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Srilekha’s passion is to support executives and organizations connect with their infinite potential and channelise it into performance. A (PCC) ICF Certified coach, Srilekha uses diverse mediums of delivery to achieve the same. Simplicity, depth, and energy define her style and persona.

Her clients praise her for her competence in gaining understanding of their learning needs and offering solutions that are customized to suit their specific requirements. Her clients find her sessions to be simple yet impactful, honest yet polite, critical yet encouraging and insightful yet practical with result orientation.

During her coaching sessions, Srilekha excels at creating and holding a space for her coachees where they feel comfortable to meet themselves and unearth their answers from within. She uses internationally proven tools and techniques comprising of and not limited to Appreciative Enquiry, Emotional Intelligence and whole brain thinking. She is extremely present to her coachees and allows herself to be guided by intuition backed by her own spiritual evolution. She is known amongst her clients for helping them de-clutter, think straight and craft simple yet powerful action plans with execution. Srilekha has done more than 1150 hours of coaching for middle and senior leaders and supported their transformation.

Through her Facilitation expertise Srilekha offers customized interventions in the areas of Leadership, Mentoring, Coaching, Performance management, Interviewing Skills, Strategic relationship management, Team Building including outbound programs, Building High Performance teams, Lead Self, Sales Transformation, Negotiation Skills, Executive presence, Presentation Skills, Communication Skills, Customer orientation, Situational Leadership, Design Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Time Management, Cross Culture Confluence, Campus to Corporate programs, PMI accredited programs Interpersonal Effectiveness to name a few.

Srilekha has facilitated over 700 programs and has touched over 25000 people’s learning curve. She has worked in various sectors like IT, ITES, Manufacturing, Logistics, Service, BFSI, KPO, BPO etc. Some of the clients she has worked with are- Saint Gobain, Wipro, Accenture, Microsoft, Dell, Siemens, Mearsk , PwC, Asirvad Microfinance, Ramco Systems, Synchrony Financials, Indian Oil Corporation, C H Robinson, HCL, Bajaj Insurance, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Anil Foods , Daimler Commercial Vehicles.

Srilekha is a Post Graduate in Industrial HR, Sales & Marketing and Journalism with over 24 years of diverse experience. Before plunging into the learning and OD industry she has worked as Research Analyst in the FMCG industry. She is a qualified Journalist and has worked as a business journalist and has experience in the selling space.

She has had an interesting experience with teaching kinder garden children. Since 2004 she has started working as an independent consultant/facilitator/coach.

Mitali is a seasoned business leader, growth catalyst and leadership coach. She believes that the spelling of business is P.E.O.P.L.E and her work with leaders and entrepreneurs is to drive results and to help them develop to their potential.

Her current clients are from diverse industries like IT, Software , Hospitality , Publishing , Construction , Fashion, Retail, Creative agency, Financial services , eCommerce , Home automation and VR , Automobile, Digital Printing etc and are reporting double digit growth and improving long term asset value of the company. She is recipient of London Coach Award– for Best Client results 2017 & 2019 and very recently won the UK Coach of the year for Best Client results. Her success story has been published in leading publications like Daily mail and BFA.

She is part of World’s No. 1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches program which is a selected group of international coaches being mentored by Marshall himself.

Mitali coaches’ individuals and teams in various organizations primarily focussing on organizational development processes. Her expertise lies in change management, team development, leadership development, consultative selling to name a few. Mitali’s skill is focussed on sales coaching where she works to develop a learning process for her clients by using key coaching frameworks.

Overall, Mitali has 20 years of rich and versatile experience in Strategy, Sales &Marketing
Operations, Process excellence, IT consulting and Program Management across diverse industries. Majority of the work experience is with global companies like PwC, Microsoft, GE & GoDaddy where she has been a high potential talent and has held senior leadership roles across India, UK and EMEA. She has been instrumental in building scalable processes to support business growth and leading and coaching teams to deliver results and customer impact. She has led strategy and planning for $1Billion business and has led P&L responsibilities of multi-million businesses including scaling teams from 12 to 550+ team members. She has been actively involved in diversity improvement initiatives, mentoring and coaching leaders to develop and grow to their full potential in their organizations.

Result-orientation, strong cross-group collaboration, customer centricity, ability to work in unstructured environment and staying focused on big picture are some of the tenets defining Mitali. She is an Engineer and MBA by education and a certified business coach & a certified six sigma professional (Master Black Belt).

On personal side, she is married to her best friend and is a doting mother to their lovely son, who is a professional squash junior player and an aspiring scientist. As a family, they love to travel and experience local cultures and cuisines. She is highly passionate about children education and wellbeing. She founded Meher foundation to support the cause and started with humble beginnings of sponsoring a child’s education with every client she onboards. She is spiritual at heart and firmly believe in karma equation and world abundance.

Swee Heng specialises in high performance leadership, mindset, and culture change. He is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation, USA. The author of “Coaching In The Moment — How busy leaders can make more impact with less time”, Swee Heng is a well-grounded leadership coach who helps his clients to raise their bar and be more inspiring, impactful and thriving leaders in 4 key areas viz strategic mindsets, organisational and team outcomes, interpersonal relationships and personal effectiveness. He brings to each session his 31 years of practical management experience and his 10+ years as a leadership coach for all levels of leaders and managers in the Asia Pacific region.

Professional Experience: Swee Heng brings change & impact in 4 areas:
1) Coaching leaders to be inspiring and impactful leaders in the 4 areas of strategic mindsets, organisational and team outcomes, interpersonal
relationships and personal effectiveness.
2) Developing leaders with the capability to increase employee engagement, drive transformation and accelerate learning
3) Coaching leaders to be agile and successfully transit to bigger jobs and greater responsibilities
4) Nurturing leaders to build sustainable culture of shared leadership, learning agility and strong bonds

Swee Heng trains and coaches in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia for international clients as well as organisations in the public sector. He coaches C-Suite leaders as well as managers at various levels in the organisation. He employs digital technology and blended learning in his coaching and facilitation work.

Swee Heng was, from Year 2000 to 2010, the Asia Pacific Human Resource Director, and a member of the Regional Management Board for Reed Business AP / RELX plc. He led the Deloitte Singapore’s Human Resource function from 1997-2000. Swee Heng had also held key strategic and operational positions in the Ministry of Defence (Air Force) as part of his illustrious public sector career from 1979 to 1997.

He has been a practice leader in coaching, training and facilitation since 2010. He was also previously a business school faculty
member at the SP Jain School of Global Management from 2014 to 2016, teaching the MBA and Bachelor programs. He speaks regularly at conferences and has also been featured on public radio on the Money FM 89.3 program.

Certification & Accreditation
Swee Heng is a Certified Coach in global systems such as:

• • Member of International Coaching Federation (Accredited Professional Coach)
  • Certified Solution-focused Coach (awarded by the University of Toronto)
  • Certified Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholders’ Centered Executive Coach
  • Accredited with Lifestyle Inventory (LSI) /Leadership Impact (LI)/Group Style Inventory (GSI)
  • Certified Action Reflection Learning Coach
  • Accredited with Social Style Communication System
  • MBA In International Management from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
  • The Enneagram in Business Programmes – (i) Bringing Out The Best In Yourself At Work, (ii) Leadership.
  • Degree in Management from Murdoch University
  • Diploma of Psychology from the Singapore Human Resource Institute

Care-fronting CEO and Leaders to transform Business for Growth and Excellence in enhancing quality of life for individuals, family, and community.

Louis is a passionate and a thought-provoking PCC (ICF) Certified coach, confidante/ adviser who has more than 30 years of global corporate experiences. Before becoming a CEO coach, he was an Expert Singapore Certified Management Consultant, ESCMC with the expertise in Business Excellence, Organisational Culture, Change Management, Business Strategy Innovations, Human Capital Development, Productivity Improvement and Enhancing Quality and Standard. He has held various senior leadership positions in Quality Management, Project Management, Organisational Development, and Innovation Projects.

He works with CEO, and leaders, care-fronting them in transforming and enhancing their personal and organisational effectiveness. His moto is to use his knowledge and wisdom for the services of others. He derives great satisfaction in contributing to their successes through transformational leadership and sharing different perspectives.

Core Competencies:

• • Professional Certified Coach, PCC (ICF)
  • Specialist Diploma in Advanced Facilitation, SDAF
  • Human Synergistics’ Accredited Practitioner, including:
    • For Individuals: Lifestyles Inventory™, Leadership/Impact® (LSI 1&2 and L/I).
    • For Teams: Group Styles Inventory™ (GSI) and full range of simulations.
    • For Organisations: Organisational Culture Inventory®/Organisational Effectiveness Inventory™ (OCI/OEI)
  • iEQ 9 Accredited Practitioner, Integrative Enneagram Solutions (2019)
  • Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming® (MNLP) 2006, Mind Transformations, Singapore,
  • The Enneagram in Business Programmes – (i) Bringing Out The Best In Yourself At Work, (ii) Leadership.
  • Organisational Development Certified Professional, ODCP from Institute of Organisation Development, USA.
  • Lecturer of “Project Management Techniques” and “Quality Management” for the Master of Project Management, University Of Adelaide, for 5 years (2008 – 2013).
  • Co-author of "Accelerated Project Management" with James P. Lewis, published by McGraw-Hill in 2005.

Raju is a Coach & Leadership Trainer with a wealth of C-suite Corporate track record of success as CFO, G.M. of Business Unit, Head of Strategy & as Asia-Pac Head of Sales & Distribution, among others. His work experience spans multiple industries – Media & Entertainment, Telecoms, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Engineering and Apparel.

Raju has a successful track record as a coach in helping leaders from Oracle, ExxonMobil, AngloAmerican, Commerzbank, ANZ, Credit Suisse, PayPal, MasterCard, GE, Rockwell Automation, LyondellBasell, LafargeHolcim, Roche, J&J, Turner Broadcasting, Collins Aerospace (to name a few) grow in their career journey and develop the following

• Be more strategic & demonstrate readiness for promotion to the next level.
• Build effective stakeholder relationships, do crucial conversations impactfully.
• Improve their business acumen.
• Become more self-aware, be mindful & intentional in their behaviour.
• Become more accountable; Learn to delegate well & hold people accountable.

Raju delivers impactful training on a variety of topic and contributes as a CXO during training of Partners of Big 4 firm in Client Relationship Mastery. He speaks on ‘Personal Excellence amidst change & disruption’, ‘Negotiating win-win deals’, ‘Handling difficult conversations skillfully’ etc.

Sample advocacy from Coaching Clients:

• • ‘Raju’s major strengths as a coach are the ability to listen actively, ask deep thought-provoking questions, challenge your beliefs and yet, support you and build trust & rapport quickly. He’s helping me attain greater self-awareness in order to enable me continue to progress further in my career’ – Director of Sales Strategy at Oracle
  • ‘Raju's coaching helped me settle faster into my new role. More specifically, ...’ – Director of Market Access at Rockwell Automation
  • ‘I have noticed more self-awareness in xxx & his commitment to practice positive leadership. Thank you for your depth of work with him, the clarification & development of path for his leadership growth’ – Boss of my Coachee, who was a Regional CFO in a UTC Group Company
  • ‘Thanks for all your help to make me a better leader’ – Global Projects Director at ExxonMobil

Vijayakumar Rajagopal (Vijay), is an experienced facilitator and coach and delights in the joy of making others great. His vast experience across the globe in a variety of leadership roles has helped him tailor his engagements across cultures. He is currently leading a number of engagements in the areas of Global Leadership Development, Women Leadership, Group and Executive Coaching.

Vijay is certified through Post graduate Program in Executive Coaching , certified by Coaching Foundation India ( CFI). Vijay focuses on executive and sales coaching and through his coaching he helps leaders in the area of leadership and management development, strategic advisory and change managements. He balances his coaching between individual coaching and group sessions. Individual Coaching focuses on setting powerful goals in their personal, team and organizational context and helping the individual thoughtfully accelerate towards aspirational goals across each of these areas.

Group Coaching is driven by addressing a business situation within a Group and helping them establish trust, clarity and critical thinking through powerful questions, and orchestrating their progress towards their stated goals.

Vijay’s clients acknowledge him for helping them align their goals to develop multiple perspectives and opening possibilities. Some of the clients Vijay has worked with are- Microsoft, EY, Shell Aviation, Shell Malaysia, Takreer UAE, Kuwait National Petroleum company and Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited.

Until October 2016, Vijay was serving in Global leadership roles Shell. His 10-year career with Shell included many roles, including Strategy advisory, Aviation, Project Management, Engineering Management, Technical consultancy, Process optimization and Operations. His span of operations included all continents , except Antarctica which has contributed to his rich understanding and appreciation of culture and diversity. Vijay is a first-class graduate in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.

His clients respect him for his utmost honesty and integrity, his intent and focus on making others great, his ability to ask hard questions in a soft way, and on helping them think clearly, to execute with rigor and compassion.

Neera focuses her coaching around catalysing positive outcomes for her coachees, through adoption of effective sales processes and implementation of tested sales frameworks. She further helps accelerate progress through powerful questioning that facilitates deep thinking, reflection and clarity and demonstrates high levels of empathy that inspire strong connections with sales teams to help drive transformation in every individual she is coaching.

Neera has had the opportunity to accumulate varied experiences across sales functions which she leverages in her coaching engagements. She has gained from managing sales distribution for large multinational and national companies, led sales excellence for a leading worldwide technology company, driven marketing and sales of vocational education institutions, led adoption and penetration of human transformation programs for a large NGO and engaged in business development activities for a sales training organization. The holistic experience sharpens her ability to understand sales dynamics, the barriers sales leaders and personnel face on the frontline and the importance of the sales processes. Some of the companies she has worked with are- Microsoft, Genpact, EY, IBM Global Process, American Express, HCL, Art of Living.

Her engagements are distributed between Individual Coaching and Group/Team Coaching. Coachees have acknowledged Neera for enabling the ability to strategize effectively and uncover approaches that help navigate complex client scenarios.

Until September 2012, Neera was a Director for Microsoft and led Sales Operations for their Inside Sales Business. Her 13-year journey with Corporates spanned roles across Sales, Sales Operations Management, Capability development and Performance Management. Her span of operations included global customers as well as India markets.

Her 12+ years of entrepreneurial experience includes Sales, Distribution and Marketing. Neera is an alumnus of Delhi University, holds a Doctorate in English Literature from BHU and has been an attendee of the Business Leadership program, run by Duke University and IIM Ahmedabad.

Ram is a Transformational Coach, Business Advisor and Independent Director and his current mission is to challenge individuals and organizations to achieve their potential and uncover their ikigai.

Ram is engaged in Executive/Corporate, Business and Personal coaching that produces measurable results, makes individuals more effective, productive and successful and helps them lead meaningful, fulfilled and happy lives. He strongly believes in coaching that is transformational rather than transactional. In his view, coaching can indeed be the journey to one’s greatness, and the path to become a better version of one’s current self. His areas of expertise include Brain Based Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership/ CEO/ Senior management performance, influencing stakeholders, Coaching business owners / entrepreneurs and start-ups on scaling profitably, coaching in cross cultural situations, and in career transitions and for personal effectiveness.

Ram holds a Brain Based Coaching Certification from the Neuro Leadership Institute, USA. He has a bachelor’s degree in Commerce (BCom) and is a Chartered Accountant (CA). Ram is also a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries (CS) and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants (CMA) and has attended an Advanced General Management program from Kellogg Business School, North western University, USA.

Ram has been acknowledged by his clients for:

• Improving their thinking and inspiring them to maximize their potential.
• Helping determine their guiding values, vision, and purpose.
• Supporting them in identifying and translating powerful goals into action, that will make a difference to both their professional and personal life.
• Challenging them to live their beliefs and achieve balance in all areas of life.

Ram has held various Corporate positions of increasing responsibility including leadership roles in Finance and General management for diverse businesses, for nearly 25 years. He stepped down as the Country General Manager / CFO and Director on the Board of Verizon India in March 2013. As a member of the team which established Verizon’s technology center in Chennai in June 2001, he played a key role in growing its operations – which at the time of his leaving, spanned three cities and over 6000 resources.

Rajasekharan is a passionate and thought-provoking coach who has more than 30+ years of corporate experience. His expertise has always been in the area of Business Planning, Business Strategy, Business Development, Team Management and Change Management.
Rajasekharan is a CFI Accredited coach and works with Leaders, CEO’s and senior management, helping them in transforming and enhancing their organizational effectiveness. He derives great happiness in contributing to his clients success through transformational leadership and sharing
varied perspectives. He is also a Mentor helping entrepreneurs @ IIT Incubation Centre, Chennai and at other Institutions like TiE Chennai where he is a charter member.
People who have been coached by Raj have acknowledged his

Clarity and alignment to their potential and aspirations
Building a career progression plan that leverages their inherent strengths 3. Confronting reality, and building power, and leveraging political acumen.
4. Bridging the gap between merit and success through Executive Presence, strategic thinking and Networking.

Rajasekharan worked at ITC Ltd. for 32 years, retiring as the CEO of the Matches & Agarbatti Division in 2018. He has been the Chief Executive of ITC’s Agarbatti (Incence Sticks) business since its inception in 2003. Additionally, he was also the Chief Executive of the Matches Business since 2010. He modelled and ran both businesses on the principles of lean management and aggressive market expansion. He was also the Managing Director of WIMCO Ltd. He joined ITC's Packaging and Printing Division in 1986, where he handled various responsibilities in operations, domestic sales, planning and technology development, serving on the Management Committee of that Division.
Prior to ITC, he worked with M. M. Rubber's BOPP division from 1980 to 1986 after graduating with a Chemical Engineering degree in 1980. Amongst other involvement in social and business forums, he was the Chairman of CSR committee of Madras Chambers of Commerce for two years from 2016. He has been instrumental in promoting sustainable development projects in collaboration with several State Governments with focus on sustainability for SSIs and livelihood creation.

Sanjay Mehta is a trainer, facilitator, and coach with almost 20 years of prior career experience mostly in the IT Industry, leading businesses and teams locally, regionally in Asia and in USA. His years in the IT field saw him work for Microsoft where he remained from 2000 to 2009 and was involved in various senior technical, business and leadership roles. Areas of experience include Business Management and Operations, Readiness Management including Training Development and Delivery, Program and Project Management, Change Management, Customer and Call Centre Support, Account Management, Consulting, Technical Sales and Systems Management.

His wide profile of training and coaching experience over the last 8 years focusses around Leadership, Innovation and Design Thinking, Strategy, Leading Organizational Change, Project Management, Process Reengineering and Technology. He is fascinated with the world of Neuroscience and Positive Psychology and its applications to optimizing brain performance and enhancing learning to increase human performance and be more responsive and resilient to change.

Sanjay is a certified coach with a Certificate of Coaching Skills from Results Coaching Systems now known as the Neuroleadership Institute (NLI), a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is actively coaching executives and people undergoing transitions in their careers. He was a Program Assistant for their Intensive Coach Training in 2011. He is currently an Associate Executive Coach with them. He completed a Certificate Program in Neuroleadership in 2014 with a distinction focusing on the Neuroscience of Change.

His coaching experience extends to his time at his previous roles, where he has coached and mentored many new hires. Some of the people he has coached or is coaching include VP level Executives in an MNC to work on their team leadership and strategy, Directors and Managers in statutory boards as an Executive Coach and as part of a Coaching Skills for Managers and a 360 feedback coaching programs.

Sanjay has worked with various customers and partners to deliver quality programs and solutions to organizations from sectors including the Public Sector, Telco, Banking, Insurance, Engineering, Healthcare, Logistics, IT, Education and others. Examples of customers include Microsoft, HP, SAP, StarHub, Singtel, DHL, IDA, Ceva Logistics, Visa, UOB, Citibank, AIA, Prudential, SMU, NCS, Singhealth, Evonik, AIC, NUHS, Changi General, SGH, MCYS, SPF, MOH, Wincor Nixdorf, T-Systems, Advantest, ASML, Daimler, Sennheiser, Sony, URA among others.

Sanjay is a Certified Associate of Emergenetics and conducts coaching and workshops using Emergenetics, focusing on Leadership, Change and Innovation among others. He is also an Accredited Administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and The Workplace Big 5 Profile and similarly conducts assessments, coaching and workshops using these tools.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree with a Double Major in Computer Science and Economics and a Minor in Mathematics from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. His primary focus was on Information Systems Management and International Economics. He completed his secondary school education in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College and was involved in various leadership roles in the Students Council, Social Services Group and Red Cross Society.