The essence of our leading is in our Being, not just in our Doing
CRÃSCA - CLIENTS SPEAK
"Kavitha partnered us on one of our global key talent programs for high potential female leaders, as an individual and group coach. She brings her whole self to her work with a truly authentic coaching style providing a high support, high challenge environment to enable participants to learn how they can be the best they can be. Working with Kavitha delivers results. 49% of participants that took part in the past three years have been promoted to larger roles, thereby strengthening our talent pipeline and Kavitha has been integral to enable this to happen. Her global mindset and strengths in working with diversity and across cultures is leading edge."
Global Head Coaching and Organisation Development
Global Pharmaceutical MNC
"Kavitha has an unique talent to create a psychological safe environment for deeper explorations to occur, in a very short span of time. She is a sharp thinker and analyzes, extremely quickly and accurately, people\\'s contradictions and very delicately guides on how to challenge your thinking and way of being. Kavitha combines this deep exploration with pragmatic tools to effect sustained behavioural change. The 4 days that I had as a part of a leadership development program have been transformational for me, both personally and professionally. I am finding myself much more aware, self-confident and intentional about how I lead."
Managing Director, Bulgaria
"Kavitha changed my life, through an 8-month coaching engagement, at a time when I felt I was hitting a wall in terms of defining the future of my professional identity.Through a process of one-on-one sessions, stakeholder interviews and a 360-process, she helped me identify the very core of some of the issues that were blocking me, while also the discovery of my enduring strengths. Kavitha asked me critical and profound questions, was not afraid to push and challenge me and immersed herself fully with me, with support and compassion. While I found it hard at times, she has given me a new light to see myself."
Senior Manager, Japan
Large pharmaceutical company
"I have known and worked with Kavitha Iyer of Cresca Consulting over many years and many different contexts. For us, she has perfectly designed a learning solution for our leaders who are transitioning from management to leadership. We are now entering the sixth year of this transformative experience, having run yearly workshops in Asia, Europe and the US. The design focuses on "the knowing" and "the doing", but also on "the being" with sustained changes to the leadership impact of each participant. The transformative leadership experience, run by Kavitha Iyer and her exceptional team is now a much sought after part of our leadership development curriculum."
Global Head, Learning & Development
Leading global provider of optical solutions
"Kavitha has a unique ability in drawing out the core-issues of her client by a good balance of compassion and courage - Compassion to create the ambience for openness and courage to dig deeper into the core issues. I have found her to be insightful and conclusive in helping me to calibrate behavior, motivations and goals for superior performance in life and work. Thank you!"
Program Participant
"I met Kavitha during a corporate program which was a very intense 4-day experience, which she designs and directs, I found her ability to understand the unsaid part of everyone, was extraordinary. Kavitha is courageous and delivers tough feedback with empathy. She was able to make connections between my life story and how I was showing up as a leader, which touched me like nobody had previously. I find myself much more in myself and in my leadership, in addition to greater degree of self-awareness on a daily basis."
Program Participant
"With an excellent facilitation style that is both challenging and supportive Kavitha would be an asset to any business leader wanting to develop the capabilities of their management teams and wider organisation."
Director of HR
"Kavitha came highly recommended and was utilized to improve team dynamics during a time of business change. Her creativity and passion were demonstrated on numerous occasions during the specific intervention as well as the follow-up. I went into the process with mixed expectations and was a complete convert at the end. Kavitha is truly gifted in what she does... her insights into us as individuals and as a team, in a very short period of time, were truly impressive."
Chairman
Leading Global Bank, Asia Pacific
"Kavitha was able to hold the group together and yet focus on each individual uniquely. She is also a very nice person with an excellent sense of humour, and deep competence in Coaching. One of the best coaches I\\'ve ever met."
CEO, Hospitality Industry
"It is rare indeed to find a professional coach and expert facilitator who, rather than relying on established ways of working, challenges the norm, introduces new thinking to push boundaries and champions new areas of learning and learner need. Kavitha is one such person and I am delighted to be working with such an insightful specialist in areas very new to us. We are learning as much as our clients."
Regional Managing Director
Cegos Asia Pacific
"Kavitha worked with us over a period of 9 months, working with our regional executive team, in aligning our leadership behaviours to support an aggressive growth agenda. Based on that experience, she developed a change management intervention for next level of emerging senior leaders. She and her team displayed high degrees of competence, professionalism and a way of engaging that has built sustained change and ownership in our organisation\\'s leaders. A year on from our leadership program, our team is still reaping the benefits from the insights, trust and sense of community shared in Kavitha\\'s brief but intense intervention. Despite our initial skepticism, Kavitha led us to discover within ourselves a capacity for leadership that is as much about compassion, care and authenticity as it is about ambition and flair."
Director, Corporate Communications
Large insurance provider
"Kavitha was assigned to a very difficult case in our organization. From the very first day she was able to build a high level of trust and based on her broad experience and strong capabilities she helped us to solve this case in a very sustainable way. Kavitha has very strong communication skills and is able to connect throughout all levels of hierarchy in the organization - all the way from C-level to individual contributor. Kavitha displayed persistence and compassion in dealing with the difficult issues that this case posed. She was not afraid to confront the organization and the individual on some difficult issues and yet turned around the situation in a very positive and sustained manner."
Regional HR Head, Global Med Tech Company
"Kavitha has very sharp listening skills and has consistently asked me deep, insightful questions to make me reflect critically on my leadership identity and also my innermost wishes for a life well lived, at work and beyond. She has never fallen for the temptation to proffer answers and instead helped me open windows to deeper insights. Always polite and professional, Kavitha is also blessed with a great sense of humour."
Director of Communications
Top United Nations Organization
"Kavitha has a very special ability to create a compassionate and non judgemental space for her coaching work. She blends this with the couage to challenge the client when needed. This is a very powerful coaching combination."
Corporate L&D Specialist
"Kavitha is a uniquely talented, astute and insightful coach. While I was admittedly skeptical at the outset, my own involvement with Kavitha has turned out to be nothing short of transformational - and very much on a holistic basis. It has been rewarding to work with Kavitha as well as inspiring to observe her in action. This experience has also led me to seek ways to make such coaching available to my broader team and team leaders as well."
Managing Director, Treasury Services
"Thanks again for making me feel so comfortable and open. I found this to be energizing, even though I am drained right now. I look forward to our follow up. And truly, I am glad you are my coach and leader through this process. You do it so well."
Program Participant
"I enjoy working with Kavitha. She pushes me and holds me to account as she needs to, but unlike many coaches she also makes practical, actionable actions to help my development."
Chief Financial Officer
Country Operations, Financial Services
"This is to tell you that you were great during our personal coaching session. It was absolutely an honour and a privilege to have met and interacted with you. My compliments to you for not only what you do so well professionally but your sense of anticipation and right preparation for each of the candidates that made the experience so special."
Program Participant
"In a short period of time, Kavitha was able to create tremendous psychological safety in our leadership team and build in us a capacity for trust, team and individual reflection. She delivers difficult messages with great care and compassion, leading to greater team consciousness. We are seeing sustained progress."
Head of Human Resources - Asia Pacific
Leading Global Bank