It was the year 2013, while I was busy setting up Global Coaching Lab LLP and also establishing myself as an Executive Coach.

I reached out to many people in my professional network. I informed them that I was a Certified Executive Coach and that I was establishing an organization that focused on building an expert panel of certified coaches to help address various people and talent developmental requirements within organizations. Everybody wished me very well and was very appreciative about the initiative. But Istill had not landed with any client for myself or my organization. I was also deliberating the idea to niche my practice and was thinking around the lines of Cross Culture and Business Leadership, given my earlier experience in South East Asia.

This continued for a while, until, my Business Partner was able to get an opportunity for me to speak with a Business Leader in one of the Indian Multinationals. I met the leader and spoke to him passionately about the possibilities through Coaching and asked him about specific opportunities he saw for coaching within his organization. During the conversation, I understood that they were expanding their Agri business to South East Asian Markets and intuitively I decided to share my thoughts on how Coaching can expand possibilities for their South East Asia Leaders in new markets and how Cross Cultural Diversity Coaching can support this growth for them.

I remember walking out of the meeting from their office in Connaught Place, New Delhi, with my First Coaching Engagement with their Country Managers for Vietnam and Indonesia.

The intuitive capabilities we posses helps us to constructively influence situations and provide win-win opportunities. I truly believe that #persuasion #Influence #negotiation and #storytelling are life skills that each one of us posses and we should be brave enough to use them. Sales skills are not just for #SalesProfessionals.