Coach Vikram

Coach Vikram IMAGINE:
When you walk, people notice. When you speak, people listen. When you lead, people follow! Vikram is a Star Maker! And a speaker coach at TEDx.

He creates that Star leader in you so that you develop powerful executive presence, stand out, and build market dominance in 21 hours! He applies the latest in neuroscience to your leadership skills so when you walk people notice. His upcoming book is about 'Executive Presence- The Secret Language of Star Leaders'

LEADER TO STAR LEADER
Anyone can be a leader. But executive presence is what you ne

ed to be a Star leader! Your presence and gravitas not only facilitate a smooth transition to CXO level but also guarantee results in:
•Helping sales champions get that million-dollar sale
•Getting your ideas adopted
•Making a quantum leap in your professional credibility
•Getting along better with anyone, anytime, anywhere in flat 10 minutes! WHY DO FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES TRUST VIKRAM? Leaders have moved into senior management roles and cracked million dollar deals using Vikram’s innovative model of Executive Presence - which is designed around Behaviors of Focus, Power, and Warmth. He is a Lawyer, Positive Psychologist, and Mindfulness coach. His extensive research on Executive Presence and behaviors of global leaders help him reverse engineer the science to developing Star Presence in just 21 coaching hours! He was a founding fellow at the Institute of Coaching, Harvard. Vikram's knowledge sharing process is unique. He works on performance results. This means he gets paid ONLY if his clients achieve positive and lasting change in agreed-upon behaviour. METHOD BEHIND MAKING THE STAR
As a subject matter expert on Executive Presence, Vikram uses peak performance techniques varying from Neuroscience, Athletic Conditioning, Mindfulness, Improvisation Theater, to Hollywood Method Acting. Like a rough diamond that needs polishing to reveal it’s brilliance, it just takes 21 hours of specialized learning to bring your business star to the surface! PROPRIETARY MEASUREMENT TOOL
Coach Vikram's EPI™, is India's only research-based and scientifically validated assessment to measure Executive Presence. This EPI helps leaders with clarity to solve critical problems, drive business value, and succeed in a competitive business environment. EXECUTIVE PRESENCE COACHING EXPERTISE
•CXO Advisory
•First 100 Days
•Partner Promotion
•Executive Transition
•Strategic C-suite Conversations
•Client Influencing
•Investor Pitching
•Women & Gravitas
•Sensitive Behavioural Challenges

For more info about our unique executive coaching expertise-
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16/04/2026

Confidence is something that others see in you.

Which means you cannot manufacture it from the inside out. You cannot decide to be confident and have it show up on your face, in your voice, in the way you walk into a room.

But here is what you can do.

Think about what the word disease actually means. Dis-ease. Your body is not at ease. And when you are not at ease - when there is physical or emotional discomfort running underneath the surface - it shows. No amount of preparation or performance covers it.

Now flip that.

Anybody who is comfortable automatically looks confident. Not sometimes. Almost every time.

So if you want to show up with more Power - in a high-stakes presentation, in a negotiation, in the boardroom conversation you have been dreading - the work is not to manufacture confidence. The work is to become one degree more comfortable than you were last time.

Get comfortable there. And automatically - without performing it, without forcing it - the people around you will start to see you as confident.

That is Power. And that is how it is built.

— Rajna Shetty, Executive Presence Coach at CoachVikram & Company

📎 Ready to develop your Power? Download the Power eGuide, a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that inspires decision-making. Link in bio.

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14/04/2026

When we were designing the EPI® — the Executive Presence Influence Assessment — we made a deliberate decision.

We refused to build another assessment that gave leaders a label.

Because here is what we kept seeing in our coaching work. Leaders would come to us already carrying labels. Achiever. Dominant. Authentic. And those labels had become the story they told about themselves.

That is the last thing a leader developing their executive presence needs.

So we built something different.

The EPI is not a personality type. It is not a label. It is a conversation starter.

When a client takes the EPI and sits with me to debrief, I tell them directly — you are more than welcome to challenge what you see. If a score doesn’t feel right, if the context matters, if you want to push back on an answer — do it. Because that moment of friction is exactly where the real conversation begins.

That conversation — about what you would actually want to do differently, about where your presence is serving you and where it isn’t — is what I build every coaching engagement around.

The EPI doesn’t tell you who you are. It starts the conversation about who you want to become.

— Rajna Shetty, Executive Presence Coach at CoachVikram & Company

📊 Ready to start that conversation? Take the EPI® — the only behavioral assessment that measures executive presence across 3 styles, 9 capabilities, and 27 behaviors. Link in bio.

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12/04/2026

The first seven minutes after you wake up are the most critical minutes of your entire day.

Not the first hour. Not your morning routine. The first seven minutes, before your feet hit the floor.

Here is what most leaders do in those seven minutes.

They reach for their phone. They scroll through WhatsApp messages. They check their email. They start mentally rehearsing everything that is waiting for them the moment they walk out the door.

And by the time they are out of bed, they are already behind. Already reactive. Already giving their energy to everything and everyone except themselves.

Here is what I recommend instead.

Stay in that space. Those seven minutes before you put your feet on the floor - they belong to you. Use them intentionally. A few deep breaths. A moment of genuine gratitude.

This is not soft advice. This is Self-Care, one of the three capabilities of Warmth, the executive presence leadership style that builds lasting loyalty.

Because here is what the research shows. You cannot consistently show up with genuine care for others if you are running on empty. You cannot give what you have not first given yourself.

The leaders who build the deepest loyalty with their stakeholders are not the ones who give the most. They are the ones who replenish intentionally, so that when someone needs them, they are actually there.

Seven minutes. Before your feet hit the floor.

That is where it starts.

— Coach Vikram, Executive Presence Coach & Founder, CoachVikram & Company

📎 Want to develop your Warmth? Download the Warmth eGuide, a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that builds lasting loyalty. Link in bio.

Save this for tomorrow morning.

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Most leaders are grateful people.Very few say thank you in a way that actually lands.Not because they don’t mean it, but...
11/04/2026

Most leaders are grateful people.

Very few say thank you in a way that actually lands.

Not because they don’t mean it, but because “thanks” without context lands like a formality. Not like care. And there is a significant difference between a team member who hears “great work” and one who hears “thank you for your leadership during that crisis. Your calm kept the whole team steady.”

The second person feels seen. The first one feels managed.

The difference isn’t how often you say thank you. It’s how specifically you say it.

The formula is simple. Three elements. Every time.

What they did. When or why it mattered. How it helped.

That’s it. And when you use it consistently, something shifts — people don’t just feel appreciated. They feel trusted. And trust is what turns a working relationship into lasting loyalty.

This is Gratitude, one of the three capabilities of Warmth, the executive presence leadership style that builds lasting loyalty.

📎 Want 60 ready-to-use examples built on this formula? Download the free Never a Naked Thank You cheat sheet — link in bio.

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09/04/2026

When we started designing the Executive Presence Influence Assessment, we asked ourselves one question.

Not what we can sell. But what will actually help leaders shift their behavior.

And that question led us to a problem with every executive presence assessment we had seen before it.

They all asked leaders to rate themselves. Are you a grateful leader? Do you listen well? Do you show up with confidence?

And invariably, every leader would say yes. Of course I do. Why would they say otherwise?

The problem is not that leaders are dishonest. The problem is that self-perception is not the same as behavioral reality. You can believe you are a warm leader and still be someone your team hesitates to approach with a real problem.

The turning point came when we stopped asking leaders what they did and started asking how often they did it.

Because frequency is what other people actually experience. Not your intention. Not your self-image. How often you show up in a specific way, that is what builds or erodes trust, likeability, and credibility over time.

That is what the EPI® measures. Not who you think you are as a leader. But how consistently you demonstrate the 27 specific behaviors that build executive presence.

It is not a label. It is not a personality type. It is a behavioral baseline, and the starting point for real, measurable development.

— Rajna Shetty, Executive Presence Coach at CoachVikram & Company

📊 Ready to measure your executive presence? Take the EPI® - link in bio.

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07/04/2026

I call it the airport syndrome.
The moment you walk into a terminal building, you will encounter at least seven to ten stakeholders. The security officer who gives you access. The person at the check-in counter. The agent at the gate. The barista at the coffee shop before you board.

Many of us walk through every single one of those interactions on autopilot.

And I understand why. We’re busy. We’re preparing. We have things to think about.

Every one of those interactions is a practice opportunity. A chance to give someone our complete, genuine attention for sixty seconds. To make eye contact. To ask a question out of real curiosity. To make that person feel - even briefly - that they are the only person in the room.

That is Focus. And like any capability, it gets stronger the more you practice it, not just in the boardroom, but in every interaction you choose to show up for.

The leaders I coach who are most magnetic in high-stakes meetings are not the ones who save their attention for important people. They are the ones who give it generously to everyone.

— Coach Vikram, Executive Presence Coach & Founder, CoachVikram & Company

📎 Want to develop your Focus? Download the Focus eGuide, a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that invites collaboration. Link in bio.

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05/04/2026

We tend to judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.

Think about the last time someone let you down at work. Your first instinct was probably to read their behavior - they were late, they dropped the ball, they didn’t show up the way you needed them to. And that behavior became the story you told about them.

But when you are the one who is late, who drops the ball, who doesn’t show up the way someone needed you to - you immediately reach for your intentions. You know why it happened. You had context. You were dealing with something. You meant well.

That gap - between how we judge others and how we judge ourselves - is one of the most quietly damaging patterns in leadership.

Warmth asks us to turn it around.

Judge yourself by your actions. And give others the benefit of the doubt about their intentions.

Not because people always deserve it. But because most of the time, we genuinely do not know what someone else is going through. And the moment we assume good intentions, something shifts in how we show up, we become more patient, more curious, more human.

That is the turning point of Warmth as an executive presence leadership style. And it is one of the simplest, most powerful things a leader can practice starting today.

— Rajna Shetty, Executive Presence Coach at CoachVikram & Company

📎 Ready to develop your Warmth? Download the Warmth eGuide — a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that builds lasting loyalty. Link in bio.

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04/04/2026

My biggest leadership lesson to date?

Get comfortable not being the smartest person in the room.

I learned this when I was a program manager at a global legal center. My entire team was made up of attorneys.

Every day I walked into rooms full of people who knew things I didn’t know. And for a while, I tried to keep up — nodding along, avoiding questions that might expose what I didn’t know, staying quiet when I should have spoken up.

Then I made a different choice.

I started asking questions like — as the non-lawyer in the room, can you help me understand what an amicus brief is?

And something shifted.

People didn’t lose respect for me. They leaned in. They wanted to share what they knew. And in those moments of genuine curiosity, I started becoming someone they actually wanted to work with.

That shift, from the person who has the answers to the person who asks the best questions, is what Focus taught me.

Focus is the first of three executive presence leadership styles. And Relationship Building, one of its three core capabilities, is not about knowing more than the people around you. It is about being genuinely interested in what they know.

When you get comfortable asking the questions others are afraid to ask, you don’t look less capable. You become the person people want in the room for every hard conversation.

— Aquiles Damirón, Executive Presence Coach at CoachVikram & Company

📎 Want to build stronger professional relationships? Download the Focus eGuide, a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that invites collaboration. Link in bio.

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Many leaders who struggle with Power are trying to fix the wrong thing.They practice their delivery. They work on their ...
01/04/2026

Many leaders who struggle with Power are trying to fix the wrong thing.

They practice their delivery. They work on their posture. They prepare more slides, more data, more proof that they know what they’re talking about.

And still, when it matters most, people hesitate to follow their lead.

Here’s what’s actually happening.

Power is not about confidence. It is not about dominance. It is not about being the loudest or the most prepared person in the room.

Power is about being so comfortable with yourself that the people around you feel certain enough to act.

Swipe through to understand what Power actually is, the three capabilities that build it - Inner Dialogue, Composure, and Self-Advocacy - and why it only lands after Focus and Warmth are already in place.

This is the third of three executive presence leadership styles. And it is the one that determines whether stakeholders feel inspired to follow your lead.

📎 Ready to develop your Power? Download the Power eGuide, a practical guide to the capabilities and behaviors that build the executive presence leadership style that inspires decision-making. Link in bio.

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31/03/2026

Every leader I have ever coached has told me they need more confidence.

Not one of them actually had a confidence problem.

What they had was a comfort problem.

Confidence is what other people see in you. Comfort is what you feel inside.

The leaders who walk into a boardroom and own the room are not necessarily the most confident people in that room. They are the most comfortable. Comfortable with the silence before they speak. Comfortable with the question they don’t have an instant answer to. Comfortable with the discomfort of being seen.

That’s Power - the third executive presence leadership style. And it doesn’t start with how you show up in high-stakes moments. It starts with how often you practice showing up in low-stakes ones.

📊 Want to know where your Power actually stands? Take the EPI® — the only behavioral assessment that measures executive presence across 3 styles, 9 capabilities, and 27 behaviors. Link in bio.

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