Lead your path — with clarity, confidence, and intention
“I work with mid to senior professionals—especially high-performing women leaders—who are navigating leadership transitions or career crossroads and want to move forward with clarity and intention.”
Is this where you are right now?
You may be here if you’re successful on paper but questioning what comes next.
Feeling Stuck Despite Success
On the surface, things are going well. But internally, you feel restless, unclear, or disconnected from what you’re working towards.
At a Leadership Crossroads
You’re stepping into a bigger role or considering a change, but you’re unsure how to navigate expectations, identity, and what growth truly means for you.
Carrying Invisible Pressure
You’re used to performing and delivering, yet the internal pressure, self-doubt, or constant second-guessing is becoming harder to ignore.
Coaching Services
Focused, confidential coaching designed to support clarity, growth, and conscious leadership.
Leadership Coaching
Strengthen executive presence, confidence, and decision-making in complex environments.
Who it’s for
For leaders navigating increased responsibility and influence.
Career Clarity & Transitions
Navigate “what’s next” moments with confidence and direction.
Who it’s for
For professionals at a career crossroads or inflection point.
Women in Leadership Coaching
Support for high-performing women navigating growth, visibility, and self-belief.
Who it’s for
For women stepping into leadership or expanded roles.
The Lead Your Path Approach
My coaching is reflective, structured, and client-led. I don’t give advice or quick fixes. I partner with you to create awareness, uncover insight, and turn clarity into intentional action.
Deep listening & powerful questions
I create space for reflection through deep listening and thoughtful questioning, helping you surface insight rather than receive advice or quick fixes.
Ethical, ICF-aligned coaching
My coaching is grounded in ICF ethics and competencies, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and a client-led process at every stage.
Real-world leadership context
With 17+ years of leadership experience, I understand the realities of complex roles, competing priorities, and high-stakes decisions.
client testimonials
I have been working with Swagata for the last year or so and she is extremely empathetic & professional in her coaching style. Sessions with her have been very helpful and thought provoking for me as i was going thru professional challenges. Every session with her has given me clarity and a way forward. She has not just been a coach but also a well wisher and has become a friend for life. With a deep understanding of her domain and her experience she will be bring relevant insights to the coaching journey and get the desired results
As a life and executive coach, I have worked with and observed many professionals in this space. Swagata truly stands apart . During a particularly challenging phase of my life, her calm presence, integrity and deep compassion created a space of absolute trust and safety. She allowed me to reflect without judgment, urgency or direction. Swagata does not attempt to “fix” you. Through attentive listening, powerful questions, and quiet steadiness, she enables you to rediscover your own clarity, strength and purpose.
Swagata embodies coaching at its highest standard. During one of the most difficult periods of my life, she supported me with deep presence, integrity, and compassion. She created a space that felt safe and grounding, allowing me to process heavy emotions without judgment or pressure. She didn’t try to fix or direct me. Instead, through deep listening, thoughtful questions, and calm steadiness, she helped me reconnect with my own clarity and inner strength. Swagata doesn’t just understand coaching principles.
Meet Your Coach
I’m Swagata Palharya, an ICF ACC–certified Leadership and Life Coach. After spending over 17 years in senior corporate roles, I experienced firsthand how powerful it can be to pause, reflect, and think differently.
Coaching Engagements
Coaching is offered through structured engagements designed around your goals and context.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
Ongoing coaching engagements that support leaders navigating complexity, growth, and increased responsibility over time.
Career Clarity Engagements
Time-bound coaching engagements focused on career decisions, transitions, or moments that require deeper clarity and direction.
Short-term Focused Sessions
A limited number of focused sessions to explore a specific challenge, decision, or leadership moment.
Insights & Reflections
Thoughts on leadership, growth, self-belief, and navigating change—drawn from coaching and lived experience.
Leadership · Sales · Emotional Containment
Leadership responsibility under pressure
“In sales leadership, pressure is inevitable — but how it is carried determines whether it strengthens performance or silently destabilizes it.”
Leadership · Sales · Support
What Sales Taught me About Asking for Support
“Sales is rarely a solo act — it’s a collective performance, whether we acknowledge it or not.”
When High Performers Carry Too Much Alone
Sales is often described as a people-facing profession.
It lives internally — in how responsibility is processed, how outcomes are interpreted, and how belief is managed when things don’t move as expected.
Start a Conversation
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
A thoughtful conversation is often the best place to begin.
