Helping leaders break through ceilings with purpose and precision.
Built to help senior leaders grow from operational excellence to strategic impact, with measurable outcomes every step of the way.
What today’s leaders really need
Senior leaders don’t lack experience, they lack space. Space to reflect, recalibrate, and realign their intent with impact.
That’s where our coaching comes in Structured Reflective Deeply human
That’s where our coaching comes
in Structured Reflective Deeply human
In an AI-accelerated world, our coaching blends data-driven insight with deeply human judgment to help leaders realign intent with impact.
Method in mastery
Each coaching engagement is a journey of insight, action, and accountability.
Diagnostics before dialogue
Every coaching journey begins with data. Through 16pf®, Caliper, or 360° assessments, we establish each leader's unique growth baseline before the first conversation even begins.
Chemistry that counts
Real change requires trust. We align coach, coachee, and sponsor expectations early, ensuring outcomes are business-linked, not just behaviour-linked.
Custom-built journeys
Typically 6–9 months, integrating reflection, feedback loops, and progress checks.
Coaching that blends science and psychology
Our ICF and strengths certified coaches combine behavioural science with business psychology, helping leaders balance empathy with enterprise outcomes.
ROI of reflection
Every engagement is tracked on behavioural and business metrics: decision quality, team alignment, and leadership readiness.
Client testimonials
Visible shifts we’ve seen across engagements
leaders coached across
Organizations Globally.
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Meet the minds behind the method
Shivkumar A
Shivkumar. A brings deep enterprise and P&L leadership experience into executive coaching. With nearly four decades across diverse roles and geographies, including serving as Chief Executive of EWAC Alloys Limited (an L&T subsidiary), his career spans business growth, manufacturing, sales and marketing, R&D, and talent leadership across domestic and international operations. Now focused on executive coaching, leadership assessment, and business consultancy, Shivkumar works with senior leaders navigating scale, change, and complexity. A certified CEO Coach with strong grounding in global assessment frameworks such as MBTI, Hogan, Caliper, and PPA, he has delivered over 250 hours of coaching to senior executives from organisations including L&T, Aditya Birla Group, Sandvik, and Blue Star. In parallel, his long-standing involvement with industry bodies—through leadership roles with CII and board-level positions—adds institutional depth to his coaching. His style is pragmatic, business-first, and grounded in real operating experience, making him particularly effective with CXOs and senior leaders facing high-stakes decisions.
Bibhas Kumar Basu
Bibhas Kumar Basu brings uncommon depth from the worlds of engineering, project leadership, and enterprise governance into executive coaching. With over four decades across thermal and nuclear power, EPC, and complex infrastructure projects, his coaching is grounded in scale, precision, and systems thinking. A mechanical engineer from Jadavpur University with advanced qualifications from BITS Pilani, IIM Calcutta, and London Business School, Bibhas combines technical rigour with business acumen. He is a certified Level 2 coach with experience in mentoring and leadership development, particularly in project-driven and engineering-led organisations. Bibhas has held senior leadership and board-level roles within the Larsen & Toubro ecosystem, including Vice President & Head – Corporate Centre & Technology at L&T Power and Chief Executive of an Indo-US engineering joint venture. Currently an Adjunct Faculty and Advisor at Navrachana University, he continues to shape leaders through coaching, teaching, and strategic advisory.
Aditya Rao
Aditya Rao works at the intersection of leadership transition, performance coaching, and talent development. An ICF ACC-certified coach, he brings over 1,000 hours of facilitation experience across leadership development, negotiation skills, and storytelling for influence. With a career spanning nearly two decades across Pharma, Healthcare, IT, and BFSI, Aditya has held roles in talent management, leadership development, L&D, sales capability building, and strategic HR partnering. An alumnus of IIM Calcutta, he blends behavioural science with business acumen to support senior leaders navigating transitions and performance inflection points. Aditya has coached leaders across India and overseas, using structured coaching models such as GROW, and is also actively involved in developing other coaches through train-the-coach and coach-the-coach programs. He was recognised as Chief Learning Officer of the Year (2021) for his contributions to leadership and talent development.
Omprakash SP
Omprakash SP specialises in coaching for transition—supporting managers and leaders as they step into higher, more complex roles. With nearly three decades across leadership development, coaching, and sales capability building, his work is anchored in clarity, accountability, and behavioural shift. Formerly Senior Vice President – Learning & Development at Standard Chartered GBS, Om led training strategy for over 22,000 employees across India, China, and Malaysia. An ICF Professional Certified Coach, he brings a structured coaching approach informed by Positive Intelligence, NLP, Gestalt, global leadership assessments, and psychometric tools. Known for creating safe yet challenging coaching environments, Om helps leaders surface blind spots, strengthen executive presence, and translate intent into sustained performance, drawing on deep experience with global financial institutions and complex, multicultural stakeholder ecosystems.
Ganesh Shenoy
Ganesh Shenoy brings a strong business-first lens to executive coaching, shaped by a career spanning corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and startup mentoring. Trained in computer science and human resources, he bridges strategic thinking with people systems. With over 2,000 hours of executive coaching and extensive experience in training, mentoring, and consulting, Ganesh works closely with CXOs, senior leaders, and founders on leadership effectiveness, organisational development, and change. His last corporate role as Head of HR for a mid-tier IT and digital platform company saw him lead initiatives across culture transformation, automation, leadership development, and diversity. An ICF-certified coach and internationally certified facilitator, Ganesh is also a mentor, visiting faculty, and advisor, recognised for his contributions to HR and leadership development, including national industry awards.
Sushma Banthia
Sushma Banthia brings exceptional range to leadership coaching, shaped by over four decades of professional experience and more than 25 years in people development. Recognised among the 100 Most Impactful Coaching Leaders by the World HRD Congress (2024), she is known for blending facilitation mastery with executive coaching depth. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Sushma is certified across emotional intelligence, personality, and behavioural frameworks including Genos EI, MBTI Step I & II, and DISC. She currently facilitates global coaching programs with Coaching.com (formerly WBECS) and works with Growthspace, coaching leaders across nationalities and contexts. Her career spans academia, senior corporate leadership in the US, and large-scale leadership development initiatives. As co-author of Fast Forward to Facilitation, and having coached and trained over 100,000 professionals, including senior teams at global organisations, Sushma brings structured insight, credibility, and calm authority to executive coaching engagements.
Prakash Thalia
Prakash Thalya brings together deep corporate leadership exposure and rigorous coaching practice. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and EMCC-accredited Team Coach Practitioner, his work focuses on helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity and intent. With over three decades in leadership roles across agrochemical, public health, and urban pest control sectors, Prakash coaches with strong contextual grounding. His approach draws on NLP, career and life coaching frameworks, and psychometric assessments such as 16PF®, enabling leaders to strengthen self-awareness, decision-making, and team effectiveness. He has also served as an internal coach supporting HR functions across South Asia and brings hands-on experience in team building and strategy execution within defined business timelines.
Vikas Agarwal
Vikas Agarwal is a seasoned change specialist and executive coach whose work sits at the intersection of behavioural science, experiential learning, and leadership transformation. Having facilitated development journeys for over 7,000 leaders across India and globally, his coaching is grounded in reflection, inquiry, and capability-building rather than prescriptive advice. Certified across a wide spectrum—including Gallup Strengths, 16PF, Transactional Analysis, Advanced NLP, Sociocracy, and Non-Violent Communication—Vikas brings a multi-disciplinary lens to leadership development. His work spans coaching for team performance, executive presence, strengths-based leadership, communication and storytelling, change leadership, and mentoring, across contexts ranging from first-time managers to senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and large, diverse cohorts. Known for designing immersive and experiential interventions, Vikas integrates methods such as theatre-based leadership labs, mentoring circles, and strengths-led programs to help leaders internalise insight and translate awareness into action. His engagements across corporates, educational institutions, and specialised professional groups reflect a coaching style that is coachee-centric, reflective, and deeply focused on sustainable behaviour change.
Shruti Nayak
Shruti Nayak brings a methodical, assessment-led approach to executive coaching and leadership development. A psychologist by training with over 15 years of experience across Indian and multinational organisations, her work is rooted in behavioural science, psychometrics, and disciplined diagnostic thinking. A Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Talogy (formerly PSI) TTT–certified professional, Shruti is authorised to conduct certifications across India and more than 10 countries. She has led 100+ assessment and development projects and coached over 250 leaders across levels, with expertise spanning emotional intelligence, REBT, competency mapping, assessment and development centres, 360-degree feedback, and behavioural facilitation—supported by tools such as 16PF, FIRO-B, and DISC. At NamanHR, Shruti leads the Talent Assessment vertical, partnering with stakeholders to design precise, context-driven leadership diagnostics and development interventions.
Samir Parikh
With over three decades in People and Culture practices, our Founder, MD & CEO works at the intersection of leadership behaviour, accountability, and organisational culture. Certified globally by Microsoft, Culture Partners, and the Center for Leadership Studies, he designs and leads leadership journeys, culture interventions, and strengths-based development programs for senior leaders across geographies. A Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, he blends structured frameworks with adult learning principles to drive behavioural alignment at scale. As founder of NamanHR and co-owner of DOOR International Southeast Asia, Samir has impacted over half a million professionals globally through coaching, facilitation, and people strategy work, while contributing actively to leadership, industry, and social institutions.
Uravi Raichandani
Uravi Raichandani brings a rare blend of clinical psychology, behavioural science, and executive coaching to leadership development. With over 25 years across corporate, NGO, educational, and healthcare settings, her coaching is grounded in both depth of training and real-world exposure. An ICF-certified ACC coach and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Uravi draws on structured methodologies including strengths-based coaching, cognitive approaches, behavioural coaching, NLP, and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Her work is diagnostic-led, supported by deep expertise in psychometric assessments such as 16PF, where she is certified not only as a practitioner and assessor, but also as a trainer of assessors. Having coached over 600 executives across levels and industries: pharmaceuticals and engineering to power, EPC, IT, and manufacturing, Uravi helps leaders develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and behavioural clarity that translate into sustained professional effectiveness. She currently serves as Domain Expert – Assessment and Coaching at NamanHR.
Sudhir Kulkarni
With over 50 years across the full spectrum of Personnel and HR functions, Sudhir Kulkarni brings rare depth to executive coaching engagements. His work sits at the intersection of leadership intent, organisational architecture, and business performance. Formally trained at TISS and certified across global OD and executive coaching frameworks, he anchors coaching journeys in data, diagnostics, and system-level thinking - from psychometric assessments and assessment centres to performance, compensation, and organisation design. Sudhir has advised and led transformation initiatives across engineering, construction, power, and diversified conglomerates, with senior stints at Voltas, L&T, Crompton Greaves, and the Tata ecosystem. His coaching style is reflective yet rigorous, helping senior leaders recalibrate decisions, strengthen role clarity, and translate leadership maturity into enterprise outcomes.
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Success story: NamanHR delivered a coaching intervention for 64 senior leaders for India’s leading Banking organisation
At Central Bank of India, executive coaching was linked directly to behavioural competencies and performance expectations. Through a structured 3-phase intervention, senior leaders moved from documented development plans to visible behavioural shifts that were tracked, reviewed, and measured.
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