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Pre-MBA industry: Other
Post-MBA industry: Consulting
3 days ago
25 May 2026 09:05
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I am a Learning and Development professional with experience in HR operations, project management, stakeholder engagement, and large scale program execution within global professional services organizations. Over the course of my career, I have built expertise in managing learning operations, driving process improvements, coordinating cross functional teams, and delivering seamless learner experiences in fast paced corporate environments.
I completed my Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Taxation) from Rajagiri College of Social Sciences in May 2020. My academic background helped me develop a strong foundation in business operations, communication, and organizational processes, while also shaping my interest in people focused functions and leadership development.
I began my professional journey with Ernst & Young in Kochi as an Associate within the CPE Team. In this role, I managed training credit processing, supported onboarding initiatives, and contributed to the team being recognized as the highest performing team. This experience introduced me to the operational side of learning and professional development and strengthened my attention to detail and process discipline.
I later moved to Bangalore to work with IBM supporting Ernst & Young as an HR Service Administrator. During this period, I worked extensively on operational reporting, dashboard management, and learner support through platforms such as Power BI and ServiceNow.
Following this, I joined Deloitte in Hyderabad within Learning Operations, where I progressed from Associate Analyst to Analyst between 2022 and May 2025. My responsibilities included managing end to end learning program logistics across hybrid environments, coordinating with vendors and leadership teams, overseeing budgets and communications, and leading process improvement initiatives. I was also recognized multiple times with Spot Awards for stakeholder management, operational excellence, and successful execution of high impact projects.
In July 2025, I joined GT INDUS, as a Senior Associate in a project and program management capacity. Although I officially joined in July, I began actively working in September 2025. Within a short span of time, I was able to quickly understand the processes, build strong working relationships across teams, and establish myself as a dependable member of the organization. My ability to adapt quickly and learn efficiently led to me being selected to train and onboard new hires, despite being relatively new to the organization myself. Currently, I manage programs end to end, coordinating stakeholders, overseeing execution, and ensuring smooth delivery across multiple workstreams.
Throughout my journey, I have consistently enjoyed roles that sit at the intersection of operations, learning, and people management. I am particularly drawn to environments that require collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Beyond my professional life, I enjoy travel, especially beaches and mountains, while also valuing quiet time at home. I believe these interests reflect my personality well, ambitious and curious, while also grounded and reflective.
- Dee
MBA admissions consultant and management consultant | E: [email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/company/success-catalysts/
Priyanka here from ARINGO. Speaking about your profile, you have a strong and well-balanced profile for your target schools. What stands out to me is the consistency in your career growth. Moving across firms like Ernst & Young, IBM, and Deloitte while steadily taking on more responsibility shows strong adaptability and maturity.
Your profile also feels broader than a typical HR or learning role. A lot of your work involves operations, stakeholder management, program execution, process improvement, and coordination across teams, which actually connects quite well with consulting if you position it properly.
Focus on:
1. Why consulting specifically?
2. What kind of consulting are you interested in?
3. Which part of your current work do you enjoy the most, people management, operations, problem solving, strategy, or project execution?
Your answers to these questions will really shape your MBA story.
Your GPA is slightly lower compared to some applicants, so your GMAT/GRE and overall application narrative will matter a lot. But European schools usually care a lot about work progression, leadership, and overall fit, not just academics.
I’d be happy to offer you a free profile review for your target programs to see where you stand and how to boost your chances, happy to help!
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Good Luck!
I would strongly encourage you to think about is whether your goals in consulting are currently too safe/generic sounding for the actual depth of exposure you may already have. Sometimes applicants from HR/L&D ecosystems undersell themselves because they do not realize how transferable their stakeholder management, organizational design, transformation, and program leadership exposure can become in post MBA environments. There is probably a much sharper and more commercially mature positioning possible here than what is currently coming through in your summary. Your movement across EY, IBM, Deloitte and now GT gives signals of progression, but you need to better structure what they allowed you to see, manage, and influence internally over time.
Feel free to reach out if you want a deeper discussion
Best wishes
Aanchal Sahni (INSEAD MBA alumna, former INSEAD MBA admissions interviewer)
Founder, MBAGuideConsulting
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Talking about your strengths: 5 years of progressive experience across EY, IBM, Deloitte, and GT INDUS, multiple promotions and increasing responsibility, stakeholder management and program execution experience, female applicant from a non-engineering background and exposure to large-scale transformation, learning operations, and process improvement within global organizations.
Weakness is the lack of clearly quantified impact. Most of your profile describes responsibilities rather than outcomes. MBA adcoms want to see numbers: budgets managed, learners impacted, efficiencies created, costs saved, adoption improved, stakeholders influenced, and more...
The missing variable here is your GMAT/GRE. Do you have a mock score?
Also, your profile is saying: "I want to move from Learning & Development to Consulting." So, adcoms will immediately ask, Why? Why now? Why are consulting firms going to hire you? A stronger positioning may be learning, talent, workforce transformation, organizational effectiveness, HR consulting, change management, or people strategy consulting. Need work here as well.
Questions you shall reflect upon and will help you while crafting your applications:
1. What specific consulting practice do you want to join?
2. Have you led any project that changed business outcomes, not just learning outcomes?
3. What is the largest budget, team, or program you have managed?
4. Have you influenced senior leadership decisions?
5. Have you mentored, coached, or developed others beyond your formal role?
6. Why MBA instead of progressing further within L&D or HR?
The combination of global professional services experience, stakeholder management, program leadership, and a non-traditional background can stand out if positioned correctly. The key will be to transform your story from "learning operations professional" into "future organizational transformation leader."
You can take a look at these success stories: Ms. Assistant Manager, got into INSEAD(20K € Scholarship) and IESE with a 680 GMAT Score! | 625 GMAT Focus | 10 YOE | Received admits from INSEAD & HEC Paris | Mr. Finance Advisor, GMAT- 670 (IESE, ESADE & SDA BOCCONI)
We are happy to learn more about your academic background, extracurricular activities, work experience, and personal journey so that we can provide a tailored profile evaluation and an honest school assessment. Please feel free to book a evaluation session from here.
Cheers!
Shantanu Sharma, INSEAD Alumnus
Founder and Admissions Consultant, MBA and Beyond