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Head of Factory Operations
Pharmaceutical company

I used to find it difficult to delegate work to my subordinates. I believed that they were not capable of the doing the work and could not give me the quality I wanted. Through the coaching I realized that my own fear of failure and perfectionist approach was limiting my ability to grow in the organization. It was also preventing my team members from learning and taking independent decisions. I started taking small steps like not following up every day, asking them questions when they came to me instead of giving them the answers and trusting them with certain important decisions. This has helped me to get more time for strategic work and also improved relations between me and my team.

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Bharati Nadkarni
Appropriate IP Services, ex Vice President Sun Pharmaceuticals
Founder

I have taken several coaching sessions with Nirupama for leadership development over two years. I have been thoroughly happy with her, and the methods she follows. She has been immensely helpful in getting me to evaluate myself, in setting goals and vision, and in identifying & overcoming several weaknesses. Nirupama makes it very easy to share and discuss matters. She is never judgemental, nor does she ever show her opinion on any matter, thus making it easy to have a holistic guidance on the path forward. Working with her is extremely fulfilling, and I would recommend her to everyone.

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Saransh Agarwal
Cognizant Solutions
AVP

I was very reluctant when my supervisor suggested coaching as an intervention for some areas of development. However today I believe that those sessions have helped me discover myself in a very different way. Nirupama as a coach helped me identify my core values that define my identity and through some very probing questions took me through a journey which was enriching and an eye- opener. As a coach, Nirupama has access to and mastery over various tools and techniques but she always ensured that I was not lost or confused in the jargon or science. Through these tools, she helped me see linkages between various wish-lists and wants and identify real obstacles or “hold” on self. Thanks to her, today I am lot more confident in dealing with various scenarios at office and in a positive frame of mind. In my experience to get maximum impact from coaching just – “Have Faith and Start the Journey along with Your Coach”

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Senior Manager
Iron and Steel manufacturing company

I have just been promoted. Your coaching made a big difference and helped me to get this position. I have been working on being more assertive and speaking up during meetings. Thanks a lot.

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Michael Griffin
AchieveGlobal India and ELAvate Asia
CEO

Nirupama and I have been on the journey of equipping and inspiring leaders for over 15 years. It has been an honor to work with her and learn from her successes. During the years we have trained and coached leaders together, she has repeatedly demonstrated the ability, skill and attitude to be a servant leader to grow others. Because she is always teachable, Nirupama has translated her learning into a passion to effectively coach and train aspiring young people to ‘lift their leadership lids.’ Two qualities that are uniquely ‘Nirupama’ are her high emotional intelligence combined with her wonderful creativity. This synergy allows her to coach leaders in a way that brings out their best not just be more successful, but focus them to be unique leaders of significance. How blessed I am to be her friend, her colleague and her student in our journey of life. She truly is a gem. I am positive she will continue to be a multiplier of significance in leaders lives.

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Hemalakshmi Raju
Tata Motors Academy

Nirupama has been one of our most preferred trainers for senior leadership training. One of the key interventions delivered by her was on “Communicating Presence”, which was a comprehensive package with an element of one on one coaching. Her commendable business connect and communication ability helps in converting powerful concepts and insights into simple learning inputs. She is a valued partner who not just keep the participants engaged in the session but more importantly gives them ability to transfer the learning into visible impact”

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Terine Lott-Cupido
Empowerlink Services- South Africa
Owner and Managing Director

Nirupama, has over the past year (2018/2019) provided me with excellent mentoring.  As my mentor, based on her business experience, she was able to provide me with guidance and valuable input which I used to improve a number of my business processes over this period, at EmpowerLink Services. Our progress tracking report, gave us a focused approach, that was aligned to me achieving my three business objectives set at the onset of our mentoring programme and relationship. The tracking sheet assisted me to commit and follow through on agreed actions.  This progress tracking report also helped me review my milestones achieved, which is great.  My sales, marketing, branding, and finance processes has improved significantly, amongst others, which is as a direct result of our engagements and my subsequent actions taken, on a continual basis. I am truly thankful to Nirupama for her mentoring and support received to date and I have also grown personally. I would thus encourage, my fellow entrepreneurs to seek a mentor  within their field, as they too could benefit. Thank you, so much once again, Nirupama and to the Cherie Blaire Foundation for your commitment to mentoring entrepreneurs, such as myself, and for making this possible. I am truly grateful.

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Harsh Soni
PSA Group
HR Business Partner

it has been more than a year for our (PSA Groupe) association with Ms. Nirupama Subramanian and she has helped us in various areas like Leadership Development,

Personal Transformation through different kind of assessments and coaching sessions. The feedback which I receive from my team members about Nirupama’s sessions

is really encouraging and I, myself, learn something new as a T&D professional every time.

Recently she conducted a session on ‘Building Emotional Resilience’ for us through webinar which was unique in the sense of content as well as medium of delivery, for many of us.

 Session went really well as expected.People learned the actual meaning of resilience and they will see its impact in their life in longer run.

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Aditi Gujral
Sun Life
Director Organizational Design and Development

Thank you Nirupama for sharing your insights in such an engaging and authentic manner. I and my colleagues at SunLife really found value in your session. Look forward to more.

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Adil Bala
Tata Motors Ltd
Participant in Executive Presence Program - 2020
Nirupama’s professionalism and passion are infectious.

She gives appropriate feedback to every participant and one can notice a very visible change in the presentation outcome of every participant at the end of the program.

All in all – an awesome program facilitated excellently by Ms Nirupama.

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Nitin Kashid
Tata Motors Ltd
Participant Executive Presence workshop -2020

Ms Nirupama has been a great Facilitator who knows the topic in-depth. She was able to keep us all engaged throughout and has explained the concepts in a simple and effective manner.

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Gaurav Thakur
Steelcase Asia
CHRO

Thank you for a meaningful and impactful session today. You made such a deep topic like resilience look so easy to understand . The information on daily practices was so bang on.

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Sharon Van Den Heever
Director - Hesscon Z.A
Mentee - Cherie Blair Foundation

Nirupama and I connected instantly and I am very grateful for the wisdom and guidance that I have received over the year. Every goal and milestone discussed with Nirupama was implemented and achieved but by far
the biggest reward for me was the personal growth that I underwent this year through the skype sessions we had on a regular basis. Thank you for also helping me to realize what my own personal area of expertise is and what I would like towork towards and for this I will always be grateful. From a professional perspective Nirupama has an excellent knowledge of various aspects of business and she is amazing at the analysis of one’s business and
unlocking the hidden potential of one’s self and one’s business. Truly an amazing mentor that I would recommend to other small business owners and corporate companies.

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Head of Sales and Marketing
Chemical Manufacturing company
CXO

You helped me discovering me so well.

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Aarti Deodhar
Cipla
Director -Intellectual Property

Nirupama is very easy to bond with right from the first meeting and makes one open up easily. She understands her subject well and encourages them to analyse their situation and guides them to come up with solutions. She is an excellent career coach and a great support, guide and motivator. I highly recommend her.

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Vaishali Rampurkar
New Product at Sun Pharmaceuticals
Head

Nirupama guides you to uncover your potential & recognize your own POWER. Her mentorship helped me immensely to find my own answers. The general tendency when one reaches to senior position is to rest in one’s competence. This is where one’s mentor inspires one to reach for the next rung of the ladder. Having gained greatly from this experience I now believe this journey needs to begin earlier, at middle management level. Nirupama is well versed in her subject, a thoughtful, experienced and mature mentor. I highly recommend Nirupama to midcareer women who want to maximize their potential and achieve their utmost.

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Dharmender Lodha
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd
Head Global Treasury

Nirupama has been a wonderful coach. She made me comfortable and built rapport & trust before we started the coaching journey. Her coaching sessions have helped me introspect with appropriate probing questions & techniques and identify solutions to the problems through her holistic guidance. She also ensured implementation of actionable agreed in the coaching sessions. These coaching sessions will go a long way in my leadership journey. Thank you.

Lakshmi Sethuraman
Sattva Consulting

Nirupama is a wonderful coach- she is empathetic, was able to help me understand and structure my goals (and helped me also realize when it needed to be evolved), was able to give me appropriate tools and hold me accountable to my actions. She is also very perceptive and discerning in being able to call out the not-so-obvious challenges. I also benefited from her vast experience of working with women leaders – particularly from the assessment exercise from the Powerful tool to understand my archetype and work towards specific areas that I was able to see limitations in

Ashima Bahl
Metlife Insurance
Director , Strategic Planning, Governance & Internal Assurance and DEI Leader

Empowering women workforce has always been our motto for the Women Empowerment Forum. On that note, we had the pleasure of hosting renowned leadership coach and author Nirupama Subramanian, who joined us for an intriguing webinar on the inherent powers of women and how unlock your full potential to lead a powerful life, both at work and in personal domain. She also spoke about what factors that keep women from their inner power. The session was very interesting and we received such great feedback from the audience, who would also receive a copy of this book for further learning. Thank you Nirupama Subramanian for a fantastic session… we look forward to a continued partnership with you !!

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Prashant Pillai
Sanofi Ltd
Leadership Development Lead

My association with Nirupama began in early 2016 when we approached her to design a Change intervention for Sales Leadership at Sanofi. Over the last three years, we have also partnered with Nirupama on Coaching and Leadership Presence. Nirupama is an extremely competent consultant, very self assured and also open to ideas and suggestions, thereby making her a wonderful professional to work with for any organization. It’s been a pleasure working with Nirupama and I wish her success with all her endeavors.