content
• Led the B2C Digital transformation series
partners; built and led edX for Business, edX for Education,
edX for Government and edX Strategic Partnerships • 25-Years of experience in vocational training
• During his edX tenure, learner growth went from 1000’s of • Hons in Economics from Delhi University
learners to over 45m learners
• Served as Director in the Office of the President and Provost of
Harvard
Johannes Heinlein • Led public and private sectors teams and business units
Sunil Dahiya
EVP, US across six continents while working with national governments EVP, Wadhwani
and industry leaders, including Nike, Daimler, Bayer and Opportunity
Deloitte
• Holds degrees from the University of Hamburg, the University
of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde
Our Experience

200,000+ 700+ 14 10
Students taking Employability Hours of Mobile & Video- Countries across three Clusters of Employability
Courses Centric Content on Cloud continents Courses
 Thank You
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