Liberating Untapped Performance
Executive & Leadership coach
Thinking to advance your leadership skills, prepare for a career transition, or looking for better work-life fit?
Work with me to create your much deserved future!!
Focus Areas
Leadership Development
Helping current or future leaders become more authentic and purposeful versions of themselves to help you better inspire and deliver via others.
Career Advancement / Transition
Discovering best career trajectories to create win-win for you and your organisations. Work towards achieving better work-life fit and fulfilment.
Performance Enhancement
Deepening connections with yourself, overcoming inner blocks or limitations to jointly unleash higher levels of performance.
My 3-step Process
01
Clear understanding of your goals
I will work with you to help you crystallise your key goals/outcomes and change in your life desired.
02
Overcoming challenges / inner blocks
By amplifying connection to your inner self will be identifying key strengths & challenges to help you figure our a step-wise personalised plan to enable you moving towards your goals.
03
Experimentation & Re-evaluation
Figure out new empowering thoughts & actions that you can experiment with. Regular follow-up to evaluate what works for you while discarding the ones that don’t to get to best path to the goal.
WHY SHOULD YOU WORK WITH ME?
I’m Riju Ray (MD, PhD) a successful leader across several parts of the business in a fortune 500 life sciences company. I have deep technical expertise combined with sound understanding of running a business and a strong track record of delivering performance & results across different R&D departments and geographies.
I’m well versed in both direct line management and matrix (or x-functional) leadership having led teams upto 30 people. It’s been a tremendous experience when helping develop people within my team and watching them move onto bigger & better things. I personally myself have not just survived, but flourished through multiple restructures and organisational re-shuffling while keeping my personal career growth going.
I have benefitted from executive coaching that enabled me to achieve my mid-term goals of career enhancement plus delivered longer-lasting benefits of mindfulness in elevating several spheres of my life.
This drives my passion of helping others via coaching as I want to help you experience a fulfilling professional career and the sense of a wholesome life, as i have!!
WHAT IS MY COACHING FOCUS?
My coaching focuses on leadership development, career development and/or navigation (or transition), and work-life fit. Underlying all of this we will be working on deepening connections with yourself and it’s utility for any of these goals. I can’t stress how vital enhanced self-awareness is in unleashing the absolute BEST version of you at work!
I want to help you succeed and achieve the best outcomes for yourself, your teams (& family is team!), and organisations!
I firmly believe that true positive change starts from within, via enhanced self-awareness or inner insights (thus the “Inner Insights Coaching” name!). We work together to get you to experience more of those inner insights via a variety of methods to help you take next best action/s.
YOU are your best role model; my job is focused to help you become the best version of you!! Therefore as the kung-fu master ’Shifu’ says to ‘Po’ the panda in the movie Kung Fu Panda: “I’m not trying to turn you into me, I’m trying to turn you into you!“
WHAT IS COACHING?
Coaching is geared towards a vision of the future that is unlocked by enhanced self-awareness and improvement on particular aspect/s of your life.
My commitment as your coach is to be your thought partner and challenge you to open up new capabilities in yourself to help manifest the change desired in your life. I will be your biggest cheerleader to facilitate and support you to make a leap into the unfamiliar territory to reach your highest potential.
You are the BEST expert of yourself, and my job is help you connect more deeply with yourself and realize the options you have at hand. Ultimate control resides with you as to when or which action to take that aligns with your values, constitution and thought process
Testimonials: Happy Clients
Riju provided a psychologically safe space to explore my thoughts & feelings without judgement. He helped me forward the best actions which helped me get positive outcomes (like my promotion at work!)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— H Minga (Director of Business Performance Analytics, Travelers Insurance)
Riju has provided me with excellent guidance with the ability to have self introspection when navigating difficult decision making. Highly recommend a coaching session with him.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— H Hans (Director of Immunology, GlobalData)
I highly recommend anyone who wants to make a positive change in their lives to start a dialogue with Riju – it will be time well spent. Riju will likely improve your self-awareness & ability to take concrete action towards your goals.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— A Madan (VP, Corporate Strategy, XL Axiata)
As a coach, he helped me forward my career in a direction that gave me a great work-life balance. He checked on my progress regularly and was always available to chat when I needed him. He always listened to my situation first and guided me accordingly. With all his career accomplishments and acumen, he is very easy to talk to.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— M Majumder (Snr Scientist, First Light Bio)
I can’t express enough gratitude for the incredible impact Riju has had on my life. Their personalized guidance, unwavering support, and genuine belief in my potential have been nothing short of transformative. Thanks to Riju, I’ve gained clarity, confidence, and the tools to navigate life’s challenges with resilience. I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone seeking profound personal growth and fulfillment. Thank you for everything!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— S Sahu (Engineering Manager, The Economist)
TELL ME MORE ABOUT RIJU
Beyond my deep technical skills, business expertise and global experience my key strengths are great rapport building skills, authenticity, synthesis (ie., ability connect dots/themes to see the bigger picture), humor and light-heartedness.
I strongly believe in the power of mindfulness/meditation as a key tool in unlocking greater self-awareness to become the agent of change you desire in your life.
I’m a passionate believer in continuous self-improvement and constantly strive to do different things to help me grow and stretch in different ways.
TWO of the key personal challenges i have been working through are:
- Becoming (more) fearless and letting the world see more of me.
- Caring less about perceptions others may hold about me (or judging myself through “their lens”) & trying to be the most authentic version of me with little heed to voices about me!
WHAT IS MY COMMITMENT AS A COACH?
My commitment to you to serve as your dedicated though partner, cheerleader and accountability partner to ensure you are moving forward via our coaching process.
I do want to remind you that I can’t make you do anything as you should desire the change in your life and take the actions appropriately that make sense for you. I’m not going to let you get away not doing what you commit to doing.
Therefore coaching is hard as we will be trying to change how you think or approach aspects of your life to move you towards your desired outcomes.
OTHER COACHING SUBTLETIES I LEVERAGE
I lean into core energy coaching that focuses on identifying the energy you’re feeling (whether constructive / anabolic or negative / catabolic energy) and shifting your energy towards a constructive / anabolic energy mindset with different aspects / situations in your life. By moving or thinking in that energy state helps you more easily seek and capitalize on opportunities.
Via enhanced self-awareness you will be able to identify what energy mode you may be feeling or operating in, where do you choose to be, and work on identifying and overcoming internal blocks you may be experiencing to get there.
Simple pricing options
6 session pack
$300
per hour
Perfect for individuals who want to experiment with coaching.
12 session pack
$250
per hour
Ideal for individuals who are committed to coaching to help them achieve their goals.
Employer sponsored Plan
Contact me for rates
Designed for employees sponsored from their businesses and/or organisations.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’m based outside of USA – how will rates work for me?
Please contact me if interested. I have access to a rate database for executive coaching across the globe to quote you an appropriate rate.
Tell me more beyond Riju’s professional experience?
I’m a passionate believer in continuous self-improvement and constantly strive to do different things to help me grow and stretch in different ways. During the pandemic I decided to focus in on learning financial investing and have developed reasonable expertise in the last years! I love all different sorts of sectors and companies in making the world a better place. This ties in very closely to my strong passion to build the next cadre of leaders for tomorrow’s workplace via professional/executive coaching to realize that ambition.
I’m also an ardent heavy metal fan and am eternally thankful for the positive (anabolic) energy this music form has provided to me – be it when i’m feeling happy / accomplished / resentful / disappointed / angry it has always been able to lift me and transcend me to space from where i can re-connect with the world energized and rejuvenated. Though I never ventured to learn an instrument (maybe I need to do that!) but have been part of the scene via being a events promoter and music distributorship.
Lastly I absolutely love the sport of squash and learnt the sport as an adult and it’s go to sport to stay fit and keep my weight in check. I would say I’m an intermediate level player and have been able to inspire our son to take on the sport as well.
What else do you offer as part of your coaching packs?
All coaching packs include unlimited email access to me PLUS on-the-spot two 15 min urgent coaching calls between regular sessions.
Coaching sessions can be via video-conference or telephone calls.
How does coaching differ from other forms of support?
Coaching is different from therapy which delves into the past and focuses on deeper-seated emotional issues. Therapy helps people move from sub-optimal to optimal. Coaching is future focused that helps you move from optimal to excellent!
Coaching is also different from consulting wherein I may be giving specific advice or approaching our relationship with some agenda. Finally, coaching isn’t mentoring; even though I may have similar experiences from my career I will not be advising you on how to do something.
In coaching my goal is to help us figure out what you truly feel/get with __________(fill whatever this means for your life), find a way to bring that sense into your everyday life (job/relationships/family friends). That way when you get ________ it’s something you want and not need!
Can I get an invoice for my coaching sessions?
Yes, you can. Just let me know.
Still have questions?
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