Payal Rajaratnam

Payal is an experienced Executive Coach passionate about helping leaders elevate their impact and influence, maximize inner potential, and cultivate emotional intelligence. Payal has worked with senior leaders and entrepreneurs across diverse industries, such as global consulting firms, the British Government, the IT sector, technology and data analytics sectors, publishing and manufacturing sectors amongst others. Payal has a two-path approach to coaching – the first is anchored in helping clients to enhance their self-awareness to understand themselves better. The second is supporting her client’s growth from the learnings they gain through curiosity, explorations and reflections in coaching. Clients have recognized Payal’s ability to build trusting relationships and create a supportive coaching environment with her natural empathetic approach while staying results focused.

Payal is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She is a certified Emotional Intelligence Assessor and an Emotional Intelligence Fellow with the US-based non-profit Six Seconds. Furthermore, she is certified in Hogan Assessments, Positive Resilience Profiler, and AIIR’s Team Effectiveness Survey. She is a certified Deep Transformational Coach with the ‘Center for Transformational Coaching’. To help her clients create positive personal and professional change, Payal uses valuable insights from the ‘Neuroscience of Change’- a subject she is deeply interested in. Payal brings to AIIR twenty-two years of corporate work experience in customer engagement and leading people. In her career in the global airline British Airways, Payal worked with multicultural teams and honed her skills in managing people through complexity, uncertainty and change. Payal is a passionate lifelong learner who loves to infuse learning with fun, a nature lover and a spirited traveler. Her favorite quote is Henry Miller’s “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”.