Focus areas : Coaching and Facilitation
Leela is an independent coach and facilitator of leadership development and personal transformation, through her boutique practice Wisdom Tree Leadership, founded in 2014. She is part of McKinsey & Company’s network of facilitators and coaches in India (Aberkyn) and is a certified Personal Insights Workshop facilitator. Leela is also a Newfield Certified Coach and a certified Somatic Coach from the Strozzi Institute, California.
Her experience and expertise includes somatic coaching and bodywork, building leadership presence and empowering embodied communication. She has worked with clients in pharma, mining, steel, gas, insurance, retail, banking, not for-profit, supply chain logistics, IT, aviation and automotive industries, at the middle, senior and top management levels.
Over the past 25 years, Leela’s diverse journey has been richly peppered with discovery, transformation and a depth of self-expression. She brings this experience to support individual leadership journeys through one-on-one coaching and facilitation of transformational leadership development programs, helping people work through their challenges, explore limiting mindsets and behaviors to emerge with a much more powerful ability to connect, inspire and communicate.
Management & executive experience:
- Founder owner, Wisdom Tree Leadership, a boutique coaching and facilitation practice in Bangalore, 2014 to present day
- Client Communication Manager at McKinsey & Company, 2007 to 2014
- Senior Commissioning Editor at Response Books, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi 2001 to 2007
- Entrepreneur, Leela’s Kitchen, a home-baking business, New Delhi 1998 to 2001
- Advocate, Delhi High Court; and Associate at Rajkotia & Sudan,1993 to 1998
Certifications:
- Certified Strozzi Somatic Coach
- Newfield Certified Coach
- Certified Cultural Transformational Tools Consultant (Barretts Values Assessment)
- Certified Personal Transformational Facilitator
- Certified Presenting With Impact Facilitator
Why I want to support women : Over the years, as women’s roles have shifted and evolved at home and at work, the challenges that persist for women are often deep-rooted in a historical legacy of attitudes, beliefs and traditions. I believe it’s important for women to hold these spaces with dignity, to draw boundaries with care, to make choices with courage and to practice self-care. I’d like to support women to work through these areas in a way that empowers them to live their values and connects in meaningful ways to their own wisdom and feminine divinity.