Clarity under pressure, for the people building under the most of it.
I coach the founders scaling India's defining companies. The work is grounded in systems thinking and a doctoral inquiry into how people hold judgment when the stakes don't let up.
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The founders building India's defining companies.
What founders say
“Naina is the longest-standing coach I've ever had, and the most demanding. She doesn't tell you what you want to hear. She asks the one question that reframes the whole problem. … Every leader I've sent to her comes back sharper.”
Where the leverage actually lives.
Most of the real work happens three levels deeper than where people look: the patterns that repeat, the structures producing them and the mental models behind those. These are a few of the maps I work with.
Four ways in. Each starts with a conversation.
From a discovery call to a fractional CXO seat inside your company. Scope and terms are always set together.
Standard Advisory
A sharp, regular outside read on the organization, without me operating inside it day to day.
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Everything in advisory at a deeper operational level. Assume you are hiring a fractional CXO.
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Systems thinking, organizational learning and somatic practice, facilitated on your problem.
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A full 45-minute working session. Bring the real problem and leave with something specific.
By applicationApply →Two decades inside the pressure. Now the research.
I joined Zomato in 2011 and stayed through its defining years: content, then unofficial chief of staff to the founder, then coach to the founder and the leadership team. Since then I have coached founders across India, while working on original theory of how people and systems hold clarity under sustained pressure.
The coaching is the field. The research is the lens.
PhD scholar, MGM University
Original theory on how people and systems hold clarity under sustained pressure: the ARSL and GBLA constructs.
Master Practitioner, MIT Centre for Systems Awareness
Cohort 7, Compassionate Systems. The lineage behind the frameworks.
Flatland, CULTure at Zomato, Systems of Grace and Only the Paranoid Survive. Only the Regulated Thrive.
Four books on culture, clarity and the systems that hold organizations together. The books
Professor of Practice, NSBT
TEDx speaker. Workshops for teachers and students at IIT Delhi, ILSS, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Sinhgad University and BML Munjal University.
Founder, Ananta. Co-founder, ILEKA
The institutional infrastructure for the next layer of leaders and communities.
Co-founder, sAvaka
An operating system for living organizations.
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