823 Advizers

Aditi

Founder

P16 Partners

UC Berkeley
Harvard University Graduate School of Education - Master in Education Policy & Management

Aditi Goel brings over 20 years of nonprofit + education expertise to the work of solving critical problems around equity and opportunity. The unique multi-sector experience Aditi has from her leadership at Google (designed + launched CodeNext), the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (led Education Policy & Program), WestEd, and as a Teach for America public school teacher enables her to provide strategic advisory services through P16 Partners for clients across the social impact, education, nonprofit, private, ed-tech and philanthropic sectors. An active community member, Aditi serves as a Board Member for Girls Leadership (National Board Member) and Teach for America - Bay Area. She is a 2022 National Voices Fellow (50CAN Fellowship), has been named as a 2021 Woman of Influence, has been recognized by Who's Who as one of 2020's Top Executives in Nonprofit & Education and received the Silicon Valley Business Journal's 2019 Silicon Valley Community Impact Award.
UC Berkeley - Social Sciences

UC Berkeley - Social Sciences

Education
Nonprofit, Foundations & Grantmaking
Entrepreneurship and Business Owner
Philosophy

Q1Career path

Networking

Career Exploration

Job Search Strategies

2:07

"Your career center is an untapped resource that college kids don't use enough of."

Q2Main responsibilities

Career Pivoting

Nonprofit

Education

1:08

"my roommate was applying to Teach for America, and I thought, great, I love kids. I love teaching and it's two years of job security, so let me apply. And I got in."

Q3Day in the life

Networking

Business Development

Client Relations

1:41

"there's just a lot of, um, like current client work as well as like doing the work to make sure that I have like a continuous business pipeline."

Q4Most important skills - role

Meetings

Communication

Executive/Leadership

1:17

"I get to make it what I want, and so it's very intentional and it's designed by me."

Q5Favorite parts - role

Project Management

Problem-Solving

Confidence

1:21

"confidence in yourself and what you can do for a client or a customer"

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Autonomy

Entrepreneurship

Leadership

1:10

"I love that I get to be the captain of my own ship."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Work-Life Balance

Decision-Making

Entrepreneurship

1:10

"My biggest challenge as an owner of my own business is figuring out what I wanna say yes and no to in terms of work."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Community Development

Nonprofit

Education

1:17

"I'm a fervent believer in the power of public education. I think it is at the core and heart of communities."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Collaboration

Problem-Solving

Public Education Advocacy

1:08

"You gotta have a fervent belief in the power and promise of public education."

Q10Entry-level positions

Overcoming Challenges

Achieving Goals

Career Exploration

1:10

"I wish someone had sort of assured me that not knowing and being open to possibilities, um, was actually the key to the career success that I've had."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Program Associate Roles

Nonprofit Careers

Entry-Level Jobs

1:17

"There's a lot of entry level work with titles like program associate, project associate, site coordinator."

Q12College ideas for success

Executive/Leadership

Overcoming Challenges

Resilience

1:39

"There are no mistakes. Even the big screw ups have totally prepared me for the work I'm doing now."

Q13How identity impacted career

Openness to Experiences

Confidence

Career Exploration

2:01

"I think the fact that I was open, open to friendships, open to like living situations, open to majors, um, open to like just different ex life experiences, um, I think that like really helped give me a sense for who I am, when I'm away from home, um, what I'm interested in and not"

Q14Advice for social science majors finding their first job

Overcoming Challenges

Networking

Career Development

2:30

"it's made me have to lean into like myself, my own motivation to like seek things out, to take initiative, to attend things, to develop myself"