Lavanya is a consultant with Pegasus since Feb’20. Since 2011, she has engaged with client systems as a coach, mentor, facilitator, OD project manager, and consultant. She connects to the essence of her client by exploring and developing their strengths whilst challenging the assumptions and thoughts that are blocking their development.
Her experience ranges from working at a one-to-one level with top mgt., senior leaders and functional heads to facilitating visioning, value orientation, behavioral team alignment workshops. She has over 300 + hours of coaching with CXO leaders, functional heads, middle level leaders and entrepreneurs.
She has managed and executed various organization development (OD) interventions that include – leadership assessment and development, cultural transformation, change management, emotional Intelligence, vision & values, succession planning, sustaining change and aligning people strategy to business strategy across a wide spectrum of organizations ranging from retail outlets, business organizations and education. Some of her clients include: Glaxo SmithKline Pharmaceuticals, C.K Birla, Deepak Foundation, L&T Infotech, Reliance ARC, Vedant Fashions – Manyavar, Amrit Vidyalaya in Vadodara, NSDL, Sterling & Wilson.
Being a Sales & Business Development person by qualification and professional in the travel and tourism industry for 10 years (2000 – 2010), her work experience in the service industry in India and UK, has given her cross-cultural exposure thereby broadening her horizons and understanding of human connections and work culture. Lavanya adopted applied behavioural sciences in 2011, as a chosen profession out of pure passion thus, connecting with people and working with them comes naturally to her.
Her current zest is to integrate cognitive concepts along with the wisdom of spontaneity and creativity through emotional intelligence along with the wisdom of the body, which she is currently exploring via Psychodrama & Sociodrama.
Other than her work she enjoys nature walks, treks, adventure sports like white water rafting, sky diving and more
Certifications, Accreditations and Learning Experiences
• Certified Professional Coach (CPC) – Coaching for Transformation Program, Leadership that Works, USA.
Accredited by International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2011-12
• Certified Assessor and Coach for Hogan assessments
• Appreciative Inquiry certified
• Internal family systems and parts works – with Guthrie Sayen
• Psychodrama, Internal family systems – with Ben Rivers, PhD
• Currently pursuing PG Diploma in Psychodrama, Indian Institute of Psychodrama (IIP) & Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
• Facilitation that Works certified in Thailand – Leadership that works (LTW)
• Internship in Human Process work – Level 1, Sumedhas
• Gender & Identity lab, Sumedhas
• Non-Violent Communication (NVC) convention attendee
• MSc. Tourism Marketing, University of Surrey, U.K