Independent (Monica Gupta)

Monica Gupta is an independent Management Consultant working with Goonj Monica has done her schooling from Loreto Convent and St. Bede's College Shimla. She is a B.Com (H) and M.Com from University of Delhi. She is a Fellow member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. She has over twenty years of experience spreading across Industries, functions and organizations. She has deep interest in macro aspects of global economics and how they are affected by the very micro of organizational culture and individual behavior. Her exposure to more than hundred organizations culture during her stint with the Insurance industry and over one thousand students during teaching grew her curiosity towards organizational culture and human behavior. Her personal experiences in life and challenges at work in recent years turned her into a researcher, student and practitioner of contemporary management subjects of Emotional Intelligence and Wisdom based leadership and Inner development goals. She finds her passion in helping leaders/individuals understand their thoughts and emotions to resolve organizational and personal issues. Her multidisciplinary expertise makes her a unique life/ leadership coach. She has been a speaker at many conferences expressing her insights, including India GST Summit 2017 by Alankit. She was a member of the Screening Committee for National Awards on Excellence in Cost Management 2017 conducted by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. and served as an independent director on the Board of a Public company. She is a contributor to U change and is a coordinator of DIGNITY network of IDGs She finds coherence in all the diversity she has been a student of. The most profound learning being that a change in the micro can bring about a significant change in the macro. While she is on her transformational journey, she is passionate about facilitating it around her. Her dream Mag-Pro (Magical Progress) Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. came to reality in 2012 with the intent to help organizations and individuals bring about a positive change within them, which in turn contributes to the change in the bigger landscape. It was financially unviable and was closed in 2019. She is a consultant with various Non profits. Currently her main engagement is as leading learning and thriving in Goonj along with leadership development. This involves inner change and reflective learning for agile change and course correction. Goonj aims to build an equitable relationship of strength, sustenance and dignity between the cities and villages using the under-utilized urban material as a tool to trigger development with dignity, across India. It is a 25 year old organisation