In a quiet town called Melattur in Kerala’s Malappuram district, a revolution in education and enterprise quietly unfolds; and, at the heart of it is Aisha Sameeha. A woman who is reshaping the way we think about learning, leadership, and life itself, for a world that moves forward on innovation. Aisha Sameeha is a design thinking consultant and she is transforming the science of design into a tool for human potential. 

In the last six years, she has trained over 20,000 children across 15 countries, guided students from more than 180 colleges, and helped corporate professionals rediscover their creative edge. One can say that Aisha is redesigning a professional mindset with insight, empathy, and a deep understanding of how minds work.

The Accidental Innovator

Aisha’s first professional chapter was in software engineering. But marriage and motherhood took her away from the tech corridors and into domestic life. For ten years, she poured her creative energy into fusion cooking, home gardening, designing clothes, and raising her two children in a foreign country. What looked like a career break was, in fact, a season of observation, experimentation, and quiet reinvention. 

The real shift came when she started tutoring her own children. As word spread and more children began attending her informal classes, she noticed something interesting. Children learned best not by memorising, but by doing. She had an epiphany, “What if education could feel like play, and still build intelligence?” 

That spark gave birth to her first innovation: activity-based coding education for young children.

With an intention to be a more responsible and loving parent, Aisha found herself immersing in the study of child psychology. She pursued Montessori education to better understand how children learn. “If you can understand the mind of a child,” she says, “you can understand anyone.” 

Her experience of interaction with young learners sparked a powerful idea; that learning could be transformed through experience and engagement. She began developing her own coding tools to make complex subjects simpler, more intuitive, and even joyful. This led to the creation of AI-Share Pedagogy, a patented coding syllabus and learning framework built entirely by Aisha. She even secured a patent for it. 

What started as a home grown experiment soon caught the attention of educators and policymakers alike. She was awarded by the Central Government, honoured by the Sri Aurobindo Society, and received the MHRD Innovation Award from IIT Delhi. In 2020, she officially registered her startup, Coderfin, under the Kerala Startup Mission. It was, in many ways, the formal beginning of a journey that had been years in the making. 

As the founder, mentor, and lead trainer, Aisha pioneered a model that made coding accessible to children as young as three, by integrating tools, technology, language, and storytelling into the process. Students were learning not only coding but also writing poems, narrating stories, and expressing ideas within a digital framework. More than 10,000 children have trained under her model, and many have gone on to conceptualising their own entrepreneurial ideas. Aisha also trained over 50 teachers, turning them into online mentors, and today reaches learners in over 15 countries.

From Coding to Critical Thinking

In the thick of the COVID-19 lockdowns, as the world paused, Aisha Sameeha found herself asking a fundamental question, “Why aren’t we teaching children how to think?” 

This question sparked her next major innovation — Design Thinking and Analysing, a structured methodology aimed at unlocking hidden talents in young minds. Aimed towards children aged 10 and above, the program is designed to do more than improving academic performance. It identifies core aptitudes across domains like engineering, IT, automobile design, aeronautics, and environmental science. Aisha and her team of over 20 freelance educators conduct interactive sessions, hands-on activities, and deep-dive group discussions to help students uncover their strengths.

Aisha believes that the first step to excellence is self-awareness. “Once a child’s skill is identified, the path forward becomes clearer,” she says. And that’s exactly what her program enables; clarity, purpose, and momentum. The model is primarily delivered online, but she also partners with schools and colleges to conduct training and workshops. 

In the program’s initial phase, over 200 students were guided towards more aligned academic and career pathways. You can say that this is a quiet revolution against a conventional system that is often criticised for its one-size-fits-all approach. Furthermore, several educational institutions, including Bahrain’s BGC, Providence College Kozhikode, Devagiri St. Joseph’s, MES College, and Malabar College Vengara, have formalised partnerships with her through MOUs. These collaborations allow for sustained engagement, with ideation-based sections and innovation-driven programs now part of the curriculum.

Empowering Women, Building Businesses

An initially aimed to be a student-centric initiative has now grown to include school-goers, women re-entering the workforce, and aspiring entrepreneurs looking to redirect their careers.  She worked with Kudumbashree units, SMEs, and corporations, helping over 2,000 women identify entrepreneurial strengths and launch ventures.  She has helped them take their first steps into the world of entrepreneurship with many of them launching successful ventures of their own. 

Aisha has organised job fairs, workshops, and hackathons across multiple colleges, helping students transition from idea to action. These platforms have sparked entrepreneurial journeys, empowered professionals in transition, and birthed business leaders of the future. To date, over 25 companies have undergone rebranding and product diversification through her method. Many of them credit Aisha’s framework as the spark that turned their inertia into innovation.

To Sum It Up

 Aisha Sameeha’s journey, from a homemaker to a nationally recognised entrepreneur a powerful story of resilience, reinvention, and relentless innovation. Today, she stands at the juncture of education and business, shaping both minds and markets with equal ease. She has collaborated with the most dynamic platforms in the business ecosystem. This includes Kerala Startup Mission, Tamil Nadu Startup, Business Network International (BNI), TiE Kerala, and the Women Entrepreneurs Network (WEN). Yet, even as she works with seasoned professionals and emerging founders, her commitment to nurturing young minds through value-based education remains unwavering.

As the world accelerates into the AI era, Aisha is already building what comes next. You can see her Designing next-gen courses to cultivate innovative teachers and future-ready thinkers. Because for Aisha, innovation is not just a destination. It’s a mindset. And the future, she believes, belongs to those who are ready to design it.