Medhika Sood

Medhika Sood is an ICF-ACC certified Coach and Facilitator with over 15 years of experience enabling leaders and organisations to navigate complexity, scale with intention, and deliver sustained business impact. A Certified Hogan Assessor, NLP Practitioner, FICCI-certified DE&I professional, and POSH Consultant, she brings a rare integration of business acumen, behavioural science, and human systems thinking.

An MBA with advanced qualifications in Organisation Development from TISS, Mumbai, and in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Medhika combines rigorous structure with deep psychological insight.

Medhika has partnered with founders, CXOs, and senior leadership teams across growth stages, from early-stage startups to large enterprises, aligning vision, strategy, culture, and leadership capability with measurable outcomes. Her work is known for creating clarity in ambiguity, accelerating leadership maturity, and embedding change that lasts beyond interventions.

Select Impact Areas & Achievements

- Leadership Development & Executive Coaching: Delivered 400+ hours of CXO coaching and leadership programs, strengthening self-awareness, emotional intelligence, decision quality, and strategic thinking. Her coaching consistently translates into visible shifts in leadership effectiveness and organizational performance.

- Organizational & Culture Transformation: Led large-scale change and culture transformation initiatives, aligning values, behavior’s, and systems with strategic priorities. Built high-performance cultures across Hospitality, Telecom, E-commerce, IT, BFSI, Manufacturing, Travel & Tourism, and Public Sector Organizations.

- Talent Management & Assessment: Designed and delivered 1,000+ Assessment and Development Centers in partnership with EY and other firms. Enabled organization design, digital talent solutions, and co-created a 360° leadership assessment tool with partner consultants, strengthening leadership pipelines, engagement, and succession outcomes.

- Facilitation & Capability Building : Facilitated 1,500+ workshops, including POSH, Hogan group debriefs, Design Thinking, leadership offsite, and business-critical interventions for corporates and PSUs. Known for high engagement, practical insight, and strong adoption across leadership levels.

- HR Strategy & Scaling Organizations: Played a pivotal role in scaling a high-growth startup from 150 to over 1,000 employees across 12 countries (Series B–D), implementing people and HR strategies that reduced attrition, strengthened leadership depth, and supported rapid global expansion.

- Wellness, Resilience & Career Development: Designed and delivered corporate wellness and career development programs, including collaborations with TISS and ICFAI. Impacted 3,000+ professionals by improving engagement, reducing burnout, strengthening resilience, and enabling sustainable performance and career growth.

Philosophy

“I help leaders unlock radical self-awareness & acceptance, humanizing success to spark ripple effects of transformative change and lasting impact”