Kalpana Khot

A woman approached me during last winter, she was facing an excess of challenges in the different roles she was playing in her life and wished to consolidate her leadership position. Post the first consultation,I could sense the leadership potential this women was holding within her which needed an impetus by her own self to be unleashed. So she started taking challenging leadership roles that included longer commitments and   Travel.   While satisfying in many ways, her work was draining as she learned a new role in a new environment and on the other hand was also gearing up to accelerate her primary business. Then crisis struck, just when she was looking forward to her time off over the summer break, her strategic planning & executive abilities were needed in another area of her business. She had been brought in to 'turn the ship around' and her typical day now includes putting out fires, sometimes literally! She spent her holiday time juggling between...

Client: Reeta* (* name changed for privacy) a Young Architect, having her own firm, practicing for 3 years graduated with Degree with one of the top Architectural Universities. Back Ground: For a young and effervescent 31 year old Reeta, born and brought up in an independent family & free environment where she believed speaking her mind and following her instincts to make decisions was a way of life. Things went helter-skelter post her marriage which was not in concurrence with her parents wishes. A typical case in Indian Society where the women is made to feel guilty for her decisions pre and post marriage and in the interim faces emotional as well as cultural challenges from the environment which creates a sense of loss of identity in herself. This leads to a collapse first in the inner states and effects relationships as it’s difficult to interact with people because of their perceptions about her. At every juncture then she has to prove herself and it becomes a bur...