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Aptitude before ambition.
Ambition without aptitude is a five-year detour. We diagnose cognitive strengths first; we let the ambitions form around them. Every other answer in the engagement flows from this opening question.
The Maison
A practice for the long view.
PEAS Career Consulting is the result of a decade-long bet: that families who think in decades — not in admission seasons — deserve an advisory practice that does the same. We are deliberately small, deliberately senior, and deliberately patient.
About the Founder
Sonali Shrivastava —
Sonali Shrivastava —
the why behind PEAS.
Sonali Shrivastava is a UCLA-certified Career Counsellor with over seven years of experience guiding students toward meaningful and future-ready career choices — paired with a corporate career that gives the work its rare second dimension.
Before founding PEAS, Sonali spent twelve years in Banking Operations, held leadership roles across reputed IT companies, and served as Director of Operations. That industry exposure is the difference between counselling from a textbook and counselling from the actual rooms students will one day walk into.
Her corporate background helps families understand what really matters: industry expectations, emerging careers, employability skills, and where the next decade of hiring is actually moving.
7+ YrsCareer Counselling
12 YrsBanking Operations
ITLeadership & Director-level Roles
UCLAExtension Global Certification
"Helping students move from career confusion to career confidence."
Our Philosophy
Three convictions we won't compromise.
PEAS is built on a handful of beliefs that, if abandoned, would turn us into the kind of coaching shop we exist to replace.
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Long-term thinking, always.
The right decision in November is rarely the right decision in February. We optimise for the next decade, not the next deadline. If a school will not be right in 2032, it is not right in 2026 either.
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Personalised, never templated.
One counsellor per student, from the first call to the final acceptance letter. No handoffs to juniors. No scripts. No essay templates. The work is bespoke because the lives are bespoke.
The Process
Five steps. One journey.
From the first phone call to the alumni network, the PEAS engagement follows a deliberate sequence — measured, not rushed, and never abandoned at admission day.
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Discovery
A 60-minute consultation with parents and student. We listen for context: family ambitions, financial reality, the student's own voice. No assessment is administered, no plan is drafted yet. We are only deciding whether to work together.
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Assessment
Validated psychometric instruments — cognitive, interest, personality. Combined with a structured family-context interview. Findings are written into a bound dossier and walked through with the family, separately and together.
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Strategy
A bespoke roadmap drafted from the diagnostic. Subject streams, degrees, target institutions, internship ladders, scholarship strategy, financial plan. Pressure-tested against ten-year industry data before it leaves the office.
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Execution
Applications, essays, interview prep, financial-aid filings — run by the senior counsellor on the case. WhatsApp access between formal reviews. Decision-day strategy when offers arrive. No critical step is delegated.
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Continuity
The engagement does not end at the acceptance letter. Annual check-ins through the first internship and graduate placement. Quarterly job-market briefings. Quiet introductions, when warranted, into the PEAS alumni network.
Certifications & Recognition
Credentialed, awarded, featured.
Every accreditation behind the practice — earned, not declared. The diagnostic instruments and counselling frameworks PEAS deploys are the same ones used by top global universities and India's leading counselling network.
UCLA Extension
Global Career Counselling Certification — academic-grade methodology in career assessment, planning and global admissions counselling.
Univariety — Gold
Gold Certified Career Counsellor under India's largest career-guidance network. Trained in psychometric interpretation, college mapping and admissions strategy.
Super Counsellor
Univariety "Super Counsellor" — a designation reserved for counsellors whose track record, family outcomes and continuing education place them in the top tier nationally.
WCK Woman of Substance
Honoured by WCK with the Woman of Substance Award — recognising sustained professional contribution to students, families and the careers ecosystem.
Featured in Femina
Profiled by Femina India as a Woman of Substance for the work PEAS does in helping students cross from career confusion to career confidence.
A Capped Annual Intake
PEAS accepts a deliberately small number of new families each year. The waitlist is honest; the engagement is uncompromised.
Tell us your case.
If PEAS sounds like the kind of practice you've been looking for, begin with a discovery session. Thirty minutes is enough to know.