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Do you have a team or workforce needing to deal with differences and work together more effectively?
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Are you part of a remote or hybrid workforce or community seeking more connection?
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Is your team or organization looking to build trust?
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Are you a leader wanting to affirm, energize, and engage your teams?
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Do you yearn for stronger, more connected relationships?
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Are you searching for ways to align and create tighter bonds among family members?
What I can help you with
Teambuilding | Leadership Development | Interpersonal Trust & Connection |
Bridging, Bonding, and Belonging
How I can help
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOPS
Highly interactive experiences in one-to-one or group settings, as single 1.5 hour sessions or multi-session custom programs to build greater self-awareness and connection with others.
LEADERSHIP NARRATIVES
One-to-one story finding, writing, and editing services for high impact personal narratives that get you ready to engage, inspire, and connect with your people or audience whether through telling or writing.
Hello, friend!
I am a strategic advisor, writer/storyteller, and specialist in interpersonal connection. My work is grounded in the ethics of human worth and dignity.
Through interactive games, reflective prompts, and personal story sharing activities, I bring a heart-centered method to professional development, team building, and relational dynamics.
My unique approach is informed by decades of personal, professional, and spiritual journeying, and grounded in my engineering studies at MIT and an MBA from Stanford University.
More trust. Tighter bonds. Better outcomes.
My work with clients cultivates impactful, heart-centered leaders who build healthy cultures around them.
for leaders & teams
Experiential workshops and gatherings enabling leaders and teams to deepen understanding across differences and strengthen trust, connection, and belonging.
for individuals & families
Leadership narratives and relational skills that affirm and dignify the whole person and open pathways toward more meaningful connection and engagement.
What people are saying
CONCEPTS THAT GUIDE MY WORK
PURPOSE
If you don’t know where you’re going it’s tough to get there. This may seem obvious yet leaders and teams often overlook explicit alignment on purpose believing it's self-evident. Without this understanding however, conflict and disappointment become more likely down the line.
VALUES
Values have a bad rep. If at all they exist, most take the form of universal platitudes, then get dismissed as useless. Values that work have specificity and reflect choices we would make despite their costs. They clarify purpose, build cohesion, and rationalize tough decisions. Meaningful, actionable values benefit both people and organizations.
PERSPECTIVE
I was born in Canada and raised by Indian immigrants whose language, food, dress, and faith differed from the norm. Later, I came to the US as an immigrant, and at M.I.T. and Ford, as one of a handful of women engineers. These experiences tuned me into the notion of belonging and the need to welcome people in.
DIGNITY
For almost two decades, I carried a 2x3” plastic card titled ‘Alien Registration Card’ — also known as a green card —in my wallet. I’d read it and think alien is a terrible label for humans, and these people need better marketers. It made me aware of ways, big and small, that we assert and rob humans of their dignity.
PROXIMITY
Time spent up close with people very different from me has incalculably enriched my life. Lodging with locals —sometimes strangers— during travels, holidays celebrated with friends of different faiths, or, more recently, work abroad in refugee camps, have served as a steady reminder that one’s truth is just that: one of many truths.
WORDS
Words matter. They connect us to each other and allow us to get stuff done. Yet communication is nuanced, tough to master, and rarely taught, so few of us — regardless of role or experience — learn this ‘soft skill’ well. We assume that if we can talk or write, we’re set. In reality, communication that’s ‘good enough’ often isn’t.
SOCIAL IMPACT
I left the corporate world to serve populations I cared for and began a consultancy for people-friendly organizations. Then, with eight Stanford colleagues, I co-founded a racial justice initiative that creates learning opportunities for business leaders around the world, organizes philanthropic action, and spun off a housing equity start-up.
COLLABORATION
A collaborative culture makes really hard work way easier. I learned this at M.I.T. It still took some grit and tears to earn my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering— I came close to quitting a few times —but I stuck it through because of my peers: we held each other up through the ride. And that made all the difference.
BEAUTY
From language, music, and art, I learned two lasting lessons. One: beauty goes beyond pleasing aesthetics or vibes. It’s a tool for meaning-making, motivation, and connection. Two: beauty isn’t the exclusive property of a select few. It exists everywhere, manifesting once we discover how to see.
PEACE
Salaam means 'peace' in Arabic and is the greeting used in my community. While growing up, I felt ambivalence for the word; it was just another marker of my difference. Now, I appreciate its suggestion that to every new meeting, we can show up bringing this positive intention.
CONNECTION
I grew up with a profound sense of connection at home in Canada, with family in India, and classmates in college. As an adult, away from friends and family and at work where deeper connections were less likely, I felt a nagging isolation which led me to wonder: how might people improve their daily living through better interpersonal exchanges?
STORIES
Turns out, story sharing is a fun, relatively easy way to improve connection. I learned the power of stories early on in English class — my favorite subject in school — and later as a strategy consultant and marketer. People revere data as the best way to persuade and create trust, but stories sway hearts and minds way more than numbers. Give it a go. You’ll see.
Transform Your Beliefs into
Tools That Serve
I’ve been overjoyed with the response to the Believing workshops that I’ve run with individuals and groups. It has been so fulfilling to leaders and teams that they have encouraged me to offer these workshops to teachers, parents, and young adults.
As a parent of three young people, I’d love to bring the Believing workshops to your school or community!
What to Expect in Workshops
Participants in my dynamic, highly interactive workshops experience learning using a mix of modalities including light-hearted games to deeper reflection and group discussion one-to-one, or small, medium, or large-group settings. Whether through a single 1.5 hour workshop or longer, multi-session custom programs, you will come out with greater self-awareness and connection with others.
Better self awareness
Foundational skills that build connection
Teams and communities that feel more aligned, engaged, resilient
Colleagues, friends, family who feel more seen, heard, and dignified
Fun, interactive, community building experiences
Who is this for
Business and Team Leaders
Solopreneurs, Entrepreneurs, and Founders
Educators and Community Leaders
Teams and Communities
Anyone who wishes to better engage with and relate to fellow humans
What is this for
Leadership/Personal Development
Professional Development
Team Building for resilience and cohesion
Stronger, heart-centered cultures
Deeper Self Awareness
WORKSHOPS TO DEVELOP
STRONGER LEADERSHIP, TEAMS, AND ORGANIZATIONS
THE PURPOSE OF MY WORK
To create a more kind, peaceful, interconnected world — at work, home, and play — through
microdoses of meaningful human connection
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Build bridges that cut across human differences
Expand circles of belonging
Address loneliness and isolation
Work and live better, together
Lofty-sounding? Out of reach?
In reality, each of us has the power to make these things happen.
One person, one exchange, one small moment at a time.
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