I spent years training others how to lead;
before I understood what leadership truly asks of you.
The revelation came in
the form of a simple question,
“What changes when you begin leading yourself first?”
I spent years training others how to lead;
before I understood what leadership truly asks of you.
The revelation came in the form of a simple question,
“What changes when you begin leading yourself first?”
This question came as a revelation after years of coaching leaders:
“What changes when you begin leading yourself first?”
The Leadership Tension
There's a gap between what leaders are expected to project
and what they're actually feeling inside.
Most senior leaders know this tension. You’re expected to have the answers. To lead with confidence, even on the days you’re not sure what direction you’re pointing in.
I watched this play out, up close, for over a decade. Leadership and management were technically excellent but left people feeling unseen. The executive driving results, couldn’t understand why her team had stopped trusting her. The manager promoted for performance, now she finds herself drowning in a role that asked for something entirely different.
Training didn’t seem to achieve its goal.
While the workshops were enjoyable in the moment, their impact appeared to be fading shortly after. This led me to ponder, “What would it truly take to address the core issues?”
The turning point
In 2018, I stopped just delivering programmes,
and started walking people through transformations.
I came to this work through 11 years inside organisations — Tata Motors, Ma Foi Consulting, Principal Financial Group. Years of observing how people led under pressure. In 2010, I founded Attrans Management Solutions to bring structured facilitation and behavioural interventions to teams at scale.
But something kept nagging at me. I could see the shift happen in the room during a workshop, but building a lasting change proved difficult. I realized I needed to grow myself before I could help others.
So, I took a pause; and then started all over again.
This time with clarity that dared to ask not, “what do you need to do,” but,“what do you need to understand about yourself in order to do it?”
That distinction changed everything for me.
my credentials
- ICF Professional Certified Coach
- Marshall Goldsmith Certified
- GLA360 Practitioner
- Level-up Mentor Certified
The philosophy shift
8 years later, I have come to believe that,
“Growth is an inside-out journey. My job is to help you find the clarity that's already there.”
And that can only happen when leaders begin to lead themselves first before leading others.
This is not a methodology, but a growth belief system I came to understand after 1000+ coaching hours, working with 100+ organisations, and 27 years of observing what leadership truly asks of people.
I work with leaders — individually and in teams — across the globe.
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