Being inclined towards mentoring and coaching since his college days, Nishant Sarawgi today is an Internationally Certified Career Coach, a Career Counsellor, an Education Consultant, a Soft Skills Trainer/Coach, an internationally Certified Happiness Coach, a CSR and Social Entrepreneurship Evangelist, and an ardent advocate of youth empowerment through personalized guidance, mentoring, and developmental interventions.

He brings a rich experience of over 12 years of assuming leadership roles in diverse professional, academic, and social assignments. He strategically leverages these varied experiences and his wide network of contacts to guide and handhold students and working professionals towards success.

He has a passion for mentoring students on academic and self-improvement matters and innovative and socio-environmentally relevant projects that not only widen their horizon and enhance their profiles, but also give them the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in society.

Over the years, Nishant has helped many students of different age groups and working professionals in discovering their true selves, setting appropriate career goals, and walking the right career paths.
Having a pleasant yet professional demeanour and embodying compassion and patience enables him to coach parents and helps enhance the parent-child relationship by bridging crucial differences.

Nishant has had the opportunity to provide consultancy to a renowned consulting firm for its key projects and initiatives related to Higher Education, R&D and Innovation Ecosystem, and Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), especially in connection with a pioneering & world-class greenfield Higher Education project of one of India’s largest business houses.

Nishant has also had a rewarding career as an international business consultant and economic development professional. He has successfully led projects and supported domestic and foreign organizations in areas of business strategy, India and international market entry, investment attraction, trade promotion, innovation, marketing, business development, and other key areas.

Further, he has shouldered key responsibilities in providing consultancy to plan and implement the innovation and industrial developmental roadmaps for certain State Governments in India.

Nishant, a mechanical engineering alumnus from R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore, founded Project Garuda during college days for building super fuel-efficient prototype cars to represent India in international competitions. Nishant has delivered talks on Project Garuda at University of Cambridge -UK, and IIT-Guwahati. His project team has won multiple awards for this innovation. Nishant was also featured in Education World as a Young Achiever for 2008.

Moreover, Project Garuda became a phenomenal success in not only raising awareness about global issues of greener technologies, energy-efficiency, and climate change, but also in inspiring many students from across India to take up similar initiatives. It garnered widespread media attention and generated a lot of intense debates among the youth. Currently, Nishant is a Mentor to the project.

He has also advised and mentored several student initiatives in India such as Project Moksha, Project Vidyottama etc. that have important socio-economic, technological & environmental relevance.

Nishant voluntarily masterminded and supported several national programs and initiatives of National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) – a non-profit organization that promoted social entrepreneurship as a viable career option among the Indian youth. He has been cited many times in leading media for his untiring efforts in promoting social entrepreneurship.

Nishant has represented India at the United Nations Youth Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York in August 2010, in which global youth leaders met and brainstormed on the UN’s ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (now called ‘Sustainable Development Goals’).

Nishant, currently an alumnus, has been a selected member of the global Sandbox community – the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers below age 30. He was also selected as a StartingBloc Fellow for Social Innovation in 2011.

Nishant believes in lifelong learning and pursuing growth opportunities for personal and professional development. From time to time, he endeavours to update his knowledge and upskill himself.

He is an Internationally Certified Career Coach by Career Development Alliance, USA.

He has completed the Executive Education Program on ‘Leading Economic Growth’, from the Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard University), USA.

Nishant is also an internationally Certified Happiness Coach.

Besides these, he has completed several other Certification courses on various topics from reputed international and Indian universities and organizations.

In his free time, when he is not reading or researching on different topics, Nishant loves indulging in 3 Ts – Tea, Tennis (watching), and Travel.

It is important to appreciate that it has not been all hunky-dory for Nishant. He has tasted a fair bit of ups and downs, boom and gloom, and successes and failures in his journey. For instance, despite having secured admission in a top European business school for its MBA program, Nishant could not pursue it due to health and other personal reasons. This was a major blow to Nishant’s long-time dream to study in a top global university overseas. But it is Nishant’s self-belief, endurance, and resilience, coupled with the help and guidance of his mentors that has kept him marching ahead in life with a positive outlook. It is his strong conviction that his experiences, learning, and understanding of the ever-changing world along with his commitment to provide value, would help people find plausible solutions to their career issues and transform their lives significantly.