Ravi Krishnaswamy Cdr Ravi Krishnaswamy (Retd), is a defence veteran having served the Indian Navy with distinction in both operations and training for over two decades. Thereafter, in his second innings, during the last two decades plus years, he is pursuing his passion of “Helping people help themselves” through people development programs. Interacting with people through coaching, mentoring, facilitating and training, to help them bring about transformation in their lives has been his forte throughout his 44 years of experience so far. His dream is to reach out to as many people as possible in his lifetime to fulfil this passion. Knowing ‘Coaching” is the best available skill to achieve this, he has undergone coach training to become an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified Leadership and Executive Coach and also got credentialed by them as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). As an external coach, both, on his own and by associating with reputed coaching organizations, in a span of over six plus years and 750 plus hours of Leadership and Executive coaching, he has helped people at all management levels to help them become better in their lives by bringing about necessary changes in their approach. Instead of changing how they act, he works with his clients on changing the way they see themselves. He follows a systemic approach in his coaching style by thinking, being and doing systemically. Some of the clients he has coached are from organizations such as Deloitte, American Express, Accenture, Indian School of Business to name a few, He has helped his clients to see deep within themselves, to reflect and discover a new them, which has helped them discover solutions for their requirements. He keeps his questioning technique simple by asking powerful and simple questions, and using appropriate tools whenever required to help them raise their personal performance levels and value add to their organizations requirements. His work is not only confined to corporates but also to NGO’s and students in campus to corporate programs. Certified in “Applied Neuroscience for Coaching”, Team Coaching Foundations Certified Coach, EI Practitioner and a Master Practitioner in NLP, he uses his learnings extensively while helping people to bring out transformations optimally and effectively. He believes that, to coach people to help them transform themselves, he has to not only achieve a high level of excellence in the field of coaching but also grow and sustain that level. The mantra for him is he sharpens the saw continuously through constantly learning, updating and honing his skills. He believes that, there is no end to learning something new in one’s life time. He is now focusing on team coaching, first by completing his certification as a Team Coaching Foundations Certified Coach early this year, and following it up by currently undergoing the next level certification program as Practitioner in team coaching, both of which are recognized by the ICF and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). As a part of the Practitioner program, he is undergoing a separate Coaching Supervision program also, to pause and learn from his reflections as a coach. Recommended by the ICF and mandated by the EMCC, through the Supervision program, he hopes to gain from the expertise of fellow coaches and experienced supervisors. He was presented with the 101 Most Fabulous Coaching Leaders (India) award by CHRO, Asia which is endorsed by the World Federation of Human Resources Professionals (WHRP) at the 28th World HRD Congress on 16 Feb 2020. His strengths are discipline, commitment, patience, honesty of purpose and capacity to sustain long hours of work, mindfulness and self-compassion. He challenges himself to become better by constantly raising the bar, and competing with himself. While coaching is his primary passion, he facilitates and mentors also, by customizing in people development programs. Cdr (Retd) CEO Today Executive Coaching Awards 2022 - INDIA - - 112 - MOST INFLUENTIAL COACH OF THE YEAR
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