Every big dream starts with a small step –

Next Step Guidance helps you move from confusion to clarity, one decision at a time. We simplify complex choices about education, career, and personal growth. With expert support and practical roadmaps, your next move becomes crystal clear. Take your next step with confidence — we’ll guide you all the way forward.

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Founder Tanya Sharma

Manisha Shandilya

Certified Career Counsellor

Manisha Shandilya is a dedicated counsellor with a remarkable career trajectory spanning over more than a decade. Her journey began as an educationalist which grew up the ranks by demonstrating domain knowledge leadership qualities.

Before transitioning to a full time career counselling, Manisha was a Principal of Garud Army Preprimary School in Uttrakhand. With a rich background in coordinating and facilitating educational programe, she was key to leading and managing school administration along with creating a positive and engaging learning environment. She has honed her skills in understanding and addressing the unique needs of the learners.

Next Step Guidance

Turning confusion into a clear path forward.

Next Step Guidance, founded by Manisha Shandilya, is dedicated to helping students unlock their potential, understand their strengths and passions, and make confident career choices and achieve their career goals. The initiative was born out of her deep commitment to improving access to the right career guidance, especially for students from the armed forces community.

Her vision is simple yet powerful — every child should be able to realize their dreams while being sure of the choices they make.

She believes in exploring and understanding each student’s interests, skills, diverse backgrounds, values and strengths to identify suitable career paths and help them navigate both their careers and lives with clarity.

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When you’re stuck, we show the next step.

The Need for Career Counselling

Your next step, perfectly planned.

From Manisha Shandilya’s perspective career counselling brings clarity and makes a student’s path to a fulfilling career seamless. And with clarity, it leads to:

Self-Discovery with Growth :
Career counselling helps students to identify their real talent, strength and aspirations while also providing a way to work on their weaknesses effectively.

Exploring a Plethora of Opportunities :
The right career guidance helps children to explore different angles of life and the range of choices available in this fast-paced world. This allows the students to make informed decisions rather than being limited to the traditional ones.