Pragya Thakur is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and MPH candidate at Boston University, where she focuses on lifestyle medicine, food policy, and environmental health. After more than 30 years leading strategic initiatives in magazine circulation and consumer marketing, Pragya experienced a profound health crisis that catalyzed her transformation from data-driven executive to healing practitioner.
Her journey from burnout to purpose became the foundation for her coaching practice, where she integrates behavioral science, systems thinking, and wellness strategy to help clients navigate their own transformations. Pragya is also the author of In Pursuit of Wellness: A Patient’s Perspective, a deeply personal exploration of healing that weaves together narrative medicine, public health policy, and the wisdom traditions that sustained her through crisis.
Currently serving as Director of Editorial and Quality Assurance at AccessSync, a market access consulting firm, Pragya bridges her decades of expertise in data analysis and strategic planning with her passion for health equity and systems change. Her writing has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Law Journal Newsletter, where she explores the intersection of nourishment, consciousness, and systemic transformation.
Pragya also writes two newsletters: From Soil to Soul on Substack, examining public health policy and personal wellness, and The Stewardship Brief on LinkedIn, offering wellness insights for high-stress professions. She is certified to teach Yoga for Osteoporosis and brings a contemplative, systems-oriented approach to all her work—whether coaching individuals, analyzing policy, or writing about the conditions that make healing possible.
