Dr. Kishore Chainani.Coaching for extraordinary lives

Be the name in the room when promotions are decided.

Your work got you here. Relationships will get you to the next level.

A 6-week coached program for senior professionals who deliver results but aren't rising, taught by a former Vice President of Genpact who has sat on the other side of the promotion table.

Rated 5 stars on Google ICF PCC Certified Coach Ex-VP, Genpact
Dr. Kishore Chainani, leadership coach

Leaders from these organisations have worked with Dr. Kishore

  • Credit Suisse
  • JSW
  • KPMG
  • Larsen & Toubro
  • Tata Communications
  • Godrej Properties
  • Adani Capital
  • Filtration Group (Filtrair)
  • CarDekho
  • MX Player
  • BNI

You're good at your job. So why does it feel like you're standing still?

“I do the work. Someone else presents it in the leadership review.”
“My manager's manager doesn't know my name. After nine years.”
“Everyone says 'great job' in the meeting. Then the promotion goes to someone else.”
“Kaam main karta hoon, credit koi aur le jaata hai.”

If even one of these made you pause, this program was built for you.

“Good work speaks for itself.”

It doesn't.

Careers are decided in rooms you're not in, by people who either know you, trust you and speak for you, or don't.

Your boss. Your skip-level. Your peers. Your clients. Your team.

Building those relationships is not politics, and it is not personality. It is a learnable architecture. The Extraordinary Leaders Program teaches it.

What changes when you master the relationships that run your career

01

Leadership knows your name.

And your work, and what you're capable of next.

02

Credit lands where it belongs.

On you, without you having to fight for it.

03

You speak, and the room shifts.

You hold your position even when no one agrees yet.

04

The promotion you've been circling.

Because the people deciding already see you in the role.

05

A boss who backs you.

Even a difficult one, turned from a blocker into a sponsor.

06

Clients who ask for you by name.

Trust that survives escalations and renewals.

07

Indispensable when it matters.

When restructuring comes, you're the one they keep.

08

Present at home again.

Firm boundaries at work, so you stop carrying office into the evening.

The Extraordinary Leaders Architecture

Five relationships decide every career. We rebuild all five.

Built on 30+ years of leading teams of up to 12,000 people, grounded in neuroscience and NLP.

YOU

Your Boss

From managing tasks to earning trust and advocacy.

Your Skip-Level and Leadership

From invisible to the obvious choice.

Your Peers

From competition and credit wars to influence without authority.

Your Team

From supervising to leading people who want to follow you.

Your Clients and Stakeholders

From vendor to trusted advisor.

Six weeks. Six sessions. No passive watching.

6 deep-dive sessions

About 3 hours each on our learning app. Watch at your own pace, around your work schedule.

A personal coach

Every week, your one-on-one coach reviews your assignments on Zoom. The next week unlocks only when this week's work is done.

Live Q&A with Dr. Kishore

Bring your real situation—your boss, your appraisal, your client—and get answers you can use at work the next morning.

01

Week 1: The Invisible Rules

How careers are actually decided, and mapping where your relationship capital stands today.

02

Week 2: Managing Up

Your boss and skip-level: turning a difficult boss into an ally, and becoming visible to leadership.

03

Week 3: Voice and Executive Presence

Speaking up, owning the room, and holding your position when no one agrees yet.

04

Week 4: Politics Without Playing Dirty

Peers, credit, and influence without authority.

05

Week 5: Clients and Stakeholders

Building trust that makes them ask for you by name.

06

Week 6: Your Next-Level Plan

The promotion conversation, your appraisal strategy, and boundaries that protect your life outside work.

Is this your next step?

This is for you if

  • You have 10 to 25 years of experience in an MNC, GCC or large Indian corporate.
  • You're a senior individual contributor, manager, AVP, VP or client-facing leader.
  • Your work is strong, but your growth has stalled.
  • You're ready to change how you operate, not just hear more motivation.

This is not for you if

  • —You're early in your career.
  • —You want tips to “win” office politics by manipulating people.
  • —You're not willing to do weekly assignments and be held accountable.
Dr. Kishore Chainani speaking at a podium

I've sat on the other side of the promotion table.

For 22 years I was inside the system you're in now: Vice President and Global Operating Leader at Genpact, Regional Head at Tata-AIG, and a leader at HDFC Life, managing more than 12,000 people across six continents.

I've been in the room where promotions, ratings and “high-potential” lists are decided. I know what gets said about you when you're not there, and what makes a leader pick one person over another.

Today I'm an ICF PCC Certified Coach, named among the Top 10 Life Coaches of India (CEO Insights, 2020), and author of the Amazon #1 bestseller 'BE' The Outlier. I use neuroscience and NLP to help professionals change the patterns that are holding their careers back.

ICF PCC CertifiedTop 10 Life Coach of IndiaEx-VP GenpactAmazon #1 Bestselling Author

Real leaders. Real shifts.

Rated 5 stars on Google

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Suyog Pradhan
Suyog Pradhan
Head – HR, MNC, Mumbai
“I would prepare for days for the leadership review, and then the MD would push back once and I would fold. I knew I was right and I still couldn't hold my position. Working with Dr. Kishore, I found out it wasn't confidence I lacked. I had never built the relationship with the MD outside that room, so every disagreement felt like a threat. We worked on both: the conversations before the meeting, and how to stay steady inside it. People now ask what I think before the decision is made, not after.”
Neha Palan
Neha Palan
Director IT, MNC, Pune
“My boss told me the leaders had noticed my peers overriding me in conversations. I didn't want to become aggressive, or look like a threat. Dr. Kishore had sat on the other side of the table and knew exactly what leaders notice. He helped me make my point without being interrupted and command the room without fighting for it. When I make others feel respected, they respect me back. I no longer fight for my space in a meeting. I hold it.”
Preeti Chauhan
Preeti Chauhan
Head of HR, MNC, Ahmedabad
“I was struggling with my relationships at my work. With my boss, my peers. I learnt some very powerful tools on how to transform these relationships. So much so that when my boss moved to headquarters, he ensured I move with him and got me the promotion I so much deserved. Hard work is not enough. At senior levels it's all about relationships.”
Prashant Agarwal
Prashant Agarwal
Director – Finance, Filtration Group
“My boss sat in Ohio in the US, and my teams were in Australia, China and the Philippines. The decisions about my team were made on calls I wasn't on. In India I was struggling with my sales and operations peers. Dr. Kishore helped me see that being good at my job locally was never going to make me visible globally. I needed deliberate relationships upward, built over months, not one presentation a year. Since then, things have changed immensely. For the first time, I'm in the conversation about my own future instead of hearing about it later.”
Rahul Mathur
Rahul Mathur
VP, Tata Communications
“When the new CEO came in, eight years of reputation disappeared in a month. My reporting line changed, half my mandate went to a peer, and decisions about my team were being made before I walked into the meeting. I didn't need a motivational talk. I needed someone who had seen this from the inside, and Dr. Kishore had, as a VP himself. He helped me plan my first conversations with the new leadership and showed me which relationships I had let lapse. Within 3 months, I went from being seen as the old guard to someone the new team builds around.”
Falgun Chowksi
Falgun Chowksi
Senior Leader, Head of Operations, L&T, Surat
“Kishore really understands the subtle nuances of the challenges senior leaders face. He is able to help you deep-dive into your own subconscious mind, and using your own conscious awareness, you move past those unconscious barriers and create new approaches to situations that you normally would never be able to come up with.”
Kapil Salve
Kapil Salve
AGM – Sales, JSW Steel
“Dr. Kishore's interventions did wonders. We were able to take on stretch targets which we thought were initially impossible to achieve. The organisation was growing 100% YoY and my team was hesitant. I became absolutely clear on how I had to empower them. And since then we have never looked back, always over-achieved.”
Rajesh Kumar Thakur
Rajesh Kumar Thakur
DGM, JSW Steel
“The personal mentoring from Kishore sir, his sheer impact on the way you think and approach challenges, has brought about a lot of change for me personally. I am now far more open, flexible to different viewpoints, and that has added huge value to my image and perception in the organisation.”
Mayank Jaiswal
Mayank Jaiswal
VP, Bandhan Bank, Mumbai
“As Head of HR I was really struggling with influencing my directors to own their attrition numbers. Instead of blaming hiring, they needed to change their behaviour and attitude towards their teams. I got full clarity on how to go about it, getting them fully aware and bringing about the necessary change.”
Ryan Mascarenhas
Ryan Mascarenhas
Head – Learning & Development, Godrej Properties, Mumbai
“I was delighted to be a part of the neuroscience-based coaching and leadership development program for CHROs and CLOs. Kishore has done amazing work in making neuroscience concepts practical and implementable. I would unreservedly recommend the program.”
Punita Dave
Punita Dave
AVP, Head L&D, AIS Solutions
“Kishore's solutions and coaching is something that needs to be experienced. Very unique, very different. It touches your core and transforms you from deep within. Your approach really changes. Despite all the leadership development one goes through as part of your company's initiatives, you miss this aspect.”
Ruchika Rajput
Ruchika Rajput
VP and Global Leader
“Kishore's solutions and coaching cause a very deep impact: they shift you from the core. They get you connected to your true value system and show you how to find a win-win without compromising on your values. I found true freedom and the right energy to move forward from my stuck situation.”

Every name shown here is published with the client's explicit permission.

An investment in how far you go.

₹40,000 + 18% GST

Everything included:

  • 6 deep-dive sessions (about 3 hours each) on the learning app
  • Weekly one-on-one accountability calls with your personal coach
  • Live Q&A sessions with Dr. Kishore
  • Weekly real-world assignments applied to your own job
  • Access to session recordings for 8 weeks from your program start date

One appraisal cycle usually decides more than this in lost or gained salary. The question is which way yours goes next.

Many organisations reimburse leadership development programs. We provide a GST invoice for your company's L&D claim.

Questions leaders ask us

No. We maintain absolute confidentiality. We never reveal a participant's name, organisation or situation without their explicit permission. The testimonials on this page are shared with each client's written consent.

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