Ep 5: Becoming Me: Focusing on Future Pathways with Professor Ger Graus, OBE and Rhonda Leshman

This episode of the BFIS Podcast, introduced by Rachel Hovington, features BFIS University and Future Pathways Counselor Rhonda Leshman and Kyra Kellawan, Development Director in conversation with Prof Dr. Ger Graus OBE, a founding Global Education Director at KidZania and founding Chief Executive of the Children's University. A regular keynote speaker at educational conferences across the globe, Professor Graus is a seminal figure in futures education. He is now advocating for a ‘Futures Awareness’ campaign in partnership with the world of work to globally introduce careers education in elementary education. He frequently reminds us that children can only aspire to what they know exists and that there can be a poverty of experience that comes from both an affluent upbringing and one less so.   Both Kyra and Rhonda work closely with BFIS Alumni and have experience working with international independent school students who are thinking about their futures. As we think about children’s aspirations for becoming all that they can be, being readily able to reinvent that through their school career, lives and experiences, we hear about some of the developments and programming at BFIS that aligns us with best-in-class educational benchmarks in this arena.