I had entrusted Aniruddha Ganguly with some very large & complex responsibilities in GMR during his 10 years in the Group (2009 – 2019). He led several Group functions with tremendous success – Group Strategy & ERM, Business Excellence, HR, Management Assurance & Audit, Ethics & Integrity, Facilities Management and Corporate Communications. He worked with me closely all these years and proved to be an institutional member with high level of integrity & honesty, with sharp focus on business outcome, upholding Group Values at all times. He earned our affection and respect for his highly effective leadership with human touch.

Aniruddha possesses the most important skill a coach can have. He is a superb listener. We have all had the experience of speaking to someone and getting the strong sense that all they are doing is waiting to talk next. Aniruddha listened intensely in each of our sessions before reflecting back what he had heard. Active listening is not easy, takes patience and focus. Aniruddha is well versed in theory and tools to help his clients move quickly towards their goals. In Aniruddha you will find a coach who is not only talented, but incredibly kind.

Aniruddha Ganguly has a very progressive outlook and takes a long term, sustainable view of situations, people, relationships, business and life. I have worked closely with him for several years and admired his values and principled leadership in top management roles. A very seasoned professional, his versatile, deep and wide experience straddles business leadership, technology, HR, coaching and institution building. He brings very high standards to whatever he does or leads. He is friendly, fair, persuasive and dependable. He will do a remarkable job as a leadership coach and senior advisor to corporate organisations and family business.

Aniruddha is a great coach. Using his coaching skills, he was able to help me obtain key insights into my situations that proved invaluable. He has a way to work with and helped me in my road to self-discovery. He also could bring in additional resources and tools to help me. I recommend him in the highest terms possible.

Aniruddha is a thoroughbred professional with a deep sense of fair play and conviction. I have known him for the past ten years and found him to display a flair for challenging and supporting talent. He took keen interest in the development of people and graduated himself to becoming an executive coach and strategic consultant. He recognises that coaching is a creative process wherein the client is encouraged to seek an uplifting experience both personally and professionally. He is highly ethical. He has the capacity to establish connections with people.

Business reviews are a key element in the success of any business. Aniruddha’s business reviews were of a high standard, combined with task-orientation, people-orientation, focusing on future and process-centric. He led GMR Group Human Resources with a great passion and lifted it to high level of strategic orientation, including formal job evaluation, flattening the Group organization structure. He was admired for his Vision, Knowledge and Wisdom. His ready laughter and sense of humor endeared him to many. He was a fine Brand Ambassador of GMR Group.

Aniruddha cuts through the maze and haze to bring clarity to the core aspects which matter to an individual for lending a credible direction. He glides effortlessly with you lending comfort without compromising the goals of coaching interactions. I am pleased to have chosen Aniruddha when I needed to.

I remember Aniruddha, as part of our top management, supporting me by leading some very challenging initiatives in the Energy vertical of GMR. He established enterprise risk management that helped in raising our quality of critical business decisions. He also led a large & complex task of organization re-design, development and manpower rationalization. On another occasion he led the difficult initiative of relocating our entire Energy Corporate from Bangalore to Delhi very smoothly, without business discontinuity. We relied on him for his thorough planning, mature leadership and efficient execution, always with the best interest of GMR at heart.

I had the opportunity to be coached by Aniruddha while I was transitioning from corporate to being an entrepreneur. It was a sheer co-incidence that I was introduced to him and he helped me in the transition phase immensely. The coaching assignment helped me in fixing my goals and to put together a plan with clarity. This surely helped me on a great start. Aniruddha is vastly experienced, actively listens and asks the right questions that encourages you to think differently and reach a conclusion yourself.

Aniruddha, as a key member of our top management, showed his mature leadership in supporting me with the building of GMR Group’s new state-of-the-art centralized shared services centre in Hyderabad. As a next step, he took up the highly challenging work of ramping down and shutting down our existing Bangalore centre, ramping up our new Hyderabad centre, while maintaining 100% business continuity, and ensured operational stabilization of the Hyderabad centre. Aniruddha’s ability to think ahead, plan strategically, lead his team with human touch and execute with eye for detail, were admirable.

If you want to learn about leadership, you need to talk to Aniruddha. I have had more than 10 coaching sessions with Aniruddha in which we explored ways I can take my leadership skills to the next level. Being certified to perform various assessments, Aniruddha supported me with warmth, empathy and a very deep knowledge about emotional intelligence.

Aniruddha was a high performer while he represented the Values of GMR Group. He was instrumental in hiring a large majority of top talent in leadership positions. The patience and firmness that he brought to the talent review and succession planning for the entire top leadership team was a huge accomplishment. During his 10 years with GMR Group, he handled several challenging roles with tremendous maturity and contributed to a wide variety of mission-critical initiatives during these years as an institutional member.

Coming at a very opportune time of my career, my coaching with Mr Aniruddha Ganguly has helped me fully prepare for a higher role in my organization. I was not only able to identify the strength and weaknesses but work on them assiduously and measure the change. The subtle ways in which he was able to develop my potential was remarkable. The recognition that lasting change happens when I can bring about the change in my ‘being/feelings’ has been the biggest takeaway for me.