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Insights From A Leadership Coach Who Is Using Sustainability To Drive Change

24m · StepUp Leadership · 17 Aug 17:39

In this interview Rajasekharan shares some coaching anecdotes and how he coaches across the different layers of the organisation. He provides his perspective on internal coaching and how he wishes to contribute to the future of coaching.

Rajasekharan or Raj as he likes being called is the Founder and Chief Consultant of BusinessClinique, an organisation that helps solves business problems with the help of renowned experts. He is also a certified coach for senior management and business leaders and a mentor for entrepreneurs at the IIT Incubation Centre. Raj worked with ITC Ltd. for 32 years before retiring as the CEO of the Matches & Agarbatti Division in 2018. Additionally, he was also the Chief Executive of the Safety Matches Business since 2010. He modelled and ran both businesses on the principles of lean management and aggressive market expansion. Raj was also the Chairman of the CSR committee of Madras Chambers of Commerce for two years from 2016. He was instrumental in promoting sustainable development projects in collaboration with several State Governments.

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