Who am I? I’m Kruti - a native Texan (I love my homes of Houston and Austin equally!) currently living in Brooklyn. I’m a former management consultant, and for the last 3 years, have been helping grow a network of high-performing public startup schools in underserved areas of the Bronx. I am about to start my next adventure: getting my MBA at Chicago Booth. There, I will focus on my interest in building and scaling a new generation of sustainable nonprofits that provide direct services to children and families while also influencing broader public policy.

I’ll also be using this time away from work to pour into the things that bring my endless joy: spending more time with my family (happy to talk about being the only person in your family that lives in a different place!), making up new recipes and feeding all the people in my life, and all things yoga/hiking/boxing.

Why am I here? Mentoring is incredibly personal to me because I did not find real mentors in my life until my mid-twenties. I know the challenges of finding people with the right experience to guide you, and know that this depends heavily on the complex combination of who you are, where you come from, and where you're trying to go.

If I can be a part of your journey, just as many have been for me, I would be thrilled!

• Navigating or pivoting into the social impact/non-profit/education space
• Preparing for interviews, editing resumes & essays, and networking and successfully telling your “why”
• How to think about building out/growing a small team
• Pitching for and securing non-profit funding
• Learning how to be an effective new manager/organization leader and navigating management challenges (including managing up to a CEO)
• Helping you build out your support system - who are the players, what role do they play in your life, who is missing, and how do you find them?
• Connecting you to others in my Network who can also support you (I will most certainly not know everything, but I am fortunate to have an amazing circle of friends and teammates who will fill in my gaps!)

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• Picking up your life and building it anew elsewhere
• Choosing a different life path than one expected of you by your family
• Navigating and rising to leadership as a woman or South Asian
• Figuring out what a meaningful post-college life for you looks like
• Interracial/intercultural relationships
• Time management and prioritization for both work and personal life
• Transitioning to a plant-based diet in a healthy way

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• Who you need me to be. I can be a sounding board, give advice, bring you structured exercises/activities to help you explore a certain topic — anything! And if you don’t know what you need from me, I can help you figure that out too.
• Deeply committed. If I can’t help you directly with a situation, challenge, or opportunity, I will find someone who can.
• A thought partner in thinking through how to get to your next step / how to solve a problem.

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