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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Do you want to mobilize your strengths and realise your potential?
Do you wish to be a leader of influence in your team, organistaion and community?
Do you want to expand your possibilities and be a force to reckon with?
If the answer to these questions is in the affirmative, then Step Up offers you frameworks,
tools and practices to make this happen.
This book is a transformative journey that provides women with the necessary tools to
become powerful leaders. Borrowing from the well-known frameworks of Generative Leadership
(GL) and Transactional Analysis (TA), the book provides an inside-out approach advocating
potent practices that can create effective leadership.
Sailaja Manacha
Sailaja Manacha is a psychologist, psychotherapist and leadership coach. Her commitment is to develop women in leadership at all levels so that women function with agency and become designers of their life and work. Her belief is that the world today is in immense need of the feminine energy and that women need to show up as a potent and powerful presence—be it in organizations, society or in family life. Her work is a blend of psychology, awareness-based practices and practical aspects of management and leadership learning. The same approach is applied to her women in leadership interventions as she sees the significance of bringing the gender lens to leading. In the corporate world, she engages individuals, groups and management teams that seek mastery in powerful living, a deeper personal awareness and leadership impact that produce sustainable results. She has facilitated thousands of training and coaching programmes both public and within organizations. Her clients include Siemens STS, Cerner Healthcare India, Infosys, Firstsource, Weir Minerals, Honeywell Software, Bally Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Adobe, Kwench and many more.
She is the founder of Step Up—a 100 per cent online women leadership course launched in March 2018. She also runs an online community of emerging professional women leaders called Lead Powerful Live Mindful.
She has a Master’s in Psychology and Organizational Behaviour with over 10 years of corporate HR experience. She is an accredited coach (MCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF) and an accredited psychotherapist. She is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP) and has trained in Germany to be a facilitator of Systemic Constellations.
