Omika J.

Omika Jikaria

Transform Your Life with a Life Coach / Startup Operator / Dartmouth MBA

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Admissions Committee at Tuck School of Business

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Works at Outset AI

Available Sunday at 4:00 PM UTC

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Omika's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $150/hr

Get help with Personal Growth, Mindfulness, and .

Omika also coaches for MBA, Break Into AI Careers, and Career Coaching. View all.

Omika’s Life Coaching Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Experience level: Director

I’m a certified life coach, yoga/meditation teacher, and energy healing practitioner, with a Dartmouth MBA and over a decade of experience in high-pressure environments (management consulting, nonprofits, VC-backed startups). I combine life & career clarity work with nervous system regulation and contemplative practice. Over the years, I’ve observed a pattern: ambitious people who know something needs to change but feel too scattered, anxious, or dysregulated to act on it. They have clarity but no capacity. Or capacity but no clarity. What former clients say: "In just 4 sessions with Omika, I was able to make strides in areas I've been stuck in for years. I reframed thought processes that weren't serving me, expanded my mindset, and built confidence. These results were beyond anything I had expected from coaching.” — Management Consultant “Omika helped me navigate mindset shifts during a big life transition and overcome imposter syndrome effortlessly." — Cardiologist “Omika strikes the perfect balance of giving her input and perspective where necessary but also allowing space for clients to come to realizations on their own." — Corporate Attorney I work with operators, founders, consultants, and ambitious professionals who are: * Navigating career transitions or pivots * Feeling misaligned or stuck * Ready to take on their next massive professional challenge * Committed to building sustainable success > chasing impressive titles My sessions integrate: Life & career coaching (clarity, decision-making, values alignment, tactics) with meditation and regulation practices (nervous system capacity, breathwork, embodiment, presence under pressure).

Omika can help with:

Personal Growth

Mindfulness

Stress Management

Goal Setting

Resilience

Self-Reflection

Work-Life Balance

Communication Skills

Time Management

Omika also coaches for MBA, Break Into AI Careers, and Career Coaching. View all.

About Omika

Hi, I’m Omika! I'm a mission-driven leader with 10+ years of experience across tech, consulting, startups, and the nonprofit sector. I’ve successfully navigated multiple career and geographic pivots, and I’m passionate about helping others do the same with clarity and confidence. As a Dartmouth Tuck MBA admissions interviewer, I’ve conducted over 50 interviews, gaining a deep understanding of what top programs look for. As a seasoned communications coach, I’ve worked with professionals to uncover their unique stories, distill powerful insights, and present themselves authentically and compellingly — whether for business school, career transitions, or thought leadership.

Why do I coach?

I coach because I believe everyone has a unique set of gifts that can shape their personal and professional lives in profound ways. Unfortunately, years of social conditioning often teach us to silence our intuition and individuality. My mission as a coach is to help you reconnect with your highest self, rediscover your authentic strengths, and take aligned action toward your goals and dreams. Alongside my professional background, I am also a certified yoga and meditation teacher, holistic life coach, and Reiki energy healing practitioner. I’m passionate about blending Western and Eastern wisdom to support you in thriving — not just surviving — whether in business school, your career, or personal life.

Work Experience

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GTM

Outset AI

August 2025 - Present

Early employee #13. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, incl. Y Combinator, 8VC, Radical Ventures, M12 (Microsoft's VC Fund), Adverb Ventures.

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Entrepreneur in Residence

Purpose Built

June 2024 - May 2025

I joined Purpose Built as a Founder to explore, validate, and launch ventures at the intersection of brand marketing, e-commerce, and digital infrastructure. I took two business concepts from 0-to-1 as Founder & CEO: • A platform to help online creators monetize and grow their brands • A solution enabling emerging CPG brands to scale distribution and marketing From deep user research to MVP testing, go-to-market experiments, and pilot launches, I ran the full playbook - customer interviews, market sizing, acquisition funnels, and iterative improvements based on real-world traction. I sourced & onboarded 100+ customers and 10+ partners. Learned so much, and reaffirmed my passion for building things from scratch.

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Senior Consultant

Innosight

2021 - 2024

Innosight is a growth and innovation consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma." As the leading expert on disruptive innovation and strategic transformation, Innosight empowers forward thinking organizations to navigate disruptive change and own the future. Project highlights: future-back growth and innovation strategy for a multinational consumer foods conglomerate; capabilities innovation for a major global beverage company; strategy diagnostic for a multinational aerospace/defense company

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MBA Internship

ZX Ventures

2020 - 2020

ZX Ventures is the global growth incubator, innovation arm, and venture capital fund of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s leading brewer.

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Senior Associate

IDinsight

2017 - 2019

IDinsight helps international development practitioners maximize their impact. Clients include the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations, state governments and think tanks in India, national Ministries across Africa, and GiveWell/Good Ventures. As one of the first members of the Global Operations team (and very first person hired into my role), I was a part of growing IDinsight from 60 to 150+ employees and to eight offices worldwide (incl. in India, Zambia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and the Philippines).

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Microfinance Fellow

Kiva

2016 - 2017

Kiva is a fintech social enterprise that has deployed over $1.3 billion in capital to over 3.2 million borrowers, contributed by more than 1.8 million lenders, in 78 countries. As the sole on-the-ground representative of Kiva in Cambodia, I managed relationships and capacity building for a $4.8 million portfolio across three partner microfinance programs (KREDIT Microfinance Institution, Hattha Kaksekar Limited, and iDE Cambodia) in education, agriculture, vulnerable communities, clean water, solar energy, sanitation, and small businesses.

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Business Analyst

Meta (Facebook)

2015 - 2016

I derived insights from customers paying for ads, games, etc. and translated data into trends and business opportunities through analytics and visualization. I worked with Product and Engineering counterparts to improve Facebook and Instagram's payments products.

Omika was also given offers to work at

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    Samsung Electronics

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    PwC

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    Colgate-Palmolive

Education

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Georgetown University

Bachelor's Degree, Foreign Service

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Tuck School of Business

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Admissions Committee Experience

MBA

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