Managing Director & CEO
Senior Research Fellow (Former) (Liquid Crystal Display Technologies) Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
M Sc (Electronic Sciences) University of Calcutta, India.
B Sc (Physics, Hons) St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India.
Faculty (Mentor) and Research Associate (Mathematics, Psychology)
Visiting Faculty, REAP Program, Bangalore Association for Science Education, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, India.
Member: National Federation of Neurolinguistic Programming (NFNLP), USA.
Pratiti B R is a Scholar, Researcher, Educationist and Talent Whisperer. She is Co-Founder, Managing Director and CEO of Centre for Fundamental Research and Creative Education (CFRCE). She is also the architect of the unique meta-learning environment of CFRCE that has led to extraordinary breakthroughs for students and individuals that border on the miraculous. She is also the co-formulator of stimulated self-organization that is behind the powerful methodology of meta-learning developed and practiced by CFRCE.
Pratiti B R's unique vision of the environment that supports and nurtures meta-learning is in part due to her deep and profound understanding of the hierarchy of needs and neurological levels and the meaning of cultural talent hotspots. After delving deeply into diverse domains and fields like Positive Psychology, Performance Psychology, Complexity Theory, the Fifth Discipline and Systems Thinking, Neurolinguistic Programming to name a few, she embodied the spirit of these disciplines into forming the CFRCE learning environment that she herself designed in the true spirit of an interior designer.
She is also a NFNLP Certified NLP Master Practitioner and Montessosi Primary Educator. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and the Master’s degree in Electronic Sciences from Calcutta University. After a brief stint at the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
She is also a Visiting Faculty at the Research Education Advancement Programme (REAP), Bangalore Association for Science Education, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, India.
Pratiti has had vast and varied experience in empowering people at different levels and in giving consultancy to several organizations and educational institutions. She has worked with individuals at diverse levels ranging from school children through adolescents to undergraduates and Professionals on one hand, and Parents and Families on the other hand. One of her first major breakthroughs involved a student of the tenth grade who was a slow learner suffering from febrile convulsions. After studying the condition carefully, she developed a performance strategy based on the self-concept of the student because of which the student began to build up self-esteem and self-confidence. This was paralleled by a strategy for learning adapted to the student’s particular requirements. Gradually, she guided the student to a stage wherein the student emerged with near distinction in the board examinations. It was heartening to note that after the breakthrough, the student went on to become a topper in pre-university and went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
Her second case also dealt with a slow learner who had a troubled childhood. As with the above, the student achieved a breakthrough and took up a career in wild life. These cases became the basis for her decision to empower individuals as a Life Coach and Peak Performance Consultant. Over the years she has been highly fulfilled in seeing numerous students achieve key distinctions not only in an academic sense but also holistically, in life.
Pratiti has also been empowering students to achieve academic distinction by creating in them a sense of enjoyment in the subjects, especially mathematics. Here, she was guided by her own experience. She had been a rank holder in Madhyamik (equivalent of Std X Board Exam) conducted by West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. Later she took up Honours in Physics at St. Xavier’s College at Calcutta and graduated with a first class. She then topped Calcutta University in her Masters in Electronic Sciences. Her fine natural talent to solve mathematical problems always put her ahead of her peers. Love of Mathematics occupies a big part in her life and she conveys her enthusiasm and passion for it to students and professionals.
Apart from that Pratiti is very passionate about Bengali literature and history of Bengali Literature. While still in high school she was drawn to psychological novels and works. She also studied the Russian literature by Nikolai Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky and also the works of Karl Marx. These allowed her to appreciate the human mind in a different way than one is often used to. She kept coming back to the study of characters and every reading revealed more of the psychological complexities of the character. She was fascinated by the underlying psychological similarities across various characters of novels from different cultures and social belief systems as a subtle manifestation of Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious. This developing interest in human motivation and behaviour became one of her prime topics of investigation and research which she pursued in parallel to her technical research at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
During this time she also took initiative to form a group named “Young Condensed Matter Scientists Academy” to invite and hold national conferences to motivate more interactive research among research scholars and scientists working in the field in India. She also began to get more and more involved in teaching and educational reform. She taught a group of exceptionally talented young students who qualified for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), Kishore Vignanik Protsashana Yojana (KVPY) and Infosys Scholarships Examination.
As she was already into inquiry of creativity and the workings of the mind, children fascinated her most as they were less prejudiced and more open to variety. Along with a few serious thinkers from the Raman Research Institute, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Indian Institutes of Technology, etc, she co-founded a Company of which she was one of the Board of Directors. After a year and a half she resigned from the Company in order to devote herself more fully to her passion for empowering individuals and went on to co-found the “Centre for Fundamental Research and Creative Education”. Its motto was Probing Nature Nurturing Minds. As is well known, the Centre has, over its years, not only given a unique system of highly creative and empowering education, but also instilled leadership and entrepreneurship in its students. Around two decades now, her aim remains as always to empower individuals not merely in the professions but for life.
