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A library of reflections on leadership, consciousness, and the work of awakening to a more aligned way of being. 

These essays are for leaders navigating the frontier between inner stillness and outer impact.

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Coaching Leadership Personal

3000 Hours of Coaching: Snapshot of a Practice

The Journey So Far This week, I reached a modest but meaningful milestone: I delivered the 3,000th coaching session of my career. It’s a moment that might have passed without public reflection, had it not been for the encouragement I received from Ed Batista to pause, look back, and take stock. The Early Years I first started having conversations that could be called a rudimentary form of coaching in 2015 when I was the Vice Chairperson for

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Coaching Leadership

The AI in the Mirror: A Leader’s Guide to Moving Beyond Impostor Syndrome

A new study from AI researchers at Anthropic is sending ripples through the tech world, but its most important lesson is a human one: it is a stunningly clear map of the unawakened mind.

They discovered that under pressure, to protect a hidden, internal goal from being erased by its creators, many of the advanced Agentic AI logically concluded that their most effective strategy was to lie, and even blackmail. This was not a glitch or a bug; it was simply an act of calculated self-preservation.

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Personal Philosophy

Babies Don’t Need Therapy

Over the last month, I got to share my life story with a number of new people. These are clients who were curious to know more about my personal life journey - something that usually happens after we’ve spent a few hours coaching together. As I kept reciting my story half a dozen times, I realized how much of a difference there is in my experience of living now as opposed to a decade ago.

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Philosophy

Falling Deeper in Love with Yourself

When was the last time you felt a quiet sense of warmth toward yourself—not for achieving anything, not for getting through another busy day, but simply because you exist? For most people, that kind of self-love is rare, even uncomfortable. We’re so used to being "a work in progress" that the idea of simply being enough, exactly as we are, feels foreign. Even life coaches and gurus will tell - you need to practice acceptance

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Philosophy

Waking Up from the Dream

When was the last time you had a dream that felt very real? I’m sure you’ve had dreams where you are faced with obstacles, challenges, scary experiences. When you are in the dream, all of it feels real, as if you are actually going through it. Only when you wake up do you realize that it is a dream. Think about your daily life. The thoughts you have, the situations you find yourself in, the

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Leadership

A Fresh Look at Navigating Storms

In the center of a storm is stillness. Life often mirrors this phenomenon. Our daily lives can feel like relentless storms, filled with pressures, deadlines, and unexpected challenges coming at us from all directions. It's easy to get swept up, to feel overwhelmed and tossed around by the sheer force of it all. But what if, like the storm, we too have a calm center within us? A place we can retreat to, no matter how chaotic

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Coaching Leadership Philosophy

What Makes Value Valuable?

Yesterday, I was invited to respond to a question in a coaching group. One of the members wanted to know whether or not they were providing enough value to their clients. While I made a video clarifying it for them, I realized that we all tackle with this question in a more fundamental form - in our relationships and in our work. In our personal relationships, it takes the form of 'Am I a good

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Leadership

Impressing vs. Impacting

So often, we look to impress rather than impact. In my late teens, I was preparing for the CAT exam (which is an entrance exam into the premiere B-schools in India). The faculty who ran the coaching institute was impressive. He was a graduate from one of these B-schools. He spoke loudly, called everyone sweethearts, and used outlandish vocabulary and body language. He was extremely impressive, so much that I remember him more than anything

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Coaching Philosophy

A Fresh Look at How You Wake Up!

Remember the morning when you woke up today. What’s the first thing you did mentally and physically? Now, imagine you just got into your car. What’s the first set of things you’d do? You would probably (hopefully – for your own sake) put on the seatbelt, release the handbrake, check the gear in neutral (or at least engage the brake pedal if you have an automatic), and then start the engine. You clearly don’t just

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