Short answer: I am Sudhakar Reddy Gade, an executive coach based in Hyderabad, working with CXOs, SBU heads, board directors and founders across India, and remotely with leaders in the United States. 180+ unique senior leaders coached since 2017. Engagements run twelve months, are OKR-driven, and are measured by a closing 360 with the leader's own stakeholders. Before anything is quoted there is a thirty-minute chemistry conversation, and you will have a written fee before you are asked to commit to anything.
If you are choosing between several coaches rather than reading about one, that is the better thing to be doing — and there is a free, open instrument for it further down this page. It does not return me. That is not modesty; it is how it is built.
These are the seven things the research says buyers actually select on. Most coaching pages answer none of them. Each is answered below, and each is checkable.
Sectors: IT and ITES, GCCs, pharma, BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, real estate.
Levels: CXO and C-suite, SBU and function heads, board directors, founders returning to the chair, and high-potential leaders being prepared for those rooms.
Before coaching: 22 years in industry — Global Delivery Head and Customer Lead at TCS, Zonal Manager Operations at IQVIA, Senior Director at Course5i.
₹32 Crore added to combined client compensation — the sum of the annual salary increase at promotion across the promotion cohort.
5.8-month median time from kickoff to promotion.
The measure is a closing 360: structured interviews with the leader's manager, team and cross-functional colleagues. That tests what the organisation experienced, not what the leader reports.
A thirty-minute chemistry conversation before anything is signed. No agenda, no slides.
It exists to surface the reasons an engagement would fail — fit, timing, readiness, sponsorship, appetite — and to stop it there if they are real. In nine years no engagement has been cancelled mid-way.
ICF RACC. Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coaching. IICA-certified Independent Director; IOD-certified Corporate Director.
Confidentiality is contractual. A sponsor who funds an engagement receives whether the agreed objectives moved and by how much — never session notes, a transcript, or an account of what was disclosed.
180+ unique senior leaders coached since 2017. Practice founded January 2017.
Panel coach for Dr. Reddy's Laboratories MANTHAN since 2019. Coached 20+ BFSI leaders for WTW, 2022–2024.
RE:CODE™ — six-month OKR-driven sprints. N-GAGE maps goals and developmental needs to current and future roles.
Fifteen DOI-assigned research papers on Zenodo, six books. The method is written down and public before you buy it.
There is no rate card, because there is no standard engagement — the fee follows the scope set in the chemistry conversation. You get a written fee before committing to anything.
One agreement covers every engagement. Cancellation, confidentiality and termination rights are set out in it, and you read them before you sign.
Reviewed internally. The coaching agreements preclude disclosure of engagement detail to a third party, so external verification is not available by design rather than by omission. Outcome figures describe observed changes over the engagement period. No control group was used and no causal attribution to coaching is claimed. Every public use of a figure must carry, or link to, this limitation. Population, formula and limitations for every figure →
how the engagement worksI built a free, open instrument for choosing an executive coach in India — the Coach Selection Index. It scores coaches on twenty-one evidence-graded indicators, weighted by what 38 corporate sponsors and 54 coachees told an ICF study they actually select on. The method, the weights and the code are published.
It is hosted separately from this site and it does not return me in its searches. It has no list and no author exception; it reports what it can find and cite. Use it on me and on everyone else you are considering.
Open the Coach Selection Index → · The free hiring guide →
If you would rather not run an instrument built by a coach you are considering — a fair instinct — the fifteen questions in the hiring guide work on paper and commit you to nothing.
What does an executive coach in India cost?
There is no single answer, and any page that gives you one is quoting a product rather than an engagement. Here the fee follows four things: the gap established by a competency benchmark, the kind of change sought, the duration and cadence, and the size of the stakeholder set interviewed. You receive a written fee before committing. The full fee logic →
How long does executive coaching take?
The flagship engagement is twelve months at a session per fortnight, built on six-month RE:CODE™ sprints. Shorter fixed-scope tracks exist and are set out at compare engagements. Twelve months at a fortnightly cadence is not a shorter track and is not priced as one.
What does my organisation get if it is paying?
A needle-movement report: whether the agreed objectives moved, and by how much, drawn from the closing 360. Not session notes, not a transcript, not an account of what was disclosed. The leader is told exactly what will be reported before the engagement begins.
Do you guarantee a promotion?
No. No coach can, and the engagement letter says so in plain terms. The figures on this site describe observed outcomes for leaders who completed engagements — not a forecast for yours, and no causal claim is made.
Are you ICF certified?
ICF RACC, and certified in Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coaching. Worth knowing, though: in the ICF South and Southeast Asia study, sponsors ranked accreditation fifth of nine selection factors at 34.2%, behind experience, industry knowledge, clarity of approach and authenticity. A credential is a floor, not a score.
Where are you based, and do you coach remotely?
Hyderabad, India. Clients across India, and executive coaching delivered remotely to the United States. The registered office of Nirvedha Executive Coaching Solutions is in Mumbai; the practice operates from Hyderabad.
start a conversationEngagement starts with a chemistry conversation — thirty minutes, no agenda. Apply via the contact page; I read it personally and reply within seventy-two hours.