Muthu Kumaran is a civil engineer and a remote sensing-GIS specialist by education, a human geographer, a transdisciplinary development professional by choice, and a Radical Transformational Leadership coach by training and practice. He has been a consultant and coach since 2013 for various programmes in the domains of education, skill development, organisational development, disaster management, ecology, livelihoods, gender, disability, policy and governance, citizen science, social impact, community development and ethical leadership. He is also a student and practitioner in fostering agency, strengthening and scaling grassroots initiatives.