Please join me in welcoming Mohan to our Circle of Love as an RYD Coach 💜

He joins Project Socrates with Centre for Coaching Excellence™ (CCE), a Channel of Impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, as his structure of success for his coaching, training and development to become one of the world's best coaches — the commitment with which CCE has been set up. CCE is designed to be an ongoing school for RYD Coaches, with each coach receiving 10 hours of weekly training inside of that commitment.

Here's a bit more about him, in his own words:

My name is Subbaraman Mohan Neelakantan, generally referred to as ‘Mohan’. I stay in an Eastern suburb of Mumbai – Chembur. I have 7 members in my family – Two sons and daughters-in-law, a grandson, wife and myself.

I am a seasoned global technology and transformation leader with over four decades of experience across large-scale IT operations, governance, technology delivery and organisational transformation. I have held senior leadership roles with HSBC, and Edelweiss,  leading large, multicultural teams and complex global transformations, including building and integrating offshore capabilities. I am also an ICF-certified leadership and personal success coach, working with senior leaders on leadership development, career transitions, transformational journeys and business outcomes. 

My hobbies and interests are travel, and curiosity about our culture and heritage, time with the family, learning & personal development, watching cricket and spirituality. 

I am passionate about people, learning, leadership and making a meaningful difference, particularly converting my experience and wisdom into contribution.

I want to bring together business success, personal fulfilment, meaningful relationships, health, financial freedom, purpose and contribution into one integrated vision for my life.

I am curious about what I will discover about myself — particularly the beliefs, fears and patterns that may have served me well in the past but could now be limiting what I am capable of creating.

Please join me in welcoming Manasi Kapur to our Circle of Love as an RYD Coach 💜

She joins Project Socrates with Centre for Coaching Excellence™ (CCE), a Channel of Impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, as her structure of success for her coaching, training and development to become one of the world's best coaches — the commitment with which CCE has been set up. CCE is designed to be an ongoing school for RYD Coaches, with each coach receiving 10 hours of weekly training inside of that commitment.

Here's a bit more about her, in her own words:

I am Manasi. I stay in Gurgaon. We are a family of four - me, my husband and our two daughters. I have worked in diverse industries across different countries in recruitment, real estate, education and IT.

My hobbies include cooking, trying new recipes and travelling. I am passionate about saving the environment and I try to do my bit by saying no to plastic, saving fuel by carpooling or using public transport, saving electricity and recycling stuff as much as possible.

I am joining RYD gym because somewhere down the line I felt that I was not getting that fulfilment or satisfaction from my job and I wanted to do something which would create a difference in someone's life. That's my way of showing gratitude and giving back to society.

I am feeling excited, happy and I am looking forward to this journey from good to great.

Please join me in welcoming Rehana Vaz to our Circle of Love as an RYD Coach 💜

She joins Project Socrates with Centre for Coaching Excellence™ (CCE), a Channel of Impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, as her structure of success for her coaching, training and development to become one of the world's best coaches — the commitment with which CCE has been set up. CCE is designed to be an ongoing school for RYD Coaches, with each coach receiving 10 hours of weekly training inside of that commitment.

Here's a bit more about her, in her own words:

​Hi, I am Rehana Vaz and we have just moved to Goa.

I have been away from India for 33 years. We lived in Thailand (4 yrs), Singapore (1 yr) and Jakarta, Indonesia for 28 yrs.

My husband and I now live in Goa. Our son, Michael, studied at HKUST (Hong Kong) and is now working there. Our daughter, Kaitlin, studied at University of Manchester and is now working in Manchester.

I have been in the field of academia, I have been lecturing for 20 years (Thailand and Indonesia). In Indonesia, I was also part of the University Counsellor Team as well.

I am an Accredited EFT Practitioner with EFT International, I am also an Akashic Record Reader. Learning and sharing knowledge are at the heart of who I am, both personally and professionally. I also like reading fiction.

RYD Gym aligns with my passion for learning and growing as well as helping others grow to be the best that they can be.

I am excited to be on this journey with RYD. I know its going to be challenging but I am looking forward to it.

Please join me in welcoming Mukta Pant to our RYD family 💜

I am happy and grateful to share that we are ready to nurture our next group of RYD Coaches. Mukta is among the first of them.

She joins Project Socrates with Centre for Coaching Excellence™ (CCE), a Channel of Impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, as her structure of success for her coaching, training and development to become one of the world's best coaches — the commitment with which CCE has been set up. CCE is designed to be an ongoing school for RYD Coaches, with each coach receiving 8 hours of weekly training inside of that commitment.

Here's a bit more about her, in her own words:

Hi, I am Mukta Pant. I divide my time between Dehradun, Uttarakhand, and Pune, Maharashtra. I live with my mother and sister. Family has always been at the heart of my life. My sister-in-law and my two nephews are also an important part of our close-knit family. One has recently joined Reliance Global Security, while the younger one is in Class XII. Our family also includes Yash, who has been with us since he was five years old. Today, he is an F&B Manager with Taj, and watching him grow into the wonderful young man he is today has been one of our family's greatest joys.

I have over 25 years of leadership experience in Facilities, Administration and Corporate Real Estate across IT, manufacturing, hospitality and the automobile sector, including Wipro, EXL, Ford and Sudarshan Chemical Industries. In recent years, my journey has expanded into mentoring, counselling, guided breathing and social work, making this transition into coaching feel like a natural next step.

Outside work, I enjoy travelling, trekking, walking in nature and cooking. I also enjoy stepping outside my comfort zone and trying experiences that help me grow.

I like to help people pause, reflect and look at their situations with greater clarity, so they can make thoughtful choices and move forward with confidence.

This feels like the right stage in my life to begin a new chapter. After years of leading organisations and, more recently, working closely with people through mentoring, counselling and guided breathing, I am looking forward to developing myself as a coach.

I am feeling excited, curious and ready for this new chapter. I know there will be learnings, challenges and moments of self-discovery along the way, and I am looking forward to embracing the journey with an open mind.

I have always enjoyed embracing new experiences and growth. I believe every stage of life has something new to teach us, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue this journey with all of you, with curiosity and an open mind

Mukta, your passion for learning, your willingness to keep stepping outside your comfort zone for growth, and your purpose to make a massive difference through coaching inspire me to coach you to be the best in the world. I believe in you.

I look forward to partnering with you to achieve our shared BHAG and fulfil our shared Purpose, while living our shared Values.

Alongside that, holding your space for you to progress on your journey — to lead yourself, your health, your relationships and your coachees from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.
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Loving you,
j.

Please join me in welcoming Lalit Yagnik to our RYD family 💜

I am delighted to share that Lalit Yagnik has accepted my invitation to become part of our RYD Circle of Love. Lalit was my partner from IBM during my American Express days, when I led global technology projects there — and more recently, he joined our community as an AI Mentor, leading a deep-dive at our Meet the Mentor EXPAND Event in April 2026. We have known each other for about 20 years now.

​He joins us as RYD Chief AI Officer and Resident AI Mentor for our coachees for them to lead their businesses from good to great with greater ease, grace and velocity.

While RYD Coaches are what we will now call Horizontal Have It All Coaches, Lalit joins us as a Vertical Specialist Mentor for AI.

He joins Project Socrates with Centre for Coaching Excellence™, a Channel of Impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, as his structure of success for his ongoing good to great journey.

Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal to nurture Fortune Global 100, Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000 businesses requires us to become AI-native — making a Resident AI Mentor and Chief AI Officer critical to our team.

Lalit serves as a mentor to enterprises for "making Responsible AI happen" — helping leaders move beyond hype to real, measurable business outcomes. With nearly five decades as a global AI-Data-IT practitioner and mentor — including 20 years in senior leadership roles at IBM across Australia, Singapore, ASEAN, India and APAC — he has led large-scale digital transformation initiatives for both enterprises and start-ups, including American Express and unicorns like Purplle.

He brings a rare combination of deep technology expertise, business process understanding, and leadership insight — making him a trusted advisor to CXOs navigating transformation in today's rapidly evolving landscape.

Recognised by AICTE as one of twenty-seven Distinguished Professionals, appointed to promote innovation across 4,000+ AICTE-approved technology and business institutions, Lalit has worked closely with government bodies, industry leaders, and start-ups to drive innovation at scale. He was also the Founding Chairman of HITEC (Haryana IT Confederation), recognised as a key enabler in transforming Gurgaon from an emerging technology village into a global IT hub. His current work focuses on enabling organisations and institutions to adopt data, AI, and immersive technologies in practical, high-impact ways.

His dream is to lead India to be at the forefront of AI, enabling our country and the world to be fully developed, beautiful, green, happy and prosperous — making him a natural fit within RYD.

Here's a bit more about him, in his own words:

Hi, I am Lalit Yagnik. I stay distributed across Gurgaon, Singapore and Melbourne.

I have been an AI-Data-IT Practitioner and Mentor for the past 5 decades globally, after a two-year M.Tech in Computer Science from BITS Pilani. I feel grateful and proud to have been selected for the first-ever formal Computer Science degree in India.

My interests include reading across varied topics (mostly digitally), the gym, running, squash, and sharing my learnings.

I am passionate about becoming a change agent — to make a better world faster with emerging technologies. The bigger the lever I can be for leaders, supporting them to grow their businesses, the greater the joy and fulfilment I experience through my work.

I am inspired to create a massive positive impact by unleashing the hidden potential of India's human talent for the world.

I wish to be the biggest lever for the leaders whose eyes shine brightly about making the biggest positive impact — as AI can help realize their dreams with greater velocity.

I am joining Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™ as RYD Chief AI Officer and Resident AI Mentor for the businesses RYD is coaching, to accelerate them on their good to great journey — because I value RYD's vision. I feel I can serve as a lever to RYD and RYD Coachees by enabling them to become global leaders through AI. This is a very possible dream, if AI is applied wisely.

I am feeling joy, passion, optimism and enthusiasm as I start my RYD Good to Great journey.

Keep going, RYD Family, on your journey to become global great leaders by creating global great businesses from India.

Please join me in welcoming Peeyush Khare to his RYD Year 2 💜

He continues with Centre for Personal Excellence™, a Channel of Impact within Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, with Vimla Dorairaju as the wind beneath his wings and RYD as his structure of success for his ongoing good to great journey.

Here's a bit about him in his own words:
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I live in Mumbai with my wife Mitali, our 2 lovely daughters – Adah (11) and Adira (8) – and both my parents.

I work with a UAE-headquartered bank, looking after their debt origination business in India within the investment bank. I love watching and playing cricket, and tennis (recently acquired skill), reading stories to my kids and chatting with my select close friends.

I am passionate about starting our own venture / foundation to create an ecosystem for helping kids (especially kids with cerebral palsy) with special needs get access to better therapy and for their parents to get counselling, and financial and emotional support. This passion is inspired by Mitali's and my journey with our daughter Adah, who has cerebral palsy. 

My Year 1 with RYD was highly rewarding — in terms of getting to know more about myself and my fears, finding mental clarity, and working through all the Leadership Depth aspects.

The one thing that has made a key difference to me has been re-acquiring the reading habit, growth habits and meditation / yoga. I have hardly skipped my daily meditation in the last year.

I look forward to my Year 2 at RYD and working with Vimla with the focus on consolidating Leadership Depth aspects and Business Excellence for my business at work as well as our venture. 

I also look forward to connecting more with my friends and co-travellers at RYD.

Peeyush, your passion and purpose to build an ecosystem for children with special needs and their parents deeply touches, moves and inspires me. I believe you and Mitali will transform our country's care system for Adah, for children with special needs and their parents, to be the best in the world.

Holding your space for you to progress on your journey to lead yourself, your health, your kids, your relationships, your team members and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.
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Loving you,
​j.

Please join me in welcoming Bikash Kejariwal to our RYD family 💜

He joins Centre for Personal Excellence™, a channel of impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, with Vimla Dorairaju as the wind beneath his wings and RYD as his structure of success for his good to great journey.

He stays in Bangalore with his mother, his wife Meenakshi and their son Aarush. He has over 25 years of experience in finance, accounting and auditing, with expertise in financial management, compliance, budgeting, reporting, and business operations. He is Head of Finance with Sonal (earlier SAPL Industries).

I am delighted to have Bikash join Pratik on the RYD Good to Great journey, making Team Sonal stronger, for the two of them to co-lead the business from good to great with greater ease, grace and velocity.

Here's a bit more about him in his own words:

I enjoy playing badminton, discovering new things, and continuously learning. I am passionate about personal growth, exploring new opportunities, and staying updated with developments in business, technology, and the world around me.

I am joining RYD Gym to strengthen my leadership skills, expand my knowledge, and continue growing both personally and professionally.
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I feel excited, inspired, and eager to begin this journey. I am looking forward to learning, growing, discovering new possibilities, and becoming better in both my professional and personal life.

Please join me in welcoming Pooja Dawar to her RYD Year 2 💜

She continues with Centre for Personal Excellence™, a channel of impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, with Anju Chowla as the wind beneath her wings and RYD as her structure of success for her ongoing good to great journey.

She stays in Delhi with her husband Narendra and her mom. She is a marketing professional with diverse experience across consumer healthcare, baby care and Ayurveda. Her hobbies include Kathak, gardening and watching TV. She took up Kathak last year to fulfil her childhood aspiration, and it has helped her not just to come out of her comfort zone but also to overcome her stage fright. Additionally, nurturing her plants brings her a lot of joy and makes her feel relaxed.

Here's a bit more about her in her own words:

My Year 1 with RYD was a year of self-awareness and self-discovery. The deep-dives with my coach, Anju, and her practice of putting a hypothesis on the table for me to test have helped me reflect deeply and uncover my fears. When I joined RYD last year, I felt stuck in my career and didn't know how to move forward. With RYD, I have learned to DREAM and broaden my horizons. Not just that, I have begun to transform from a hesitant professional to someone who creates opportunities for herself. I have also realized the importance of all the five areas of my wheel of life. Earlier, I was just focused on one, while today, I want to nurture all five.
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In the last 1-2 months, I have experienced certain shifts within that have strengthened my trust in the universe and in the process of life. As I step into my second year of RYD, I feel happy, grateful and motivated to create further shifts within myself and create positive outcomes by consistently practising my growth habits, working on my craft mastery and leadership depth, and taking action to have it all.

Please join me in welcoming Sravanya Rao Pittie to her RYD Year 2 💜
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She continues with Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence™, a channel of impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, with Anju Chowla as the wind beneath her wings and RYD as her structure of success for her ongoing good to great journey.

She lives in Mumbai with her husband Aditya, daughter Ishara, son Veerpratap and their dog Ziggy. She is a tableware designer and art curator trained at the Inchbald School of Design, London, and NYU Stern. Founder of Sokka Design Studio, she has designed high-end residences and curated the art programme for Mumbai's Domestic Airport Terminal 1A. A Founding Cultural Ambassador of Asia Society India, her content on art and architecture has garnered over 2.2 million views. She founded Sokka Tableware, a vegan tableware brand that brings a practitioner's eye to the conversation around art, design, and cultural patronage.

Here's a bit more about her in her own words:

I am passionate about History, Art, India, Dance, Music and creating value. In my RYD Year 1, the following made the biggest difference to me:
1. We implemented processes instead of being person dependent. This has streamlined many things for Sokka.
2. I set intentions and believed things to be the way I intended them to be.
3. Daily huddle, weekly meetings, being present early for the meetings.
4. I understood my financials and we moved to Zoho.
5. The learning mindset has given me fuel to go from good to great.

​The learnings of Year 1 have me eager to see what Year 2 will bring. I am feeling excited and charged about journeying into my RYD Year 2. I feel grateful for all that I have learnt and how my mentors and community have supported me during this time. I feel abundant with this support.

Holding your space, Sravanya, for you to progress on your journey to lead yourself, your health, your kids, your people and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.
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Loving you,
​j.

Please join me in welcoming Pratik Agarwal to his RYD Year 3 💜

He continues with Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence™, a channel of impact of Realize Your Dreams Gym for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery™, with Vimla Dorairaju as the wind beneath his wings and RYD as his structure of success for his ongoing good to great journey.

He has chosen to step into the RYD 2026 version of the journey, even though the earlier version was available to him under RYD Protection. He is also bringing his #2 — Bikash Kejariwal — onto the RYD Good to Great journey.

The 2026 version significantly strengthens our ability to deliver on our brand promise — lead your business from good to great — and his #2 joining strengthens it further still. As per the new format, their Business Excellence journey's in-person Kick-off is scheduled for June 2026 with the key leaders, creating alignment at the top — which is half the game won. This is a breakthrough moment for our community, as it brings us all one more step forward in the direction of our shared BHAG.

Here's a bit about Pratik in his own words:

I stay in Mumbai with my wife, Rachita, who is also part of our RYD community, and our 2 adorable kids — Tara, who is 8, and Arjun, who is 6.

I work at Sonal (SAPL Industries), our family business. We design and manufacture garments for global fashion brands. Prior to this, I've built a fitness startup and also spent 9+ years in private equity.

I love sports. I currently play a lot of padel. I enjoy travel and spending time with my family. I've also developed a passion for learning and applying AI in my daily life and work.

My RYD Year 2 was about re-entering my family business with enthusiasm and purpose to take it to the next level. I sold my startup and started a new phase of growth in my career and also in my health.

Year 3 for me is about accelerated growth and making a massive difference to my business by being a peaceful warrior leader who inspires and unites our team to co-create success with transparency and accountability. I am feeling enthusiastic, happy and grateful about progressing to Year 3 on my RYD Good to Great journey.

I am looking forward to interacting more with everyone in the community.

Holding your space, Pratik, for you to progress on your journey to lead yourself, your health, your kids, your people and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

​Loving you,
j.