Founders Story
Prashant Sharma B.E (Mech.) , MBA (Finance)
Prashant’s Ikigai lies in Climate Action with a single-minded focus to make our planet
more resilient, circular, and sustainable. His metric of success is the value he creates through his
work and the quantum of measurable social, economic, and environmental impact that he garners through
his initiatives. His work directly contributes to reigning in transgressed planetary boundaries, and
contributes in achieving all seventeen UN SDG’s.
Aspire fellow, TEDx speaker, author, practicing changemaker and sustainability
champion. Working against the grain, perseverance, persistence, resilience, innovation & growth
mindset are some traits that Prashant strongly identifies with. Through his positive actions, he goes
beyond his Individual Social Responsibility towards the environment and motivates others to build a
Lifestyle For the Environment (LiFE) and become environmentally responsible citizens.
Having spent major part of his professional life leading IT teams across Fortune100
organizations in India and UK, Prashant realized that his true Joy lay in creating environmental
impact. After close to two decades in corporate life, Prashant happily chose to dedicate all his time,
attention and focus in creating impact-at-scale in the sustainability and circular economy space
through waste reduction, greywater recycle and reuse, greywater audits, nutrient recovery, beautify
neighbourhood campaigns, compensatory plantations, and aftercare, nukkad nataks with kids under 6
years of age on climate action theme, as well as the saket17 tree census, and subsequent report &
actions.
In his previous life, Prashant was a Senior Project manager in SAP ERP Finance
domain
and worked in and led complex global programs with matrix teams for companies like Shell, British
Petroleum, Gazprom, Barclays, Panasonic, Cap Gemini, Transport for London, and Government projects
like Maharashtra Sales tax department, and HMRC UK.
Aside from his work in the environmental impact space, Prashant is an active Quoran with 3.5 lakh
followers on his youth focused spaces, and a fitness enthusiast. His personal short-term goals are to
improve his half marathon PB by at least 3 minutes, and become a certified Ashtanga Yogi. He also
aspires to speak to & engage with a thousand strong live audience on sustainability.
Twitter: @childrenseartho
Insta: @water_recycle_reuse
Theme : Intentional Living to Promote Sustainability-
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Vijaya Meenakshisundaram (B.E. Computer Science, AGILE coach and
Mentor)
Vijaya has 15 years project management, delivery excellence & leadership
experience at
Fortune100 companies. She has a laser sharp focus on sustainability and circularity and
advises and manages cleaner Greener India initiatives at the foundation ensuring that
our impact-at-scale projects finish on time and within budget with the expected impact.
She is an active contributor in initiatives related to environment and on equitable
distribution of resources at her workplace. In addition to this, she also handles
corporate relations for the foundation. Vijaya is a Computer Engineer and is PMP
certified.
You can get in touch with her on: Vijaya.childrensearth@gmail.com