Aarti Kukreja

Chief Executive Officer & International Education Expert at BlueBox Consulting
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Rahul Pandit

Applying to universities for undergraduate studies is a very important and tedious task, especially for pursuing pre-medical studies. I worked with Ms. Kukreja for about a year, and she helped me build a competitive profile. The sessions on writing essays were the most important. In these sessions, she guided me on how to approach each and every part of a question and exposed me to important essay writing strategies that helped me write good and appealing essays. Due to her experience, I was also able to understand what a good essay is and how it is supposed to present my story. She also gave many important and insightful pointers that enabled me to make the essays better. Her understanding nature also enabled me to talk to her comfortably and without hesitation. Her supportive and optimistic nature was a big advantage, and I am very thankful for her support and guidance.

Rohit Kattekola

Admitted with scholarships at Duke Fuqua ($30k scholarship) and Dartmouth Tuck ($30k scholarship) for the Full-Time MBA Program (Class of 2025) After researching a multitude of options for admissions consultants online I decided to go ahead with Aarti as she was recommended to me by one of my batchmates who got into Wharton the previous admit cycle. And this turned out to be an excellent choice for me. Right from the get-go Aarti was extremely involved and interested in getting to know my story and spent a lot of time brainstorming and gathering professional and personal accomplishments from my journey thus far that can be effectively showcased in an essay. Post the storyboarding, she also helped me pick relevant stories for each of the schools’ essays and worked with me tirelessly to ensure that the essays I was submitting were the best possible versions. Post the application submissions, the mock interviews she had conducted also helped me immensely in fine-tuning my story and being more articulate in my answers. Throughout the process, she was extremely flexible with the timelines and helped with a few tasks on extremely short turnaround times. All of this work resulted in interview invites from Kellogg, Booth, Tuck, and Duke eventually leading to admits from Duke and Tuck with a $30K scholarship from each She was also extremely supportive of my choice of schools and encouraged me to be ambitious. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed working with Aarti throughout the process. She truly was a mentor throughout the process starting from storyboarding to scholarship negotiations and everything in between and I would highly recommend her to anyone who is looking for a mentor to navigate the daunting application process

Vikram Shah

Aarti and I have been working together to help clients get admission into top business schools for several years now. Having worked with a number of consultants, I can truly say that Aarti brings several unique qualities to the table. She takes a lot of effort to truly identify a client’s USPs and tie disparate pieces of information into a complete story. She’s also a great writer and coach. Her creativity and imagination have been invaluable on pictorial and multimedia essays, helping clients differentiate themselves while they tell their story in a most engaging manner. Undeniably, her work ethic has been a huge advantage to me and really sets her apart. She makes her self accessible and available to clients even at odd hours, and really pushes them to bring out their best. She’s extremely proactive and very efficient, and often churns documents in a matter of hours. My clients, under her guidance, have attained admits to top schools including Wharton, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, London Business School and Tuck. She’s just the sort of mentor a candidate would want in their application journey, be it to a top Business School, Graduate or Undergraduate program. I’ve learnt so much from her over these years. She has my strongest vote of support.

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Credentials

  • The Podcasting Masterclass
    LearnWorlds
    Mar, 2023
    - Sep, 2024
  • Mindfulness: Complete Life Coaching Blueprint
    Udemy
    Jan, 2023
    - Sep, 2024
  • Buddhism and Modern Psychology
    Princeton University
    Jun, 2020
    - Sep, 2024
  • Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
    Harvard Business School Online
    Jun, 2020
    - Sep, 2024
  • The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs
    University of Toronto
    Jun, 2020
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • India
    • Education Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Executive Officer & International Education Expert
      • Jan 2016 - Present

      ♣ Responsible for founding BlueBox Consulting in London and setting up the business in Mumbai with another Co-Founder after forecasting and establishing current Premium Admission Consulting trends in India along with conducting a thorough competitor analysis ♣ Creating annual and 5 year projections along with launching and sustenance strategies with marketing communications plan after setting standards and processes for operations ♣ Designing and development of various Premium Undergraduate / Masters / MBA / EXEC MBA Services along with disruptive service-provision such as building the X – Factor, providing all clients a Top School Mentor and providing a Guarantee to Admission for Global Top 50 Schools ♣ Responsible to build the website, marketing materials and build online and offline marketing communication channels to generate unique potential leads ♣ Responsible to develop mutually beneficial partnerships between GMAT / GRE Tutors to generate new quality leads. Brought 7 major partners on board along with attended various education fairs to generate over 3000 leads in year 1 with a 25% increase in lead numbers each year after ♣ Responsible to convert leads to clients and have a turnover INR 45, 000, 000 in the 1st year from a mere investment oft USD 5600 including operational costs, office rent and other miscellaneous expenses ♣ Successfully enabled a turnover of USD 100, 000 for both 2nd and 3rd year of business ♣ Helped clients secure partial Scholarships to Top Schools such as Kellogg, Cornell, Berkeley, MIT, NYU, UCLA, Columbia, Kenan-Flagler and Pratt for Masters and MBA Programs ♣ Secured Admissions to Global TOP EXEC MBA Programs such as TRIUM & UCLA, LBS Sloan Masters & NUS EXEC MBA amongst others ♣ Secured admissions to Global Top MBA Schools such as INSEAD, NYU, UCLA, Duke, MIT, UCLA, Cornell, NYU, Ross, Kellogg, IE, Rotman, NUS, Sauder, Schulich, NTU and the likes ♣ Built and managed a team of 10 Full-Time Employees and 10 contractual Consultants Show less

    • India
    • Travel Arrangements
    • Founder & Travel Expert
      • Feb 2023 - Present

      Travel Blog / Vlog sharing my extensive global travel experiences and want to build a meaningful travel community. Travel Blog / Vlog sharing my extensive global travel experiences and want to build a meaningful travel community.

    • Singapore
    • E-Learning Providers
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Admission Consulting Head & Partner
      • Nov 2021 - Present

      Generate leads, convert and provide an end-to-end Admission Consulting Service to potential Undergraduate, Masters and MBA applicants by building unique profile strategies to increase admit chances. Also, help build, strategise and provide unlimited edits for all Application documents such as LORs, Essays, SOPs, Video Essays, Application forms to Ivy League and Global Top Universities & Business Schools. Generate leads, convert and provide an end-to-end Admission Consulting Service to potential Undergraduate, Masters and MBA applicants by building unique profile strategies to increase admit chances. Also, help build, strategise and provide unlimited edits for all Application documents such as LORs, Essays, SOPs, Video Essays, Application forms to Ivy League and Global Top Universities & Business Schools.

    • Senior Admission Consultant
      • Feb 2021 - Present

      Generate leads, convert and provide an end-to-end Admission Consulting Service to potential Undergraduate, Masters and MBA applicants by building unique profile strategies to increase admit chances. Also, help build, strategise and provide unlimited edits for all Application documents such as LORs, Essays, SOPs, Video Essays, Application forms to Ivy League and Global Top Universities & Business Schools. Generate leads, convert and provide an end-to-end Admission Consulting Service to potential Undergraduate, Masters and MBA applicants by building unique profile strategies to increase admit chances. Also, help build, strategise and provide unlimited edits for all Application documents such as LORs, Essays, SOPs, Video Essays, Application forms to Ivy League and Global Top Universities & Business Schools.

    • Senior Premium MBA Admission Consultant
      • May 2019 - Present

      ♣ Helping penetrate into the Undergraduate market through innovative strategies to enable lead generation ♣ Expanding the already existing MBA service by improving standards & processes up to an international benchmark and creating new marketing strategies to increase lead generation ♣ Servicing 12 MBA clients per academic year aspiring to get admits from Harvard, Stanford and the likes ♣ Strategizing and building their holistic profiles through profile and goals assessments and building stories to help write their Essays / Letters of Recommendations and prepare them for School Interviews Show less

    • Founder
      • Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

      Selling pre-owned women wear online and donate proceeds to charity Selling pre-owned women wear online and donate proceeds to charity

    • India
    • Higher Education
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Admission Consultant
      • Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

      ♣ Enabling clients' school and program selection along with providing university specific information ♣ Strategising and building their holistic profiles through skills development and internship guidance to best present their application. ♣ Building their unique Personal Statements, Essays, Letters of Recommendations and editing it until they are ready to submit ♣ Enabling clients' school and program selection along with providing university specific information ♣ Strategising and building their holistic profiles through skills development and internship guidance to best present their application. ♣ Building their unique Personal Statements, Essays, Letters of Recommendations and editing it until they are ready to submit

    • Admission Consulting Director, India
      • Jul 2019 - Feb 2021

      ♣ Strategizing, Organising & managing all Ivy league Masters & MBA education fairs online for aspiring Indian candidates ♣ Serivicng Ivy league Masters & MBA clients aspiring to get admits from Harvard, Stanford and the likes ♣ Enabling their school and program selection along with providing university specific information ♣ Strategizing and building their holistic profiles through profile and goals assessments and building stories to help write their Essays / Letters of Recommendations and prepare them for School Interviews Show less

    • Afghanistan
    • Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Undegraduate Associate
      • Aug 2018 - Feb 2021

      ♣ Responsible to manage over 20 enrolled Undergraduate clients applying to global Top Universities such as Stanford, NYU, Yale, Princeton, LSE, NUS and the likes ♣ Enabling clients' school and program selection along with providing university specific information ♣ Strategising and building their holistic profiles through skills development and internship guidance to best present their application. ♣ Building their unique Personal Statements, Essays, Letters of Recommendations and editing it until they are ready to submit Show less

    • Head - International Education & Partnerships
      • Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

      ♣ Worked closely with the Prep Zone MD India and was responsible to produce all sales progress reports in comparison to the Singapore office ♣ Develop and implement a thorough reporting framework, ensuring appropriate and time sensitive reporting by relevant KPIs ♣ Responsible to generate revenue of $150, 000 in 2015 through Admission Consulting Services ♣ Market segmentation and New Product Development of Premium Admission Consulting Products catering to a niche target audience with an annual turnover of $250, 000 annually until Dec 2014 ♣ Responsible for lead generation, walk-ins and conversion for all targeted clients ♣ Helping all Undergraduate / Masters / MBA / PhD candidates apply to the right fit Universities / Schools for them after a thorough Profile Analysis and Brainstorming session ♣ Convert Admission Consulting candidates to client and help them brainstorm their unique story, create a strategy and give them direction to writing Essays and Letters of Recommendation ♣ Helping clients build a holistic profile by advising them their next career move by giving them employment trend insights ♣ Help edit all Essays and Letters of Recommendation and help candidate complete the Online Application process ♣ Identification and developing new partner relationships and innovative marketing strategies to increase lead generation ♣ Managing relationships with various Top B-Schools / Universities such as INSEAD, NUS, NTU, ISB, HEC Paris, ESSEC, SMU, Schulich amongst others globally ♣ Trained, directed and managed a team of 5 to assist with delivering recruitment, marketing and partnerships activities ♣ Helped clients gain Admissions into INSEAD, Kellogg, Columbia, LBS, Wharton, HEC Paris amongst others Show less

    • India
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Head of Marketing & Sales - Study Abroad
      • Oct 2013 - Sep 2014

      ♣ Conducting Admission Consulting Sessions with potential clients across all 8 Mumbai centres and telephonic and email Consultations for all 90 + centres across India ♣ Enable conversion of Mumbai-based clients to increase revenue from $300, 000 to $450, 000 annually in 1 year ♣ Responsible for lead generation and conversion for the Head Office centre as priority and enabling conversion for all other 7 centres ♣ Implemented and monitored global best practice to plan and track effective lead generation for marketing campaigns ♣ Training and leading the Test Prep, Admission Consulting, University Tie-up and Marketing teams & Sales Teams of 50 employees for 8 centers in Mumbai with a turnover of $30 million annually ♣ Relationship creation and management with 500 Universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Grenoble amongst others and Partners for University-Tie ups to create an additional turnover over of $300 million annually, profit of achieved $120 million across India with 384 students sent abroad ♣ Helping Masters clients get into Universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, NYU, RSM, St Gallen, University of Melbourne, University of British Columbia amongst others ♣ Helping MBA candidates get into Universities such as Yale, Chicago Booth, Sauder, Kings College, IE, ESSEC, NTU, Nanyang and CUHK amongst others Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Associate Director of Recruitment, South Asia
      • Feb 2013 - Sep 2013

      ♣ Creating strategic marketing plans across India for 40 events yearly to attract quality Masters / MBA candidates ♣ Maintaining relationships with various relevant partners as Princeton Review, Jamboree, IMS, Kaplan, pagalguy.com the likes ♣ Leading a team of 8 tele-callers to create lead generation through both online and offline mediums ♣ Achieving most 6-weekly-set targets of nearly $30, 000 with an annual target of $2, 30, 000 achieved ♣ Reviewing applications, interviewing and allocating scholarships to appropriate candidates Show less

    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Marketing & Sales Manager - India, Middle East & Africa
      • Sep 2007 - Feb 2013

      ♣ Responsible to market and organize 40 events annually in the above-mentioned regions ♣ Pre-assessing all candidates’ profiles registered to attend events ♣ Responsible to help candidates On-The-Day of the events understand the right-fit Schools / Universities based on their profile ♣ Achieved a sales targets of $200, 000 annually by penetrating into Indian region and obtaining clients to travel with QS events both locally and internationally ♣ Created and implemented marketing communication plans and strategic media placements for event promotions through ATL, Web, BTL and PR with £100, 000 annual budgets ♣ Identified and managed key relationships with media clients such as Washington Post, WSJ Online, Khaleej Times, Times of India, Princeton Review USA & India, Kaplan, Business Week, Independent online, bayt.com, mba.com, shiksha.com, Radio City and others Show less

Education

  • University of Kent
    Master's degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General
    2006 - 2007
  • Christ College - Bangalore
    Bachelor's degree, Mass Communication/Media Studies
    2002 - 2005

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