Ami Shah - Co-Founder & CEO of Peekapak

Mar 28, 2019

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On this episode of the podcast, I talk to Ami Shah. Ami is the CEO and Co-founder of Peekapak, an award-winning social-emotional learning platform that engages elementary students to learn skills like self-regulation, empathy, and teamwork and reaches over 200 000 educators and students. Using stories, evidence-based lessons, and game-based learning, Peekapak empowers educators to be proactive in helping curb future mental health issues.

Ami has earned an MBA from INSEAD and has previously taught in K-4 classrooms and advised and volunteered at education-related non-profit organizations. After gaining marketing experience through roles at Procter & Gamble and driven by her passion to improve youth education, Ami made the jump to entrepreneurship and has since been featured on Toronto Life, Flare, TechVibes, CBC, and numerous other outlets.

Ami and I take a deep dive into SEL & serving elementary schools. Highlights include:

• The mission for Peekapak
• Ami's TED talk - She talks about our real answers to the question "how are you?"
• I'm curious about how a tech platform can help build social-emotional skills. Ami explains how that's possible.
• The dynamic relationship between early childhood education and parental involvement when it comes to Peekapak and SEL
• Serving elementary schools, teachers, and students is special in EdTech - Ami tells us why.
• Ami has interviewed over 300 teachers. Here's what she's learned.
• The importance of modeling as the leader of a company.
• How teachers can get started with SEL (Ami recommends casel.org)

Say hello to Ami on Twitter: (@amishahdotca)

Try Peekapak: www.peekapak.com

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Gerard Dawson