Dr. Jyuthica K. Laghate – Owner, Dr.J’s Knowledge Café
Being an overseas education Consultant and mentor, Dr. Jyuthica has wholeheartedly dedicated 15 years of her professional life to teaching English and Verbal Reasoning to students regionally, nationally and globally. She is also associated with Study abroad counseling and admission support, which are key elements of her day to day work. She has constantly been striving for student benefit, contentment and development, and has successfully placed hundreds of students abroad in prestigious universities in the US, UK and other geographical regions. Her body of work can be determined as preparing students for GRE, GMAT, IELTS to guide them comprehensively at every step of their overseas education.
She noticed a huge gap between support and information imparted by the study abroad agencies when she went to UK, 12 years ago, which eventually made her suffer in the areas of getting a potentially better ranked university and scholarship. This was the moment, when she made up her mind to start one of its kind study abroad academy that will exceptionally mold, bolster and leverage students’ dreams by imparting them an effective ladder to reach their true peak.
She is an innate leader who is a risk-taker to explore unfounded and untraveled paths. She takes her dose of inspiration from her grandfather- an extremely altruistic physician, who went all the way from Pune to rural interior of Maharashtra to serve the community for literally paltry sums of money. Dr. Jyuthica still gets inspired by his compassionate nature and will to stand by everyone, even post his demise.
Dr. Jyuthica, whose life has been a true testament of opportunity in adversity, chose a completely diverse field despite being highly qualified medico. Though she faced immense opposition and challenges, but she kept on listening to her instincts. Facing 10 long years of financial troubles and pressures to stand tall for her career choices, and despite being an able doctor, she turned to mentoring, which transformed her life for the better.
Quitting a lucrative job in UK and deciding to return to India to follow her passion of teaching and counseling, and then leaving her holistic dental practice for focusing full time on study abroad counseling, can be counted as her biggest challenge in life, which were made possible out of sheer passion she carried and her will to be an anchor in students’ lives.
While she discovered a huge void in the field of study abroad modules like GRE, GMAT and IELTS, she felt the scope for a dedicated mentor like her who could solely create a substantial positive change. For having an indefinite hunger for knowledge and sharing, this extremely compassionate mentor owns one of the only cafe conversations academy which imparts students with a unique stance to learning by creating small interactive groups which read together, grasp complex knowledge under a friendly teacher’s supervision, that is none less than fun.
Her commendable journey as a mentor has bestowed her with worthy laurels such as bagging a National rank in the prestigious National Teaching Professionals Olympiad (English) and ‘Reliance Teaching Award’, despite being an untrained teacher amidst all highly trained teachers.