founded by Allyson Dhindsa

I’ve worked in career development for over a decade now. First, at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, then at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and most recently, at the Stern School of Business at New York University. After graduating from college, though, I had no clue what I wanted to do. So, like many of the students I meet with, I experimented until I figured it out. I started at a non-profit and then found myself falling in love with the restaurant industry in Manhattan. But after two years of working at Eleven Madison Park, I determined that hospitality wasn’t the right type of service for me. So, I got my master’s in clinical social work, and purely, by happenstance, fell into career development. It wasn’t until I discovered Positive Psychology, though, that everything clicked.

To me, Positive Psychology wasn’t just a social science, but a way of life. My capstone research at the University of Pennsylvania culminated in Circle—a program that could both scale the traditional model of one-on-one advising and provide a space where students and alumni could speak openly about their deeply held ambitions while forming lasting connections.