The Mumbai-based renowned Edtech Company, Jaro Education, established by the tenacious and innovative Founder-Director, Sanjay Salunkhe, pioneers the executive education area and is famous for revolutionizing the landscape of online education in India.
Jaro Education was brewed up to bridge the gap between universities and institutes and develop online and technology-based programs catering to the needs of working professionals to ensure career growth. Jaro Education is envisaged as a unique Edtech platform to nurture entrepreneurs & working professionals from entry-level to C-Suite level in every field and industry by offering executive education programs that cater to their requirements. It currently provides more than 45+ management, technology and techno-functional programs in collaboration with reputed leading Indian and global institutes like IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Tiruchirappalli, IMT Ghaziabad, Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto), and Imperial College Business School in London, and so on. Jaro Education has also been awarded recently with Edtech Leadership Award and National Best Employer Accolade 2022 by World HRD Congress.
Working on the mission to train India’s workforce in the careers of the future, in its 13-year journey, Jaro has significantly changed the careers of over 3 lakh professionals across India. Now, it plans to grow globally and become a global leader while building places to work in the Edtech sector.
Jaro’s Differentiators
Here is the list of differentiating factors that make the organization stands out:
- First Mover in Edtech Industry
- 12+ years of expertise in the Edtech Industry
- Self-Funded & Profitable since Inception (2009)
- Offers High-Quality & Value for Money Education
- Long-term relationships with Partner Institutes & Universities
In this context, Jaro Education is a demonstration of exemplary standards in the higher education segment with the cutting-edge curriculum, state-of-the-art technology architecture, and partnering with leading Indian and global institutes like Imperial College Business School London, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Nagpur, IIM Trichy, IMT Ghaziabad etc. It recently collaborated with IIT Palakkad, SRM Institute, and the Swiss School of Management Switzerland. Jaro Education is further planning to collaborate with the world’s finest institute to provide the learners with the best and most affordable platform to learn and grow.
Work Culture – Creating Remarkable Milestones
CEO Ranjita Raman strongly believes that a company’s work culture intensively shapes the behaviour and outlook of employees. She strives hard to maintain a positive and motivating working space that works like a cherry on the cake and pushes the whole team to work more efficiently and effectively. Also, the company has always strived to prioritize the job stability of its members. A happy and healthy employee yields unmatchable results, which helps the company grow and develop.
The thriving organizational culture at Jaro Education brings together the people, keeps them aligned, and follows the company’s core values – Growth & Innovation, Learning & Development, Equity, Diversity, and Open Culture.
Recently, the company has taken a lot of employee growth initiatives wherein the company has announced a Leadership Development Program for its employees, ESOPs Grant for the employees, and an Education Policy for their professional growth. The company has also introduced initiatives such as frequent work environment health checks – for surviving and happily working index, regular stay interviews to retain talent, employee life cycle and many more.
Jaro’s Take on the Technological Advancements and R&D
The key challenges such as shortage of quality teachers, inadequate student-teacher ratio, and insufficient teaching resources are still to be resolved. Digitization in education has made way for the latest teaching tools and methodologies where the organizations reach students in the country’s remotest corners. Speed and agility are two key characteristics associated with today’s digital universe, and Jaro Education actively follows a unique & sustainable business model to pace with the changing trends of the global market.
R&D has always been the backbone of a company’s growth. It empowers the team to develop new products and services and helps improve the existing ones. R&D also gives Jaro Education a competitive edge in the market and allows them to establish itself as a leader. Hence, the leading team pays more attention to it and gradually increases their R&D funds for better research in the executive education learning space.
Define Jaro Education in Five Words
- Leaders
- Value Driven
- Innovative
- Trusted
- Growth-oriented
The Insightful Leadership at Jaro Education
“A good leader is the one who practices empathy more than sympathy.”
Leadership in a company plays a vital role in overall growth. It creates employee engagement and passion, leading to higher customer loyalty, service, innovation, and ultimately profits. Strong leaders provide a sense of vision, purpose, mentorship, and inspiration to those they lead. Today’s diverse workforce is reshaping what it means to achieve personal and professional success.
At Jaro, leaders come from diverse backgrounds; Dr Sanjay Salunkhe is a first-generation entrepreneur who did Law during his initial years and then master’s and doctorate. The CEO of Jaro Education, Ranjita Raman, holds a degree in fashion from NIFT and formal management education from IIM Ahmedabad. Diversity not only gives the team an edge but also helps them analyze the dynamics and needs of upskilling to bridge the skill crises of the 21st Century.
Anyone can start and run a company, but it takes a visionary leader to lead a company towards success. The endeavour of the duo Sanjay and Ranjita is a perfect embodiment of how a company’s culture should be. They have cultivated a healthy working atmosphere that fosters employee engagement and improves productivity, which eventually leads to the team’s success and reflects in the company’s profit numbers since its inception.
Feathers in the Cap
Envisioned to impact millions of lives through upskilled learning, Jaro Education is today helping a vast number of entry-level executives, entrepreneurs, and working professionals to transform their professional careers through 21st century new age programs from the world’s top-ranked institutes that provide professionals with high-value skills to accelerate their careers and become industry expert. With its exclusive approach and innovative services, the organization has created a mark in the industry and is significantly growing with its long-term goal to become the world’s top Ed-tech company. Here are some of the significant milestones and awards the company has achieved so far –
- Increased the global footprint by collaborating with the world’s top 1% institutes
- Increased program portfolio to 45+ diverse programs by adding globally recognized doctoral, new-age and industry-relevant programs
- Launched one of its kind and unique programs by bringing out a collaboration between industry and academia
- Edtech Leadership Award 2022
- National Best Employer Brand Accolade 2022
CEO Ranjita wraps with one piece of advice, “Any company’s growth primarily depends on how well they prioritize these two things – Firstly its employees and then its customers.”
