Nitin P Khanna

About Nitin

An alumnus of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, where he completed his B.Tech. in Mineral & Metallurgical Engineering in 1989, and IMT Ghaziabad, where he earned his MBA in Marketing in 1994, Nitin brings together analytical thinking, business understanding and a deep interest in human behaviour and learning.

He is the Founder of FountHead Learning and Founder of Bharat Learn, an NGO focused on basic education. His work spans strategic growth, organisation alignment, learning & development, frontline capability building and education. He has also worked extensively as a consultant and advisor to SMEs and start-ups. He has a deep passion for making learning meaningful, relevant and impactful. His innovations at the forefront of using storytelling, film-based learning and technology to create capability-building solutions have consistently delivered measurable business outcomes.

Over the years, Nitin has personally trained more than 25,000 people across organisational levels and contexts. He has also been involved in the design and deployment of learning solutions that have reached more than 2.5 lakh people through his distinctive Film Based Teaching Methodology (FBTM®).

His professional journey has included working with leading organisations across sectors, including Reebok, Levi’s, Cadbury, Domino’s, Max New York Life, Bharti AXA, MetLife, ABN AMRO/RBS, Infosys, Nokia, Airtel, Times of India, NTPC, Novo Nordisk, Bausch & Lomb and HP, among others.

Nitin has also contributed to the broader education ecosystem. In 2012, he served as a member of the Planning Commission’s Sub-Committee to Strengthen Community Engagement of Higher Education Institutions and was also a member of the FICCI Committee to Develop Future Trends in Collaborative Education.

Nitin believes that “organisations don’t grow because they train people more; they grow because their people understand why their work matters.”

• Entrepreneur and strategic thinker with a strong focus on Learning & Development and organisational capability
• Pioneer in recognising the potential of video-based and film-based learning well before it became mainstream
• Passionate about connecting business intent, human behaviour and meaningful learning
• Believes that learning should not be a tick-box activity, but a strategic lever for business performance
• A strong advocate of learner-centric design, storytelling and technology-enabled learning

Career highlights

• FountHead Learning Co-founded and built FountHead around the belief that learning must be meaningful to the learner and measurable for the business. The organisation focuses on human-centric, technology-enabled learning solutions across industries.
• Early advocate of video-based learning Championed film and video as powerful learning media well before video-led learning became mainstream, developing solutions designed around storytelling and learner engagement.
• Large-scale capability building Worked with organisations to address the challenges of building capability across large and diverse workforces, with a focus on scalability, engagement and business impact.
• Innovative learning solutions Led the development of narrative-driven, film-based and technology-enabled learning interventions, including solutions for frontline and distributed workforces.
• Thought leadership in L&D Regularly writes and speaks about the blind spots in conventional training, the importance of relevance and belonging, leadership, employee engagement and the changing role of L&D.
• Business-led approach to learning Advocates moving beyond training as an HR activity towards learning as a strategic capability that helps organisations align people with business intent and drive behaviour change.