Janki has been working in the field of academics for the last sixteen years. She believes that fun is also important in life.

Janki Mistry is an Associate Professor at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. She is also a Director at Infina Pvt. Ltd.

Janki shares that after completing her MBA, she joined Kotak Mahindra Bank as a relationship manager for two years. At the same time, she also got the opportunity to work as a guest faculty member in a university, and she realised that she was more interested in teaching. Eventually she got an opportunity in the teaching field, and she grabbed it.

Recalling her childhood, Janki says that she grew up in a very loving environment. Her maternal and paternal grandparents played an important role in her upbringing. Education is the most important part of her core value system that she received from her family. But there was no pressure, and she always got support from her family. She was an extrovert and regularly took part in extracurricular activities. Classical dance was a part of her childhood that helped her enhance her personality. She was also good at sports, public speaking, etc.

Talking about her journey, Janki says that everyone has to face challenges in every field. She also faced many difficulties in her journey as she got distracted from the things that she needed to do and wasted her time. But she never gave up, faced the difficulties, and did hard work to overcome those problems. She always tried to find  solutions to problems by keeping an open mind.

Sharing her experiences, Janki says that she has been teaching postgraduate students in the MBA class and is now also guiding the PhD candidates. As an academician, she divides her work into parts, like teaching, through which she interacts with the students and learns new things from them. She also keeps track of the new trends and tries to upgrade herself. The second part entails research and writing that require serious thinking and reading. Till now, she has completed forty research papers which have been published in national and international journals.

Besides that, she has written four books and also translated one book into English from Gujarati. She has also conducted various workshops and faculty development programmes. The other part of her work life is her role as an independent director, which brings a very good balance between academics and industry, and she enjoys it a lot. She also establishes a good bond with her students.

Accepting her mistakes, Janki says that she was a very outspoken person, which sometimes created problems for her. But she learned from her mistakes, and now she doesn't express her opinions frequently and thinks twice before speaking.

Sharing her achievements, Janki says that she secured a gold medal in her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She also received some scholarships in the field of dance. She always tries to do things with perfection and aims for excellence. Her biggest accomplishment is that she has been successful in balancing a lot of things in her life, like financial, physical, and social success.

Janki’s role model is her grand aunt, Dr. Padma Desai, who encouraged and inspired her to take academics seriously. She also learned versatility and a go-getter attitude from her grandma. She also admires Uday Kotak, as she learned from him to keep life simple and work hard.

Janki’s success mantra is to keep an open mind and keep on working hard. She says that it is important to keep your finances neat, clear, and under your control.