Testimonials
This was life-changing!
My first-hand experience of being coached by a Master Coach has been a memorable one. Gowri was an exemplary listener. Even more remarkable was the way she was able to connect dots and create a big picture from random pieces of information, especially our own ideas of strengths. What seemed like apparent strengths turned out to be derailers because of certain accompanying mindsets that one wasn’t aware of – this was life-changing! She’s been a true mirror and guide through the short but powerful interaction.
Nandakishore Padmanabhan,
Chief Culture Officer
BusinessNext
Transformative Coaching: Gowri Helped Me See Myself Differently
I started my coaching with a sense of being stuck in my current job and life in general. Gowri provided me with several guiding frameworks and a series of incisive questions that “forced” me to find time and focus to answer them. This helped me break the cycle, embrace the limits of my knowledge, and replace my overthinking and lack of confidence with bias for action. I made a few major leaps in the past six months, and I feel better equipped for future challenges.
DS
Netherlands
Her natural authority helped gain insight
I have been lucky to meet Gowri while participating in a coaching program made available by the ICRC. Gowri has an extensive and diverse work experience that took her from senior positions in the tech industry to corporate strategy advisor, eventually becoming a coach. What I appreciated most, beyond her kind presence and availability, is the way Gowri structured our partnering throughout the coaching program. A genuine active listening, completed with a soft way to share experiences and bring to the table the important points was key in establishing trust, helping to smoothly narrow down the key matters of discussion. Added to her calm ways to say what is important, her natural authority helped gain insight and perspectives over things. Building-up on her feedbacks to flip around the challenges, Gowri knows how to give time and space for you to see by yourself, in an introspective way, which steps taking next to keep improving things. It was a pleasure to meet over these days and I recommend any manager in need of coaching to approach Gowri to set-up a work program that will for sure help you get precious insight about your management style and offer solid guidance in any leadership challenges you may face. Thank you Gowri!
Maxime Zabaloueff
Head of Mission
International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC
Helped me in having Greater Clarity
It was a pleasure working with Gowri over the course of 5 sessions. She was instrumental in creating my own mental framework over key questions regarding career, work-life balance, and leadership.
She is quite experienced in the corporate world and brings that experience to help through anecdotes and personal experiences. She helps think through the topic with probing questions and also keeps the conversation moving towards the agenda. Her sessions have greatly helped me in having greater clarity over my career and leadership objectives.
Gaurav S
Principal Consultant
BCG
I was able to Gain back my Confidence
A couple of poor career transitions and managers left me stagnated at work. It was a stressful period where I started doubting my own capabilities. Gowri’s coaching sessions helped me understand my strengths and passion areas. Her vast experience and exposure to the industry gave her the ability to relate with some of the organizational and cultural dynamics I was facing and advise me accordingly. I was able to gain back my confidence in a couple of sessions and convert an exciting role that opened up within my company.
Anand V
Product Leader
Microsoft
I left Every Session with Gowri with New Ideas
I had the pleasure of working with Gowri as part of a coaching engagement recently. Gowri was able to quickly understand and zoom in on the various dynamics in a complex organizational environment and give me new perspectives on my role as a leader. I left every session with Gowri with new ideas on how to improve and would highly recommend Gowri as a coach to everyone who wants to improve their leadership skills.
Marcel Rduch
VP, Customer Success
Dynamic Yield
Trained me on Navigating Complex and Politically Charged Work Environments
Gowri coached me earlier in 2020. During that time she proved herself to be a generous mentor and trained me on navigating complex and politically charged work environments.
Our sessions encouraged me to do my best using skills such as self-awareness, empathy, active listening and to employ creative approaches to manage conflicts in an executive setting. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for executive coaching to navigate their challenging professional landscape.
Priyanshu Raj
Corporate Vice President
NYLife
Helped me Deal with the Practical Difficulties as well as Emotional Challenges
I have been coached by Gowri over a period of two months when I was going through a period of uncertainty in my career. Coaching by Gowri helped me to organize my thoughts and plan for my career transition, which included a change of place and a search for a new role. It also helped me clearly understand my strengths and articulate my priorities succinctly, helping me to take action with them in focus. This was a stressful period and coaching from Gowri helped me deal with the practical difficulties as well as emotional challenges that came with it. Gowri’s experience and expertise as a coach give her the maturity and empathy that helped me identify my challenges and concerns and deal with them comprehensively.
Sudhanshu Mishra
General Manager
Wipro
Unique Ability that Encourages You to Think Beyond your Known Limits
Gowri is an exceptional coach, mentor and guide. She has this unique ability that encourages you to think beyond your known limits. I have had this opportunity to work with Gowri as her mentee. This has been a tremendous journey with tons of learning through reflecting on actions and plans. Thank you Gowri!!
Umang Khanna
Service Head, Client Operations
Infosys BPM
Affected the way I am seeing myself as Coach and as a Human Being
As a coach myself, I had the pleasure of being supervised by Gowri Ramani for a series of sessions earlier this year. Her supervision has tremendously affected the way I am seeing myself as Coach and as a Human Being. She was there when things became very tough for me and I was under big pressure. Therefore, Gowri was pivotal in the process of my ACC Certification, which I gained at the end of the period she was supervising me. Gowri’s style is gentle, yet focused. I would warmly recommend her to any Coach willing to improve and become a better Coach serving the World.
Novella Cocetta
MBA, ACC
Gowri helped me to change my perception of myself!
I had 4 months 1-to-1 coaching experience with Gowri on the CoachHub platform. It was time for myself and about myself. I started with a very clear objective and I fully achieved it at the end.
Thanks to Gowri she navigated me very gently, with very deep questions, with her wisdom, examples from her experience, and big compassion. These sessions shaked me well, inspired me to explore the inner territory, and find the answers inside me.
I have got an understanding that I don’t need to be the best, I recognized my achievements and myself, I identified my competitive advantage and my inner power. All this led to calmness and self-confidence.
Thank you, Gowri, for navigation, acceptance, compassion and human support`
Vitalija Kanevičienė
Vice President, Middle East & Africa
JTI
I found value in being coached by Gowri
What I really appreciated about Gowri is her keen sense of listening for not just the words that are spoken, but also for how they are spoken, the body language with which they are shared, as well as what is left unsaid. She, therefore, became a really good mirror for me, and asked a lot of powerful questions, which allowed me to introspect more deeply and bring to light what is important and what is not so important to me, and for that I am grateful.
Bhavna T
Leading Coach and Consultant
Was Tailored to My Needs
Gowri is a highly-skilled, attentive, and strategic thinking coach. She helped me to think through and navigate complicated situations in my career. Each session we had was tailored to my needs and was given room to imagine, evaluate and analyze multiple factors and actions that can bring my desired end result. Gowri has a friendly and open approach. She particularly helped me to ask and reflect on the important questions to help me chart the way forward. Thanks to her coaching. I’m now more confident, articulate, and assertive as a person and as a professional. I would recommend Gowri to anyone who wants to have a reflective and strategic analysis of their career or personal life.
Kenneth Owino
Project & Communications Officer
BoP Innovation Center
Helped me Unclutter a lot of my Thinking and Life
Thanks a lot for taking time out for this. I found the sessions very useful and really pushed me to take a pause and think about what is important for me – professionally and personally. I really appreciated your provocative approach and would hope you continue that way – in fact would say maybe even push harder on this one. Your own life experiences were very useful as you shared them. I think you were reluctant to do this and maybe that’s the right approach at some places, I found them very useful as long as you were comfortable. I also liked how you waited for me to talk and push for solutions. You really helped me unclutter a lot of my thinking and life – deeply appreciate that. Appreciating that these are linked and helping me walk through this was very useful.
Varun Bopanna
Principal Consultant
BCG
We thank Gowri for Being an Example and Supporting our Leaders
Success of the community lies in giving back. Paying forward to inspire and help fellow technologists and leaders grow has been the secret sauce of AnitaB.org community. AnitaB.org India thanks Gowri for being an example and supporting our leaders with her guidance and coaching.
Maggie Inbamuthaia
Managing Director
Anita B.
A Personal Touch that made all the Interactions Enjoyable
I had the opportunity to interact closely with Gowri recently and was really benefited by her outcome-focused coaching / mentoring model. She always had the knack of asking the right probing questions to make me understand my strengths and capitalize on the same, thus being highly effective and instrumental on the outcome we were targeting, but at the same time maintaining a personal touch that made all the interactions enjoyable. I strongly recommend Gowri as a coach for anyone facing a career hurdle or looking to enhance their capabilities / prospects.
Piyal Mukherjee
Global Program Management
GE Healthcare
These are Showing Results Till Date
Would like to take this moment to thank you for the time spent over past months being my mentor to look at areas of strategic thinking, and being diverse and inclusive. I am glad that through your guidance, there were lots engagement in a very encouraging manner with abundance of advice provided. The key takeaway for me is to be empathetic, be a good listener, being courageous to communicate to business leaders and my manager to view and resolve matters from a long term perspective backed by data; looking at things from a broader view. I must say that these are showing results till date. Stay connected, stay safe and take care.
Desmond Koh
Senior HR Business Partner
Poly
She was Involved Passionately Throughout the Process
It was my privilege to get associated with Gowri as my coach recently. She was involved passionately throughout the process – from goal refinement to results – while providing autonomy to me for execution to achieve desired objectives. She helped me with self-discovery leading to new paradigms. She is a very effective coach & I would strongly recommend her as a coach to my friends and colleagues.
Alok Kumar Jain
Senior Leader
Infosys BPM
Always full of Positive Energy
Gowri is a committed, passionate, and highly professional coach. She has helped me to come up with a new and fresh perspective on a long-lasting issue and to be more true to myself. I have enjoyed our sessions a lot. They were always full of positive energy, much-needed challenge, and great insights. Thank you Gowri.
Maja Stanic
Executive and Team Coach
Connect Lead Grow
Valuable insights on areas to improve on each of our respective coaching session
I had the privilege to participate in one of the coach mentoring group cohort with Gowri as I prepared to enhance and strengthen the ICF competencies needed for my credentialing process. Gowri has been able to facilitate the group coaching sessions well, helping the group to gain valuable insights on areas to improve on each of our respective coaching sessions.
It has been great working with Gowri, having her shared her experience and observations on my coaching recordings, aligning them to the ICF core competencies. Thanks for being my coach mentor and wishing you success always Gowri!
