There is plenty on this website about what I do. This page is a bit more about who I am, how I got here, and why I'm still so interested in the choices people make.
For almost 25 years, my work has given me a rather unusual front-row seat to people thinking aloud about their futures. Some choices look small at first, while others feel huge. Most of the time, we only realise how much they mattered years later.
I started out in education and career guidance, helping young people answer questions that seem simple at first:
After thousands of conversations, I've noticed there's usually a bigger question hiding behind all these smaller ones: How do we choose well?
That question now sits at the centre of my work. Choosing well is not the same as choosing perfectly.
We're often told to find the right career, the best university, or the perfect opportunity that will make everything fall into place. But life rarely lines up so neatly.
What interests me more is how we make thoughtful choices when we don't have all the answers, when several paths look tempting, and when expectations tug us in different directions, and no one can see the future. Choosing well needs information, but it also calls for curiosity, self-awareness, good judgment, courage, and sometimes the humility to change your mind. These are the ideas I keep returning to in my counselling, writing, and conversations.
Over the years, I've worked with more than 40,000 students in schools, colleges, and universities in India and around the world. These include students from institutions such as The Lawrence School, Good Shepherd International School, Delhi Public School, GEMS Education, United World Colleges, Oakridge and Indus, as well as IITs, IIMs, IIITs, NITs, BITS, VIT, SRM and Manipal.
Many of the students I've worked with have gone on to Ivy League schools, top global universities, business schools, art and design colleges, and some of India's most selective institutions, sometimes with full scholarships. Those results matter. But after all these years, I find myself just as interested in something you can't put on a brochure: Did the student understand why they were making that choice? Because reaching an impressive destination is not always the same as making a good decision.
Much of my work has been one-to-one, but I have also spent years speaking to groups of students, parents, teachers and professionals. I have conducted workshops and seminars in schools and colleges, trained counsellors, developed learning programmes, and worked as an evaluator and trainer for the Government of Telangana's Rural Skill Development and Employment initiatives.
More and more, I find that this is where my years of observation matter most. I still give presentations and run seminars, but I also spend a lot of time in small, informal sessions with parents and students, where people can show up as themselves and the conversation can go anywhere.
Mostly, we talk about college and careers, but the conversations wander into curiosity, ambition, decision-making, communication, and sometimes even failures, doubts, imposter syndrome, and that odd pressure to have life all figured out. That's what makes these conversations feel real and human.
Sometimes, a structured seminar turns into a free-flowing discussion when a power cut interrupts the plan. The setting might shift from a seminar room to a coffee table, but the question underneath stays the same: how do we choose well?
I am not a researcher studying choice from afar. I have always been a seeker, and my work has let me get close to the real decisions people make. After thousands of conversations with young people and families, I see choices as something living at the crossroads of education, careers, human behaviour, and everyday life.
My formal background includes postgraduate study in Education Management and English, a Diploma in Training & Development, and entrepreneurial training at the Indian School of Business.
My informal education is much less organised. It comes from books, people, classrooms, conversations, mistakes, students who surprised me, parents who challenged me, colleagues who taught me something new, and a habit of asking questions that never really goes away. I read widely - psychology, behavioural science, education, philosophy, literature, Indic thought. Often, something I read in one place helps me understand something completely different somewhere else. Those connections often spark my writing and workshops.
These days, I am interested in one question. What helps us choose well? A subject. A college. A career. A possibility. A direction. A response. A life. I don't think there's one framework that fits them all. But after 25 years of helping people make these choices, I have gathered stories, questions, patterns, and ideas that feel worth sharing.
That is what this website is for. And increasingly, I want to bring that into rooms where people are willing to think together.