Coaching

An alumna of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Ruchira Chaudhary straddles the corporate and academic worlds----she is a leading executive coach, adjunct faculty at several top tier business schools and runs a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational strategy solutions. Ruchira's diverse and eclectic background in mergers & acquisitions, organizational effectiveness and strategy execution, coupled with two decades of experience in emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, helps her grasp challenging people issues.

During her corporate career, Ruchira held leadership roles in Medtronic and AIG in Singapore, Qatar Telecom (now Oredoo) in Qatar and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in India. Her consulting repertoire spans multinationals, government agencies and leading local businesses across industries. Ruchira teaches and frequently coaches MBA students, and senior business executives as affiliate faculty at several business schools----SMU, NUS and IMD in Singapore, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Asia and most recently, London Business School.

Ruchira frequently gets featured in and writes for leading business journals. She has authored a series of highly acclaimed leadership and coaching articles for the Mint and also writes a regular column for them. Ruchira earned a bachelor's degree in Economics (Honours) from the University of Delhi, a master's in communications management and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a concentration in strategy. She divides her time between Singapore and India.

This book lucidly illustrates how a leader can bring out the very best in people by coaching them, and how coaching can unleash creativity as well as innovation while inspiring teams to play to their potential. It also examines how coaching helps leaders maintain a fine balance between managing and guiding, and between appraising and supporting their teammates. While many excellent books have been written about leadership, talent and coaching, this is a rare book that stands boldly at the intersection of leadership and coaching.

This is a book for our times. Businesses are facing a new reality, characterized by a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. This new reality has forced organizations to depart from conventional command-and-control practices to a completely new model - a model in which leaders support and guide, rather than instruct and control, their team members.

Exploring some of the key ingredients of impactful leadership, Coaching offers tips and tricks, backed by research and incisive insights, on how to become an effective leader-coach. Peppered with interesting anecdotes and analogies, drawn from sports, performing arts and other walks of life, the book is a breezy read. Interviews with corporate leaders and academics further enrich the narrative. Guaranteed to make for a very interesting read, the book will be useful to leaders, aspiring leaders and especially those that wish to transition from being just good leaders to extraordinary ones.

'Knowing how to coach others is a powerful tool. Ruchira Chaudhary's book "Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership" is a clear and crisp guide to a core element of strong leadership: helping others up their game.''Today's digitally oriented organisations operate at high speed and complexity - they need leaders who are coaches, not controllers. These leaders in turn have the responsibility of building future-ready leaders who are agile and nimble. A leader needs to encourage his or her team to constantly innovate, think out of the box and deliver transformative change. This book does a great job of illustrating how the best leaders do that through coaching. A timely read for anyone wishing to transition from being a manager to a leader or from being a good leader to a great one.'

'At Microsoft, our culture is grounded in a growth mindset: the belief that everyone has tremendous potential to improve and grow. And what we've found is that coaching sits at the foundation of empowering each person to become a successful leader, which is why we included coaching as one of the three core attributes in our management excellence framework - Model, Coach, Care. This book helps unlock the secrets of coaching in a thoughtful collection of learnings, insights and case studies that will guide the leaders of today on how to empower the leaders of tomorrow.'

'Real leadership is not just about building a big empire or achieving millions in revenue - its also about the journey and the teams we build along the way. How you develop your people, arm them with opportunities to grow, to flourish and help them discover their own path. Ruchira's book describes this facet in great detail and how leadership today is about asking -not telling others what to do. Coaching helps leaders elevate not just their teams but also themselves as it makes them more capable, creative, confident and self-aware.
A wonderful business book from an ex-TCS colleague.'

'The market is full of great books on leadership, talent and coaching, but this book is different. With deep insights and fascinating anecdotes, Ruchira Chaudhary builds a powerful business case for the leader-coach, articulating that one cannot be a great leader, without being a great coach.'

'Read this, then Lead this! This book provides a powerful framing of leadership as coaching. Then the book goes beyond that - to how you can embed a coaching culture throughout your organization. This is exactly what today's firms and employees need from our leaders. With this wonderful book, my great student Ruchira becomes my teacher.'

In Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership, Author and Leading Executive Coach Ruchira Chaudhary unpacks the critical role of leadership and coaching in turbulent times. Ruchira's new book contains valuable insights drawing on lessons from interviews with successful leaders worldwide. This comprehensive, systematic and practical book is a must-read for leaders, managers and founders, particularly in these tough times. The breadth of professional insights and personal anecdotes makes it accessible for a broad audience as well.A moment for leadership, the way we know it now, to pivot to a new way of leading organisations, that's what the book Coaching - The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership, by Ruchira Chaudhary, highlights.