Hi! I'm Amit

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I am a Trained and Certified Life Coach and Leadership Mentor. 

I am a corporate dropout and a solopreneur who found his life’s purpose in transformation and spiritual life coaching. 

You would have found the old me working hard, long hours, consumed by the 'busyness' of upgrading my lifestyle. Starting my career in '92, I climbed the corporate ladder rather rapidly, finding myself in top leadership positions at a relatively young age in business development, and marketing. (To know more read the section below, or the LinkedIn.)

“Every transformation demands as its precondition ‘the ending of a world’—the collapse of an old philosophy of life.” — C.G. Jung

After a couple of decades of dream runs, in '2010 I suddenly was fired from a company, in which I fancied being indispensable. Even though I got a great job quickly, that was better paying and less stressful, I found myself questioning my old life. 

“I’ve never heard of anybody who awakens in their comfort zone.” — Eckhart Tolle.

Getting fired when I thought I was at the top of my game, created what can be best described as an existential crisis. Life goals had been all-important, now seemed shallow. My new job was failing to provide me value beyond making me richer and seem successful. I no longer felt as thirsty for social acknowledgement. I was looking for something more. 

“I wanted more than a job. I wanted deeper congruence between my inner and outer life.” — Parker J. Palmer

There were no obvious alternate careers or a different way to live. 

You see, I had taken the path that everyone I knew was walking— go to school, get a job, then get a better job that pays more. (Earn more, spend more, repeat!) I'd always heard and felt that money didn't buy happiness. Now I was discovering it firsthand.

Eckhart Tolle says “Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they may feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no man's land between two worlds.” 

I felt uninspired and disengaged. I didn't feel connected with my job or with my colleagues. I just didn't belong. I felt there had to be some point or meaning to my work and life.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell talks of a “divine discontent”—a gap that we sense between "what we are (and) what we have the power to become.” 

My crisis was the beginning of the end of my glorification of busyness and unconscious consumption—and the beginning of my awakening to a more intentional living.

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” — Joseph Campbell

Ultimately, in 2015 I quit my two-and-a-half-decade-long corporate career to pursue conscious entrepreneurship in coaching. Since then, I have trained with some of the greatest masters in this work. I've had the honour of coaching hundreds of professionals, business leaders and senior coaches on their quest for life fulfilment through rewarding careers and holistic lives. I’ve pursued an intentional and conscious downshifting to a slower and simpler yet purposeful and abundant life, aiming for a deep sense of spiritual fulfilment.

It is delightful to see how rewarding this kind of work can be. I focus on my inner growth, deep healing, self-development and spiritual congruence and my clients feel benefited from my growing inner quietude.

So if my story inspires you, I'd be thrilled to connect with you and explore how heart-centred transformational coaching can serve you. 

Please write to me at amitanandsood@gmail.com