Your Leadership Blueprint
What got you here, won't get to to the next step
Stop compensating for weak structures
Built durable authority
For yourself and your team
Leader's I've worked with
Two ways to work together
For CXOs and Senior Leaders
The higher you go, the less honest feedback you get. The more complex the decisions. The higher the cost of your blind spots. This is where we close that gap.
What changes
You make sharper decisions - and fewer of them. You lead across functions without needing formal authority. You stay consistent under pressure - same signal, every room, every stakeholder. Your influence lands beyond your physical presence
How
Stakeholder-centered coaching with proven, measurable outcomes - adapted to your specific context and operating environment through a proprietary leadership framework.
We start with Leadership Circle - a 360° assessment that shows you how you actually land, not how you think you come across. From there, seven deep coaching sessions, built around the pillars of the framework, a personal accountability team, and unlimited real-time access.
Designed to pull your team out of the operational loop
Four labs. 2x half-days. Built around your live challenges, not hypotheticals.
What your team works through in each lab:
Establish Strategic Baseline - distinguish strategic thinking from operational execution.
Strategic Choices & Trade-Offs - Define real choices on live initiatives
Judgement & Questioning Discipline - surface assumptions, sharpen questioning quality & judgement
Systems Thinking in Practice - map interdependencies, ripple effects and communicate effectively.
You leave with a Strategic Operating Blueprint with shared language, actionable tools and rituals for a team that leads - not just executes
TORONTO 2026 | TICKETS
Join Pooja
in Toronto!
July 15th 2026
Pooja’s Keynotes
Pooja speaks to what's actually keeping talented leaders from leading at the level they're capable of - and leaves every room with the language, clarity, and tools to change that.
Her sessions have moved CXOs, senior leaders, and high-potential talent from stuck to self-defined.
Topics include
Engineering Confidence - building authority from inside out
Traps that keep ambitious leaders stuck - how to break them
Own Your Path - leading without losing yourself
Bespoke keynotes on request
About me
I didn't become an executive coach because I read about leadership. I became one because I spent twelve years inside it - at Google, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, ICICI Bank, Bitvavo; across Europe and APAC, at the table where the real decisions get made.
And what I kept seeing, across every organisation and every level, was the same pattern.
The leaders who stalled weren't the least capable people in the room. They were often the most capable. But they were running operational instincts in a strategic role. Thorough when they needed to be directional. Detailed when the moment called for decisive. Managing down when the scope required leading across.
Nobody was naming or closing it. That's what I do now.
As a certified executive coach (Marshall Goldsmith's Stakeholder-Centred Coaching Certified) with 5,000+ hours working with C-Suite leaders and high performers, I work at the intersection of leadership authority, strategic thinking, and the behavioural shifts that actually stick.
The work is direct. The frameworks are built for your context.
And nothing here is generic.
Testimonials
Anne-Christine Polet
CMO, PotatoHead
Razor-sharp mind. The ability to be both empathetic and constructively critical. Pooja will never tell you what you want to hear - she tells you what you need to hear.
Barend Kuperus
CTO, Nike, PVH
Pooja is a leader that doesn't avoid difficult conversations, tells you what you need to hear and I have seen first hand her skilled approach in successfully closing challenging situations
Mateusz Włodarczyk
Chief Product Officer, Bitvavo
The best leaders don't coast. They build.
Executive coaching, advisory, and strategic sprints for leaders who are still raising the bar