SANGEETA SHANKARAN SUMESH

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About Me

As a Leadership Coach, I work with CEOs, CXOs, and senior leaders and teams to lead with strategic clarity, make better decisions, build high-performance teams, demonstrate strong leadership presence, and drive profitable growth.

With over 30 years of corporate leadership experience, including serving as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at Dun & Bradstreet Technologies, I bring boardroom insight, financial discipline, and coaching expertise to leadership development.

As an Independent Director on corporate boards, I am committed to enabling corporate leaders and teams to elevate their leadership impact, strengthen organisational performance, and create sustainable business value.

Why do clients like to work with me?

  • CFO perspective combined with leadership coaching
  • Board-level insight into governance and strategic decision-making
  • Ability to connect leadership behaviour with financial outcomes
  • Experience working across industries and senior leadership teams
  • Practical frameworks that translate strategy into execution

My Credentials

My Coaching philosophy

  • My coaching philosophy is to enable purpose, performance, and profits.
  • I achieve this by focusing on and amplifying the client’s strengths, working around their challenges, and helping them find solutions to achieve their desired goals.
  • The coaching framework that will be used is based on the GROW model.
  • Other coaching tools will also be used on a case-by-case basis.
  • I will be customising the coaching conversations to suit your needs by blending my finance background, leadership experience and coaching tools.

Doctorate in
Business Administration

I earned my Doctorate in Business Administration from the Swiss School of Business & Management, with research focused on High Performance Leadership and its Influence on Financial Growth in Corporates. This shapes how I work with leaders to translate their leadership capability into measurable business outcomes.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Awarded leading woman Chief Financial Officer
Outstanding Professional award given by the Tamil Nadu Governor
Innovator in Finance Award
With a few other awards and recognitions received
Recognised for contribution to India at 2047
Value Creator Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at NSE
Recognised as “Global Women in Leadership” for the Coaching work
My Life story featured in the book “Nightingales 3 – Change, C
Jewel in the Crown award by the Punjab Association
Recognised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants Corporate Forum
Awarded as one of the 100 inspiring Authors of India
Nightingale Award by the Society of Auditors

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WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Let's work together

If you are a senior leader looking to elevate your leadership impact, strengthen your team, and drive sustainable business growth, I would be glad to explore how we can work together.