I spent years in engineering feeling like a misfit. Not because I wasn't good at it but because I kept noticing the people problems underneath the technical ones, and nobody seemed to think that was my job.
Eventually, I stopped pretending and built a practice around exactly that. I'm Rakesh, based in Berlin. I work with founders and senior leaders on the structural stuff - the things that don't show up on a roadmap but determine whether the roadmap actually gets executed.
Twelve years of this work, across Europe and Asia, with organisations ranging from global corporates like H&M, ING and BMG to startups navigating their first real growing pains. Leaders who felt like misfits inside systems that weren't built for them.
If that last one sounds familiar, we'll probably get along ;)
I hold an MBA and a Certificate of Embodiment Coaching. I work at three levels simultaneously: the system, the person inside it, and the behaviours between people. Most interventions work on one. That's usually why they don't stick.
Right now I'm offering a handful of complimentary Pulse Check sessions - a 90-minute diagnostic conversation for anyone navigating something in their team or organisation that's hard to name. Not a sales call. Just an honest read of what's actually going on.
If that sounds useful, mention it when you reach out.