Rashan Senanayake

Founder & CEO | Inspired Education Australia

Rashan is changing education in not only the design industry, but also in the transition of students from secondary to tertiary education. He is the founder and CEO of Australia’s leading professional development in 21st century education institute – Inspired Education Australia.

In addition to this, Rashan is also the Founder and Design Director for Inspired Design Australia, servicing and helping other entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses with ‘Design for Business’.

Rashan was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia when he was 10 years old. During his secondary education, Rashan was set and taking steps to become a registered Architect. He graduated in (Design) Architecture with first class honours from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2011 and completed his Master in Architecture in the top 10 of his year level in 2012. However, shortly after Rashan’s career changed when he left conventional practice to pursue his various business ventures.

Since then, Rashan has developed a reputation for his entrepreneurial thinking and leading a variety of projects in a wide variety of fields and industries. He is now known as a published author – selling globally “Inspired Success: Designing Your Own Definition of Success”, an international public speaker who has delivered widely received content to universities internationally as well as many conference seminars, keynotes, lectures, and much more. He has been featured on a variety of podcast shows as well as been published in various design journals in Australia. Rashan’s podcast ‘Inspiring Design’ is now a top 200 education podcast in the world as well as known as the no. 1 design education resource for schools around Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

In addition to this, Rashan is also an academic delivering tutorials and lectures in Design, Design Thinking and Architecture at QUT. He is also an Associate Fellow recognised by the High Education Academy, Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum (WEF), part of the United Nations Young Professionals (UNYP) (Queensland Chapter) and was the youngest board member of the Australian Green Development Forum (AGDF) previously.