Childrenplus Advisory Council

Ketki Agarwal is the founder of the social impact start-up, LDExplained and a mother of two teenagers with special needs. LDExplained, a web-based service venture, provides comprehensive information, services, products and resources to parents/educators of children with learning disabilities and ADHD, specific to the Indian context. The content on the website, https://www.ldexplained.org/,  is an amalgamation of her experiences and understanding that she acquired as a mother and through exhaustive in-depth research. Her mission is to raise mental health awareness as well as help and support other parents who are also struggling in the same ways and help make their experience, and that of their affected child, better. She is a graduate in Bio-Technology and has a Post graduate degree in Development Management. She is also the founder of the LENS Foundation, which has supported other organizations through resources and advocacy and ran centers in low-income areas for providing children with nutrition and education. Ketki has over a decade and a half of experience in the social sector, working across multiple organizations and doing fieldwork, evaluation and assessment, reporting, and administration.

Ketki brings her lived expereince of parenting young people with special needs and passiona to make a change in the lives of both children and parents to the childrenplus Advisory Council.

Shikha Sheth is a Vice President with Kingsley Gate Partners. Shikha’s expertise spans a variety of industries and functions, having worked with some of the biggest multinationals, and family-led businesses across consulting, private banking and executive search. Shikha acts as a trusted advisor both to her clients and candidates. With her ability to manage relationships with ease, she has developed an extensive network throughout the course of her career.

Prior to joining Kingsley Gate Partners, Shikha was a founding Partner with Bluewater Consulting, Previously she was a Senior Vice President with Anand Rathi Private Wealth where she advised and managed the assets of high net worth individuals. Before that, she was with HSBC Premier where she led a team of relationship managers across two bank branches. Earlier in her career, as a consultant with Amrop, she worked with CEOs and heads of businesses filling their senior-level executive needs.

Shikha has an MBA in Marketing and International Business from the Institute of Finance and International Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University. She is a certified Assessment Expert (certificate from Aon Hewitt Learning Centre). Shikha is based in the firm’s New Delhi location. Shikha brings years of top level industry experience and know-how to the childrenplus Advisory Council and is passionate about raising mental health awareness.

Dr Rizvi is Professor of Leadership & Change Management International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi and Founding member & Vice President Federation of World Academics (FWA). Dr. Rizvi is a career academic who has in 29 years of his professional career, taught, trained, researched, led, and consulted with various private, public, non-governmental, and multinational corporations. He has also been professionally associated with HCL Ltd. (Reprographic Division), Faculty of Management Studies (University of Delhi), IILM Graduate School of Management, and NIS Sparta (a Reliance Anil Ambani Group Company).

Dr. Rizvi is a resident of Noida and loves listening to music, especially classical, folk and Sufi; enjoys reading; and is always keen to spend time with either ancient ruins or being with wildlife in the lap of Nature.

Dr. Rizvi’s mission in life is to be a ‘facilitator in the growth of individuals and their collective enterprise, the organizations.’ He brings his depth of industry experience to the childrenplus Advisory Council's mission to spread mental health awareness .

Dr. Vidur Kumar grew up in New Delhi. He obtained his B.D.S. from Annamalai University. He then attended the College of Dental Sciences, Davangere where he received his M.D.S. in Orthodontia. Thereafter he started private practice in New Delhi and has been in private practice for the past 18 years where he has ensured that his patients receive the highest quality of care. Both adult and pediatric patients have successfully undergone orthodontic and general dental treatment under his skill and supervision. 

He is a consultant orthodontist with Indraprastha Apollo Hospital since 2010. 

Vidur brings his depth of expereince in engaging with children and young people and his knowledge of the medical field to the childrenplus Advisory Council.