Ram Gopalan | Co-Founder, Simply.Coach

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