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Purva
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- Positive thinking
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- Personal coaching
Certified Global Master Life Coach from Harvard, Oxford & Wharton — I coach professionals on life purpose, career growth, and leadership transformation with 9+ years of real-world Founder's Office exp
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About Purva
About Purva — Life Coach, Career Coach & Leadership Development Coach
I did not become a coach by stepping away from the professional world. I became a coach by going deeper into it — and discovering that the most powerful thing I could offer the people around me was not just operational excellence, but genuine human clarity.
For nine years, I have worked as a Chief of Staff and Strategic Advisor in Founder's Offices across global organizations — sitting in rooms where careers are made and lost, where leaders face their most difficult decisions, and where the gap between a person's potential and their performance is determined not by intelligence or effort, but by clarity, self-awareness, and the quality of the questions they are asking themselves.
That proximity to high-stakes professional life — combined with rigorous coaching certification and a commitment to continuous learning — is what I bring to every coaching engagement.
My Qualifications
I am a Certified Global Master Life Coach, Life Purpose Coach, and Career Coach — certified through internationally recognized programs aligned with ICF (International Coaching Federation) standards. I hold a Certified Life Coach qualification from 3PM / FairTell, and have completed coaching and leadership education from:
Harvard Business School — Leadership & Strategy, Empathetic Leadership
University of Oxford — Women's Leadership Development
MIT Sloan — Design Thinking & Innovation
Wharton / University of Pennsylvania — Business Strategy
IIM Bangalore — Project, Portfolio & Programme Management
XLRI Jamshedpur — Leadership & Change Management
MBA in Management & IT
Beyond coaching certifications, I hold professional qualifications that bring analytical rigor and structured thinking to my practice: Six Sigma Black Belt, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, and Lean Management Professional.
I have been recognized with the Global Women's Influencer Award (Singapore), the India's Achievers Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement (IAF / Government of India), and the Business & Community Award (AIBCF) — recognition that reflects not just professional achievement, but the commitment to using that achievement in service of others.
What Makes Me Different
Most coaches come from one of two directions: they have deep coaching methodology but limited real-world professional experience, or they have strong professional experience but have not invested in rigorous coaching training. I have spent years building both — deliberately and simultaneously.
When I coach a professional on navigating a career pivot, I have personally made difficult professional transitions and helped others do the same. When I coach on leadership presence or influence without authority, I have spent nine years building both in demanding, high-stakes environments with real consequences. When I coach on life purpose, I speak from genuine reflection — not from a framework applied to someone else's experience.
I am also a National SDG Ambassador for the United Nations (Central India) and an Advisor to the Government of India — roles that reflect a deep commitment to using my professional capability in service of others, not just in service of organizational outcomes.
My Coaching Philosophy
I believe that most people already know what they need to do. What they are missing is the space, the honest mirror, and the structured accountability to act on what they know.
My role as a coach is not to tell you what to do. It is to ask the question that makes the right answer visible — and then to hold you accountable to the decision you make with genuine conviction.
I work with adults — working professionals, senior executives, entrepreneurs, and career changers — who are ready for an honest conversation. Not a comfortable one. An honest one.
Every coaching engagement I take on has a defined objective, a structured approach, and a clear measure of success. I do not consider a coaching engagement successful because the client felt inspired during sessions. I consider it successful when something specific and lasting has changed in their life, career, or leadership.
If that is the kind of coaching you are looking for — I would be glad to work with you.
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My Approach as a Life Coach & Teacher-
Who My Coaching Is For-
My coaching is designed for students/ adults — working professionals, senior executives, entrepreneurs, career changers, and high-achievers who feel they are operating below their potential. I work with people who are already doing
well by external measures but feel an internal disconnect — between where they are and where they genuinely want to be, between what they are doing and what they were meant to do. I also work with early-career professionals who want to build the right foundation from the very beginning rather than spend ten years figuring out what I can help them clarify in a few sessions.
My Teaching & Coaching Techniques
My approach draws from three distinct disciplines — and the combination is what makes it different from standard coaching.
First, I use ICF-aligned life coaching methodology — structured, outcome-focused, evidence-based. Every session begins with a clear intention and ends with a specific commitment. I do not believe in open-ended conversations that feel productive but change nothing. Every session produces something tangible: a decision made, a belief examined, an action committed to.
Second, I bring Harvard Business School's empathetic leadership frameworks and MIT Sloan's Design Thinking methodology into my coaching practice. Design Thinking — the same approach I have applied to organizational transformation across four global organizations — is extraordinarily powerful when applied to personal and career design. We prototype, we test assumptions, we iterate. We treat your life and career as a design challenge rather than a fixed path.
Third, I bring nine years of real Founder's Office experience. When I coach a professional on navigating a difficult conversation with their CEO, on building influence without authority, on designing a career pivot, or on finding their purpose under pressure — I am not speaking from a textbook. I have lived these situations, in high-stakes environments, with real consequences. That practitioner depth is what separates my coaching from most.
How a Typical Session Is Structured
Each session runs for 60 minutes and follows a clear structure:
Opening (5 minutes) — We establish the intention for the session. What is the one thing, if we resolve it today, that would make this hour genuinely valuable? This prevents sessions from drifting.
Exploration (25 minutes) — I ask questions designed to surface what the client already knows but has not yet named. My role here is not to give answers — it is to ask the question that makes the right answer visible. Honest, specific, sometimes uncomfortable questions.
Insight & Reframe (15 minutes) — We examine the belief, assumption, or pattern that is creating the gap between where the client is and where they want to be. I bring in frameworks, evidence, and real-world examples where they help — but I never impose a framework where the client's own insight is stronger.
Commitment (10 minutes) — Every session ends with a specific, named commitment. Not "I will think about it." A named action, a named date, and a named measure of completion. This is the accountability architecture that makes coaching produce real outcomes rather than interesting conversations.
Between Sessions — Clients receive a session summary with their commitment captured in writing, and optional reflection prompts to deepen the work between sessions.
My Special Features as a Coach
Honesty over comfort. The most valuable thing I offer is the truth that your environment is not designed to deliver. I tell clients what the evidence shows about their situation, their patterns, and their narrative — even when it is not what they hoped to hear. Not with harshness — with the genuine care of someone who wants the outcome to be real, not the session to feel pleasant.
Practitioner depth, not theoretical knowledge. I have spent nine years operating at the intersection of maximum complexity, maximum consequence, and maximum stakeholder pressure — as a Chief of Staff and Strategic Advisor in Founder's Offices across global organizations. I coach career, leadership, and life design from lived experience, not from a certification alone.
Measurable outcomes. I do not consider a coaching engagement successful because the client felt better after sessions. I consider it successful when something specific has changed — a career direction clarified, a leadership challenge resolved, a salary negotiated upward, a life decision made with genuine conviction. My coaching has a defined objective, structured milestones, and a clear measure of success.
Multilingual. Sessions are available in English and Hindi — making my coaching genuinely accessible to professionals across India.
Certified Global Master Life Coach · Life Purpose Coach · Career Coach · Leadership Development Coach — trained at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, University of Oxford, IIM Bangalore, and XLRI, with an MBA in Management & IT and nine years of senior professional experience across four global organizations.
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
I know Ms. Purva Gupta as my senior from college, and she has been a wonderful mentor throughout my professional journey. She is highly knowledgeable, humble, approachable, and always willing to help.
She has guided me many times with valuable and practical career advice. Her teaching style is clear, supportive, and easy to understand.
Highly recommended to anyone looking for a knowledgeable and genuinely helpful mentor!Excellent life coach on superprof ! Is extremely professional, empathetic and knowledgeable.I found great clarity on my son's life goals in just a few sessions.Superprof's trust and reputation is truly reflected in a teacher like Highly recommend for anyone seeking personal growth.
Good coach, excellent training. Most recommended.
I found Purva three months before my final semester ended and I had absolutely no clarity on what I wanted to do after graduation. I had a decent academic record, a few internships, and a complete inability to answer the question everyone kept asking me — "so what are you going to do next?" I was not struggling. I was stuck.
Purva did not give me a list of career options. She gave me something more useful — a method for figuring out the answer myself. She started by asking me what I had genuinely enjoyed in my internships, not what I had performed well in. The distinction sounds small. It is enormous. I had been conflating competence with interest for years and had built an entire self-narrative around skills I was good at but did not care about.
By our second session, I had a clearer sense of direction than I had reached in four years of college. By our fourth, I had a specific target role, a positioning strategy, and a CV that finally communicated what I actually had to offer rather than what I thought employers wanted to read.
She is a Certified Global Master Life Coach and Career Coach — trained at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Wharton, and Oxford — and she brings that intellectual rigour into sessions that feel genuinely personal and warm. She also gives you a free first session, which is how I decided to trust the process before committing. That first session alone was worth more than most career guidance sessions I have sat through.
If you are a student approaching graduation with more questions than answers, Purva is exactly the person you need. She will not tell you what to do. She will help you discover what you already know — and then help you do something about it.I booked a session with Purva because I was six months into my first job after graduation and already questioning whether I had chosen the right field. I was not in crisis — I was just quietly uncertain, and I did not know who to talk to about it without it feeling dramatic.
Purva made it feel neither dramatic nor trivial. She listened to everything I said in the first session before asking a single question — and then the question she asked was so specific to what I had just told her that it stopped me mid-sentence. That is the quality of attention she brings. She is not running through a script. She is actually hearing you.
Over four sessions, we mapped what I genuinely valued against what my current role was actually giving me, identified the gap with precision, and built a concrete eighteen-month plan to move toward work that aligned with both. I did not leave with motivation. I left with clarity — which is significantly more useful and significantly harder to give.
Purva holds qualifications from Harvard Business School, Oxford, MIT Sloan, and Wharton, and is a Certified Global Master Life Coach. But what stays with me is not her credentials — it is that she told me something uncomfortable in our third session that I needed to hear, and she delivered it with such genuine care that I thanked her for it. That combination — honesty and warmth — is rare in any professional relationship, let alone a coaching one.
If you are at the beginning of your career and feeling the pull of a question you cannot quite name, Purva will help you name it — and then help you answer it.Working with Purva was one of the most genuinely transformative experiences of my professional life — and I say that as someone who had tried two other coaches before her and found both of them disappointing.
What Purva does differently is bring nine years of real, senior-level organisational experience into every coaching session. She is not working from a coaching handbook. She is working from a lived understanding of how careers actually progress — and regress — inside complex organisations. When she asked me why I had been in the same role for four years without moving, she was not reading from a list of standard coaching questions. She was asking the question that a Chief of Staff at the most senior levels of a global company would ask. And the answer it drew out of me changed how I understood my own situation.
Over six sessions, she helped me redesign my professional narrative, identify the specific gap in my positioning that was costing me opportunities, and prepare for interviews at a level I had never reached before. The third company I interviewed with after our sessions offered me the role. I had been interviewing for eighteen months before working with Purva.
She is warm, direct, deeply knowledgeable, and genuinely invested in the outcome — not in keeping you in sessions indefinitely. I cannot recommend her highly enough.I've known Purva for about two years, since meeting her in India. I took one of her life coaching sessions and was struck by how holistic her approach was — she helped me see how small changes in daily habits could transform my focus, energy, and overall organization. She gave me practical, concrete methods I could immediately apply to structure my life better.
What I appreciate most about her teaching style is how interactive it is — you actually absorb the key lessons during the session itself, rather than needing to study afterward. It made the learning stick.
My experience was so positive that I went on to take several more sessions with her. I'd recommend her to anyone looking for real, actionable guidance on building better habits and living with more focus and intention.I have worked with executive coaches before, and I was honestly sceptical about whether another coaching engagement would add anything new. Purva changed that completely.
Her background as a Chief of Staff — trained at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Wharton, and Oxford — means she understands the pressures, dynamics, and complexities of senior professional life in a way that most coaches simply do not. She has sat in the rooms where the difficult decisions are made. She has navigated the political complexity of large organisations. She has told principals things they did not want to hear, and built the trust that made them listen.
In our sessions, Purva worked with me on executive presence, decision-making under pressure, and how to lead a team through a significant organisational change. She was structured, rigorous, and specific — no session ended without a concrete commitment and a clear measure of whether I had followed through.
She is also a Certified Global Master Life Coach and Career Coach, which means her methodology is not just based on experience — it is grounded in proper coaching practice. The combination of practitioner depth and coaching rigour is rare, and it shows.
If you are a senior professional looking for a coach who will challenge you with honesty, support you with genuine care, and hold you accountable to the outcomes you say you want — Purva is exceptional. I would strongly recommend her.Purva has been my mentor since several years, she really highly qualified and exceptionally talented. with a solution provider mindset, she can be a great team leader.. I really wish her the best!!
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