Verdant.
Education consultancy for ministries, investors, foundations, and operators. Founded and led by Dr. Christine Kerlin Nasserghodsi. Based in Dubai with a global reach.
Education improves when leadership, teaching, measurement, and innovation move together.
Most reform work fails because those four move independently. New leadership arrives without new teaching practice. New teaching practice arrives without new measurement. New measurement arrives without leadership willing to act on it. And innovation gets sold as a slogan rather than built into how the school actually runs. Verdant is set up to work on all four within the same engagement.
Dr. Christine Kerlin Nasserghodsi
Managing Partner
Christine leads Verdant's academic architecture practice, from new system design through academic due diligence to school improvement. She has led programmes with HP, Intel, the African Union, UAE regulators, and ministries across the region. Her doctoral research focused on belonging and identity in school systems.
Abdelfatah Ghozlan
Arabic Innovation
Leads Verdant's Arabic-medium work, including Arabic literacy design and curriculum development for Arabic, Islamic Education, and UAE Social Studies.
Asha Sanjay
Curriculum, Innovation for School Improvement, New Schools
Leads curriculum architecture for new schools and improvement engagements, translating a graduate profile into a defensible K to 12 curriculum with assessment logic attached to every signature outcome.
Lena Borno
HP IDEA
Leads Verdant's HP IDEA partnership, including the delivery model that scaled from twelve Emirati schools in 2020 to more than 1.5 million students across 35 countries.
Zoubiya Ahmed
International School Development, Leadership, and Improvement
Leads Verdant's international school development work, and the leadership and improvement practices that follow, across the UAE, wider GCC, and Africa.
Ribal Al-Ata
Verdant x Takween Al Ghurair, Early Childhood Innovation
Leads Verdant's delivery of Takween Al Ghurair and the early childhood innovation practice, including the play-based pedagogy and enrichment programme design behind both.
Toni Ting
HP IDEA and School Improvement Coach
Leads HP IDEA delivery cohorts and Verdant's school improvement coaching work, running the coaching cycles that carry improvement into classrooms.
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