Dr. Girish Nuckchady is an experienced trainer/facilitator for 25 years. He has been associated with British Council since 2004 as a facilitator for Interaction Leadership Programme and for School Leadership. Since 2017 he is a Master Trainer in Core Skills and Leadership including Instructional Leadership. He has led validation events several times in Core Skills and in Leadership: In Johannesburg (18th to 23rd November 2018) and in Dhaka, Bangladesh (23rd Feb to 4th March 2019). Girish has started his career in education in 1985 and since then he has not shifted direction as he feels that it is one of the most gratifying experience to see his students growing into successful professionals and entrepreneurs. Although he has joined management early in his career in education and training field, he has always kept in touch with teaching by doing part time course at the University of Mauritius and the Mauritius Institute of Education.

During his career he has followed Facilitator Development programmes with Dale Carnegie® Training (USA), Leadership Management® International (USA) and British Council amongst others. He also takes every opportunity to update himself as a Facilitator and in Curriculum Development. For example, in 2019 he followed two Train the Trainer courses: One from Civil Service College, Mauritius on Coaching and Mentoring and another Train The Trainer Course from Financial Services Institute in Mauritius. And in November 2019 he followed a course on “Curriculum Development with reference to DACUM Methodology” from Rwanda Management Institute. Concerning the course “Instructional Leadership” per se, Girish has been introduced with the initial version of the course called in September 2018 in Nairobi where feedback was given by Master Trainers who attended the event so as to fine-tune the course. He then attended the Upskilling Master Trainer Event for the final version of the Instructional Leadership in May 2019 in Johannesburg so that he can be ready to train and support Instructional Leadership facilitators. At that event Girish also facilitated a session of that Instructional Leadership course in addition to following the full delivery of the training.

Girish is a well-respected figure in education and training in Mauritius. He was a Board Member of the Mauritius Qualifications Authority from 2003 to 2011. He is also a Fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (F. MIoD). His enthusiasm, sense of humour and highly motivational presentations help participants feel great about their jobs, help them understand their responsibility to their schools and equip them with techniques to interact more effectively. His research interest is in leadership. In 2013 he was awarded second prize for the best paper presentation at the 5th Cross-Faculty Graduate Symposium, Showcasing Graduate Research @ WITS: University of the Witwatersrand, for his paper “Drivers of courage in leadership – A narrative study”.

Girish holds an MSc from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, UK, and a PhD (Management) from WITS Business School (University of Witwatersrand), South Africa. Girish has been teaching in Canada since January2023. He was a part-time Professor at Conestoga College and Niagara College, Toronto in Canada where he teaches Leadership and Organisational Behaviour. He is currently a full-time Professor (Management & Leadership) at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada