Before You Decide is an 8 session live course across 4 weekends, helping students understand how work, technology and higher education are changing before choosing subjects, careers or where to study.
By Class 9 or 10, stream choices begin to carry more weight. Coaching decisions start. Relatives offer examples from careers they know. YouTube supplies confident answers from people the family has never met.
The student has opinions, fears and incomplete information. The parent has experience from a labour market that has already changed. Conversations about science, commerce, humanities or studying abroad can become arguments before the family has agreed on the facts.
Before You Decide gives students eight structured conversations before they choose.
Weekend 1 examines the forces reshaping every career by 2032. The next two weekends look inside science, engineering, commerce and humanities. The final weekend applies the same method to studying in India or abroad.
The forces shaping your future are already in motion. Using data and research, this session explores how AI, geopolitics, climate change and demographic shifts will influence the world you enter and the choices you make today.
No one can predict every future job, but students can learn to adapt. This session explores the skills that will remain valuable and how to stay informed without feeling overwhelmed.
AI will not make science less important, it may make it more ambitious. This session explores the unanswered questions scientists and doctors must still solve, from disease and longevity to the brain, climate and space.
AI can generate code, designs and technical solutions but engineering goes beyond execution. This session explores how roles are changing and why problem-framing, systems thinking, and creativity will matter more.
As accounting becomes automated, commerce is not disappearing, it is evolving. This session explores how AI is reshaping finance, business and economics, which skills will lose value, and why understanding money will matter even more.
Humanities is not becoming irrelevant, it is becoming more valuable. This session explores where graduates are working, which skills are in demand, and why understanding people matters even more as AI handles more technical tasks.
Studying abroad is no longer an obvious choice. Using real data, this session compares global opportunities with staying in India, examines how geopolitics and economics are changing the equation, and helps students decide for themselves.
Studying abroad means choosing more than a university. This session examines the US, Canada, Australia, Germany and emerging destinations and how their changing domestic realities are reshaping opportunities.
Every session uses the same structure so students know how to examine a difficult question rather than wait for Shikha to settle it for them.
Students respond before seeing the evidence. This makes their starting assumption visible.
Shikha introduces a case, chart, research finding or policy change and explains what it can and cannot prove.
Students compare explanations, identify missing information and discuss trade-offs with the cohort.
Each student writes down one revised assumption, one unresolved question and the next thing to investigate.
Students begin by imagining their lives in 2032. Using the OCEANS framework, data, polls and role-play, they explore the deeper forces shaping their future.
Every student receives a Before You Decide notebook. Each session adds one set of decision notes: the student’s starting view, the evidence examined, what changed, what did not and what still needs to be verified.
After the sixth session, the student completes a summary for the next family conversation. Parents receive a short guide that helps them discuss the notes without demanding an immediate final answer.
Each weekend includes two connected live sessions. Register for one weekend at a time; the remaining weekends will open as they are announced.
“Do not choose your future from a limited map. First understand the world, then decide where you belong.”
Shikha Tomar is an IIM Calcutta graduate, economist and public policy professional with over 14 years of leadership experience across technology, finance, education and consumer businesses. Her career has taken her across industries, roles and complex challenges, from building new products to leading large teams and scaling businesses at Simpl, HDFC Life, Manipal Global Education and OneDirect. Her journey reflects a powerful lesson for young people: careers do not have to follow a straight line. Curiosity, adaptability and the courage to keep learning can open possibilities you may not yet be able to see
Register for Weekend 1