I'm writing this commendation and tribute to tell you about the awesome capability of my colleague and friend Rishi Rongala to quicken, catalyze and activate the leadership mind. Rishi holds a light in himself, which shines in a way that illuminates hidden corners of your mind. Think of your mind as a mansion, a mansion with many rooms. Then think of Rishi walking those rooms.

The way he does this is I think akin to what happened in Notre-Dame when the fire destroyed the nave of the cathedral. The nave was restored because Assassin's Creed had mapped that nave, had mapped that space to create a dynamic environment where people could play. Notre-Dame has come back to us through an act of imagination, an act of veneration if you like, that says we can play in a space that is virtual not physical, but real.

Similarly, what I think Rishi has, is a kind of mapping capability. The light he holds here is more like a resonant awareness of the quality of sound. Somehow this tells him the dimensions of your mind. He’s aware of every room in your mind. So, he's able to feel the space you hold, just like that Assassin's Creed map of Notre-Dame, in a way that makes you aware that there's more to your mind than you've ever realized.

In this way Rishi opens a way. He finds your potential. He does this by treading so incredibly lightly that you hardly hear he's there. He asks his questions. He listens to your answers. He listens to the way in which you reflect on yourself. He hears your resonant sound, your resonant listening. It's a way of being. It’s Rishi’s way of holding space, of sharing space, of creating thinking that is truly awesome. Think of that space as your Notre-Dame, an interior map of an amazing gift to the world. Rishi shows the shape of your mind as a resonant space of being, of reflection, of celebration. And just like Assassin’s Creed, he turns your potential into something that is accessible to everyone, in a completely new and innovative way, in a completely delightful way, a way of play.

What Rishi does, however, is not mere play. He's absolutely walking those halls, those corridors, those many rooms in the mansion that is your mind. He’s opening those parts of your mind that have been hidden. He uses his resonant listening, that imaging of complex-dimensional awareness that he somehow holds, to help you understand and inhabit the full shape of your mind.

The way in which he does this literally tells you to look beyond what seems like a wall, a block, or a limit to find that it is not an end. Being with him, you find that all these seeming limits can be walked around, walked through, taken away, surmounted.

Rishi’s gift here is a kind of echolocation. It’s a resonance, a way of experiencing something that you do together through silence. Rishi holds silence in a way that is remarkable. It’s a silence of listening that creates awareness of the resonant depth of mind that, I think, creates the opening of your mind. What Rishi offers here is a way of Being in the world that totally accepts your being, totally accepts who you are, to find the hidden inside. This is the You that you can become. This is an imminent sense of self. This is the imminent awareness of what is immediately possible. With this, he unlocks what is immediately to come. Science calls this a catalyst, a catalyzation.

But the experience is so much more than the scientific term describes. Rishi creates a quickening. It's a quickening that, when you feel it, feels like it’s coming entirely from yourself. It feels like you know yourself in a way that says “I have felt the shape of my mind. I felt it through this act of being; this act of presence of someone else. But it's me. It's my mind. And it's my certainty, my certitude, that allows me to take what has been quickened - to take that sense of myself that I now have - and use it to purpose in the world.”

I have experienced this and can't explain it better than this. It's a kind of illumination. It's a reflection. It's a multi-dimensional, resonant awareness of capacity. And it has an infinite sense of future space. We talk about the Tesseract - you've probably seen that in a Marvel film. The Tesseract is a four-dimensional cube. If you think about your mind as this mansion with many rooms, it's a four-dimensional Cube, a mansion of many marvels. Seen like this, your mind stretches into illimitable space, illimitable time. And what I think Rishi offers here is a way of mapping that space, a way of exploring that space, a way of knowing that space, that travels somehow through time.

In a way, what Rishi does is somehow connect all of yourself to the moment that you're in right now, to the need of the moment that you're in right now. You hold your answer. Rishi takes you into a journey that walks the corridors of your mind. And as I said, his footfall is so silent that you're really not so aware that he's there. That silence is a dimension of the tesseract, a sounding of a wrinkle in time. It's this impossible space that holds vastness and at the same time, collapses everything to a single point, to a single moment of awareness - that enables change to happen instantly. It's a quickening. You'll know what I mean when you meet Rishi and when you hear that resonant silence, that resonant space that he's able to hold and share with you. It is extraordinary.

Anyone who has the luck to work with him can really count themselves lucky. He's the right man in the right place at the right time - because you need him.