05/01/2026
Ankita Rao’s work began with a question many immigrants and third culture kids know intimately: where do you locate yourself when no single place gives you the full answer?
From EY to TechnoServe, the LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact, and public sector advisory, her career has moved across countries, sectors, and systems. But beneath the professional path has always been a deeper inquiry into identity, purpose, agency, and what it means to build a life between worlds.
Today, through Lost and Found Mentoring, Ankita helps professionals and entrepreneurs navigate major transitions with the same rigor they bring to their careers, drawing from yogic philosophy not as doctrine, but as a framework for self-knowledge and intentional decision-making.
For her, the work is also legacy. It is for the women in her family who came before her, especially her grandmother, who insisted on agency first.
“The hardest part is that no single world hands you a complete mirror. You have to build your own.”
