Inderbir Kaur Sandhu, Ph.D

Dr Sandhu holds a PhD in Psychology (Gifted Education) from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has been working with individuals of high abilities since 1996. She was formerly a lecturer at University Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Vice-President for the National Association for Gifted Children, Malaysia (NAGCM). While reading for her PhD, she also taught undergraduates at the University of Cambridge. She has worked as a consultant with NUS (National University of Singapore) Overseas College in the Silicon Valley, California, USA and in NUS Singapore. She then worked as a school psychologist with Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), a school reputed for the highly able in Singapore. She is also a consultant with V-Campus (affiliated with Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth), Cambridge Alliance Centre, advisor for projects on gifted education/creativity with schools.

Currently, she manages her consultancy (Mind Path Consulting Services) which provides services for creativity and gifted assessments, giftedness/creativity workshops/ seminars/talks and for both schools and the corporate world. In addition, she is the Head of Research and Assessments with Ingenio Pte Ltd and a consultant/trainer/curriculum developer for Igenius Pte Ltd in Singapore. She is also an associate faculty with SIM University (Singapore) teaching various subjects in psychology to adult learners. At present, she is also involved in the gifted education programme in Malaysia, the Middle East, and India.

Dr. Sandhu has researched, presented and published various papers on giftedness both locally and internationally. She has also conducted talks and workshops on giftedness, creativity, critical thinking and motivation for both students and adults. Her areas of expertise and interests are gifted education, creative thinking and assessment, positive psychology, critical thinking and bullying issues in schools. Her more recent work includes seminars/workshops on giftedness and creativity, positive psychology, bullying policy in schools and conducted research and statistics training to junior college students in Singapore. At present, she is the consultant for Club M.A.G.I.C - Mediacorp Okto's (TV station in Singapore) newly launched local preschool programme. She has also been interviewed by various magazines in Singapore and Malaysia and on air for radio talk shows.

*Dr Sandhu is currently relocated in Gurgaon, India with her family for the next couple of years (since August 2009).

Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D

Dr. Honos-Webb is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is author of The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book: 101 Activities for Transforming problems into strengths and the Listening to Depression (New Harbinger, 2006), and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly as well as newspapers across the country and local and national radio and television.

She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and depression and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood; she speaks regularly on her areas of expertise. Dr. Honos-Webb completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, and has been an assistant professor teaching graduate students. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and two children. Visit her website at http://www.visionarysoul.com.

Darshan Kaur Narang, Ph.D

Dr Darshan Kaur Narang Ph. D from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India) obtained her post graduate degree in Child Development with special focus on Early Childhood Education (0-8) years in 1977 from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University. She has 30 years teaching experience at undergraduate & post graduate level.

Dr. Narang has a special interest in empowering young mothers and young fathers with child rearing skills and early stimulation skills without investing anything. She has also been helping school teachers and parents in planning various activities to enhance different developments of children and to solve various behavioral problems e.g. aggression, lack of concentration, lack of attention etc.

She is teaching Early childhood education at post graduate level in University of Rajasthan since 1984. She had worked as lecturer & head of Home Science Department (1977 -1984) at B.D. Arya College for Girls at Jallandhar, Punjab (India). She is regularly supervising Ph.D. students on various research topics. She is co-author of early childhood manual prepared for CARE, India for Training of Trainers (TOT). She has helped in developing ECE Curriculum for NGO Bodh Shiksha Samiti, Jaipur. She is member of advisory committees of various NGO'S working for ECE like Bodh Shiksha Samiti, Campus nursery school, AKSHAR society etc.

Dr. Narang has presented different papers on various national level seminars/workshops. Her special focus has been on story telling techniques & dramatization to tackle various problems of normal children and to introduce related concepts. Active learning with immediate environment is her focus for training of trainers and parents.