Four stages. One coach who has sat in every chair.
Most people looking for a leadership coach are at one of these four moments. The work is different at each one, so the offer is too.
- Get the role
Aiming for, between, or pushed out of a leadership role
You want your first manager role, a bigger leadership role, or you have just lost one. Your experience is real; the market cannot see it yet.
Position 10–25 years as current scope, not a long history
Leadership interview practice: judgement, trade-offs, stakeholder stories
A first-90-days plan you can talk through in the final round
- Step up
Newly promoted and quietly drowning
You were the best engineer, analyst or PM, so they made you the manager. Now you are busier than ever and less effective, and nobody told you the job changed.
Find your metal and the way you slide under pressure
Delegation, one-on-ones and hard conversations that actually work
The delivery basics: plans, risks and honest status
- Hold the seat
Under pressure, on notice, or unsure leadership is for you
A tough 360, a new boss, a team that has gone quiet, a performance plan, or a reorg that puts your role at risk. You need a straight read and a plan, privately and fast.
An honest reading of what your team is experiencing
A stakeholder map and the conversations you have been avoiding
A recover-or-exit plan, decided on evidence, not panic
- Build leaders
Startups and companies promoting engineers into managers
You are pushing strong individual contributors into leadership with no system, and paying for it in attrition, missed dates and status reports that stay green until they don’t.
Cohort academies built on your real projects
Half-day team workshops that install one protocol
A monthly leadership bench for founders’ first managers
What metal are you under load?
The Six Metals of Leadership grades leadership the way a metallurgist grades a metal: not by how it looks, but by how it behaves under pressure and what it leaves behind in people. Everyone slides a rung on a bad week. The work is to know your resting metal and catch the slide early.
Platinum · The Multiplier
- People leave their orbit bigger than they arrived
- Former reports are thriving and name them as the reason
Gold · The Steward
- Brings out people’s best and guards it
- Bad news reaches them early, because it is safe
Silver · The Rescuer
- “If it matters, I’ll handle it”
- When they take leave, the team stalls
Bronze · The Administrator
- Manages tasks, not people
- Work arrives exactly to spec and not an inch past it
Rust · The Controller
- The standard lives in their head and moves with their stress
- The truth always arrives late
Lead · The Extractor
- Credit flows up, blame flows down
- Fear, attrition and a wake of damaged people
Start with an honest reading, then decide
Take the reading
Start with the free Six Metals assessment, or go straight to a 90-minute Leadership Diagnostic where we place you honestly and find the one behaviour driving it.
Get a 30-day plan
You leave the diagnostic with your resting metal named, the direction you slide under pressure, and a plan you could start on Monday. Many people need nothing more.
Go deeper if it helps
If you want support while you change, choose a cohort, 12-week coaching or one of the focused programmes below. The diagnostic fee is credited if you continue within 14 days.
Three ways to step up
1:1 over Google Meet, or in a small cohort. Prices in Indian rupees; USD pricing available for international clients.
- ✓Short pre-work: Six Metals assessment and your current situation
- ✓Your resting metal and the way you slide under pressure, named honestly
- ✓The one behaviour to change first, and why
- ✓A written 30-day action plan
- +7 days of WhatsApp follow-up
- ✓The day you stopped being the best player: the identity shift
- ✓Reading people, trust and one-on-ones that surface the truth
- ✓Delegation, decisions and the conversation you have been avoiding
- ✓Delivery basics: plans, risks and status that does not stay green
- ✓Before-and-after Six Metals reading
- +The Six Metals of Leadership book and First-90-Days workbook
- ✓Leadership Diagnostic and an anonymous team 360
- ✓Fortnightly 60-minute sessions on your real situations
- ✓Silent Failures check: what is slipping around you that you cannot see
- ✓Stakeholder influence and the hard conversations, rehearsed
- ✓A follow-up 360 at week 12, so you can see the change
- +Weekday WhatsApp access between sessions
Between roles, or at risk in this one
Two focused programmes for the moments that cannot wait. Both are confidential.
- ✓Positioning: what you run, at what scale, with what result
- ✓Leadership resume and full LinkedIn rewrite
- ✓Recruiter and referral outreach plan for your market
- ✓4 recorded mock interviews with written feedback
- ✓A first-90-days plan for the new role
- ✓An honest reading of what happened, from evidence
- ✓Stakeholder map: who decides, what they need to see
- ✓Weekly coaching on the conversations that matter now
- ✓A recover-or-exit plan, with the next role ready if needed
- +Same-day WhatsApp support on weekdays
- ✓You need a resume fixed for one target role
- ✓You have interviews and want recorded mock practice
- ✓You want the 9-prompt AI system to tailor every application
Build leaders people want to follow
For founders, engineering heads and L&D teams promoting strong individual contributors into leadership. Built on your real projects, measured with before-and-after assessments.
Leadership Academy
- 6–8 weeks, 20–30 managers
- Six Metals, Silent Failures and delivery discipline on your live work
- Readiness scorecards so you see who is actually ready
Team workshop
- Zero Fire Zone™: from permanent emergency mode to controlled delivery
- Or the Six Metals lab, or a Silent Failures team diagnostic
- One protocol the team runs the next time it slips
Startup Leader Bench
- For founders’ first 3–6 managers
- One group session and two 1:1s per manager each month
- Cancel any month
Delivery Recovery
- A programme in trouble and nobody can say how late
- Charter, scope, critical path, earned value and RAID rebuilt
- A real date, and a team that can hold it after I leave
Keynotes
- The Silent Failures inside every delivery team
- The promotion nobody prepared you for
- Why high performers fail as leaders
Not sure what fits?
- Tell me where it hurts: attrition, missed dates, new managers
- I will recommend the lightest option that solves it
- Or say plainly that you don’t need me
Four books. One system.
Every session draws on a published framework, so you leave with language and tools you can keep using, not just advice.
Who you are under load: reading yourself, reading people, moving people and building the machine.
Five conditions that slip while every dashboard stays green, and the R.E.S.E.T. move to catch them early.
The clarity system for delivery leaders, with eight free interactive guides.
The senior job search: ATS, recruiters and a 9-prompt AI system.
Eight interactive guides, free to use
The working layer of The Discipline of Delivery: calculators, builders and quizzes you can use on a live project today.
I have spent over twenty years leading cross-functional engineering and delivery teams across India, Singapore and the Middle East, and I have sat on the hiring side of the table for most of them. I have been the new manager taking the keyboard back, the leader whose team went quiet, and the person called in when a programme was green on paper and red underneath.
My coaching is direct and practical. I will tell you what I see, including the parts that sting, and help you change the one thing that matters most first.
Leadership coaching FAQ
Straight answers. Still unsure? Message on WhatsApp and you’ll get a reply within four hours.
I was just promoted. Do I need coaching, or will I figure it out?
What is the Six Metals of Leadership?
I have lost my leadership role. Where do I start?
My role is at risk. Is this confidential?
Do you guarantee a promotion or a job?
How is this different from a leadership course?
Can my company pay?
Do you work with clients outside India?
Tell me where you are. I’ll recommend the lightest fix.
A few lines about your situation is enough. I reply within four hours with a recommendation, which is sometimes “you don’t need paid help yet”.
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Format1:1 or small group over Google Meet. Team workshops in person in Bengaluru or remote.