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Yatish Chandrasekhar is an ICF certified life, leadership and executive coach and a coach mentor. He is the founder of The Yogi Compass and facilitates leadership development for individuals, leaders and Organizations through one-on-one coaching and mentoring and group coaching and facilitation.

Yatish is an alumnus of the University of Mysore and Asian Institute of Management, Manila, The Philippines; and has played entrepreneurial and leadership roles in MNCs and established many start-ups in the learning and people development space.

Yatish has over 28 years’ experience in start-ups; small and medium businesses and large MNCs in the areas of Strategy, Operations, Consulting and Learning & Development. Yatish has trained over 1000 people managers and has over 750 hours of professional coaching experience.  He has directed large-scale capability building and upskilling projects impacting over 20,000 people annually; managing over 50 L&D professionals.  He is exposed to working with and managing cross-cultural teams from India, South-east Asia, Middle East and Europe.

Yatish learnt his life and business lessons while apprenticing under his father during his teens.  He is deeply influenced and inspired by Swami Chinmayananda ji and his teachings on the Bhagavad Geeta and the Upanishads.  Yatish played pivotal roles as a youth leader in organising and managing cultural and educational events for youth.  Yatish has also been a social activist in the pre-twitter and facebook era.