Arthi has been coaching informally since 2015 as an internal coach, and formally since becoming a business owner in 2019 with at least 2000 coaching hours thus far. The quality and depth of her expertise as a neuroscience-based coach has been lauded internationally, garnering Arthi global awards such a “Leadership Coach of the Year” where Arthi was accoladed on the Times Square Nasdaq Billboard in New York City, “Best Corporate and Strategic Advisory Firm” and “Top 50 Fearless Leaders. Working with a spectrum of clients, from founders and start-ups to larger enterprises, Arthi helps her clients to stretch their perspectives culminating in novel and interesting insights. Arthi is a Master Partner Practitioner of the Neuro-Agility Profile (NAP™) Advanced+ for Adults, Students and Children, Brain Agility Booster™ and Emotional Intelligence Competencies Profile™. Furthermore, as a Certified Lego® Serious Play® facilitator and coach, Arthi guides individual, team, and peer-related coaching workshops and circles with ground-breaking shifts and insights for the participants using play as a core lens and augmented with neuroscience.
Arthi upholds and champions ethical and professional coaching as an International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC credentialed coach, and a former Chapter leader and ad-hoc volunteer with ICF South Africa Chapter. To keep abreast of trending topics in the coaching space through continuous education, Arthi further retains membership with the Association of Coaching UK and the ICF. Arthi is also a Member and Accredited Mentor/Coach at Senior Practitioner Level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
As a woman in finance, coaching female entrepreneurs to be confident to pitch successful for funding features as a passion area for Arthi, where she has worked with Future Females with climate and circular economy entrepreneurs. She has also been and continues to be invited to be a judge on the Africa Business Heroes platform (the Jack Ma Foundation in Africa), one of the largest prize-giving competitions in Africa offering grant funding to African startups.
Ensuring boards remain diverse and inclusive is another niche Arthi focuses her time and energy in. Certified in Company Direction through the Institute of Directors in the UK, Arthi is an independent non-executive board member for both non-profits and for-profits, that allows her to engage strategically with businesses while also coaching board members, executives, and teams.
Sharing her expertise and knowledge through acclaimed publications, Arthi is highly active on the invitation-only platforms Forbes Coaches Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Over a short period of time, Arthi has been published over 300 expert panels and full feature articles, collectively, on Forbes Coaches Council.
Furthermore, Arthi has contributed and co-authored the book “Redefining the Rules: Incredible women on how to embrace equity” which released on International Women’s day 2023 (8 March) and became a No. 1 bestseller on launch day on Amazon.
Some key clients Arthi has retained and currently engages with on both an individual and team basis include Liberty, STANLIB, Standard Bank, FirstRand, RMB, SNG Grant Thornton, PIC, Citibank, FNB, Atlas Copco, Allan Gray, Randair, Old Mutual and Henley Business School.
QUALIFICATIONS
Arthi is an MBA graduate from Henley Business School, having been awarded the prestigious Archbishop Desmond Tutu scholarship at the age of 26 to complete her studies. Her thesis on Emotional Intelligence in teams to attain competitive advantage in financial services firms was awarded a distinction. She went on to achieve her Professional Certificate in Coaching and Behavioural Change through Henley Business School also.
Over the course of an intensive 15-year corporate career in the investments industry, Arthi has led multiple, successful initiatives (among them equity research, talent management, capital raising, portfolio management, transformation, and coaching) across geographies and client segments in business.
Her last corporate role within Institutional Business Development allowed her to expand her expertise in capital raising across investment classes (from passive investments to listed equities and debt, to more complex private equity and real asset investments) as well as gaining detailed knowledge of and access to a wide segment of institutional clients in South Africa and globally.
This unique value chain of expertise and experience means that Arthi has a wealth of unconventional insights in these environments, which is relatable and transferable across industries. Her specific approach to relationship advancement has built and sustained enviable networks of institutional investors spanning the globe. She now uses these for the benefit of founders and entrepreneurs requiring start-up or expansion capital. More importantly, her experience in corporate, and now too as an entrepreneur, means she is uniquely positioned to understand the pressures in highly structured and unstructured work environments, and can share insights to founders, leaders and teams through masterclasses, podcasts, articles, workshops, keynote speaking, as well as coaching and mentoring.
What Arthi’s clients say:
Arthi served as one of the expert Investment Coaches on our Future Females FutureFinance and Funding Readiness Programmes. She is nothing short of an INCREDIBLE coach! Arthi has a wealth of knowledge and experience and added so much value to our members on the programmes. Following coaching with Arthi our members walked away seeing fundamental growth in both their personal confidence as well as their businesses as a whole. I would hire Arthi over and over again – for her professionalism, her passion and her experience. She is nothing short of an absolute pleasure to work with and somebody I admire greatly. –Kelly Gifford, Project Manager – Future Females Empowerment Initiatives
Arthi has a unique talent for coaching someone by asking open-ended questions and helping them find the answer to their own problems. Arthi also had great energy and was very inspirational, which was very important while studying for an MBA. She was not only supportive, accommodating, understanding and kind, but also asked thought-provoking questions and challenged my thinking to help me achieve a better result in my respective assignments. I am extremely grateful to have had her by my side and I hope our paths will cross again in the future. – Terence Niselow, Henley Business School graduate and Alumni based in Utrecht, Netherlands.