Helping people and organisations grow – with clarity.
Soft Skills | Career Counseling | Corporate Trainings | Personality Development | Psychometric Assessments
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We Provide a range of services to cater to the needs of students, parents, working professionals, educational institutions and corporate houses
About Us
Since 2017, we’ve helped thousands of students, professionals, and organisations make better decisions about people and direction — through honest, science-based counselling, assessment, and training. Recognised by Silicon India as one of the 20 Most Promising Workforce Development Service Providers.
Why A&B?

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Experience & Expertise
We believe Expertise & Experience go hand-in-hand. Our core team has a combined experience of >30 years & each of our consultants are hand-picked with a minimum experience of 10 years!
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Personalized & Value Driven Services
One size doesn’t fit all! All our services are completely personalized & delivered with personal touch! We focus on providing value based services resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction!
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Highly Rated
Within a short span of time, we have become one of the most sought after destinations for Career Counseling, Soft Skills training & related services. Google ratings show that we are one amongst the top 3 service providers in Bengaluru!
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Quality & Affordability
We employ stringent quality measures to ensure high-quality services are delivered to you. Since we are a small organization, we can afford to provide cost effective, but quality solutions!
Meet Our Founder

Srinath Deshakulkarni
Srinath is a career counsellor and leadership-development practitioner with over 27 years of experience across education and the corporate world. For 11 of those years he was at IBM, serving as a Senior Industry Consultant and Global Compliance Lead, working with international clients across the USA, Europe, China, and India. Prior to that he had spent around 8 years in education field.
That rare combination – deep corporate experience alongside hands-on counselling & training – shapes everything Academics & Beyond does. Over his career, Srinath has personally guided and trained more than 11,000 students and professionals. He holds an MPhil from Bharathidasan University and a postgraduate degree from Bangalore University, has presented at national and international conferences, holds a patent & serves as a Managing Trustee of the Cancer Gyan NGO.
His philosophy is simple: the best decisions start with understanding yourself honestly. It’s the foundation of the ALIGN framework — and of Academics & Beyond itself.
