Experience

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  Walking Tree

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Lead - Social Emotional Intelligence

    • Dec 2023 - Present
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Leading social emotional intelligence on the organisational and creative side including research, content creation for the brand and skills trainings at the global organisational level.

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  The SEL Lab

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Founder & Director

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Globally certified programs to build social and emotional intelligence for individuals and institutions

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  Walking Tree

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Head, Human Insights

    • Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Walking Tree is a global team across Europe, India and China building brands that come alive through deep consumer insight, research and emotions. Both the global brands- Her story and Unsaid have been built on research based on human emotion and relationships.

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  Global Youth Alliance for Kindness (GYAK)

  • Founding Member

    • Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

    Global Youth Alliance for Kindness was created at UNESCO MGIEP’s first World Youth Conference on Kindness in 2019 as 60 youth across 27 countries came together to reimagine a more just, equal and compassionate world.

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  UNESCO MGIEP

  • Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir

  • Independent Consultant

    • Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
    • Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir

    Implemented UNESCO MGIEP’s Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education (PVE-E) in regions of conflict in India under the Youth Waging Peace Program.

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  The Foundation

  • Mumbai

  • Director

    • Jul 2013 - Jun 2019
    • Mumbai

    Lead the organization and spearheaded the education program in disenfranchised parts of India including Manipur, Kashmir Valley and Andaman and Nicobar islands. The Foundation is built on the philosophy that in the long run disadvantaged parts of the world can only be economically and socially uplifted by the inhabitants of the region itself i.e. people that are ancestrally, socially and culturally linked to the land. To that end, organisation had projects in regions of India that were socially, politically and geographically disconnected from where it selected children based a rigorous five stage selection designed on not only intellect but also emotional intelligence, compassion and gave those children an unparalleled education up to employability multifaceted experience and exposure, both deep and wide. So that they return to their homelands as world class professionals who will inevitably assume the role of thought leaders and change makers.

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  Department of Economics, University of Mumbai

  • Doctoral Student

    • 2009 - 2013

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  CNBC TV18

  • Analyst & Anchor

    • Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

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  K.RChoksey Shares and Securities Pvt Ltd

  • Derivatives Research Associate

    • Dec 2008 - Jul 2009

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  Manchester Deaf Centre

  • Mentor

    • Jul 2008 - Aug 2008

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  Hindustan Times

  • Freelance writer

    • May 2005 - Aug 2007

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  UB Group

  • Summer Intern

    • Apr 2006 - Jun 2006