Mission Statement

As an award-winning executive coach, enterprise transformation leader, independent director, author, and strategy & value management consultant, I help organizations and leaders unlock their full potential aligning purpose with performance to create lasting impact.

With a proven track record of leading complex transformations across industries, I partner with boards, CXOs, and leadership teams to navigate disruption, accelerate growth, and build future-ready capabilities. My approach blends strategic insight, systems thinking, and human-centered leadership development, enabling clients to evolve with agility, clarity, and confidence.

I am an ICF- and EMCC-credentialed executive coach, transformation leader, and former UN Peacekeeper who is passionate about helping senior executives, CXOs, and startup founders disrupt before they are disrupted. With over two decades of leadership experience across enterprise transformation, digital agility, and organizational development, I bring strategic depth, systemic insight, and a powerful coaching presence to every engagement.

I specialize in coaching leaders navigating inflection points—whether scaling a startup, pivoting in uncertainty, or driving transformation in legacy enterprises. Nivarti blends coaching psychology, systems thinking, and agile methodologies to unlock leadership agility, strategic clarity, and culture change that lasts. Whether it’s evolving a founder into a visionary CEO or helping a leadership team build collective intelligence to navigate BANI realities, I serve as a trusted thinking partner, mirror, and catalyst for bold, authentic, and sustained leadership impact.

In every engagement, I bring

• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture and business model innovation

• Boardroom experience with a focus on governance, risk, and value creation

• A coaching philosophy rooted in purpose, presence, and performance

• Hands-on facilitation of leadership development programs and strategic offsites

• A consultative mindset to design and deliver value-driven transformation strategies
  

Whether I’m guiding a CEO through critical inflection points, helping a team turn conflict into collaboration, or advising on strategic alignment in boardrooms, my mission is the same: to help organizations rethink, reframe, and realize value and empower leaders to lead with clarity, courage, and purpose.

Coaching Philosophy & Approach

“Challenge the status quo and embrace the power of unlearning.”

My coaching model—DREAMS (Define | Refine | EvaluateAction | Measure | Synchronise) is rooted in the belief that transformation begins within. His reflective, emotionally agile, and deeply presence-led coaching style helps clients:

• Shift from reactive execution to strategic orchestration

• Move from telling to asking, to empower distributed leadership

• Embrace vulnerability as a strength

• Reframe failure as feedback and fuel for innovation

I integrate Systemic Coaching, Relationship Systems Coaching, and Agile Leadership frameworks to maximize the ripple effect of coaching—across the leader, their teams, and their entire enterprise ecosystem.

Specialist Coaching Areas

• Founder to CEO transition & scaling leadership

• Vision alignment & strategic agility

• Building high-performing, value-creating teams

• Enterprise transformation leadership

• Executive presence & influence in uncertainty (VUCA/BANI)

• Agile mindset, DevOps culture & digital ways of working

• Unlearning legacy beliefs to unlock innovation

• Coaching for organizational culture shift

Client Impact

I have coached:

• Startup founders to design scalable operating models while developing the emotional resilience to lead teams through chaos and complexity.

• Senior executives in Fortune 500s to reimagine leadership beyond KPIs, foster cross-functional collaboration, and ignite transformation from the inside out.

• Leadership teams to co-create a shared vision, build trust-based cultures, and amplify decision-making through collective intelligence.

Signature Programs

• Leader as Coach: Experiential program delivered across business and tech hierarchies to foster coaching cultures.

• Entrepreneurship Coaching Programs:

  • IGNITE - For Aspiring Founders & Early-Stage Entrepreneurs (Idea-stage to Pre-revenue)

  • BUILD - For Founders with MVP & Initial Customer Traction (Pre-revenue to early revenue)

  • SCALE - For Growth-Stage Entrepreneurs (Post-product market fit, scaling business model / team / product)

• Coaching Circles: Peer-based learning journeys for expert communities to scale coaching capability internally.

• Community Upskill Program: Agile learning platform for Scrum Masters delivered by a volunteer community of seasoned coaches.

Publications & Thought Leadership

"Unlearning: The Secret to Better Coaching Engagements" (Available on Amazon, and other platforms)

"BOUNCE BACK: 10 Steps to Thrive Through Disruption" (Available on Amazon, and other platforms)

"Data Privacy in the Age of AI: Ethics, Regulations, and Responsible Innovation" - Coming Soon

Awards & Recognitions

Best StartUp Coach (Bronze) Award - Coach Awards (2023)

CIO Game Changer Award - Foundry (2022)

Asia's 100 Power Leaders in Technology - White Page International (2022)

Next 100 India's Future CIOs - IT Next (2020)

Credentials & Certifications

Professional Certified Coach (ICF - PCC) - International Coaching Federation

Senior Practitioner (EMCC - SP) - European Mentoring & Coaching Council

Leadership Agility Coach - Bill Joiner

Certified Independent Director - Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Team Coaching Foundations (Systemic Coaching) - Global Team Coaching Institute

Breakthrough Coaching Certified - Marcia Reynolds

Master Certified Coach (MCC) Ready - CoAcharya

Organizations & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSCT) - CRR Global

Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) - IC Agile

Certified DevOps Coach - DevOps Agile Skills Association

Lego Serious Play Certified Facilitator (LSP)

Jury Member - World Agility Forum (3X)

Professional Experience

Delivery Head - Merger Transitions & Digital Product Office (Ayvens, Societe Generale Global Solutions Centre)

Chief Data Officer & Data Privacy Officer (Societe Generale Global Solutions Centre)

Head - Enterprise Transformation (Societe Generale Global Solutions Centre)

Program Manager - Enterprise Transformation & Payments Portfolio Lead

Regional Program Manager - International Operations & Head, PM Practice (Mphasis Ltd)

Program Manager - Digital Transformation (Indian Air Force)

United Nations Peacekeeper - Democratic Republic of Congo (United Nations)

Aviation Maintenance Expert (Indian Air Force)

Nivarti is a no-nonsense, practical and straight-forward kind of guy who’ll get to the heart of your matter before you even know you’re on the operating table.He asks the right questions which leads to very solid decisions.I have been better able to look at problems in different ways, thus finding very meaningful solutions. In short I would recommend Nivarti to anyone anyone looking for an intuitive, sincere, and deeply passionate coach.

Sai Ramya Arikera, Software Engineering Manager

★★★★★

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