SpeakingKeynotes, panels and training
Ideas for the room he is in.
Keynotes for school leaders, workshops for teachers and conversations with parents, drawn from his own years as a teacher and as a school leader.

On stage
TEDx host since 2017
- Speaking topics
- 6
- TEDx events hosted
- 7
- Years in education
- 35
Speaking
What he speaks on.
Six subjects drawn from thirty five years of running schools, each grounded in what happens in a real classroom.
For keynote
Global ethos, Indian ethics
Preparing children to compete anywhere in the world without losing the values they grew up with.
Stages and forums
Where he has spoken and hosted.

2017 to 2025
Chennai
TEDxYouth@KRMPublicSchool
Host of seven independently organised TEDx events.
2016
Chennai
TED-Ed Club
The first TED-Ed Club licence in Tamil Nadu, with an international exchange in its first term.
2015
Chennai
CII School Excellence Conclave
On attaining school excellence through teacher empowerment, 11 and 12 August 2015.
Since 2013
Doha, Qatar
World Innovation Summit for Education
Part of the global forum on school reform.
Speaker kit
For organisers and editors.
Approved biographies and photographs, free to use when introducing or writing about R.J. Bhuvanesh. Please credit photographs to the KRM Group of Schools.
R.J. Bhuvanesh (R.J. Thayumanaswamy) is Chief Executive Officer of the KRM Group of Schools, Chennai: ten institutions, 10,000 students and 850 staff. An engineer who chose the classroom, he taught for ten years before leading the group in 2001. He is a Harvard Project Zero alumnus and a HundrED ambassador.
- Name in print
- R.J. Bhuvanesh
- Formal name
- R.J. Thayumanaswamy
- Title
- Chief Executive Officer, KRM Group of Schools, Chennai
- Credentials
- B.E., M.S. (Educational Management), Dip. PZC (Harvard)
Photographs, free to download
Invitations
Send a speaking invitation
Please include the event, date, city, audience and the topic you have in mind. He reads every message himself and usually replies within a week.
Write the invitationWork with him
Speaking, advisory and school partnerships.
Write to him directly. He reads every message himself and usually replies within a week.
rjbhuvanesh@gmail.comPeople write to him about
- Speaking invitation
- Advisory or board request
- Media and interviews
- Institutional partnership
Still... miles to go.


