
growth by design
Every organization has an essential, intangible something — an energy, an élan vital, that inspires people and provides a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. Alignment across its purpose, products, people, process and values energizes all involved to contribute. However, growing and dealing with various challenges, and building systems and structures to manage this evolving organization often drives away the original energy and force.
At human centered, we design ways to preserve this energy that is so vital to fuel growth - for you, your stakeholders, your teams, your organization and society-at-large.
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human centered
Human centeredness involves working with creative and destructive tensions, regressive and progressive actions, paralysis and movement, social and psychological structures, conscious and unconscious motivations, and fantasy and reality. Such a way of working gives birth to a third dimension, and it is in this intermediate area that things actually happen, and the deeper work of change occurs.
Approach
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Diagnose
Understanding the problem and building a coalition.
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Vision
Seeing clearly and expressing compellingly.
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Plan
Planning rigorously and working optimistically.
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Act
Practicing new behaviors and making real progress.
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Support
Sustaining the change and investing in institutionalization.
Past clients
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Senior Management Team
Building capability for self leadership
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CXOs, CEOs and Owners/Presidents
Designed, facilitated and coached in partnership with experienced HBS faculty on the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and Owners/President Management (OPM)
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Senior Management
Building leadership capability beyond Founding Family and Sr. leadership team - through self leadership, strategic thinking, cross functional collaboration, and team development
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Senior Management
Building capability for leadership as part of a Development Initiative
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High Potential Talent
Designed and delivered signature leadership development program for high potential talent
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Managers and Senior Managers
Building capability for leadership through as part of Leadership Development Initiative
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High Potential Senior Managers
Designed and delivered growth acceleration program focused on developing leadership capacity through self leadership, building stronger teams and leading organizational change initiaitves.
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Executive Leadership
Co-designing, planning, facilitating, coaching and with leading B-schools to deliver Enterprise Leadership Development Initiative
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Leadership, Senior Management Team & Managers
Diagnosing and facilitating capability building for self leadership & working collaboratively as part of capacity expansion
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Senior Management Team
Building leadership capability for organization change
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Senior Management Team
Building capability for self leadership & leading change
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Senior Managers
Partnered closely with firm's Client Services Teams and their clients' leadership teams in designing, planning and delivering leadership development and organization-wide transformation initiatives.
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Managers and Senior Managers
Building capability for leadership and self awareness
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Senior Leadership Team
Building capability for leadership through self/other awareness
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Senior Managers and Functional Heads
Building leadership capability beyond Senior Leadership Team for organizational growth and expansion
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Senior Managers
Furthering the work of organisation-wide change through a series of diagnostic interviews, reflection meetings & interventions
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CEO, Leadership team, Managers and high potential talent
Building leadership capability for the purposes of leading organizational wide growth initiatives
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Leadership Team
Building capability for leadership, organization development & business growth through diagnosis & intervention.
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High Potential Talent
Building talent & managerial capacity through assessment centers for managerial roles
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General Managers
Transforming leadership and managerial capability through designing, facilitating & coaching for an organisation-wide initiative
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Senior Managers
Building managerial and leadership capability for organizational growth
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Field and Managerial Staff
Furthering the work of organizational change through series of diagnostic interviews at the field staff level.
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High Potential Leaders
Designed and delivered leadership and entrepreneurial capability building for young woman leaders and change makers in their first ever program for women
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Senior Managers
Building leadership capability for organizational change through facilitating workshop on influencing skills
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Senior Managers
Designing, planning and facilitating organizational change initiative through development of capability for self leadership, and leading teams and stakeholders
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Senior Managers & Department Heads
Developing capability for organizational change through building self leadership, strengthening trust and improving communication
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Senior Leadership & Department Heads
Furthering the work of organization change & integration initiative through facilitating workshops on self leadership and collaboration across functions
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Senior Managers, Head of Departments
Contributed to organization-wide transformation initiative through designing, planning, and faciliating series of workshops on self leadership and relating with others
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Senior Managers
Building leadership capability throughs elf awareness as part of organizational wide integration initiative
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Senior Managers
Building capability for self leadership through self awareness.
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Senior Managers
Building capability for self leadership through awareness and insight
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Senior Managers and Directors
Building capability for organisational transformation through self leadership, building of stronger teams, engaging in difficult conversations with stakeholders and leading change
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Senior Managers, Directors, VPs
Building capability for organisational growth through strengthening self leadership
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Senior Managers and Department Heads
Building capability for stronger management through strengthening self leadership
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Senior Managers
Transforming organization through developing capability for more effective communication
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Senior Management & Department Heads
Building leadership capability through diagnosis and intervention to improve factory production and employee relations
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Senior Management Team
Building leadership capability through insight and awareness
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Board, CEO and Top Management Team
Building leadership capability for alignment with core purpose and values, and leading strategic change and reorganizatio
Development at the level of the individual, group or a whole system is a form of artistry and design making. For this reason, we draw predominantly from hermeneutics – the science of interpretation and meaning creation. Simply put, development is a constantly emergent, interpretive act – continually seeing the context with new eyes, in which we focus on our experience with others, learning itself, on discovering questions, and on the constant creation of meaning.
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Testimonials
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HR Director for Southeast Asia & India, a Fortune 100 and Top 20 Global Brand
“Sorabh has excellent communication skills and is very approachable and open. His empathy generates very high confidence. He focuses on the issues identified, discusses them and helps to deal with in a sensitive manner. He aids in understanding strengths and weaknesses, and their genesis. Helps to identify potential actions to mitigate or improve identified areas. Keeps track on actions agreed and ensures that progress is made in every meeting. Pushes and guides to stay on track. ”
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Regional Director for Latin America market, a Top 3 Global Agro-Chemical firm.
"Sorabh coached me for one year and I found this to be a wonderful experience along with result achievement. He hit my blind spot and we both started working on the same - the result was a great positive change in my personality. He always gave comfort, entered the inner core of my personality and then tried to find out ways to improve it. Even after 1 year I have high regard for him, and today I am in my new career as a country head - and Sorabh played an important role in helping me get here."
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Head of Talent & Culture Transformation, one of India's leading automobile manufacturer.
“Sorabh, the insights you got me to dwell upon, integrating the body, thoughts and language, were amazing. It keeps resonating in many situations. To me, you offered to be a clear mirror, still, deep and reflective, wherein and in which I could see my own patterns and paradigms. Your modesty and humility is striking when you too confess to being a learner in this process.”
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Founder, Leading Consulting Firm for Leading Change.
“I had the privilege of being coached by Sorabh this year. It was truly an amazing experience which brought in a lot of insights into myself. I believe I have had some significant personal shifts due to this coaching. Sorabh is extremely perceptive and was able to recognize what was going through my mind both and emotional and rational level and in the process being able to empathize completely, which then enabled him to softly guide me to look at solutions.”
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Global Head for Planning, a Top 3 Global Agro-Chemical firm.
"I feel privileged and fortunate for having gotten an opportunity to get guidance from Sorabh. During an interaction of one year, Sorabh helped me get a deep insight into my leadership style, my thinking preferences and behavioral attributes. His ability to connect to me emotionally was phenomenal. This for sure helped me understand myself and build my emotional balance and overcome some of the challenges. Sorabh was instrumental in bringing this transformation and helping me enhance my effectiveness as a leader."
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Leading Innovator in Analytics, a Top 3 Most Valuable Global Brand in Financial Services.
This was my first formal coaching experience and while I have had tons of feedback and guidance in my career, this was the first time where I felt I could unravel myself as an individual and a professional and really understand what I am composed of, then pick up the pieces of my experience, skill and natural and learned instincts to focus on being a better leader. I must admit that I was not so convinced that a coach could help, but working with Sorabh over a 7 to 8 month period helped me focus on the things that really mattered to me. Thank you for your coaching Sorabh. I feel I now have a brother who I can reach out to share my experiences and feelings.
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Senior VP for Marketing & Sales, a Top 3 Indian Pharma & Top 5 Global Generic Pharma.
Sorabh is just wonderful as an executive coach . He is a great active listener . At the same time he doesn't flinch from letting you know your probable pitfalls . You can confide in him with confidence and that would relieves a lot of congestion in one’s chest . He is brutally honest without hurting and that is something special .
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Executive Coach, world's Top 3 Business School
“Sorabh has immense aptitude to plan and build a cohesive vision for his clients and the organization he works in. He has an innate ability to understand the struggles and challenges people face in organisations & the demons they face personally. He has a tremendous capapcity to mirror their stuggles, and then help them shift. This not only impacts their personal struggles, domestic life etc, but has a powerful implication in their interactions and actions in the business world - which impacts the bottom line of the Companies they work for!
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Senior L & OD professional across multiple sectors
I am so happy to have rekindled the painter’s spirit in me with all of your help. Thank you all of you. One Design for the space. Human Centered Design Studio for the gentle facilitation, and the others for being so fully present and for generous companionship on this journey. I wish to continue to stay in this space. Will start shall effort from tomorrow. 🌈 so proud of what I could accomplish; look forward to learning soon.
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Founder & Director, studio for fitness, dance & movement therapies
Thanks so so much for such beautiful and enriching workshop! It was so well organised in all the aspects! Everything was filled with depth, genuineness and warmth! Human Centered Design Studio created such a supportive environment. You are filled with so much of art, intellect, authenticity, love, kindness and beauty! I am so touched! Also all the participants!!! Such brilliant souls you all are. Each one of you added to my takeaways from today’s space. You all are so humble yet so gifted! Thanks to all of you from the bottom of my heart! Wish you have more such opportunities in the coming times.