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Executive Transformation and Mentoring Services
We are all products of life experiences, both personal and professional. At the midpoint of our careers after having achieved significant success, if we have not examined our core beliefs, we restrict ourselves to a limited version. Essentially, we have built an inner dam that limits our ability to realize our true potential. I coach business executives to realize their potential using my DAM framework.
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My Discovery And Mastery (DAM) framework is built upon my personal experience of having created a successful 35+ year career as a global business executive. My accomplishments range from selling and negotiating multi-billion dollar deals to building high-performance organizations and teams that delivered outstanding financial results consistently. The insights gained from my rich life story of overcoming multiple personal setbacks and missteps, my business career, and my journey of self-discovery combine to make my framework an authentic and powerful way to help executives grow to their full potential.
Executives who are coached using this framework experience disproportionate success in their careers and lead more balanced lives as evidenced by the testimonials.
Objectives
Unlock your inherent potential
Understand your true strengths and blind spots
Examine and validate effective leadership strategies that work for you
Sharpen your people management skills
Create a personal growth plan
Readiness Required
A deep curiosity about yourself
An interest and positivity about being coached
A willingness to be honest about your own experience and feelings
An openness to examine your habits and beliefs
The ability to take responsibility for how to co-create your reality
The humility, strength, and discipline to work with feedback
The courage to try out new behaviors and be accountable.
Results
Produce extraordinary results
Lead empathetically and create collaborative teams
Become an authentic and inspiring leader
Executive Coaching
Vasan has played a critically important role as a leadership coach and strategic business advisor to our executive team at ConceptVines. His personalized approach in deeply understanding individual backgrounds, core values, and personality traits has added tremendous benefit to both our individual and group coaching and strategy sessions. Vasan has a diversified background in not only people mentoring & coaching, but also in building successful services organizations as well as in helping drive high-performance sales teams and commercial results. This is a unique combination of skills that has made our discussions much deeper and more interactive given his operational experience in building businesses. Effectively Vasan is helping our leadership grow while also contributing to helping our business grow.
As a services company our people are our company and our ultimate product, so building a high-performance team and overall company culture is paramount to our success. ConceptVines has invested in a long-term partnership with Vasan as a strategic advisor to help ensure we are continuously building strong leaders while creating a dynamic & fun work environment. I would highly recommend Vasan’s coaching & mentoring services. This investment has been worth its weight in gold to our company. A full 5-star rating.
Jim Francis -- CEO and Co-Founder, ConceptVines Inc.
Some of us come with deeply ingrained cultural behavioral patterns. As a woman who grew up in an upper-middle-class Indian home, while educated and a successful middle-level manager, I was afraid to be the focus of attention, afraid of conflict. Not only did I not want to be the "aggressive women" leader, but I did also not even have the tools to execute that behavior.
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Being a leader means overcoming all these fears, setting, and executing a vision as a leader does require stepping out of the status quo.
I was fortunate to meet Vasan at this point in time. His clarity of thought and brutal honesty, his patience as he asks the seeking questions, allow him to identify how our background shapes our behavior, and what we should change. Deep within us, we may know the answers, but we need someone else to validate that and help us define the "how to" execute the change. The smaller steps will provide us with small wins, build confidence, and help us change the behavior that holds us back.
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Over time with Vasan's coaching and mentoring, I have learned to be confident, to be fearless, not to avoid conflict, but to embrace it. He provided tools, books, and thoughtful exercises that allowed me to stretch my behavior boundaries.
I still reach out to him, as a sounding board, where he pushes me to think differently
VP -- Broadridge Inc.
Vasan has helped me make multiple discoveries about my beliefs & values; Able to introspect myself, acknowledge, and accept.
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Able to find my core strengths and weaknesses. Thanks to Vasan for patiently listening and being brutally honest in throwing light on multiple areas of weakness
It has helped me to create a sense of positive approach towards behavioral improvements and show more patience towards myself and the people around me.
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Helped me to develop better self-awareness; I can observe my emotions clearly now.
The structure of the mentoring discussions is good, it enabled me to bring the real leadership challenges/situations as I face/feel and learn from them.
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I have created a 3-year vision, also a balanced annual goal for 2022, covering 8 different areas (First time in life), and very excited to achieve them
I have started feeling some of the changes, as awareness improving day-by-day.”
SVP -- Delivery Head, North America, Global IT company
Vasan has helped me in numerous ways to become a better sales professional. He provided specific guidance on qualifying sales pursuits better to improve my win rate in addition to guidance on stakeholder engagement, deal shaping, presentation, and messaging.
As a result of working with Vasan, I have improved in other areas as well such as:
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Becoming aware of feelings, and acknowledging and addressing them – reduce the impulse to suppress the feeling to react appropriately.
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Time management - breaking down a day into blocks, scheduling the day ahead, and tracking the time spent. Rock - Pebble - Sand classification of tasks to schedule important things done every day
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Reflecting on the day as a strategy for integrating new habits/routines
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Operating from an inner compass for guidance on planning and acting
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Focusing on efforts and attending to the process vs. outcome.
I continue to work with Vasan to guide me on a regular basis.
Client Partner, Infosys
Vasan’s comprehensive values-based approach to coaching is incredibly powerful – he achieves the perfect balance of never being overbearing while asking the right questions that make one think and revisit their assumptions, biases, and prejudices. His coaching around being authentic, mindful, and curious has helped me learn more about myself in my journey, and bring much more ownership and fulfillment into my day-to-day life.
As a mentor, Vasan is a gifted listener who brings his whole self to every coaching conversation making the coaching sessions deeper and meaningful. Vasan’s analogies and stories are very nuanced and help make what could otherwise be a difficult process smoother than I could have imagined. I really appreciate his help in holding me accountable through the coaching process – that’s helped me recognize and make progress on many of my coaching goals over the months that I’ve been mentored by him.
Practice Head, Global IT Company
Vasan is a terrific mentor/coach. His method involves spending focused 1-1 time with each executive and is completely personalized to the needs of the individual. He’s helped several members of my team to plan and execute their work better, build stronger relationships, negotiate and communicate more effectively, introspect and hone in on what motivates them, and achieve higher job satisfaction, and better work/life balance. He brings a treasure trove of professional and personal experience and is extremely well-read. I continue to personally benefit tremendously from his coaching as well
Harsha Kumar -- President, Prodapt
Vasan, From being burrowed under the shackles of corporate obligations you liberated me to rediscover my own self and I feel fully empowered to drive high-powered growth for the region. Hats off to your trustworthy, confident & persistent style of constructively challenging me on the various dimensions of the required personal & leadership traits which made me introspect at each stage of the journey, and in conjunction enabled me to work on a range of innovative exercises from deep meditation to - a live & measurable connection plan including skip level mentoring – morning pages - 1 minute manager – the Bratton model of good policing – artists way – time management - Breath the new science – fail safe / most likely / best case model - to the real-life examples of “earned leadership” from NFL ….. the list goes on….
EVP and Regional Head EU, Global IT company
Working with Vasan has helped me move in the right direction in various aspects. I thought I would pen a few of these down as a reflection. The sessions helped me improve on various aspects:
​Being able to identify and accept emotions related to a few triggers at work:-
Before these sessions, my natural instinct was to suppress emotions and just keep moving ahead thinking that I really don’t care about a few things which bothered me. The sessions allowed me to identify those emotions, recognize the triggers, accept them and act on them with conscious effort rather than just hide them.
​Having difficult conversations taking out the emotion:-
The sessions have helped me realize that even within [my company] or outside [my company] with a customer or your own colleagues we can have disagreements that can be handled in a more mature fashion. Actually difficult conversations will strengthen the relationship rather than worsen it.
Living and breathing a sales pursuit:-
While this might look obvious, doing this in practice is not as easy as it sounds. It can be exhausting and sometimes even frustrating.
​Instinct Vs Bias:-
While my strength has always been my instinct which has been honed over a period of so many years working in the industry it can also manifest as a bias. Vasan helped me to open up and listen and hear other people’s views without quickly coming to a conclusion/opinion on a particular topic This was immense learning. This is something I have to consciously do again and again in every conversation.”
SVP Major Accounts, Global IT company
Working with Vasan has helped me grow holistically and become a better person overall. The following are the key categories where I have seen a good deal of improvements as a result of working with Vasan
Personal & Professional Planning - The sessions brought a great deal of clarity on my goals aligned to my strengths and weaknesses. These included detailed holistic plans across professional, physical, mental, spiritual, and social parameters. This goal-setting exercise has not only ensured a more structured execution of my day-to-day activities but also has set me up with better chances of success within the intended timeframes. Your guidance on retrospection has helped me evaluate how I have fared against my plans. This will ensure I avoid committing the same mistakes and also make necessary improvements to my plans.
Communication - The coaching sessions have helped me communicate better with colleagues, partners, and customers. Now I have a more open communication style and am capable of being confrontational in a productive manner, to achieve my intended communication outcomes.
Value boundaries - While I have always had my value system, the coaching sessions have helped me to define those value thresholds to be followed, even in the most demanding situations. As part of the value definition exercise, I have also become better aware of my weaknesses, helping me to start addressing the same.
Client Partner, Hexaware