Punnya Vij

Co-Founder

Delhi, India15 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of a premier education consultancy.
  • Specialized in Ivy League and Oxbridge admissions.
  • Co-host of a podcast focused on family dynamics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in educational consultancy with a focus on college admissions.

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Skills

Core Skills

College CounselingEducational LeadershipTeaching

Other Skills

intentional educationOxbridge AdmissionsIvy League AdmissionsInterview PreparationLeadershipEntrepreneurshipPublic SpeakingResearch SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)People ManagementStrategyBusiness StrategyManagementHigher EducationPodcasting

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
14 yrs
Current Experience

Kin and kindness (podcast)

Co Host

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Kin and Kindness is a fortnightly chat-show (podcast format) that is cohosted by Shubhani Oberoi, a life coach and myself, Punnya Vij, a career and college counsellor. We invite families on the show to have candid and heartwarming discussions about family dynamics that shape their career and life decisions. Through these discussions, we help families address things that often go unaddressed, thereby rekindling their bonds and purpose of coexistence, and inspiring all other families in the audience to do the same.
  • Youtube: Kin and Kindness
  • Spotify: Kin and Kindness
  • Instagram: kinandkindness_podcast

The ardee school,nfc

Head, University Guidance Centre, Ardee Schools (Delhi | Gurugram | Goa)

Mar 2018Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Established the college counselling department for ALL THREE Ardee Schools in India (New Delhi, Goa, Gurugram). Prepared annual college / career counselling planner, counselled all students from classes 8 to 12, helped them with their college essays, college choices, profile building activities and placed them in top universities worldwide, with some students having bagged 100% scholarship / financial aid awards.
  • Helped teachers write effective LORs. Conducted regular trainings for teachers.
  • Organised career and college fairs for all the schools.

Educoach services

Founder, Managing Director , Principal Counsellor

Apr 2012Present · 14 yrs · Panchsheel Park, New Delhi · Hybrid

  • Founded in 2012 by Mr. Punnya Vij, EduCoach Services is a premier education and college consultancy based in New Delhi, dedicated to empowering students through personalized academic and career guidance. Our holistic approach encompasses psycho-aptitude assessments, tailored counseling sessions, and comprehensive support for undergraduate, postgraduate (MA / Msc / MiM), MBA, boarding school, and summer school admissions, both in India and internationally.​
  • At EduCoach, we prioritize individualized attention, fostering critical thinking and self-reliance among our students. Our offerings also include specialized coaching for standardized tests such as SAT, GRE, GMAT, IELTS, and TOEFL, as well as subject-specific tutoring for curricula like IB, IGCSE, and A/AS Levels that is either provided by in-house exclusive mentors who work at EduCoach, or by partnering with some top test prep organisations that in-turn provide dedicated coaching services to students enrolled with EduCoach Services.
  • With a commitment to excellence, our students have secured admissions to prestigious colleges including Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, St Andrew's, Imperial, London Business School) in the UK ; Ivy Leagues (Harvard, Yale, etc.), Ivy Plus colleges (Duke, Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, etc.) and a few others (Parson's, Berkeley College of Music, Rhode Island School of Design) in the US; other premium colleges such as NUS (Singapore), University of Melbourne (Australia), Bocconi (Italy), SciencesPo (France), Insead (France, Singapore), HEC (France), IE (Spain) in other parts of the world. Our boarding school admits have been from schools such as Charterhouse, Millfield, Sevenoaks, Marlborough, Wellington, Gordonstoun, etc. in the UK; Institut Le Rosey, Aiglon College, CDL, Leysin in Switzerland; Philips Academy, Hotchkiss in the US; Harrow, Woodstock in India; United World College SEA in Singapore, etc.
College Counselingintentional educationOxbridge AdmissionsIvy League AdmissionsInterview PreparationEducational Leadership+13

Invest-india.com

Principal Consultant

Mar 2011Mar 2012 · 1 yr · Delhi, India

  • Invest-India.com is a specialist mergers and acquisitions company. As the principal consultant in a three member team that comprised the MD, a junior consultant and myself, I assisted the MD in advising Indian companies seeking expansion by finding potential companies for acquisition / JV / Technical Association both in India as well as abroad, as well as on advising foreign firms on India entry strategy.

D.e. shaw & co.

Associate, Financial Research

Jun 2010Mar 2011 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • DE Shaw is amongst the top hedge funds in the world. This was a campus placement from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. I was one amongst the only 5 students from college (out of 200+ applicants) to have bagged this job offer. As an associate in the financial research department, I researched, managed and compiled data that was then used by the front office in New York to devise algorithms for trade.

Independent consultant and teacher

Counselor, Teacher (Freelancer)

Apr 2007Mar 2012 · 4 yrs 11 mos · New Friends Colony

  • After receiving acclaim for being Rank#1 in Delhi (Rank# 2 All India) in CBSE Boards in Class 10 in year 2005 with 98% aggregate, and then being the School Topper (All streams) in Class 12, I became passionate to replicate my study mantra with few students from my school and in my neighbourhood in my free time. That's how I entered the education industry. After helping students blossom into their fullest potential through teaching them diverse subjects like Mathematics, Economics, Science, English, I also planned their college applications, and what courses they should be doing there. Fortunately the students that I helped went on to be among the first students who received calls from their respective colleges from their school, and that's how I decided to give shape to my passion for education by setting a formal institution, and making it my full time career. That;s how my company EduCoach Services was born in the year 2012.

Education

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

B.A. Honours — Economics

Jan 2007Jan 2010

Delhi Public School Mathura Road

AIISCE Class 12 CBSE | AIISE Class 10 CBSE

Apr 2002Mar 2007

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