Light Lives

About Us

The best way to build a better socio-sensible platform is to “Start from the School”

Together for a brighter future

Every child in this world deserves better academic and non academic inputs during their growing up days. Both economically forward and backward students miss out on important skills and values education at schools as most schools focus on academics but miss out the critical life skills which play a very crucial role in future life

The students are shaped through an intensive year-around HeadStart LEAD program incorporated into their regular school time-table to cultivate skills such as self-leadership, making the right choices, effective communication, people skills, achievement approaches and skills, creativity and problem solving, future-ready tools and challenging activities.

  • Many children tend to grow up focused on their academics but miss out on building the KEY SKILLS and VALUES they will need to lead successful and meaningful personal and professional lives.
  • This skill and value gap is usually addressed through a ‘REPAIR’ job often in their first job in the work-world. The ‘PREPARE’ job at school is what will really make an EARLY and LASTING difference.
  • Students are often prepared to be ‘memory machines’ rather than the ‘curious, confident, creative’ individuals they need to be.
  • Teachers are often under pressure to cover the syllabus and rarely have the time or exposure to focus on the skills and values that the children need to be equipped with beyond academic knowledge. 
  • Parents – are often limited in their capacity and availability to plug this gap.

Our Vision Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders – Today

  • LightLives is focussed on providing leadership skills and values training to children at all types of schools and orphanages
  • Our conviction: Do the ‘prepare’ job at school right, you will not need a ‘repair’ job later.
  • Light Lives seeks to bring these advantages to under-privileged children who have the talent and skills but who are often denied the opportunity to grow and develop those talents and skills.
  • TalentEase was founded by senior management professionals who were drawn to fixing the skill and value gap in society and the workplace by working with children and young adults.

Get to Know the Team

Leo & Teresa Fernandez

Managing Trustees

Peter Ghooi

Project Lead and Institution Engagement

Ramona Viswanathan

Trustee

Yentl DSilva

Delivery and Talent

Raghavendra K

Technology

Leadership Team

Leo Fernandez

Managing Trustee
Leo is a former Partner/Managing Director at Accenture, Singapore and now plays the role of CEO at TalentEase. He brings a passion for creating possibilities and making a difference. With 18 years of outsourcing leadership experience, Leo has spent his career building high-performance teams, crafting winning partnerships with clients and developing solutions for business change. He has also worked as a Region COO with Hewitt Associates and has led export operations for companies within the Tata Group. He is currently based at Hyderabad; India He has a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master’s in Business Administration. Married to Teresa and have two children Marcus (11th Grade) & Marcela (7th grade).

Peter Ghooi

Operations Head
Peter has a degree in Foreign Trade and has experience working in the export and domestic textile industry for more than 25 years. He has handled various business activities including production planning and control, sourcing, marketing and business development at various companies such as Gokaldas Exports and Tata International. With an interest in social business, he started work at TalentEase in 2014 and looks after client engagement, business development and the LightLives outreach initiative. He is married to Mamta and has two children Pritam and Punita. He plays the saxophone.

Advisory Board

Our Facilitator Team