Maniyadeth Narayanan (Nara) is an accomplished Business Leader and an experienced Executive Coach & Trainer, specializing in Leadership Development of senior leaders, mangers and individual contributors. He helps his clients solve their real life leadership challenges such as their inability to delegate effectively, execute for results, communicate with impact, become more assertive, collaborate better with others, address conflicts constructively and other issues that might derail their career. He administers appropriate assessments to his clients to get insights into their challenges prior to a coaching engagement. He adopts Marshall Goldsmith’s 7-step stakeholder centred behavioural coaching process for Leadership Development. He coaches and supports individuals on a one-on-one basis, in person as well as using virtual technology such as Zoom. He is passionate about helping individuals grow and develop to their full potential. He brings to the table a blend of hands-on leadership experience and tremendous coaching and training expertise.

As an executive coach and trusted advisor, Nara helps his clients address their most pressing leadership challenges and achieve their career goals aligned to their organizational objectives. He does this through thoughtful collaboration, creative coaching, engaging facilitation and utilization of proven methodologies and frameworks that achieve results in an efficient and effective manner. He has 2000+ hours of 1-on-1 coaching experience working with several C-level, senior-level and mid-level executives in Banking and Finance, Technology, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Logistics companies and other industries. He has facilitated multiple workshops/training sessions that equipped individuals with skills and techniques to help them succeed in honing their leadership skills and succeed in their jobs.

Previously he held senior corporate leadership positions at major multi-national companies such as Brocade Communications, EMC, Data General and Sequent Computer systems in Singapore, providing effective leadership to large cross-functional, multi-cultural teams in Asia/Pacific.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras and a Master's degree in Business Management from IIT Madras. He is a certified coach for effective Leadership Development (Stakeholder Centred Coaching by Marshall Goldsmith) and certified in “Global Leader of the Future Assessment” by Marshall Goldsmith.