About

My Educational and Professional Passions

I have Masters and Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Toronto, Canada; and Bachelors and Masters in Science from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India.

I am a Shastri Indo-Canadian fellowship recipient selected to conduct research on women and teacher education in India; and University of Toronto Academic Scholarship recipient for Doctoral Studies for the highest GPA.

I have always had an entrepreneurial mindset and applied this mindset to every professional role I held with success and impressive ROI if I may say so . For example, from proposing to implementing to leading an Institutional Research Department; creating and leading multi-campus Academic Operations department by aligning multiple individual units; conceptualizing and establishing Service Level Agreements between campuses and satellite sites across 92 locations serving 100K students; creating and launching 40+ online certificate programs in 90 days.

A few years back, when my professional career took an unexpected turn, I used the opportunity to do the things that I always wanted to do such as start an educational nonprofit to serve underprivileged children across the world, establish a small business of my own. While doing these things, I enjoyed starting a Gestational Diabetes Awareness campaign, completing a Business Leadership Certificate from Cornell University, and a PMP Certification. And more importantly, spending invaluable time with my husband and my daughter and son!

As a business and social entrepreneur, I struggled with online marketing and social media. I found myself wasting more than a year in frustration, fear, and anxiety. That frustration stemmed from my lack of knowledge and tools available that could grow my small business. Finally, I empowered myself by investing high amounts of time and resources.

Over three years, I dove into the digital marketing world to develop an in-depth understanding of the most beneficial practices including social media marketing. This deep dive helped me build a solid foundation of digital and social media marketing. In this period, I opened an E-Commerce store, published an E-book, grew an Email list; and co-partnered in a Local Digital Marketing Agency (www.vanguardsynergy.com).

Now I bring my professional and entrepreneurial expertise to local and small business educational institutions and professionals to digitally market their knowledge, services, and products to intended audiences in a value-driven approach. I provide them with information, tools, services, and peace of mind in marketing their expertise digitally and through social media networks. And I enjoy volunteering and mentoring at SCORE https://foxvalley.score.org/ as a Digital Marketing Subject Matter Expert.

WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE

If you have a passion for University or higher education academics, leadership, digital marketing and changing the world, this is the place for you. This site is devoted to writing about leadership, University, higher education academics and leveraging digital marketing to help our students, employees, colleagues, and organizations to do their best, so we all become positive contributors to our communities and the world. This site is in its infancy, but we can build a community here. Come to the blog, and let’s talk.

Or maybe you’d like to be a bigger piece of the story. Are you interested in being a guest University Academic Leader blogger? Do you have an idea you’d like to share and help build a collection? If so, I’d love to hear from you.

Looking forward getting to know you better!

Have a wonderful day