OD Alternatives
Meet Your Executive Coaches
Welcome to your exclusive access point for executive coaching excellence. OD Alternatives has assembled a pool of experienced executive coaches dedicated to supporting your leadership growth. Browse their profiles, explore their LinkedIn backgrounds, and book your coaching conversation with the coach who resonates most with your development goals.
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Gopal Ananthanarayanan Iyer
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: EY, IIM Ahmedabad, IBS Mumbai
Gopal A. Iyer is a leadership coach, organisation development consultant, and Founder & CEO of Career Shifts Consulting.
Over two decades, he has advised CXOs, coached mid-career leaders, and designed large-scale leadership and culture programmes across industries. He is a Professor of Practice at IBS Mumbai, a GHCI 2025 Advisory Board Member, and host of the Career Shifts Podcast.
His work centres on helping leaders navigate complexity, build clarity, and lead with purpose.
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Ashwini Malpani
  • Experience: 19+ Years
  • Past Companies: Infosys, Anarock
She enjoys building new teams and organizations from the ground up and has worked across various sectors. From the beginning of her career, she has had the opportunity to work closely with leadership teams, supporting organizational growth.
Her strengths lie in leadership development and asking tough questions with gentleness and clarity, always in the best interest of the organization. She believes in treating people with empathy, respect, and compassion.
She is a senior HR leader with over 19 years of experience in talent acquisition, talent management, and leadership development.
Jainy Joseph
  • Experience: 30+ Years
  • Past Companies: Dale Carnegie, SHRM
Supporting leaders and organisations toward excellence through power of choosing with clarity and confidence.
Dynamic Learning Strategist, Facilitator, and Executive Coach with 30+ years of experience driving leadership capability, sales performance, and organisational transformation across global enterprises, startups, and scale-ups.
Recognised for designing and executing immersive learning and coaching interventions, leveraging experiential methodologies, storytelling, and Socratic questioning to foster psychological safety and sustainable behaviour change.
NS Parameswaran
  • Experience: 30+ Years
  • Past Companies: Sanofi Pasteur
With over 30 years of leadership experience in one of the world’s top five global pharmaceutical companies, he brings deep expertise across sales and marketing. In his most recent role, he led the marketing function, and prior to that, he served as the Head of Sales, managing a team of more than 300 professionals.
He is certified in multiple psychometric assessments (Hogan), has completed advanced programs in Organization Development (ODA & TISS), and is a PCC-certified coach (ICF).For the past five years, he has been working as an executive coach with a focus on Leadership Development and Transition Coaching, completing 1,500+ coaching hours.
Ankush Vij
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: JCSS, Tao Consulting
Ankush brings a rare combination of transactional sharpness and human-depth work to his coaching practice. In coaching conversations,
Ankush helps founders, leaders, and teams examine the structural, relational, and psychological forces shaping their decisions.
His work supports leaders navigating integration, scale, transformation, and identity shifts, especially in high-stakes environments.
Nupur Bhandari
  • Experience: 18 Years
  • Past Companies: Amazon, LEAD School, Emeralis
A learning and talent leader with 18 years of experience heading L&D functions across multiple organizations, she is certified in life and performance coaching by both ODA and the NeuroLeadership Institute.
She specializes in psychometric-based coaching grounded in neuroscience and behavior change, and has coached hundreds of professionals at all levels—from individual contributors to CXOs—enabling meaningful growth and enhanced leadership effectiveness.
Amlesh Ranjan
  • Experience: 34 Years
  • Past Companies: Hoechst, Sanofi
He is a Leadership & Team Coach, EQ Assessor & OD Practitioner. With over 34 years of corporate experience, with 17.5 years in leadership, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his practice.
With a ICF-PCC accreditation; EQ-i 2.0 MHS US certification; TISS-ODA OD certification; and NLP Diploma from the American Board.
Amlesh has delivered over 3000 hours of Transformational coaching, workshops, and keynotes across industries, domains, hierarchies and continents. With keen interest in Life, Learning & Leadership, he has authored a valuable book – ‘The Penta Life’.
Srividya Ivaturi
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: Aon, Jombay
An HR and OD Consultant with over 20 years of experience across multiple industries, she brings deep expertise in organizational development and people practices.
She is a Certified PCC-ICF Coach with more than 2,000 hours of coaching experience, working with individuals across different roles and career stages. She is also a Certified EQ Fellow from Six Seconds, strengthening her ability to support clients through emotional intelligence frameworks. In addition, she is currently pursuing PhD research focused on Emotional Resilience in adolescent students.
Maha Hasan
  • Experience: 14+ Years
  • Past Companies: EY, Amazon, Booking Holdings
HR Professional with 14+ years of experience driving Learning & Development and Organization Development across high-growth industries including BFSI, Life Sciences, Retail, E-commerce, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Travel and Technology.
Proven track record in consulting, strategizing, designing, and executing scalable learning solutions in fast-paced, innovation-driven environments.
Skilled at enabling organizational agility and capability building through future-focused L&D strategies.
Rucha Hardikar
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: Amazon, LEAD School, Emeralis
Experienced coach and facilitator specializing in Leadership Development, Org Design, Cross-Cultural Agility, Behavior Change, Talent Assessment & Development & Personality Assessment.
Certified coach (ICF-PCC, Marshall Goldsmith), certified master trainer & advanced practitioner of Hogan’s Personality Assessments, certified Organization Development practitioner (TISS-ODA), certified Cross-Cultural Agility practitioner (TASCA Global).
Brings over 2 decades of rich and varied experience across human capital management domains.
Sunita Ganesan
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: Cognizant, AstraZeneca, Pepsico
She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 20 years of global HR leadership experience across healthcare, FMCG, life sciences, finance, and automotive sectors.
She specializes in leadership and team coaching, integrating neuroscience and emotional intelligence to drive growth, trust, and performance. A seasoned facilitator and consultant, she has coached leaders up to the CXO level.
Sunita is the Founder and CEO of TRIKARAA Coaching and Potential Genesis HR Services LLP, committed to unlocking human potential through transformative learning.
Email id: sg@pghrs.com
Jvaleen Kaur Sethi
  • Experience: 11+ Years
  • Past Companies: Amazon, LEAD School, Emeralis
A Transformational HR and Leadership Development Partner with 11+ years of experience driving people and culture strategies across the F&B, manufacturing, FMEG, and FMCG sectors, she has a proven track record of building inclusive, high-performing workplaces and enabling leaders through coaching and development journeys.
She is passionate about embedding care into performance and reimagining HR as a strategic partner driving growth and purpose-led transformation.
Nitu Walia Kanwar
  • Experience: 25+ Years
  • Past Companies: Jet Airways
An Executive Coach and Leadership Facilitator with 25 years of diverse experience. She has developed over 14,000 professionals in leadership transformation and executive presence across global MNCs, PSUs, and Fortune 500 companies.
She is a certified Executive Coach in John Mattone’s Intelligent Leadership Coaching, an OD Practitioner from TISS & ODA Alternatives and a Personal Branding Consultant from the London Image Institute.
She empowers leaders to show up confidently, lead authentically and transform from within.
Joozar Shukla Hastak
  • Experience: 25+ Years
  • Past Companies: Cognizant Technologies, KPIT
Working with individuals to help them grow—both personally and professionally—genuinely excites her. Over the past 25 years, across corporate roles and now as a consultant, she has had the opportunity to work across IT, engineering, manufacturing, pharma, FMCG, and BFSI domains.
A certified coach and seasoned facilitator, she describes herself as a “find-me-in-the-forest soul”—curious, reflective, and people-centric, yet firmly grounded in business realities and organizational dynamism. Travel, philosophy, and psychology fuel her, continually shaping her learning and perspective.
Sheena Gujral
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Companies: LEHS, EXL Service
An HR leader with 20+ years of experience across IT, ITeS, think tanks, social impact, and HR advisory, she has worked extensively on the transformational side of people and culture—building engagement, piloting talent frameworks, strengthening succession pipelines, and holding space for self-reflection and growth.
Her journey has given her a lived understanding of people dynamics, leadership behaviours, and evolving organizational priorities, equipping her to help individuals and teams reach their full potential.
As Carl Jung said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are,” and she is deeply committed to enabling this journey for others.
P Venkatesh
  • Experience: 25+ Years
  • Past Companies: The Energy and Resources Institute, AstroVed
P Venkatesh is a global leadership coach and facilitator. He has more than 3500 hours of experience coaching 829 executives from 73 countries.
Venkatesh has coached professionals in over 164 organizations across IT, finance, healthcare, media, government and non-profit sectors.
Venkatesh is an adept trainer and facilitator in positive psychology, mindfulness and public speaking. He has delivered 2 TEDx talks on culture and storytelling.
People describe him as a ‘global citizen’. He has lived in India, Australia and Singapore, and speaks English, Hindi and Tamil fluently.
Asma Lata
  • Experience: 25+ Years
  • Past Companies: Dow Chemicals, Aker Solutions
Her 25+ year journey—from sales to over two decades in HR, Leadership, and Change Management—forms the foundation of her coaching practice. Certified as a Brain-Based Coach by the NeuroLeadership Institute in 2022, she integrates neuroscience and human process work with corporate strategy to ask powerful, empathetic questions.
She partners with both internal and external clients, including CXOs, senior leaders, and individuals seeking renewed purpose. Her approach is confidential and empathy-driven, with a focus on well-defined, measurable goals to ensure coaching delivers a direct, tangible impact on business performance as well as personal growth.
Naina Mohan
  • Experience: 20+ Years
  • Past Experiences: OD Consultant
Naina is a certified Organizational Development Coach through an ICF-accredited program and a seasoned Leadership and OD Consultant.
She brings a unique blend of academic depth and practical insight to help organizations build capabilities through behavioural training, leadership development, change management, and innovation.
Known for her engaging facilitation style, she partners with leaders and teams to drive transformation and growth through purposeful conversations and experiential learnin
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Preparation Tips
  • Reflect on your current leadership challenges, opportunities and the development plan you made during the workshop
  • Come with an open mind and willingness to be vulnerable
  • Set aside dedicated time free from distractions
  • Bring a notebook to capture insights and commitments
The more prepared and present you are, the more value you'll extract from your coaching conversation.
Why Executive Coaching Matters
Personalized Growth
One-on-one coaching provides tailored guidance that addresses your unique leadership challenges, strengths, and aspirations.
Expert Insight
Each coach brings decades of experience helping leaders navigate complex organizational dynamics, enhance decision-making capabilities, and develop authentic leadership presence.
Actionable Strategies
Walk away from your coaching conversation with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and concrete action steps you can immediately apply to your leadership role.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is a coaching session?
Each coaching conversation is designed to last 45 minutes, providing sufficient time for meaningful exploration and actionable insights while respecting your busy schedule.
Can I meet with multiple coaches?
You can just book a single session, so make sure you choose your coach after careful consideration.
What if I need to reschedule?
We understand priorities shift. Please provide at least 24 hours notice to reschedule your appointment, allowing your coach to accommodate other leaders. Ensure you send an email of rescheduling to the coach.
Is my conversation confidential?
Absolutely. All coaching conversations are completely confidential. Your coach will not share any details of your discussion without your explicit permission.
About OD Alternatives
Founded in 1998 by Santhosh Babu, a pioneering voice in the field of Organizational Development, ODA brings over 26 years of experience in transforming leadership and culture across industries.
At OD Alternatives (ODA), we help leaders build purposeful and high-performing organizations by working with both the visible factors, such as performance, structure, and processes, and the invisible dynamics like culture, beliefs, and mindsets that influence performance and change.
As a boutique consulting firm, ODA has partnered with more than 300 organizations, supporting thousands of leaders and teams through transformative journeys. Our work spans leadership development, culture transformation, top-team alignment, systemic change interventions, and inclusion and belonging initiatives. What sets us apart is our ability to blend deep experiential work with conceptual and systemic understanding, drawing from disciplines such as behavioral sciences, group dynamics, coaching psychology, and systems thinking.
ODA has been at the forefront of several key people-development movements in India. We introduced one of the country’s first coach training programs, launched pioneering Women in Leadership initiatives, and continue to influence the field through insightful white papers on critical OD topics.
We believe that organizations thrive when people do. We are committed to helping leaders and organizations unlock their full potential by aligning purpose, people, and performance in meaningful ways.