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Press kit

Everything a journalist, editor or event organiser needs about the Institute of Goodness: the story in one paragraph, facts that can be checked, the founder’s biography, approved quotations, logos and a person to call.

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The Institute in one paragraph

The Institute of Goodness, founded by Ravi Sharma, works to make goodness visible, measurable and teachable. It defines goodness as the alignment of intent, action and impact toward the well-being of others, and builds three things on that definition: the Goodness Index, a framework for measuring trust, integrity, compassion and responsibility in individuals, organisations and nations; Personal Social Responsibility (PSR), learning frameworks designed to run from kindergarten through graduation; and Mission Chetna, which recognises changemakers and the NGOs they lead.

Fifty words. The Institute of Goodness makes goodness measurable and teachable. Founded by former global CEO Ravi Sharma, it develops the Goodness Index — a new compass beside GDP — and Personal Social Responsibility learning for schools and universities. Anyone can check their own Goodness Score, free and privately, at instituteofgoodness.org.

Strapline. Institutionalizing Goodness. Redefining Success.

Facts you can check

  • Founder: Ravi Sharma — former global CEO (14+ years), Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Roorkee, Chairman of the Boards of Governors of IIIT Una and IIIT Nagpur, Founder President of the IIT Alumni Council.
  • Academic and knowledge partners: IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Hyderabad, TISS Mumbai, IIM Nagpur and the Heartfulness Institute.
  • 70+ NGOs supported across 11 Indian states; 10+ million lives touched through their underlying work.
  • Five foundations of goodness: integrity, compassion, responsibility, stewardship, respect.
  • The Goodness Score: 25 questions, 5–7 minutes, scored in the browser — no account, no database.
  • Offices: New Delhi and Dehradun, India.

Approved quotations

All from Ravi Sharma’s columns in Business India (2026). Please attribute to “Ravi Sharma, founder, Institute of Goodness”.

  • “What we do not measure, we do not value.”
  • “Success without goodness is a net loss.”
  • “A nation cannot police its way into integrity.”
  • “GDP may determine the size of a nation, but character determines its soul.”
  • “Goodness is the invisible infrastructure upon which everything else is built.”
  • “The purpose of education is not to enhance the memory of students; it is to enhance their ability to learn.”

Founder biography

Short (60 words). Ravi Sharma is the founder of the Institute of Goodness. A Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Roorkee and one of India’s youngest telecom MNC CEOs, he led multi-billion-dollar businesses across four continents for more than 14 years before stepping away at fifty to work on nation-building. He chairs the Boards of Governors of IIIT Una and IIIT Nagpur and writes a column in Business India.

Long. The full biography, the six chapters of his journey and his portrait are on the founder’s page.

In the press

Link to us

When you mention the Institute online, please link the word goodness, or our name, to https://www.instituteofgoodness.org/ — or deep-link to What is goodness? and the Goodness Score. Ready-made snippet:

Goodness grows when it is practised together

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