Shivani Bhasin

In my work as a Strategic Marketing Director with a pharmaceutical company, I was seeking to take the skills I had acquired and move into consulting. I wasn’t sure if or how I would do this in the pharmaceutical industry and/or offer these across industries. I was also challenged with time management.

In working with Shivani as my coach – I found a strategic thinking partner that helped me gain clarity on my goals, heightened awareness on my opportunities and alignment of these with my values. Shivani helped me get out of my own way- separate my ego from my goal, and focus on what will mattered. She challenged my thinking and brought me an expansion of possibilities. Her active listening, combined with a blend of candor and kindness helped me gain the confidence and clarity to move forward on my goal. I secured my first corporate client, speaking engagements, and established a plan of action that I am confident in working.

Shivani was remarkable. She worked each day tirelessly and provided so much inspiration. A startup, as we were, proved to be difficult. But not to Shivani! She could pin-point our weaknesses and come up with a solution. She provided insights that we never had before that allowed our business to grow. She was a leader and a thoughtful participant in day to day operations. I thank her not only for what she accomplished but her ability in our success. Shivani is the epitome of stealth and strength. Thank you!

Shivani and I worked together at GMI for several years during a crucial time in the company’s history. The company was emerging from its start-up phase and beginning to scale with revenue doubling every year for 5 years in a row. The environment was mildly controlled chaos with all energy focused on growth and market share. Shivani managed hundreds of market research projects and effectively dealt with over a hundred outside clients who ranged from CEOs to project managers. Her multi-cultural background pared with professional skills in economics and psychology were key to her success. She understood the business goals but knew the people behind the processes were the keys to success. Her strategies and approaches and her ability to articulate her approach and teach others made her a valuable member of a very successful team. She is a talented person who I would love to have on my team today.

Shivani’s regular support over the course of a year as I worked as a senior researcher at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was invaluable. She helped me prioritize how to best focus our time each session, and consistently offered immediate and tangible suggestions that helped me navigate complex, high pressure, time sensitive situations extremely effectively. I strongly believe that my performance would not have been as impactful without her as my coach.

I especially appreciate how well Shivani listens and asks questions to help me unlock new solutions. She also went above and beyond to follow-up and check in on how things were going between our sessions, and even offered additional support outside of our scheduled times. I am lucky to have her in my corner.

Shivani makes an excellent coach and a trainer. She is a very patient person and has the ability to grasp a problem, conduct a detailed situational analysis and put across the subject matter in such a convincing way that the audience can easily relate to the material in the discussion. Her training session on “Effective Communication at the Workplace” was well-received by our “Women In Technology” group. The entire audience enjoyed the session and were intrigued by her deep-dive on the topic. She gave us an excellent framework that we could use for resolving communication conflicts.

I got a chance to work with Shivani as a leadership coach for more 9 months or so. For me, her passion and skill for such work becomes clear when I look at my own transition from a skeptic of such practices to someone who sees immense value in leadership coaching.
Shivani has an amazing sense of balancing the need for individuals to discover their own journey and nudging someone in the right direction. Leadership can be a fairly subjective topic, with no clear definition of good or great. Shivani helped me develop clarity around what kind of a leader I wanted to be in all aspects of life. She helped me discover tools and strategies to develop a better version of yourself every day. Her style of coaching makes it natural to love the process and not worry about some unattainable perfection. She demonstrates amazing patience and at the same time ensures that you make meaningful progress in each session. Spending time with her made me realize how much you can enjoy re-thinking your own beliefs, which helps me become a better person every day of my life.
I believe that best coaches in any field are the ones who can show someone a path to excel. I can say from experience, she meets this definition really well. I hope many folks see a positive impact in their professional or personal lives with her help.

Shivani has great listening skills, she gives you plenty of space to come to your own conclusions and is extremely supportive and encouraging at the same time. She’s able to reflect back accurately on what’s really going on rather than what is simply presented and points out your blind spots with compassion and care. I felt very safe as a client with Shivani and able to discuss a wide variety of topics. She’s perceptive and her observations add significant meaning to the coaching experience. I’d recommend Shivani to work with, Thanks, Shivani!

Shivani’s style of coaching is incredibly supportive, comfortable, and a true partnership in the conversation. She puts you at ease while pulling out important points from the conversation you may not have noticed otherwise. Shivani would pull out insights that were particularly profound and help me dig deeper to come to new understandings and revelations that would support my growth. I grew a tonne with Shivani as my coach, I was able to create and execute on plans for my business which are helping me grow both professionally and personally. I gained a better appreciation for myself, my business, and my endless opportunities.

I was always fearful about driving and always tried to avoid the learning process. But no matter where you live being scared to driving can really conflict with your freedom. Unless we’re lucky enough to live in a city with great public transportation, driving is necessary for basic freedom and independence.

Everything changed one day, when I started 6-week Positive Intelligence program, where my friend Shivani Bhasin, who is an executive coach and leadership adviser. Shivani clearly mentioned it is a transformative program. I have worked each week closely with Shivani and realized how PQ principles can transform human thought process. Very soon I started to realize fear is a story in our mind, that we think may happen, with no clear evidence. I started to use visualization process, prepared and passed the exam within a month. Finally, I was able to fully conquer the driving fear.

I am sincerely grateful to Shivani for her mentorship and the Positive Intelligence program, which helped me to transform. Shivani is an amazing mentor. I recommend this PQ course to anyone looking for inner changes and realistic transformation as a self improvement milestone.

Shivani was my coach for six months and instrumental in providing me with tools to reduce my stress levels permanently, not only during the duration of her coaching me. Her approach included not only insights into what was happening to me, but also methodical exercises that left me with a lasting effect to this date. The concept of saboteurs and sage made me aware of my inner states, and the daily exercises and frequent rest periods allowed me to change my life in such a way that I reduced my work hours from greater than 12 hrs/day to 8 to 9 hours a day without compromising on my effectiveness or output at work. Relationships around me became stronger and my own confidence level is now higher than ever before. Shivani has the ability to listen, remember, and guide in a non-judgemental, positive, and encouraging fashion. Her approach and skills are very special and applicable to almost any situation in life. She is an invaluable trusted go-to person in my life.

Shivani is a very competent and effective coach. In just a short time, she was able to help me find the laser focus I needed to pursue the best path for me in my career. She’s a fantastic listener, and quickly found those inconsistencies that then allowed me to shine light on problem areas to reach a deeper, better understanding of my own motivations.

Working with Shivani as a coach has been one of the best investments I’ve ever made in my career. Shivani’s coaching style feels like you’re talking to a true mentor – someone who truly has your back and wisely guides you towards finding a solution. Shivani’s greatest strength is in how perceptive she is across our multiple conversations, drawing on deep knowledge of you as an individual and illuminating patterns that you may not see yourself.

During our sessions, Shivani is actively working on understanding me holistically as an individual and helping me both explore many different ideas and possibilities in one session as well as guiding me to converge on the next most optimal steps. She always checks in with me in her session, asking if I’d like to hear her observation or asking for permission before discussing solutions, always intuitively seeking what I need from her next. She is an excellent communicator and is truly invested in your transformation, always bringing in ideas, helpful frameworks, or anecdotes that make you feel like she both grasps your struggle but also reframes it in a positive and productive way.

Thanks to Shivani I achieved many of my goals last year:
–> Getting promoted and rated in the top 5% of Google
–> Interviewing and being offered a new role
–> Changing roles internally to a different organization & product area
–> Managing ambiguity more effectively and improving my executive communication to launch 4 projects within 3 months of joining a new team

I would recommend Shivani to anyone looking to start working towards their goals and finding out along the way what is the funnest, most fulfilling, and “you” way to do that.

Shivani’s genuine love for people and her drive to be the best is what sets her apart from others that I know and I have worked with in the past. She has the right attitude, skills, and mindset that will help her to grow as a person and as professional. I would highly recommend Shivani to anybody who is looking for an excellent presenter or peak performance coach.

When I first met Shivani, I was struggling in work life and in personal life. I was feeling a range of emotions from day to day…frustration, sadness, anger. The person I was on the outside was not the person I was on the inside. Shivani helped me identity my values and what is most important to me, leading me down a path of focus and fulfillment. Shivani is a natural coach, focusing on me, the client, with no judgement. She creates an environment that is safe and allows her clients to be their true, authentic selves enabling opportunities for growth and transformation. Shivani is someone who genuinely sees the potential in others and helps them discover (or rediscover) it for themselves. After a year in a coaching relationship with Shivani, I have evolved as a leader, as a wife and mother, as a human. And for that, I will be forever grateful.

Shivani worked with me as an executive coach to help me transition to a new role as a manager of a team, and move to the next level. She has amazing listening skills and made me see things differently. After conversations with her, I could mostly come up with 1-2 things that I needed to do change which made a huge impact. More importantly, I was able to clear out doubts which would often stress me. Shivani helped me overcome my own perception that I do not have good people skills. She completely unlocked my ability to have a growth mindset about people skills. I have been working with Shivani for 1+ years now, and still find our conversations very helpful.

Shivani has many skills that make her a great coach, however, there are some that continue to impress me and I have found extremely valuable in our process. She has amazing listening skills. Yes, she listens to what I say but what is more amazing is how she tunes in to the things that I don’t say but are there. She is also great in helping me summarize and make sense of all the random thoughts I have. She has a great intuition about what the key issues are and that, combined with her ability to be present and listening deeply make her a very powerful coach. I’m lucky to have her as my coach.