Archana is an accomplished leader, executive coach and a seasoned IT executive with 20+ years of experience in Leadership & Management. She is in the top 100 Global thought leaders list curated by People Hum. She is the Bronze medal winner of Women in Business Stevie Awards – Coach, Mentor of the year 2022. She has won numerous awards in IT Leadership & Management.
Archana is a certified executive leadership, team coach and mentor. She coaches senior executives, high potentials and teams for guaranteed and measurable leadership growth by strategically focusing on optimizing and maximizing leadership impact and effectiveness using a proven process and a proprietary ‘strategic impact’ framework. She specializes in digital leadership, digital transformations, leadership development, emotional intelligence, high performing teams, strategy, and portfolio and project management.
Her mission is to enrich lives through technology
She helps forward thinking companies increase their competitive advantage and scale to growth with effective strategic leadership, cutting-edge technologies, and operational optimization. As a result her clients experience strong leadership and strategic thinking abilities, delightful customer experiences, accelerate speed to market time, higher levels of employee engagement, team well-being and cohesiveness and improved operational efficiencies.
She has worked with multi-national companies including the largest banks in MENA, government and health sector. She has led a portfolio of enterprise wide digital transformational programs, key strategic initiatives, large scale integration programs, change initiatives of varying complexity ranging from $1M – $24M within a challenging business environment. She has managed 10 to 100+ cross functional member teams and vendors in a multi-national, multi-cultural, global environment. She believes leading in today’s world is about creating and optimizing conditions for success so that everyone can contribute their best efforts towards a common cause. With all her work, she contributes to global health and education projects to support the needy.
She has spoken at numerous global leadership and technology conferences including PMI, ICF, National Toastmasters Conference, Oxygen Leadership Summit, Sarla Birla University, IOSH and University of Bradford. She has been the host, curator and speaker at the Inspirational leadership summit where global thought leaders like Daniel Goleman, Dr. Richard Boyatzis, Tal Ben-Shahar, Marshall Goldsmith, Art Markman, Dorie Clark, Debashis Chatterjee got together to share breakthrough ideas on Strategy, Leadership and Culture.
She holds a MBA from University of Bradford, is a PMP and a certified Daniel Goleman Associate and coach on Emotional Intelligence. She is ICF certified and Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive and Team Coach and EMCC Senior Practitioner.
She is a classical dancer, an avid reader, blogs regularly, loves travelling, arts, and exploring nature. She is a practitioner of yoga, meditation and mindfulness. Filter coffee is her favorite drink.