Payal Rajaratnam

Location: Chennai, India
Language: English

Payal is an Executive Coach, with over twenty years of global corporate experience in people management roles. As a coach she is passionate about helping Leaders become the best version of themselves through discovering their authentic voice, amplifying their strengths and uncovering mindsets that help them overcome their core challenges and create positive shifts in behaviors with practical steps.

Helping her clients go inward and become self-aware, Payal supports them in their awakening to clarity, new possibilities and solutions in their leadership. From here, her clients make conscious, empowered choices, to achieve their results. Enabling them to understand the systemic impact of their coaching goals, Payal’s clients obtain a broader view of their own influence, which sparks higher levels of inner motivation to change and grow.
Her specialities lie in helping leaders power their communication capabilities with teams and customers, creating positive environments for teams to thrive in, executive presence and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Additionally, Payal coaches’ individuals on developing their emotional intelligence. She also works with women leaders, helping them build their visibility and unique brand.

Founder of the coaching consultancy ‘The Empowered Leadership’, Payal is experienced in working with senior middle level management and SME Director/Vice President level Leaders across diverse industries such as the IT sector, Technology & Data Analytics, Global Consulting firm, The British Government, Publishing and Manufacturing sectors. Her vast experience has helped her gain expeditious insights, into the core workplace challenges her clients face.

In her corporate career Payal held a dynamic role as the Performance Manager, South Asia of a diverse and complex group, in the global airline, British Airways. Payal has a deep interest in psychology and neuroscience. She has studied Applied Psychology of Human Relations in her University. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She holds several certifications. She is certified in Emotional Intelligence and is an Emotional Intelligence Fellow with the US based non-profit Six Seconds. She is also certified in Hogan Assessments, Positive Resilience Profiler and Deep Transformational Coaching.