Ram Gopalan
Co-Founder, Simply.Coach
Experience: Coaching since 2012, 2,500+ hours logged
Ram Gopalan has coached leaders since 2012 and has logged more than 5,000 hours with C-suite executives, founders and senior leaders in technology and consulting. He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a certified Hogan and EQ-i 2.0 assessor, and runs his own practice, Positivista Coaching LLP, alongside Simply.Coach. Before coaching he was Vice President and Country Manager at Publicis Sapient. He writes from his own client work – how he structures a session, sets goals with a sponsor in the room, and debriefs an assessment without over-claiming what it says. He rides the trails of southern India at weekends.

Expertise
- Coaching session design
- Goal setting and action planning
- Stakeholder-centred coaching
- Hogan assessment
- EQ-i 2.0
- DISC and MBTI
- GROW and coaching models
- ICF credentialing routes
- Group coaching
Credentials
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Certified Hogan Assessor
- Certified EQ-i 2.0 Assessor, Multi-Health Systems
- Certified Global Leader of the Future Assessor, Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching
- Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach
- Certified Action Learning Coach, World Institute of Action Learning
- Tiny Habits Certified Coach
- TypeCoach Certified Professional
- MBA, IIM Ahmedabad; B.Pharm (Hons), BITS Pilani
Recognition
Named among India’s Most Talented Coaching Leaders by CHRO Asia, 2017
Articles by Ram Gopalan
February 18, 2026
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