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“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
“At our retreat, I finally gave myself permission to pause. In that stillness, I stood at a pivotal crossroads in both my career and life. With the unwavering support of coaches —each bringing their own unique strength—I was able to unlock something powerful within me. They helped me see past a barrier I hadn ’t even realized was clouding my view. I left with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of direction. Big thanks to the Cultivating Leadership team. It has left a lasting impact, a set of new friends and hope for the future. I'm looking forward to continuing in that work with Cultivating Leadership as I move forward in my journey"
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“It has truly been a pleasure working with Francois and his team over the past four years. His guidance, support, and partnership have made a meaningful impact on both me and the staff, and I am grateful for all that I’ve learned through our collaboration.”
Principal, Large Public School District
Dr. Francois Guilleux specializes in creating in-the-moment experiences that help leaders and leadership teams see themselves and their possibilities in new ways. He blends his background in experiential outdoor education with cutting edge leadership theory and practice to create experiences and programs that challenge leaders to question who they have been in service of who they are becoming.
Francois’ love for leadership formation and the wilderness converge in his deep resume of guiding people on adventures around the world. In these extraordinary contexts, clients find space for reflection, practice outsight, experiment with new leadership behaviors and grow in wisdom and presence. With keen insights into group and organizational dynamics, Francois facilitates conversations of consequence that generate more effective and collaborative ways for clients and their teams to work and lead together. Francois helps leaders draw on challenging experiences to explore their relationship to authority, leadership, and change. Integrating a diverse set of tools and approaches, he helps clients expand their range of possibilities to engage their personal, organizational and strategic challenges.
Francois co-founded a graduate program for experiential educators at Westminster College. He has taught or co-taught leadership and organizational change courses at
several universities including Harvard University and Teachers College, Columbia University and been a team coach for the School of Management at Yale University.
Francois specializes in adaptive leadership, team development, group and organizational diagnosis, and highly creative experiential designs and facilitation. Francois is a senior associate at Cultivating Leadership and an adjunct professor in Teaching, Learning and Leading at the University of Pittsburgh where he prepares leaders transitioning to their next professional challenge.
He has worked with broad range of clients from large multinationals like Google and Novartis to governmental and smaller NGOs like the Wikimedia Foundation, WHO and Waypoint Adventures. His research focuses on adult development and leadership education. He recently contributed a chapter in the book Social Justice Leadership for a Global World on the dispositions that facilitate leaders to learn from their failures.
He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Born in France, Francois has spent most of his adult life in the US. He currently splits his time between Pittsburgh and the French Alps introducing his kids to the delight of the mountains.
““Working with Mary Beth has been a pivotal experience in my leadership journey. Before partnering with her, I was grappling with how to evolve my leadership style to meet the demands of a more complex, high-stakes environment. I was effective, but operating predominantly in Achiever mode — always focused on driving outcomes, solving problems, and pushing forward. What I didn’t fully see were the blind spots this created. The ways in which I was showing up that impacted how others experienced my leadership, and the missed opportunity to lead more through influence, presence, and deeper connection.”
Principal, Large Public School District
Mary Beth believes that life is an adventure, and with that comes the promise of unknowns, risk-taking, and failureDShe provides support for leaders and their teams to see and grow their bigger selves by becoming more self-aware and more comfortable with uncertainty and change, by cultivating vulnerability, resilience, and reflection as companions along the journey. Mary Beth’s fierce compassion for leaders combined with her own background as a global corporate executive makes her uniquely skillful as a coach, trusted advisor and consultant for complex change.
Mary Beth draws on her experience and learning from 30 years of progressive international leadership at Colgate Palmolive. She has lived and worked in New York, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, and New Zealand and understands the complex dynamics of leading an organization on the ground as Managing Director and also leading from the centre as a senior global corporate executive. During her tenure in Brazil, she was instrumental in Colgate’s single largest acquisition to date - the US $1 billion acquisition of Kolynos do Brasil, catapulting Colgate’s market share in oral care from 25% to 80%.At a corporate level, she set up Colgate’s Global External Innovation effort as well as a framework for accelerating the company’s Innovation Capabilities. This included the creation and stewardship of cross-functional Action Learning Groups charged with accelerating Colgate’s co-design and product development with external partners. Mary Beth also served as Chair of Colgate’s Global Innovation Fund.
Working with an outside partner, Mary Beth formed and led a global community of 60 facilitators within Colgate’s Global Technology Centers and CICs (Consumer Innovation Centers) to facilitate alignment across functional areas and geographic regions, accelerate delivery of innovation and intellectual
property, and bring more productive focus to creative brainstorming. She provided strategic oversight for business process innovation and systems support for Product Lifecycle Management.
She was the only senior executive trained to co-facilitate Colgate’s corporate change management initiatives. This led to other managers and leaders to step up and partner with HR/People Development to co-facilitate their own transformational change initiatives
Mary Beth joined Cultivating Leadership in 2017 and is a Board Member. Her portfolio of clients includes Google, 3M, Dell Medical, leading financial institutions and government in the U.S., Europe, Oceania, India, China, Singapore and Japan.
Mary Beth holds a BS in Language and Linguistics from Georgetown University, an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Masters in Organisation Development from American University. Her extensive coach training includes The Coaches Training Institute, Organisational Relationship Systems Coaching with CRR Global, and developmental coaching as a Growth Edge Coach with Cultivating Leadership. She is certified in The Leadership Circle, Immunity to Change, Polarity Management, and the Global Leadership Profile (GLP). Mary Beth is a certified Designing Your Life Certified Coach with the Stanford Design Lab, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation and a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. She and her husband Ruben have three adventurous children, and Wellington is home base. An enduring love of travel keeps the family busy and curious about the world.
“Coaching with Rameet has been a truly transformational journey. It started with an introspection into my core values, understanding my purpose in life, and moving my thoughts and actions in a manner that is in alignment with my values. He really helped drill down my core strengths and at the same time astutely helped me identify my “rabbit holes” as I came to call it. Our conversations have been enriching, provided immense clarity and helped break through my negative thought patterns. We continue to work together as I navigate the new role in a multicultural set up and Rameet’s guidance as a coach continues to be on point."
Country Leader, Merchant Banking Multinational
Rameet is driven by deep purpose and a passionate commitment to help leaders, teams and organizations unlock to thrive by unleashing the individual and collective potential. He has worked with leaders, and leadership teams, across organisational life stages from startups to large global firms and non-profit, in India, North America, China and Southeast Asia.
Prior to becoming a coach and co-founding The Core Questin, Rameet spent over 25 years in the corporate sector across advertising, media, retail, consumer products and technology. A highly awarded marketer, business leader and change evangelist, he wears the badges of Change Management, Transformation and Intrapreneurship proudly on his sleeve.
In his last corporate assignment, Rameet was part of the leadership that successfully transformed Hindustan Times (HT Media) into a successful Digital/ Technology Company. His role as a company leader, necessitated managing and facilitating change, innovation and entrepreneurship. Rameet was also the host and curator of the Hindustan Times Brand Leadership Series.
Rameet spent many years nurturing growth at McDonalds India (‘10-’14). He served as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Menu Management . He also served on various regional teams and on the Creative Review Board for APMEA.
Rameet was the founding CMO of Colors, the TV channel in 2008.
Rameet started his career in advertising and was a young achiever - the youngest Account Director globally in the Leo Burnett network in 2000. Over close to a decade, he grew to head the Western operations of the agency and signed off as Sr. Vice President and Director.
In his career Rameet has been awarded multiple times and recognised as a thought-leader. The companies and brands he has worked on have an enviable list of awards and accolades to show. He has been chairperson of the International Echo Award program in Asia, and has served as a Global Faculty (Course Facilitator) for Stanford’s Design thinking program which is also a program he is certified in.
Rameet is now an ICF certified leadership coach and a co-founder at The Core Questin. His credentials include PCC, Deep Transformational Coaching from the Center for Transformational Coaching, Taipei and Positive Intelligence with Dr Sherzad at Stanford, and the Saville system for leaders. Rameet is a globally certified MBTI professional, by the Myers Briggs Company in the USA. He is passionate about helping leaders and teams discover their true potential.
“Shweta is a highly aware, exceptional coach who continuously challenges you to grow yourself and walk the journey to find your purpose. My sessions with Shweta in this ongoing relationship have helped me get into my flow. She has been able to streamline my skills and strengths with my immediate goals in a short span. Shweta also practices what she coaches by living her purpose relentlessly & without fear.”
Marketing Director, FMCG firm
Shweta is passionate about human potential, learning, and diversity. A purpose-driven leader, she is committed to helping leaders and leadership systems unlock and find the power within, in order to build thriving organisations. Shweta has delivered programs with and coached senior leaders and teams in corporates, start-ups, and non-profit organisations (executive teams, founders, CEOs, CXOs, directors, partners) across India, Singapore, China, Europe, UK, US and Canada.
Prior to founding The Core Questin, Shweta has several years’ leadership experience across the consulting, start-up, and non-profit sectors. She was part of the Social Impact Leadership Team at BCG, Director and part of the founding team at The Education Alliance, and a member of the core leadership team that created and scaled XSEED.
Her experience ranges from organizations starting from scratch, to large MNCs, as well as the mammoth scale of the government machinery. She has worked with multiple stakeholders, including corporate executives, senior bureaucrats in the state government and at NITI Aayog, funders and investors, entrepreneurs, and founders.
Early in her career, she worked closely with C-suite executives on issues including strategy, post-merger integration, and resource optimization. Since then, she has supported large-scale change efforts in corporates and the government.
On the other end of the spectrum, she has helped create and grow small organisations from scratch as part of their founding leadership team. She played a role in their strategy, business model, and organisation-building.
Through these diverse experiences, she has developed expertise in strategy, business leadership and the link with people and human potential, change management, building and leading teams and organisations, assessment and learning and Development.
Shweta holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Lady Shri Ram College, a Master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She is a qualified coach with multiple credentials: a PCLC from Coach for Life, USA; a PCC credential from ICF; a certification in Deep Transformational Coaching from the Center for Transformational Coaching; and a certificate in Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (Fundamentals) from CRR Global. Shweta is an avid reader and traveller, and loves learning about new topics. She is currently learning how to play the piano and speak Spanish.
“Shweta is a highly aware, exceptional coach who continuously challenges you to grow yourself and walk the journey to find your purpose. My sessions with Shweta in this ongoing relationship have helped me get into my flow. She has been able to streamline my skills and strengths with my immediate goals in a short span. Shweta also practices what she coaches by living her purpose relentlessly & without fear.”
Marketing Director, FMCG firm
Shweta is passionate about human potential, learning, and diversity. A purpose-driven leader, she is committed to helping leaders and leadership systems unlock and find the power within, in order to build thriving organisations. Shweta has delivered programs with and coached senior leaders and teams in corporates, start-ups, and non-profit organisations (executive teams, founders, CEOs, CXOs, directors, partners) across India, Singapore, China, Europe, UK, US and Canada.
Prior to founding The Core Questin, Shweta has several years’ leadership experience across the consulting, start-up, and non-profit sectors. She was part of the Social Impact Leadership Team at BCG, Director and part of the founding team at The Education Alliance, and a member of the core leadership team that created and scaled XSEED.
Her experience ranges from organizations starting from scratch, to large MNCs, as well as the mammoth scale of the government machinery. She has worked with multiple stakeholders, including corporate executives, senior bureaucrats in the state government and at NITI Aayog, funders and investors, entrepreneurs, and founders.
Early in her career, she worked closely with C-suite executives on issues including strategy, post-merger integration, and resource optimization. Since then, she has supported large-scale change efforts in corporates and the government.
On the other end of the spectrum, she has helped create and grow small organisations from scratch as part of their founding leadership team. She played a role in their strategy, business model, and organisation-building.
Through these diverse experiences, she has developed expertise in strategy, business leadership and the link with people and human potential, change management, building and leading teams and organisations, assessment and learning and Development.
Shweta holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Lady Shri Ram College, a Master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She is a qualified coach with multiple credentials: a PCLC from Coach for Life, USA; a PCC credential from ICF; a certification in Deep Transformational Coaching from the Center for Transformational Coaching; and a certificate in Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (Fundamentals) from CRR Global. Shweta is an avid reader and traveller, and loves learning about new topics. She is currently learning how to play the piano and speak Spanish.
“Mandira’s coaching style has helped me accept & be comfortable with myself and be unabashedly authentic. This helps me trust my instincts better without being anxious and being able to understand and handle the voices in my head. I’ve also come to appreciate my innate strength upon understanding when to respond vs react. I am intentional about the way I want to show up and how I choose to respond to circumstances. It has made me more accepting of consequences and focus on the next growth edge rather than critical self-evaluation. Mandira’s coaching style has been extremely kind and welcoming which definitely helped me trust the process. I am glad I made this choice.”
Partner, Private Equity Fund
Mandira is at her best when accelerating change and growth in people, teams and organisations through the practice of conscious leadership. At her core, she believes in partnering with individuals and organisations to create and develop personal, professional or business goals, followed by a deep dive approach to support them to carry out a strategy to achieve those goals.
In her coaching practice, she has worked with CEOs, senior executives, entrepreneurs, senior leaders making purposeful career transitions, and young high-potential achievers across India, Europe, and the US. These leaders represent the corporate sector, purpose-driven companies, social impact and non-profit, and those in helping professions (doctors/public health specialists).
Mandira brings 20+ years of experience as a senior leader in the area of public policy and social impact. She spent more than a decade at PRS Legislative Research, an independent non-partisan research company as part of the core leadership team. She started her career at Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore as part of their founding team.
Mandira was seminal in growing PRS from a start-up to a highly differentiated and renowned organisation in the public policy industry.
She steered strategic leadership in its growth stage by conceptualising initiatives that kept the brand alive and relevant in order to scale the business and amplify impact. She equally invested in developing leadership at the firm and enjoyed embodying a 'Leader-as-Coach' mindset in leading, developing and mentoring diverse and cross-functional teams.
In her career she has been incredibly successful in building relationships across a spectrum of diverse stakeholders such as legislators, corporate leaders, philanthropists, bureaucrats, journalists, judges on strategic public policy matters.
She is a certified Growth Edge Coach, Leadership Circle Profile TM Coach and also holds a PCC credential from ICF. She also serves as a pro bono Executive Coach for The Women's Impact Alliance, USA, and the Cartier Women's Initiative.
