Pawan Kumar

Associate Partner

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India16 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in scaling educational programs sustainably.
Proven track record in strategic planning and execution.
Strong leadership in managing interdepartmental collaborations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Higher Education Growth Leader with expertise in strategic program development and institutional growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Educational LeadershipStrategic PlanningCommunicationLeadershipProject ManagementCurriculum DevelopmentP&l ManagementAcademic UpliftmentMarket AnalysisMarket ResearchBusiness Research

Other Skills

TeamworkNetworkingOutreachTrainingTeam ManagementIndustry CollaborationTechnology DeploymentData AnalysisCompetitive AnalysisData AnalyticsConsumer BehaviorwellbeingEmail MarketingBusiness AnalyticsStart-ups

About

Higher education growth leader experienced in building new programs and institutional functions in India’s dynamic education sector. Currently leading Growth Enablement at Plaksha University, where I design and scale high school programs, enable interdepartmental synergies to derive growth, and unlock monetization opportunities across programs, centers, and facilities. I own the full strategic, operational and P&L responsibility for high-impact summer programs, expanding outreach and student pipelines. My core strength lies in connecting the dots across departments, aligning stakeholders, and driving sustainable institutional growth. Passionate about helping institutions scale sustainably by integrating strategic planning, high performance team management & aggressive on-ground execution. I strongly believe in integrity, efficiency, and compassion as my work-values. I am an avid reader, lifelong learner, an enthusiastic team player, and a strict administrator.

Experience

Plaksha university

2 roles

Director (Growth Enablement)

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Chandigarh, India · On-site

Leading Growth Initiatives at Plaksha.

TeamworkNetworkingEducational LeadershipStrategic PlanningProject Management

Associate Director

Aug 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Chandigarh, India · On-site

Leading Communication, Outreach and Admissions for PG programs at Plaksha

TeamworkNetworkingEducational LeadershipCommunicationOutreach

Aiesec

Member of The Board of Advisors

Nov 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

Helping the organisation grow in value and scale!

LeadershipEducational LeadershipTraining

Tie

Charter Member

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Chandigarh, India

Chandigarh university

Additional Director

May 2018 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Chandigarh Area, India · On-site

Worked as Institute head for industry partnered technology and management programs at Chandigarh University. Led end to end planning, operations, and scaling of 15 degree programs (scaled from 5 programs to 15 in span of 3.5 years)
Key role included managing existing and adding new industry collaborations, department operations, curriculum revamp as per NEP, team upskilling and improving students career outcomes.
Member University Academic Council, NEP Implementation Steering Committee, Board of Studies, LMS Steering Committee, Anti-Ragging Committee, and IQAC Committee.

Team ManagementCurriculum DevelopmentIndustry CollaborationProject Management

Sagar group of institutions (sistec)

Executive Director

Apr 2012 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bhopal Area, India · On-site

Managed and scaled education division (10 Institutions with over 10000 regular students) of Sagar Group. Key role included academic upliftment, implementing functional SOPs, technology deployment, key recruitments, scaling institutions and P&L responsibility.

P&L ManagementAcademic UpliftmentTechnology Deployment