History
In 2012, Dexterity Global instituted DexSchool as India's first school of leadership and entrepreneurship for teenagers, long before the Government of India came up with its flagship Startup India program.
At a time when even professionals lacked an entrepreneurial support system and faced hardships in starting organizations, DexSchool graduates, as teenagers, built organizations to solve pressing problems, founded startups, raised capital and continue to be at the fore of change across India and the world.
2012
Dexterity Global instituted DexSchool as India's first school of leadership and entrepreneurship for teenagers.
2013
Included in The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Next Century Innovations.
2015
The Kathryn W. Davis Foundation included DexSchool among "100 Projects for Peace" globally.
2015
In a rare and historic moment, NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. got connected with the DexSchool classroom. Mamta Patel Nagaraja, Project Head of Women@NASA addressed the class and took questions.
2016
Recognised as part of Global 'Forbes 30 Under 30' List. Forbes noted that Dexterity is "equipping young people with the mentality to solve 21st-century problems with 21st-century solutions."
2016
Recognised by the Obama White House with a special invitation to the SXSL Event.
2017
Recognised by The Queen of England for efforts to "transform people’s lives."
2019
In her best-selling book The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates dedicated an entire chapter on Sudha Varghese, the Graduation Speaker of DexSchool Class of 2019.
2022
Nobel Prize-winner Shri Abhijit Banerjee delivered the Graduation Address for DexSchool Class of 2022 and called Dexterity "an unusual institution."
2023
One of modern India's greatest heroes who took India to stunning Olympic glory, Padma Bhushan awardee Shri Pullela Gopichand, delivered the 2023 DexSchool Graduation Address, put on the DexSchool Class Jacket and said, "For me, coming to DexSchool is very inspirational. To see all of you, I feel very inspired, I feel very happy for the future of our country."
2024
On October 11, 2024, at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, 35 Graduates and Fellows of Dexterity were hosted at The White House. Over the course of four remarkable hours, Dexters interacted with senior White House leadership, had an hour long, in-depth conversation at the U.S. Treasury, and received a special tour of the White House halls, rooms, and gardens.
2024
The Dexterity Founder and CEO Sharad Vivek Sagar was named 2024 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, joining an elite list of Prime Ministers, Presidents, Nobel Laureates, TIME 100 and Fortune 500 leaders, as the first ever from Bihar and the youngest from India.
2024
Billionaire Inventor and Entrepreneur Dr. A Velumani delivered the 2024 DexSchool Graduation Address.
2024
Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship was featured in Harvard University’s Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning course.
