Preeti Gopal
Transformative Coaching
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
John O'Donohue
As far as I can remember, even as a little girl, I've always felt within the VASTNESS, the BIGNESS, the DEPTH, the MAGIC, the JOY of being.
But on the outside I showed up small. Although I ticked most of the right boxes and was on a successful career path with satifsying amount of recognition from the outside, within I felt increasingly empty. The incongruence of receiving so called success and recognition from the outside and knowing I was not giving my wholehearted best, bored and saddened my spirit.
Over the years, that constant conflict between who I knew I was and who I showed up as became hard to contain and bear for me.
It moved me to look within, to explore, to connect and to align with that vastness within. That innate spark we all feel within.
I wake up with excitement just because. I spend my days in awe and wonder of the magic unfolding within and without.
As I started experiencing causeless joy more often, despite circumstances, I felt not just called to but compelled to share this with other humans so we can all live aligned lives of joy and purpose.
In the awareness that how we show up impacts our world as each one of us is part of the CONNECTED WHOLE.
So it becomes not an option but an imperative, that we live, lead and create in alignment of our innate spark.
Inspiring impacting and uplifting people by the virtue of who we truly are.
Leaders create ripple effects. Just as all boats rise with the tide, a leader who lives aligned with their spark inspires people to align with their own spark as well. And our world can light up, one spark at a time.
To this end I love to work with leaders to create a much needed shift towards goodness in our world, faster.
One leader can inspire, impact and uplift so many at once.
I got to learn the behind the scenes functioning of business early on as I worked in the family business alongside university. The leader of the busniess, my father remains my biggest inspiration. A human leader. Who he was as a leader was who he was as a human.
Moving from India to Germany decades before it was common (I was the only Indian I knew !), living and working in a clulture so new to me, learning to communicate and connect in German showed me that despite all our external differences, at our core its our humanness that connects us. We are more same than we are different.
In my 15+ years in various leading roles in global corporate in international cross functional teams in Supply Chain Management, I discovered my passion for making things and processes efficient. Optimizing for its own sake gives me a high, be it at work or while cooking or driving.
What later hat started as my personal journey of discovery and unfoldment during my corporate years of feeling unfulfilled, serendiptiously led me to the world of coaching. After 15+ years in corporte I quit to do something that felt aligned and trained to become a certified systemic coach.
While coaching training provides a solid framework for guiding the coaching process, the insights and perspectives come from living and loving life. Immersing oneself in living. From the magic that is created when 2 humans bring their presence to the coaching space.
We are damn fortunate to be here. I choose to live every day in the awareness of that truth.
In awe, in joy.
No adventure compares. Do you agree ?
Professional Bio
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15 years of corporate work experience in varied leading roles across medium and global organizations in India and Germany. Areas of expertise include business process engineering and optimization, Project Management in Supply Chain, Reverse Supply Chain Management, 3PL Management, Logistics, Warehousing and Forwarding, SAP R/3, Lean Six Sigma, leading global cross functional project teams, regular presentations to senior and C-suite members.
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Systemic Life Coach, Switzerland (Coach Akademie Schweiz)
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Systemic Business and Management Coach, Switzerland (Coach Akademie Schweiz)
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Building Personal Resilience™ – HeartMath® Coach Certification
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Limbic Coaching Palo Alto Institute
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Applied Neursoscience for Coaches (The Neuroscience Academy, Sydney)
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Master of Business Administration (Business Strategy) Heriot-Watt University
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Bachelor of Commerce, Savitribai Phule University, Pune India
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Supply Chain Professional CSCP
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Project Management Professional PMP
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Six Sigma DMAIC Expert