Vishal co-founded Dream a Dream along with 11 others. Dream a Dream is a non-profit empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in the 21st century using a creative life skills approach. Dream a Dream works with 10,000 young people a year; have trained over 8000 teachers/educators impacting over 200,000 children and young people and impact over 1 Million children through the Happiness Curriculum in partnership with the Delhi Government.

Vishal is an Ashoka Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow, a Salzburg Global Fellow and a Board Member at PYE Global. He has previously been a Founder Director of Unltd India and Board Member of India Cares Foundation. Vishal has been recognized as an “Architect of the Future” by the Waldzell Institut in Austria. In 2018, he was awarded the ‘Heroes of Bengaluru’ award. More recently, he was recognized as Innovator of the Year (2019) by HundrED.