10 Best Life Coaches - 2019

Elaine MacDonald, Executive Director, Harvard Business School, once quoted, “A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness”. Unlike leadership trainers and other mavens, life coaches are the true torchbearers of our lives who go beyond the frontiers of mere classroom training. They ensure to address and resolve any sort of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual obstacles in a person’s life and thus, induce a holistic growth. Especially, leadership coaching is not a one-time process, but a series of processes that help people in creating & accomplishing goals, gaining clarity on their journey, taking action, bringing-in changes if needed, overcoming problems and eventually, harnessing the best might of their faculty and creativity. Well, this is no easy feat for a life coach! It takes a great deal of expertise and experience for life coaches to achieve these aspects along with profound insights on the coachee’s goals & values in life. Today, there are a swarm of certified and well-experienced life coaches in India who are leveraging their best potential to offer personal as well leadership coaching to people, thereby standing as a catalyst in their lives. Despite the certifications and experience these life coaches hold, there are quite a few challenges which still persist in their endeavours. Few of these challenges are wavering confidence, very few referrals, bad networking, programs irrelevant to the fee levied, no proper target audience, and many more. On the bright side, constant honing of skills, learning from mistakes and never repeating them, and above all understanding the actual requirements of coachees and giving them bespoke coaching are what life coaches ought to master. The road ahead seems quite bright for these experts, thanks to the burgeoning demand and opportunities in this segment. Exploring the journeys of diverse life coaches in India, CEO Insights has prepared an informative listing: ‘10 Best Life Coaches – 2019’, which encompasses the success stories of the best life coaches in India along with the excellence of their life coaching institutes. An expert panel comprising of industry experts, CEOs, VCs and other mavens along with CEO Insights Editorial Board have come-up with the names of these doyens in the life coaching segment. The listing further throws light on the various emerging advancements and trends in the field of life coaching in India.