About Yaan Solutions

FOUNDER • COACH • MENTOR

Meet Smita Vikhankar

ICF Certified Life Coach • Ceekr Mind Mastery Mentor • Career Guidance Professional

Smita Vikhankar is an ICF Certified Life Coach, Mind Mastery Mentor, career guidance professional, trainer, and founder of Yaan Solutions.

With a background that combines multi-national corporate leadership experience, emotional intelligence facilitation, coaching, and structured career guidance, she works with students, parents, professionals, and individuals navigating important transitions and decisions.

Her work integrates psychometric assessments, reflective conversations, emotional awareness, and practical career planning to help people move from confusion to greater clarity and confidence.

Through workshops, counseling sessions, and mentoring conversations, she has guided individuals and families across diverse career and personal growth journeys.

Career Guidance Life Coaching Emotional Intelligence Mentorship Workshops

GUIDANCE • COUNSELING • MENTORSHIP

The People Behind the Guidance

Yaan Solutions brings together counselors, coaches, facilitators, educators, and mentors who believe meaningful guidance begins with empathy, listening, and structured support.

Global Career Counselor

Shilpa Vadnerkar

Shilpa Vadnerkar works closely with students and parents through career guidance, academic mentoring, and structured counseling conversations that support clarity, confidence, and informed decision-making. With over a decade of teaching experience, she is passionate about strengthening conceptual understanding while supporting the overall development and emotional well-being of students. She holds Masters degrees in Psychology and Commerce, along with Diplomas in Counselling and Business Administration, and is a certified Global Career Counselor through UCLA Extension and Univariety. Her understanding of Indian and international education systems, academic pathways, graduation streams, and higher education opportunities enables her to guide students through meaningful career exploration aligned with their strengths and aspirations.

Assessment & Learning Facilitator

Ankita Gapchup

Ankita Gapchup works with students and parents through personality assessments, guidance conversations, communication facilitation, and learner-centered mentoring. As a certified counselor for personality assessments, her work at Yaan Solutions focuses on helping individuals better understand their behavioural patterns, strengths, learning styles, and communication tendencies through structured interpretation and supportive conversations.

She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics and has also studied Developmental Psychology. Ankita is an experienced French and Mandarin educator and has taught in Flames and Symbiosis universities.

She is the founder of CultureMax, a language-learning initiative focused on interactive and engaging learning experiences, through lanugague and cultural nuances.

Counseling, Psychotheapist & Student Support

Rohini Sonavane

Rohini Sonavane works with individuals through emotionally aware, reflective, and supportive counseling conversations that focus on self-understanding, emotional healing, and personal growth. Her approach is rooted in empathy, mindful listening, and creating safe spaces where individuals feel supported while navigating emotional patterns, life transitions, stress, and inner growth processes. At Yaan Solutions, she contributes to emotional wellness support, student guidance conversations, and human-centered mentoring initiatives aligned with the organization’s belief that emotional well-being is an important part of meaningful growth and decision-making. Rohini’s work reflects a calm, compassionate, and reflective approach that encourages individuals to reconnect with clarity, emotional balance, resilience, and self-awareness.

OUR STORY & APPROACH

A More Personal Introduction to Yaan Solutions

Conversations, reflections, and the thinking that shape how we work with students, parents, professionals, and institutions.

Watch the Yaan Solutions Story

A short introduction to the ideas, experiences, and conversations that continue to shape the work we do.

THE YAAN APPROACH

Guidance That Balances Structure and Empathy

Meaningful guidance requires more than information. It requires emotional awareness, structured thinking, reflective conversations, and the ability to see possibilities clearly.

Structured Guidance

Decisions become clearer when aptitude, interests, emotional realities, family context, and future opportunities are considered together.

Human-Centered Conversations

Guidance should feel empathetic, collaborative, and reflective rather than transactional or prescriptive.

Beyond Assessments

Assessments are only one part of the process. Reflection, interpretation, and meaningful conversations create clarity.

Emotional Intelligence Matters

Career and life decisions are deeply emotional. Emotional awareness and resilience are essential life skills.

REFLECTIONS & TESTIMONIALS

Conversations That Create Clarity

Meaningful guidance creates more than decisions. It creates confidence, emotional clarity, and thoughtful conversations.

Parent Feedback

“The sessions helped our child think with greater confidence and reduced confusion significantly.”

Workshop Reflection

“Smita brings emotional intelligence and practical clarity together in a grounded and thoughtful way.”

Coaching Experience

“Meaningful conversations do not just happen. The environment created during the sessions made reflection easier.”

Human-Centered Guidance
Built on Clarity, Empathy,
and Meaningful Conversations

Meet Smita Vikhankar