COACHING

MY APPROACH

I coach executives who carry both conviction and responsibility. You know results matter and you live with that pressure every day. But you also believe, deep down, that people are not just headcount or interchangeable resources. They’re the key to resilience, innovation, and growth. Leaders like you often pay a price for holding that tension: the wear and tear of trying to stay human in systems that often feel inhuman. I know that reality because I’ve lived it. I was that leader.

What makes me different is how I bring both credibility and relatability to the table:

  • I’ve reinvented myself across three arenas: academia, the C-suite, and now entrepreneurship. I understand the transitions, pivots, and pressures leaders face.

  • My servant leadership DNA means I never lose sight of human dignity, even while driving performance.

  • I bring a calm authority in disruption — steady, practical, and clear-eyed, without ever being detached.

  • And I have the ability to connect quickly and cut through noise — I won’t let you hide, but I’ll do it with care.

At its core, my coaching is about helping you deliver results without losing yourself by equipping you with the clarity, resilience, and practical behaviors that let you thrive as a leader in disruptive times.

Coaching Program 1: Trusted Executive Advisor

After years of coaching executives during times of change, crisis, or setback, I have come to love the role of trusted advisor. Think of me as your hiking buddy. The person you talk to through the ups and downs of career moments. I listen with compassion and offer moments of noticing. You’ll often hear me say, “I notice this about something you just said…” Or, “After our last few conversations, I’ve noticed a theme I want to share with you…” I draw from my wide range of experience to bring a coaching arc to sort through your thinking and feeling. I will also compassionately serve as a mirror, so you can better understand yourself as a leader and a human.

How my clients flourish:

  • Increased self-awareness: understand what you are feeling and how this informs the choices you are making as a leader

  • Deeper emotional intelligence: the ability to lead complex teams through uncertainty

  • Heightened resilience: The discipline of setting healthy boundaries, routinizing self-care, and letting go of limiting beliefs

Trusted Executive Advisor Logistics and Details

  • The advisor coaching program is customizable in duration, to fit the unique needs and busy schedules of executives

  • Generally, we will meet twice a month for 50-minute appointments, as well as unlimited “spot coaching”

  • This program requires a “launch meeting” where the client/coachee frames the issues, articulates goals, and establishes progress milestones, in partnership with Vijay

  • This program has the option of having Vijay fly to the coachee to spend a half day together, talking through key issues, complex challenges, and potential breakthroughs

HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

Coaching Program 2: The Career Reboot

As someone who’s been an educator, a university administrator, a corporate executive, and an entrepreneur, I have had to rethink my career so many times! Even before I became a coach, I found myself mentoring colleagues on their career navigation or giving informational interviews that kept drifting into career coaching. I love working with people on their Career Reboot!

Are you looking to pivot into a new chapter of your career? Are you considering a leap into the wild unknown, with a job completely different than what you’ve been doing? Or, are you happy in your sector, but want to reboot your sense of purpose and passion?

Aligning our values and skills with a career choice can be overwhelming. My coaching in the Career Reboot focuses on clarity and insight. Clarity is the process of defining what one’s values, goals, and skills are, so that career rebooting is informed by these inputs. Insight is the deep work of considering what makes you feel happy and fulfilled, and how to bring more of this into your career.

How my clients flourish:

  • You will emerge from this Career Reboot with a “Personal Constitution” - a document that offers clarity on your values and strengths

  • You will have done the hard work to build several “design principles” that allow you to approach your next chapter of life with intentionality and boundaries

  • You will experience the joy of having your values, strengths, and work aligned, allowing you to do the best work of your life, without it feeling unsustainable, toxic, or draining

Career Reboot Logistics and Details

  • The Career Reboot program is a minimum of 6 months, because transformation does not happen overnight

  • The Career Reboot works through 2, 50-minute appointments a month, as well as unlimited “spot coaching”

  • This program requires a “launch meeting” where the client/coachee frames the issues, articulates goals, and establishes progress milestones, in partnership with Vijay