Ritu is a Global Executive Coach and Leadership Capacity Builder with expertise in strategic leadership and organizational effectiveness. She understands well what it is to be a leader in today’s globalized, interconnected and fast changing world of business, commerce and community.

A Canadian citizen (Indian origin) she works from Toronto, Canada & Raleigh, USA. She has lived/worked in Europe and SE Asia, Australia, Seychelles and S Africa.

25 years of corporate experience (global marketing strategy, operations, general management, consulting) combined with developing and honing potential/performance of leaders helps her customize development programs to align leadership effectiveness with business outcomes and strategic goals.

A trusted advisor, she is widely regarded as an insightful collaborator and partner. Her work with leaders - individually and as a team – in f2f and/or virtual settings - is to enable transformation and enhance effectiveness, engagement and influence; manage transitions and change; build strong relationships; enable strategic thinking - as they lead themselves, their teams and organizations into the future.

Ritu leverages her global perspective, multinational experience, business acumen and intuition to support leaders to actualize their desired intentions and prepare for future business challenges.

Her coaching is holistic, results oriented and evidence based. Assessments and discovery interviews help identify all that is within: long-standing patterns of habit, mind-sets and beliefs. She co-creates goals, defines outcomes and develops the ability to ideate and move in new directions and possibilities. This enables change in behavior and also the mindset needed to sustain that change. Thus, the change endures over time, beyond the coaching contract. https://www.newventureswest.com/what-is-integral-coaching/

Ritu has worked, consulted and coached in multiple sectors: technology, healthcare, tourism, mining, professional services, insurance, automotive, retail & consumer goods’ industries. Her clients include CEO/EVP/SVPs/VPs, GMs, Directors, Engineers, functional leaders and high potentials.

Her corporate ‘leader’ experience as Regional Head - American Management Association (A-Pac); Regional Director (Ops, People and Culture), ThoughtWorks Inc; Head-Strategy & International Business, Eicher International – enable her navigate & offer empathetic perspective.

Ritu brings her passion ‘to make a difference’ through her coaching and enables clients become more effective and impactful leaders in today’s VUCA world. She practices ‘intentional inclusion’; employs an integrated ‘head, heart and gut’ approach to achieve holistic & cultural alignment; build resilience and develop authentic leaders. Some engagements:

Executive Transition and Presence: SVP - Gold Mining (across 3 continents) - Built leadership presence and grew ‘Statesmanship’ – communicate with impact and build strategic networks thus growing the ability to influence, inspire and delegate effectively; build trust and followership and ‘manage’ relationships with C-suite.

Authentic Leadership: Head-Insurance Services – Medical Insurance Association - Enabled leadership capacity and competence through recognition of innate strengths. Be more assertive and creative; develop emotional courage to have difficult conversations and develop listening skills to be more collaborative.

“New” Leadership: Country Head - Mobile Security - challenged by the ‘new culture’ and co-existing ex-head. Strengthened his relationships in a matrix, multi-location organization and align with the new culture. Develop communication skills, ability to resolve conflicts and influence outcomes.

Clients

Bristol Myers Squib

Federal Housing Finance Agency

LinkedIn

Unilever

Ontario Medical Association

Agnico Eagle

Lookout Inc

GE

BMW

Ford

Deloitte

Education

Professional Certified Coach (ICF)

Certified Leadership Coach, CCL

Integral Coach, New Ventures West

PG Diploma International Trade

MBA - Marketing & Organizational Beh.

Assessments: Leadership Circle 360, CCL 360, LEA360, CMI, ISI, TES, Enneagram, WB5P, MBTI, DiSC, Firo-B, Hogan Suite, Leadership Culture Survey, Chally Talent Analyst.

Affiliations: Growth Edge Network (GEN); Women in Leadership (WIL); Art of Developmental Coaching (AoDC); Humanitarian Coaching Network (HCN) Women for Change Coaching Community (WCCC)

Present/Previous Engagements

AIIR Consulting

New Ventures West-Adjunct Faculty

Center for Creative Leadership

Torch Leadership Development

Duke Corporate Education

MarchFifteen Consulting

Min. of Tourism, Seychelles

Areas of Expertise

Executive Coaching

Team Building/Group Coaching

Facilitation and Design

Executive Assessment and Feedback

Interviews: Live 360, Intake, Stakeholder

Areas of Interest/Experience

Mindfulness & Resilience

Authenticity and Self-Awareness

Presence Based Coaching

Developmental Coaching

Head-Heart-Hands Leadership

Non-Violent Communication-Difficult Conversations

Holistic and Humanistic Leadership

Situational Leadership

Diversity & Intentional Inclusion

Change and Transformation