Priya Nair

Priya grew up in a family of teachers, and the question of how human beings actually learn — as opposed to how institutions assume they learn — has occupied her professionally and personally ever since. Her academic background is in sociology and adult education, and she completed her doctoral research on reflective practice in professional learning at the University of Cape Town. Her work over the past two decades has spanned four continents and almost every sector imaginable: healthcare systems trying to learn from critical incidents, multinational corporations attempting to build knowledge-sharing cultures, community organisations developing the capacity to articulate their own impact, and individuals who had never been taught to treat their own experience as data worth collecting. Priya is the architect of the Growth Portfolio methodology within ReTAIE Compass, and has developed a certification programme for facilitators in reflective evidence practice. She is methodical, deeply curious, and has a gift for making the abstract feel both important and doable.

You cannot build on growth you cannot see. Documentation is not bureaucracy. It is a form of self-respect.

— Priya Nair