Priya is a seasoned executive coach with over 30 years of leadership experience, reaching board level positions and working internationally in 84 countries across four industries. Her expertise lies in fostering inclusive leadership and driving organizational, cultural, and customer experience transformations on a global scale. Priya is deeply engaged in researching psychological flow and regenerative leadership, focusing her doctoral studies on the experience of flow in digital-age workspaces. This blend of practical leadership experience and research-driven insights underpins her effective, thoughtful and impactful coaching style.

Coaching Philosophy & Approach

Priya believes in the infinite potential of the human spirit and helps her clients define their values and goals to guide them towards practical solutions. Priya's coaching approach is pragmatic and person-centered, leveraging insights from neuroscience, positive psychology, and advanced coaching techniques to meet the unique needs of each client and situation.  She’s accredited as a senior practitioner coach by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and as a professional certified coach by the International Coach Federation.

Coaching topics she’s worked on include career challenges (e.g. stagnation, redundancy, promotion, transition); building presence, credibility, and self-confidence; navigating through organisational change; burnout and work-life balance; handling difficult stakeholder relationships across all levels and  challenging organisational cultures.  She enjoys working with leaders and groups to help them become more self-aware, optimise their group dynamics and take a wider, systemic lens towards their goals. Her passion for flow originated in her early career as a professional Indian classical dancer and she weaves creativity and mindfulness into her coaching as a result.

Background

Priya started her career in the airline industry holding positions like Area IT manager for Africa, Asia and the Pacific region for British Airways and leading several customer experience transformation programmes for the airline. She moved to the Telecommunications industry and held General Management positions in the customer experience and transformation space before closing her corporate career as the Director of customer experience in a utility.

She has been very active in sponsoring inclusion and diversity in the companies that she worked in and is a highly experienced mentor working across programmes such as Women in STEM and MBA and other post-graduate students. She has been in board level non-executive roles and is currently the chair of the people committee on the board of an NHS Foundation trust.

She was able to crystallise her passion for coaching and continued learning over the Covid pandemic when she took the decision to retire from corporate life to set-up her own coaching practice. She has since completed a Masters in Coaching and Behaviour change is and pursuing a PhD in Leadership, Organisation and behaviour change.

Client testimonials

"Priya has coached me through a turbulent time in my working life. Practical, empathetic and empowering, she is excellent at holding up a mirror to your thoughts and really helping you to see yourself and your situation in a new light.  Her coaching has helped me to reshape a difficult work period, and turn the negativity into a positive learning experience, helping me to empower myself to change the situation for the better, something I couldn’t have done without her help.  I would highly recommend Priya to anyone, her guidance and ability to create a safe space for you to explore is invaluable."

Senior Business Leader, Utility

"Priya supported me as a coach during a critical time in my career. I knew I needed a new challenge but could not get to the point of gaining enough confidence to move forward. Through Priya’s authentic, thoughtful and bespoke coaching, I was helped to understand the ‘sticking’ points, holding me back to move forward to the next stage in my career. Priya held most of her coaching sessions in nature- through walking and talking. I love being in nature and this approach especially supported me to ‘untangle’ my thinking and realise where I needed to go next. Through Priya’s coaching, I successfully gained a new job, through an extremely competitive process. I am certain that my success was partly to do with the coaching I received from Priya. The coaching helped me to ‘see’ myself clearly, understand just how far I had come in my career and gain confidence for me to ‘lean in’ to this new challenge. I am forever grateful for Priya’s warm and authentic approach."

University Professor

"Every time I completed a session with Priya it felt as if a huge obstacle had been removed from my mind.  I can honestly say that she got it, reading through the confusion of emotions and of office politics eloquently. On numerous occasions, Priya was able to unblock my creativity, and helped me create well-thought out strategies that sat well with my intentions, and positively impacted both my actions and their outcomes.
With an un-biased voice of guidance, Priya will lead you to short-term solutions, with long-term gains — within yourself and your career!"

Senior Risks & Assurance Leader

"I love the way Priya makes me think in creative ways. Her way of working gives me access to deeper insights that I’ve not had before."

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Qualifications / Other Credentials

• PhD (expected 2027), Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour Change, Henley Business School

• Professional Certified Coach, ICF, 2024

• Senior Practitioner Accreditation, EMCC, 2023

• MSc with distinction in Coaching & Behavioural Change, Henley Business School, 2023

• Change Master Practitioner, British Quality Foundation, 2015

• Coaching Diploma, The International NLP Trainers Association, 2014

• Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching, Henley Business School, 2020

• MBA with distinction, Warwick Business School, 2010

• Certificate in Leadership, Witwatersrand University South Africa, 2004

• Certificate in Management, Oxford Brookes University, 1998

• Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management, National Institute of Information Technology, 1993

• Certificate in Indian Classical Dance, Bharatanatyam, Ganesa Natyalaya, 1992

• BSc Hons in Botany with distinction, Delhi University, 1991

• Undertake regular Coaching Supervision