👋 I’m Madhura, an experienced edtech leader. My superpower is building learning experiences that scale.
(1) 10+ years of experience leading teams at Google, Teach For India, CK-12 Foundation, and startups.
(2) Built learning experiences supporting 100,000+ learners in K-12 and early career stages
(3) Applied researcher in education and AI, psychology, and workforce learning
(4) Graduate student at Stanford’s Learning Design & Technology MS
At Stanford, I co-founded Helm, a learning tool for thoughtful AI adoption at global nonprofits.
While studying at Stanford in 2026, I wanted to help nonprofits build more resilience to navigate changes that come with AI.
My co-founder Caroline Bellacosa and I co- founded Helm, a learning tool to encourage thoughtful AI adoption across nonprofit teams. We’ve now conducted sessions with seven nonprofits, with measured increases in AI-self efficacy and AI workflow integration capability.
We’ve won the Learning Futures Award from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and are scaling the initiative to achieve global scale.
Learn more and sign up at helmtheapp.com
I spent five years as founding Head of Learning & Content at Extern. We created the externship, and built from 0 → 60,000 externs.
Solving the problem of a lack of early work experiences for college students, we built Externships: a flexible, remote project with a company that combines real experience with structured training to help students build confidence and career-ready skills.
As employee #5, I led Learning & Content where we designed 3-8 week Externships where students would get real-world experience with global companies.
I collaborated to work with our host companies, who were Fortune 100 partners like PwC, Meta, Amazon, Snap, Beats by Dre, and others.
I led product at Firki, India’s first teacher training platform. We scaled from 800 → 300,000 teachers.
Firki empowers classrooms at scale and has supported millions of students, by equipping teachers in low-income schools with high-quality pedagogy and leadership training.
We built self-paced courses, live webinars, peer-learning circles, and observation/feedback tools to make teacher development accessible anywhere.
In addition to product, I led impact measurement, monitoring, and evaluation proving that Firki’s blended learning model works.
I’ve also worked in big-tech, academia, and nonprofits.
Consultant, CK-12 Foundation
Worked directly with founders Neeru Khosla and Miral Shah on a market analysis for teacher professional development in India.
Learning Design Challenge Winner @ Stanford Accelerator for Learning
I won the Prototyping Award at Stanford’s Learning Design Challenge 2026. My winning project was Vaccine Confidence Navigator, a patient education tool that helps families address their concerns around childhood vaccines and navigate misinformation.
Published in 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026)
Published in the Journal ACL Anthology for work on the concept of “product struggle” in mathematics education. View publication here.
Ad Operations Automation and Trainer
@ Google Hyderabad
Product specialist for ad review automation for 10 billion ads. GTrainer for Ad review automation and Unconscious Bias.
🎓 My own education (on 3 continents)
Stanford Graduate School of Education
(MS Learning, Design, and Technology)
đź“Ť Stanford, USA
Studying and building AI tooling for education
Winner of the Dean’s Collaborative Learning Fund to further education and learning analytics.
St. Andrews University (M.Sc. in Psychology)
đź“Ť Scotland, UK
Conducted quantitative and qualitative research in Social Psychology, which informs my user research and product perspective.
St. Xavier’s College(Bachelor’s in Mass Media)
đź“Ť Mumbai, India
Studied mass media, advertising, and messaging.