In addition to counseling working professionals, Joy also focuses on counseling adolescents and young adults as she has worked with many dealing with academic stress, college admissions process, family issues and peer pressure. Prior to joining Unleashing Possibilities she used to counsel children and adolescents at Snehadaan and at Samriddhi Trust. Her passion lies in volunteering at a school for 300 underprivileged students near Kolkata where she has remotely mentored older teens and also helps in fundraising.

After studying at Purdue University (1993), and Carnegie Mellon University (1997) in the United States, she applied her learnings at Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, working across cultures and countries across Asia Pacific. Joy worked with stakeholders to manage change for people working on complex, transformational projects which introduced new ways of working, performance metrics and roles. As the Change Management Manager at Deloitte Consulting, Joy led interventions to align senior client leaders to help them embrace the new changes that their organizations were introducing.

As the Asia Pacific Organizational Effectiveness Leader and Becton Dickinson’s internal university training lead, she worked with high potential individuals and groups to identify development needs, craft training plans and create a learning culture that encouraged people to invest in reskilling and growing. She personally facilitated a range of training programs across North America, Asia and Australia for managers and senior leaders to build their coaching and people development skills.

Having established new ventures over the last decade, Joy also has the skills to empathize and counsel individuals in start-up environments where the challenges and opportunities are very different than in large MNCs/traditional corporates. The most relevant experience, was when she joined as Managing Director to lead the turn-around of an executive search firm, where she provided career guidance and coached professionals to transit to new levels of responsibility across different careers and organizations.

Joy’s sincerity, equanimity, genuine concern for people and her ability to forge deep one on one bonds with people from all walks of life, makes people seek her out to discuss their problems, be it in a personal or professional capacity. Besides counseling, Joy loves to travel, read motivational books and is the ultimate experimental foodie whose travel itineraries are always set up around food!