Vijaya Bohlmann

Jaya Koilpillai, MA, MSMOB, APR, ACC, is a communication and organization development executive and coach with more than 20 years’ experience working in-house and as a consultant. She has an award-winning portfolio of successes with global Fortune 500 companies, associations, nonprofits and consulting firms.

Jaya is the President, Founder, and Chief Consultant of a D.C. based consulting firm, Designing Communication. She has a solid foundation of high-level public relations and corporate management - she creates and implements strategies for organizations to evaluate and respond to key stakeholders. Building on that, she focuses on the people side of the profession, providing consulting for organizational culture, teams, leadership and how to build effective structures – specializing in DEI audiences and topics. She provides individual career and professional coaching, corporate consulting, recruitment and career services. She authored the book This Changes Everything: Transforming Your Life from the Inside Out, which features her proprietary five-stage change model.

Jaya currently teaches COMM331 (News Writing and Reporting for Public Relations) and COMM351 (Public Relations Techniques).