I'm Vishal. I'm not a coach — I teach a method.

I took to writing and public speaking as a teenager, and built my career in brand strategy. Over fifteen-plus years I defined global strategies for Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, Danone and others. What I was really doing was helping brands distil the essential narrative that shaped aligned communication and execution.

During my MBA I found my second calling: helping individuals navigate career transitions by reframing their career narratives. I moved into executive education as a visiting lecturer, and have since guided 3,600+ transitions through a scalable process delivered at LBS, IMD, HEC Paris, IESE, Esade, ESMT Berlin, SDA Bocconi and Warwick.

Alongside it, I pursued my own education in screenplay writing, speech writing, and above all mythology. I found that stories are tools for living better lives, not just telling taller tales. I dove into career psychology, narrative psychology, authorship, depth psychology and flourishing to test that hypothesis — and it held.

I saw how much of the knowledge and process from the research is absent from the wider careers discourse. Coaching, for all its righteous intent, is revealing its edges. In an era of meaning crisis — after the breakdown of the mythic worldview — teachable meta-skills are vital, so we can build meaning and identity in our own lives.