About Usha Nagrani
About Me
There is always a first time! My life is a testament to the blessing of ‘first times’. As a HR Leader turned into an ICF Executive Coach, I empower senior management professionals and business leaders to achieve breakthroughs as expats building cross-cultural teams and navigate the exciting journey of career accelerations..
My Journey
Each of these firsts was uncomfortable and uncertain, yet each one made me stronger and fall in love with the process of transformation.
Where It All Started: In September 2006, I moved from fast-paced Delhi to the quiet country of Qatar. Despite my 8 years of experience being deemed irrelevant in a gas-rich economy, my analytical mind, soft skills in negotiation and presentation, and number crunching abilities came to my rescue. My can-do attitude and professional approach landed me my first job without any compromise on salary.
Career Breakthroughs
Switching jobs and sensing the construction boom, I confidently showcased my value as an outsider. My patience and focused effort paid off, leading me to my dream role in HR at double the salary.
Empowering Leaders and Mid-management professionals
In 2021, I realized my impact needed to scale up. As a career and executive coach, I now help others navigate the adventure of stepping out of their comfort zones, whether it’s the next leap as a leader or landing their first job as an expat. My executive coaching focuses on EQ, people management, building influence, and seamless career transitions.
Transformational Executive Coaching for Professional Growth
I specialize in transformational executive coaching, career development, and leadership development, helping clients achieve their full potential and succeed in their professional journeys. My strategic planning, mentorship, and customized executive leadership coaching programs are designed to foster resilience, cultural adaptation, and career advancement.
Transformations you can look forward to
- Executive Leadership Coaching: Empowering leaders and expats to master EQ, enhance people management skills, and build influence for accelerated career growth.
- Seamless Career Transitions: Guiding professionals through successful career switches and advancements, doubling their impact and confidence.
- Cross-Cultural Success Coaching for Senior Executives: Helping expats thrive in new countries by swiftly adapting to new cultures and professional landscapes, ensuring a smooth and successful transition.
Trust the coaching process
I have been on both sides of the table, evaluating growth markers, identifying demands of cross-cultural leadership, adapting to technological and operational advancements.
In short, I’ve been there and doing that.
If you wish to switch careers and do it on your own terms.
Assimilate and build a professional identity not that of an expat but as an Empath Leader
Build agility and resilience, enhancing your emotional intelligence
Ready to strengthen your core beliefs and breakthrough the barriers authentically?
Then you need to start your journey, now.
How did you know Usha as a Coach?
Usha and I were classmates and we studied together in Miranda House, Delhi University. After completing our degree in Chemistry, we embarked on our individual independent professional journeys and lost touch. Social media brough us back together and last year I came to know about her acumen as a coach through her website where I enrolled myself.
How did you feel life has changed after you started your coaching journey? Coaching with Usha has imparted tremendous clarity in my immediate and future goals especially in the time of Covid trauma when life seemed to have lost its meaning, goals and objectives. I was struggling with certain personal losses and coaching helped me focus and concentrate in a manner that set “SOP” and helped me clear my brain fog.
What are the 3 benefits/changes you have experienced because of the coaching?
The three clear benefits of coaching that I have experienced are:
- Articulation, as asked by my coach Usha, helped me structure and map my own state of mind and also helped me remember my true potential
- A disciplined coaching structure helped me in sticking to my objectives and accomplishing small and big self-set targets and that was a great morale booster
- Coaching helped me get centred and brought me back to my core competency, reducing hesitancy and helping me charge up to achieve more Would you recommend her services to someone who is looking for a transformation in their life?
Absolutely! Usha is a terrific calm listener and that helps the most. Her clear yet
empathetic approach helps one get over all the roadblocks and create a perfect
energy channel to actualize one’s objectives and this motivation stays. I would highly
recommend her services to anyone who is looking for a positive transformation.
How did you feel life has changed after you started your coaching journey? When I am faced with a new problem, I pause and reflect on how far I've come while also putting together questions on how I can address the challenge. I am more confident in myself to take on challenges, and I focus on utilizing my strengths to get to my end goal.
What are the 3 benefits/changes you have experienced because of the coaching?
- Positive career change
- Confidence boost
- Ability to focus on my end goals
Usha is very methodical yet flexible and knows how to adjust her coaching tools to fit your needs and personality. She makes you feel at ease from the very beginning. You just know you can trust her. She is focused, goes deep and asks hard questions but she is gentle and very positive so our sessions were always energizing and inspiring, while thought provoking.
She is dedicated and caring and helps me really listen to myself and find the answers that are right for me.
While I’m still in the process of figuring out the path I’d like to take, I am more relaxed and confident and I already see positive changes in different areas of my life as well as new opportunities that have been opening up.
My sessions with Usha have made me a more positive and confident person. This positivity has also helped me become more accepting of change. Most importantly I have been able to continue the routine that Usha and I made which has further benefitted me in leading a healthy lifestyle.
I cannot recommend her highly enough because she has an everlasting positive impact on one’s life.
My sessions with her helped me to move forward with life. She is versatile enough to help gain clarity, make great change, and create next steps while having a supportive ear.
Usha gives excellent perspective on every situations and offers alternative ways to view things. Every advice was actionable. Particularly when she walked me through a visualization exercise in which I was able to see myself in 6 months. It gave me a lot of understanding on what I need to do, and how I was going to accomplish my goals.
Best of all, I didn't feel like I was talking to a therapist, I felt I was talking to a wise friend. She was completely down to earth, and approachable.
In just a few months, I have experienced what I can describe as exponential internal growth. Usha's unique insight and her attention (to the not so obvious) makes her an exceptional life coach.
I am blessed our paths crossed. Overall a wonderful experience.
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Your individual growth is personal, and so is my coaching approach. Together, we’ll discover your aspirations, align them with your authentic self, and create pathways to success—empowering you to emerge as a High EQ leader driven by purpose.