Archive for October, 2009

“Pratap Nambiar draws from a wealth of experience working over many years with C-level executives globally. His ability to have strategic conversations and his deep understanding of how to develop and build strong trusted relationships with them, allows him to uniquely put into practice what he is truly passionate about.

As an executive coach, Pratap’s clear thinking, knowledge, sincerity and cultural sensitivity helps CEOs understand themselves better, raise business performance and succeed as more effective leaders. Having personally had the privilege of this experience, I further engaged Pratap to conduct a one day workshop on “Journey to Trusted Advisor” for my Partners and consultants. The feedback was excellent and much of what we experienced will be put into practice going forward”.

Gerard Chai
Managing Director – Singapore and Indonesia
KORN/FERRY INTERNATIONAL

“I must say that Pratap is extremely sincere and passionate about bringing positive change in the professional and personal lives of his clients. He uses all his wealth of experience to build scenarios that helps maximize the performance potential of senior executives.

What I particularly enjoyed is that I made all the decisions and all he did was to help me develop perspectives that I possibly could not have done on my own. The methodology that he uses is well structured and since I knew the process in advance it saved us a lot of time.

I am sure that Profit Centre heads and CEOs will greatly benefit by achieving a clear minded approach to decision making through the validation of a lot of their ideas.”

Head of Commercial Banking | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Singapore

As human beings the most fundamental work that we need to focus on is the development of self. The complex, competitive, and fast changing world of today, has ensured that we live a life of accident rather than intent. It is when our way of being is accidental that we face the danger of calamities that befall us. In fact the constant threat of a calamity waiting to happen is more taxing than the calamity itself. Often we find that when the calamity occurs we do respond, dig deep, and manage to face the worst and even overcome it. But the unknowns are what lead to stress- the more success you have the more stressed you get. That is the price you pay for success. We talk about stress management as if that is given, as if it is an integral part of our lives. In reality you need to manage your internal systems, your thoughts, the basis of your joys, sorrows, ecstasies.

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