Jyoti Agrawal
| Jyoti Agrawal | |
| Occupation | Business strategist; scientist; consultant |
|---|---|
| Title | Founder |
| Employer | Xaiden Arts & Business Consulting |
| Education | PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Website | https://jyoti-agrawal.com |
Jyoti Agrawal is a business strategist and scientist based in Lexington, Kentucky. She holds a PhD in chemical engineering and an MBA, and in March 2025 founded Xaiden Arts & Business Consulting, which advises entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and growing organizations.[1]
Education
Agrawal received a PhD in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2004 and was then a postdoctoral researcher at INRIA in France. She later earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2017.[1] A 2006 paper in Chemical Engineering Science on discontinuous dynamical systems, co-written with Kannan M. Moudgalya and Amiya K. Pani, is among her early research publications.[2]
Career
Agrawal began in industry. She worked as Energy Manager for Maricopa County, Arizona, and as a gas system engineer at Intel in Phoenix.[1] She has also worked as an independent science and technology consultant on projects in advanced materials, renewable energy, semiconductor devices, and inspection technology.[1]
In 2021 she consulted at Florida Atlantic University, advising startup businesses on federal contracting, operational planning, and growth strategy. She is a certified National Science Foundation I-Corps instructor and coached more than forty-five startup teams in customer discovery through the university's Small Business Development Center.[1]
Xaiden Arts & Business Consulting
Agrawal founded Xaiden Arts & Business Consulting in Lexington in March 2025.[1] The firm's services include business planning, grant and proposal development, commercialization and market strategy, startup consulting, business model development, coaching, market research, and technical and business writing.[1][3]
She describes her approach as the Convergence Method, which pairs top-down market data with bottom-up customer interviews and looks for the overlap between the two.[1] She also designs crochet patterns.[1]
She publishes essays on customer discovery and business planning on Medium.[4] In 2026 she completed the Google Project Management Certificate.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Jyoti Agrawal, PhD, MBA: Business Strategist and Scientist". jyoti-agrawal.com. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
- ↑ "Sliding motion of discontinuous dynamical systems described by semi-implicit index one differential algebraic equations". Chemical Engineering Science. July 2006. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
- ↑ "Jyoti Agrawal, Founder, Xaiden Arts & Business Consulting". Influential Women. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
- ↑ "Jyoti Agrawal". Medium. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
External links
- Official website
- Jyoti Agrawal on LinkedIn
- Jyoti Agrawal on Medium