About Me
I strongly believe a good facilitator uses tools and activities well but a great facilitator must do four critical things:
Invest in learning about the client’s context, aspirations and needs
Listen deeply and create a safe learning environment
Ask powerful questions to create breakthrough moments
Accompany the client on their learning journey
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Listen to my conversational podcast on facilitation practices Doing Being Doing
With over two decades in the global social impact sector, I had the opportunity to work with teams, communities and organizations solving complex social problems.
These learning journeys helped me understand organization building challenges as well as programmatic gaps in diverse contexts such as youth leadership in rural India, designing employability and skilling programs, teaching facilitation to groups of educators, professors, climate campaigners and program leaders, working closely with young entrepreneurs in strengthening their product development, advisory roles in developing blended learning models to scale impact and more.
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In two decades, I repeatedly noticed that trainings and workshops can help teams understand a concept, feel motivated by frameworks and case studies, find peer networks with shared needs and struggles - all of which are important - but I was curious about what changed in their everyday interactions with stakeholders, how a strategy was adopted, how a program was delivered and finally, what these experiences meant for the individual on the dance floor.
In my journey I have worked with C-suite leaders, country directors of global organizations, upskilled passionate and gritty campaigners and facilitated teams for greater strategic cohesion and culture building.
My Clients
My career on a timeline
2024
Independent Consultant to social impact orgs in Global South
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Creator and host of Doing Being Doing, a conversational podcast on human centered experiences
Building ‘Center for Includability’ for Enable India
2018 - 2024
Led program development of She Creates Change by Change.org Foundation, an immersive, experiential women’s leadership program enhancing skills to run digital campaigns
Expansion into India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Prototypes in Argentina, Turkey
Program spin off as an independent initiative
Co founder & President of Nguvu Collective
Empanelled mentor for the 2024 Social Entrepreneurship Programme delivered by LSE Generate & IPAM
2016 - 2021
Led capacity building engine at Quest Alliance, led annual staff retreat for 10 years
Developed MasterCoach, a blended learning course for facilitators
Prototypes of leadership program for mid management of CSOs
Led concept, agenda and facilitation of Quest to Learn Summit for 5 years
Level 1 certification in Fulfillment Coaching Model, International Coaching Federation
2012 - 2015
Built a hyperlocal network of 300 facilitators in Bangalore
Founder of Educators Collective
Ignite Fellow for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Designed and delivered Oxfam International’s Digital Accelerator Program
Prototypes of Campaign Bootcamp for change.org
Annual staff retreats for CSOs in India
2010 - 2012
Program development at Dream a Dream
2008 - 2010
Adventure educator working on youth leadership
2008
Grade A, Basic Mountaineering Course, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
2004 - 2008
PR & media strategists at Perfect Relations & Genesis BM
2002
Graduates from Delhi University
2001 - 2004
Part time, side hustles in KPOs/BPOs/real estate
