Under the guidance of her parents, Dr Jagdish Gandhi and Dr Bharti Gandhi, who are the founders of the world’s largest school, CMS, Dr Sunita Gandhi’s childhood days were different and offered her a great scope of learning. It was CMS from where she received her school education; however, the school was not the largest one when she was growing up. Finances were constrained, but there was always enthusiasm that kept her going.

Her early days were different from her peers; she had never seen her career-oriented mother cooking, which was quite uncommon in those days. Being someone who owned big ideas, her father gave her full freedom to follow her dreams and passions. She played a crucial role at the managerial level in CMS, not as a child but as a young adult who could contribute. Her empathy, compassion and kindness towards the poor have always been at the peak; her young heart has cried many times seeing someone in distress, and she always made sure to help them.

Education has been a great source of motivation for her; at the age of 14, she cracked the NTSE examination and started school for the underprivileged. Meeting Saint Mother Teresa around this time was a life-changing opportunity for her. The saint had blessed her, saying, “God loves Sunita. Love others as He loves you.”

At 16, her parents sent her to study in the UK on donations from friends and family. A few years later, she completed a doctorate in Physics from Cambridge University on generous academic scholarships. She raised funds for charities in the UK and India through massive charity cookouts, events, pledges for runs and parachute jumping.

After completing one year as a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA, she applied to the most unlikely position of an economist through the prestigious Young Professionals Program of the World Bank. Her selection meant she became a permanent member of the World Bank fraternity. She worked on education policy and development programs in many countries, including a participatory project for women in Morocco. This project was showcased at the UN Summit in Copenhagen and led to her receiving the World Bank's most outstanding contribution to development award.

She was definitely at the peak of her career when she decided to quit this highly prestigious job and go back to India. Her purpose was two-fold. Not only would she help her parents with their school but also to help improve the situation of Education in India.

Her latest project, Global Dream, aims at providing foundational literacy to the illiterate masses. The results from the pilot are startling, and 3.2 lakh students from 11 Indian States have participated in this campaign so far. The new focus is on improving literacy and numeracy in government schools. The unique Global Dream Toolkits allow a person to become reading capable within 1 to 2 months with just 15–30-minute sessions per day.

Over the years, she has visited 49 countries on six different continents. She has studied their education systems and exchanged notes with educators and policymakers worldwide. Yet, each trip has added to her dismay at the state of current education. It has taken her back to the drawing board and to come up with a new framework of the Four Building Blocks of Education. To promote these ideas and more empowering education, her ex-boss at the World Bank, Bob Saunders, co-founded the Council for Global Education, USA. She has been fortunate enough to share these ideas with educators worldwide, including at Finland's annual Educator's conference on invitation from the Finnish National Board of Education.

Over the years, she has visited 49 countries on six different continents. She has studied their education systems and exchanged notes with educators and policymakers worldwide. Yet, each trip has added to her dismay at the state of current education. It has taken her back to the drawing board and to come up with a new framework of the Four Building Blocks of Education. To promote these ideas and more empowering education, her ex-boss at the World Bank, Bob Saunders, co-founded the Council for Global Education, USA. She has been fortunate enough to share these ideas with educators worldwide, including at Finland's annual Educator's conference on invitation from the Finnish National Board of Education.Dr Gandhi leads the Disruptive Education Movement through initiatives like Ed Leadership Conferences, GETI Live talks, and Teachers’ Training Programs to take India’s education in its entirety from its old moulds into the new directions guided by the New Education Policy, 2020.

Her efforts in education have expanded a vast range, from the bottom-up grassroots level in Indian slums and villages through her NGO to establishing her schools. She has established Iceland's first two charter schools, an experimental school in the Czech Republic, and 19 schools in India. She has spoken at several conferences on five continents, including recently in BETT Asia. Dr Gandhi was invited to Finland as the Keynote to the largest gathering of their educators by the Finnish National Board of Education.

Her research work in Iceland, the UK and India mainstream the principle of 'compete with yourself' versus 'compete with others', published in a 2017 book by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. Today, over 500 schools in India and overseas have adopted her curriculum and assessments based on this principle. With this large-scale pilot, she is fine-tuning an education more suited to the needs of children living in the 21st century. The foundation of her education is constructed on Four Building Blocks of Education: Universal Values, Global Understanding, Excellence in All Things and Service to Humanity.

TARGETplus education, a company founded by Dr Gandhi in 2016, focuses on reducing stress and improving students' results taking high-stakes examinations. IIM Lucknow's L-Incubator has selected it.