Gowri S Ramani is a Master Executive Coach with both ICF-MCC and EMCC-MP credentials and has partnered with over 450 senior corporate leaders in their leadership journey during the past 7 years for over 4500 hours as an external coach. Previously she has mentored & coached over 500 leaders as individuals and teams within companies internally over 15 years. 

Gowri served as Board Director and Vice Chair on ICF Global Credentials & Standards Board, until recently when she completed her 2-year term. Previously, she was Director-Outreach at ICF Bangalore Chapter Board.  

Prior to becoming a leadership coach, Gowri was a technology industry veteran, with over 32 years of global leadership experience in American and European MNCs like Hewlett-Packard, Borland Software, Philips (NXP) Semiconductors, Hughes Software Systems, Nokia Networks, Metricstream, Altisource and Indian MNC Infosys Technologies.

She has held a variety of global leadership roles including VP & Chief Quality Officer at Metricstream, Global Head of Services Quality at Nokia Networks,  Director of Business Excelllence at Philips Semiconductors, AVP at Infosys Technologies among other roles. As a technologies, she has managed teams doing end-to-end delivery of complex software solutions like the Scheduling System for London Underground Ltd, Command & Control Systems for Indian Defence organization among others. 

As a coach, Gowri is passionate about helping create new possibilities for her clients through leadership coaching. Her leadership coaching approach is based on Reflect, Reframe, Re-imagine – Reflect on your past, your beliefs, passions, dreams, all that makes you ‘YOU’, use the expanded awareness to Reframe your Present and Re-imagine creating a more fulfilling future, powered by increased self-awareness and empowerment!

Her coaching clients have included CEO/C-Suite and senior leaders from diverse companies like Amazon, Danone, Booking.com, JTI, Tesco, Toyota Motors, RICH (Research & Innovation Circle of Hyderabad), Microsoft, MAX NY, Boston Consulting, Infosys, Wipro, EY, Indian Oil, Deloitte, HCI, AnitaB among others. Her coaching clients come from diverse countries and cultures including Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

As a coach, she is empathetic, supportive yet challenging. Her clients have appreciated her seemingly gentle ways of pushing them beyond their self-imposed boundaries and enabling them to open up new possibilities for themselves. Her ability to connect the dots and catch disempowering patterns of behaviours have been a powerful support for her clients. 

She is a systemic thinker, excellent problem solver and an inspiring team leader who has worked with multi-cultural teams for several years. She holds 3 Masters Degrees, and is a constant learner who has invested over 500 hours in her coach related training in recent years.