Krishna Kumar is a pioneer in the sphere of Leadership and Executive Coaching in India and the first person from Asia to be appointed as the global President of the International Association of Coaching (IAC). In a career spanning over three decades Krishna Kumar has donned various hats where he has served as a senior corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a sports coach, a B-school professor, independent board member and an Executive Coach.

An active member of the international coaching community, Krishna Kumar is a two-term Vice President, presently the global President and a Member of the Governing Board of the International Association of Coaching (IAC). He is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching Professionals Association (ICPA), an affiliate of the Harvard Medical College, and a Board Certified Coach (BCC) by CCE (USA). He is also a Partner with the UK based leadership and change management coaching firm, The Silk Road Partnership

His passion for tennis resulted in his founding the Kinesis Tennis Academy, an organization that is today rated amongst India’s premier professional tennis training institutes. An USPTR (United States Professional Tennis Registry) certified tennis coaching professional for over two decades, he has received the USPTR India President’s award and the 2011 USPTR Coach of the Year award.

Krishna Kumar’s educational qualifications include a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from two of India’s Ivy League institutions, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management. He also has a general management certification from INSEAD.

He is certified by Harrison Assessment and Pearson Talent lens in the use of their psychometric testing instruments and has extensively used Belbin, Instinctive Drives, HBDI, 360 deg, PDI, MBTI and many others in his coaching practice.

As an Executive coach, in recent years he has worked with Indian, Asian and ex-pat business leaders that include American, British, Canadian, French, German and Singaporean nationalities.

As a Leadership and Strategy Advisor, Krishna Kumar has worked with business leaders in corporations across various sectors helping them with strategy formulation.  His past and present clientele includes senior executives and managers in global firms like Oracle, CISCO, TESCO, Boeing, Infosys, WIPRO, Robert Bosch, Polo Ralph Lauren, Manhattan Associates, Legal & General (UK), Decathlon (France) and many others.

The destination for a coaching journey is enlightenment. It is travelling on a magical path that leads to transformation, is almost always healing with the power to move people to a better place.  An excellent first step on this journey is for the coachee to use the support of the coach to gain a deep self awareness. What is awareness, why is it important and how is it achieved?

A commonly held belief is that the single minded ability to focus attention is the cornerstone of creating awareness. It is a limiting belief. IAC President and Master Coach, Krishna Kumar, presents his AWARE™ model that helps us to go beyond this single awareness layer and discover a variety of layers that are equally beneficial for both the coachee and the coach.

Awareness may be described in multiple dimensions that operate with narrow and broad focus, impacted both by internal and external stimuli and that are continually affected by our actions through the course of our professional and personal lives. Drawing on his varied real life experiences in the world of business, sport and academics, Krishna Kumar illustrates how the AWARE™ model helps us navigate the complexity of these layers of awareness and take us to higher levels of self belief and trust in ourselves.

In any  powerful coaching session the coach explores and moves the conversation along multiple and varied dimensions of awareness seeking inner meaning, discovering deeply held beliefs and values and identifying those  goals and dreams that matter the most to the coachee. The journey helps the coachee to gain insights beyond self and learn how to positively impact another person through building better social relationships and empathetic behaviours.

It is a conversation that is invariably beneficial for the coach too. The communication loop between coach and coachee helps them engage in self and relationship management. Closing the coaching loop requires that the coach and the coachee are fully engaged and building the self belief needed for driving the positive transformations in themselves.