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Executive coaching

Step into the bigger role. Lead well as AI changes the work.

One to one coaching for first time executives and senior leaders whose teams are being reshaped by AI. From a coach who sits in the executive chair himself, as a serving senior HR executive.

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Harjeet Khanduja, executive coach
  • Serving senior HR executive
  • INSEAD
  • IIT Roorkee
  • Certified in executive coaching
  • Predictive Index certified
  • Insights Wheel practitioner
  • OKR practitioner
  • 4 published patents in HR technology
  • 5 TEDx talks

Who it's for

Leaders at a turning point

"I got the promotion. Now everyone expects me to have the answers."

First time executives

New VPs, directors and C level leaders in their first year, building presence, a leadership team and a track record fast.

"AI is changing my team's work faster than I can plan for it."

Leaders in the AI era

Executives redesigning roles, skills and decisions as AI enters the work, while keeping their people with them.

"I'm great at my function. Leading the whole business is different."

Experts becoming enterprise leaders

Strong specialists in tech, finance, operations or HR stepping into broader roles that run on influence, not expertise.

What we work on

Four areas, grounded in research and three decades of practice

01

Influence and executive presence

Being heard in the room, winning support across teams and leading without relying on your title.

From How Leaders Influence
02

Better decisions under uncertainty

Seeing the biases in your own thinking and your team's, and making faster, clearer calls.

From How Leaders Decide
03

Leading people through AI change

Deciding what to automate, reshaping roles and skills, and keeping trust while the work changes.

From building 30+ AI enabled HR products
04

Communicating with stories

Turning strategy, change and feedback into stories that people remember and act on.

From The Storytelling Leader

How coaching works

A clear path from first call to lasting change

Engagements typically run for three to six months, shaped around the goals you set.

  1. Discovery call

    A short conversation to understand where you are, where you want to be and whether we are a good fit.

  2. Assessment

    A Predictive Index profile and conversations with your manager and peers to see how others experience your leadership.

  3. Coaching sessions

    Regular one to one video sessions with practical work between them, focused on the situations you face this month.

  4. Progress review

    A check against the goals you set, and a plan to keep growing after the coaching ends.

Format One to one, by video Time zones US evenings and India daytime Languages English and Hindi
  • TodayHe is an executive himselfA serving senior HR executive, facing the same pressures as the leaders he coaches.
  • 30+AI products built for HRHe has built AI into hiring, learning and fraud detection, so the AI conversation is practical, not theoretical.
  • 10Books on leadership and HRIncluding How Leaders Decide with Sage and How Leaders Influence with Rupa.
  • 14Jury roles judging leadersTrusted to judge emerging leaders for The Economic Times and five years of TAPMI's Young HR Leader Awards. See the full list
  • 65Countries reachedA global audience, with an understanding of how leadership travels across cultures.
Harjeet is an outstanding HR professional. He has a unique ability to connect with both employees and managers on both a personal and business level.
Rick KneipperChairman of the Board, Aquity Holdings

Advising

A thinking partner for CHROs and founders

Harjeet takes on a small number of advising roles each year, on AI in HR, hiring at scale and building HR functions. He serves on the board of the Federation of World Academics and the advisory board of Bloggers Alliance.

  • CHRO sounding boardConfidential conversations ahead of a big people decision, from restructuring to an AI rollout.
  • Advisory boardsFor startups, universities and professional associations shaping the future of work.
  • Mentoring foundersHelping startup founders think through their first HR systems and culture.

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