## About Us

###### Centre of Strategic Mindset

## Who we are

We are a full-spectrum Growth and Transformation organization, with a mission to groom Strategic Minds, who can deliver Bold Business impact. We are a team of passionate professionals, driven by purpose, inspired by creative dissatisfaction; enthused by excellence and steered by ethics and integrity. For us, creativity, originality, and passion are three intrinsic motivators to be customer centric as well as customer relevant.

Centre of Strategic Mindset (COSM) is an ideology where the focus is on long-term and bold impact.

##### About COSM

### What we do

We enable individuals and organizations identify ‘Growth Possibilities’, visualize ‘Future’, strategize their ‘Vision’, develop ‘Strategic Capabilities’ and realize their ‘Potential’ in a robust manner, through Talent, Thinking and Innovation.

Our most conspicuous pursuits fall under following categories:

- Strategy & Culture
- Leadership Development
- Executive Coaching
- Design Thinking & Innovation
- Purpose & Transformation
- Mindfulness & Well-Being

#### Why Should we Exist

### We exist for Leadership, Change and Future through our Ideas, Inspiration, and Impact.

### Why should Customer Care for Us

Customer should care for us for our thought leadership, professionalism, commitment and deep impact. We put our skin in the game to ensure that the clients’ promise turns into intended outcomes. We can always be counted upon for Trust as well as the Results.

## Our Edge

##### In this increasingly commoditized world, retaining our niche is a continuous pursuit. COSM takes pride in creating, maintaining and retaining its edge through following levers.

##### COSM's Edge

### What differentiates us

##### Leadership Development Journey

### Nine Nuances of Leadership Development Journey

#### Art & Science of Professional Development & Personal Growth

## Our Ideology & Philosophy

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###### COSM is born out of a prolonged tryst with the challenges and experience of developing more than 10500 leaders across industries and context, that led to exploration of following questions:

- Why some organization become ‘built to last’, and others lose their way, enroute?
- Why some leaders are able to create an impact far beyond measure?
- What inspired and enabled them to think in a non-linear and exponential manner?
- What made their pursuits so relentless and decisive?
- What was their pattern of thinking and discipline of implementing?
- What were those stimuli that influenced leaders to change their thinking and the impact they could create?
- Is there a teachable pattern or a replicable algorithm that could transform potential leaders into strategic minds?
- What is the art and science of developing leaders, reinventing organization and repurposing future that can be taken to a larger audience in a global context?

###### The collective critical experiences from above pursuits led to three ‘Insights’, considered largely responsible for COSM’s ideology and Philosophy:

- Leaders are largely made, and a structured development process is as relevant today, as it was in ancient times.
- Ambition can be stoked significantly, and assumptions can be challenged actively, through a scientific, structured and intellect-driven examination.
- Context is king and decoding that requires a fair integration of timeless ‘Principles’ with timely ‘Interventions’ for renewal, relevance, and reinvention.

### What We Believe

###### We believe that bold thinking, bi-focal vision, customer centricity; continuous innovation and operational precision are five fundamental pillars of growth and impact. COSM thrives on following core beliefs for its relevance to customers:

- Purpose must remain at the centre as well as the forefront of whatever we do.
- Trust, transparency, and authenticity are the key drivers of any strategic relationship.
- Continuous Learning is the only permanent Competitive Advantage.
- Data is the ‘New Oil’ and Empathy is the ‘New Dollar’.
- No Credit for History – Only Premium for Future.

## What is our Context

We partner with Fortune 500 Clients globally, in envisioning their strategies, facilitating their purpose-discovery, developing leaders, coaching executives, shaping innovation and transforming culture. Whether our clients are multinational giants or entrepreneurial start-ups, our thought leadership, expertise, experiences and beginner’s mindset always come handing in rendering a new leaf of imagination and bold execution. In the past, we have successfully served clients across technology, IT & ITeS, Banking, Pharma & Healthcare, FMCG, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Automotive, Telecom and e-commerce sectors.

## Meet Our Team

### Himanshu Saxena

Founder & CEO

### Poonam Choudhary

Co-Founder

### Sakina Bharmal

Managing Partner

#### Himanshu Saxena

Founder & CEO
“Always be prepared”

Himanshu is among the world’s top 100 coaches http://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/Welcome. He is the Founder & CEO of Center of Strategic Mindset (COSM ™), a Thought Leadership and Consulting organization, focused on advising boards on Strategy, People and Risk. He is a C-Suite Executive Coach who works with Promoters, Boards, CXOs and top leaders in the disciplines of managing strategy, driving execution; implementing Balanced Scorecard and developing top leadership. In the past, he has been the Advisor and Coach in Residence with two leading Pharma businesses.
He is currently consulting a Big 4, a large Indian Global conglomerate, a leading financial company, a chemical company, a logistics company and many more. Prior to COSM, he headed Strategy Alignment, Balanced Scorecard and Leadership Development at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He instituted an integral coaching model based on Eastern & Western Philosophy. At TCS, he was responsible for making Strategy Everyone’sJob, strengthening organic Leadership and driving culture of coaching. He successfully implemented Balanced Scorecard and won TCS the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame Award, for strategy execution. He was also recognized as BSC Professional of the year 2012 by Dr. Robert Kaplan & David Norton. Himanshu was also appointed as the Business Coach for ‘Industry Vertical Heads’ for a Global Innovation Program under Prof Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business. Himanshu’s three most significant organizational pursuits included expanding the ‘Imagination of the Organization’ developing ‘Strategic Thinking’ among Top Leaders’ and enabling ‘Big Picture Envisioning’. Himanshu excels in Scenario Planning, War Gaming and Art of Questioning for future creation. He operates at the intersection of strategy, leadership & coaching, a rare differentiator. He has excellent mindshare with leading management thinkers such as Gary Hamel, Vijay Govindarajan, Marshall Goldsmith, Roger Martin and Joel barker and has co-authored blogs and articles with some of them. With more than 3000 coaching hours with senior leaders, he is a sought-after coach and key-note speaker. He has coached a large number of top leaders, CEOs & MDs of different organizations, globally.
Himanshu has driven multiple and significantly-complex transformation initiatives leading to customer experience. As a change architect, he has the knack of ascertaining the hidden intricacies pertaining to people, processes and systems that impacts the productivity as well as operational excellence. Prior to TCS, Himanshu founded Mavrik Consulting focused on Strategy, Leadership Development & Leading Change. The journey of entrepreneurship was preceded by significant tenures in United Nations International Staff (Chief People Officer in UN, Africa), Armed Forces and a short stint as a Geologist, at the beginning of his career. In his 29 years of journey, he has held significant leadership assignments in Strategy, Operations and Leadership Development. He holds Masters in Strategy, Geology and is an MBA in International Business from IIFT, Delhi. His accreditations include:

- Design Thinking from HPI (Hasso Plattner Institute), Potsdam Germany
- Certified Independent Director from Directors Club
- Certified C-Suite Executive Coach
- Global Innovation Leadership & Leadership and Strategic Impact, Tuck Business School
- Developing Global Business Strategy, Wharton Leadership Program
- Developing Global Business Strategy, Wharton Leadership Program
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Blue Ocean Institute, Insead
- Balanced Scorecard, Palladium (Kaplan – Norton)
- Leadership Architect & Hi-Pot Master Class from Lominger, Korn/Ferry International
- Crucial Conversation, Vital Smarts

He is a constant learner, practice-leader & a prolific speaker on Strategy, Leadership, Innovation; Paradigms; Organizational Immunity and Leading Change. He is a regular speaker at GE-Tuck Leadership Roundtable at Crotonville, Bloomberg; GE Digital Learning Summit and many other global summits. He also advises Ivey League institutions on curriculums for Executive Education, based on his industry insights. He regularly writes in leading journals & portals, delivers key note address in global forums and teaches as a visiting faculty in leading B-Schools. Himanshu is now committed to replicate above success in organizations seeking aspirational growth; scale-expansion and reinvention and/or the ones that are struggling with issues that are hampering it.

#### Punam Choudhary

Co-Founder
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future"

Punam Choudhary is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at COSM (Center of Strategic Mindset), a Thought Leadership and Consulting organization, focused on advising boards on Strategy, People, Culture and Risk. As a Marshall Goldsmith Certified Coach and facilitator, she helps young and emerging leaders deal with their FANS (Fears, Assumptions, Notions and Self-Limiting Beliefs), effectively. She has been personally groomed as an executive coach on COSM’s coaching methodology by Himanshu Saxena, Founder & CEO of COSM, one of top 100 coaches in the world.

Punam heads Research, Content Strategy, Finance and Human Resource. She has played a big role in creation of COSM’s Knowledge IPs, Frameworks and Assessment tools. She brings a keen sense of observation in crafting behaviours w.r.t assessment tools.

Prior to COSM, she was in academia, leading content, curriculum design and research. She has been keenly involved in CSR and has actively contributed to the welfare and well-being activities. She brings those experiences in understanding the human psyche to curate insights, which provide the basis for conceptual and cognitive frameworks at COSM.

She holds a Masters in Zoology and B.ED. Her accreditations include:

- Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive Coach
- Certified in Search Inside Leadership Program, a Google pioneered leadership program
- Certified Process Lab Facilitator by Academy for Human Context (Sumedhas)

She is an avid reader and keeps her interest alive and updated in Strategy, Organization Development, Life Coaching. Her core interests include travelling, music, and exotic cuisines.

#### Sakina Bharmal

Managing Partner
“Just do it!”

Sakina is a Managing Partner at Centre of Strategic Mindset, a boutique Leadership Development firm and the founder of Urban Zen, an organization that focuses on building sustainable workplaces through developmental interventions. Sakina is a Marshall Goldsmith Certified Coach. She is a facilitator and coach focusing on competency development, mindfulness, personal development, coaching and leadership retreats. She has been personally groomed as an executive coach by Himanshu Saxena, Founder & CEO of COSM, one of top 100 coaches in the world. Sakina carries a diversity of experiences. After completing her MBA, she has worked with Hindustan Unilever, L&T Infotech & Aditya Birla Group in the arena of Leadership Development and Capability Building. She leverages Marshall Goldsmith Coaching methodology to help leaders define their success and achieve through structured implementation. Sakina has coached high-potential leaders from leading organizations. Her facilitation offerings include but are not limited to:
Her list of offerings include but are not limited to:

- Improvisation for Communication
- Experiential Learning and Team Building
- Personal Developmental Workshops
- Design Thinking and Creativity Bootcamps
- Mindfulness and Well Being Workshops

Sakina is an MBA from NL Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research and her significant accreditations include:
Her significant accreditations include: -

- Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive Coach ‘
- Design Thinking from Indian Institute of Management -Ahmedabad
- Mission Impossible Leadership League of Leaders
- Transactional Analysis 1-0-1
- Certified Mindfulness Learner from SIYL (Search Inside Your Leadership Institute)
- Certified Train the Trainer
- Certified Reiki Master
- Certified Yoga Instructor by The Yoga Institute and Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre
- Certified Telepathic Communicator by Earthwise
- Certified in Theatre, Applied Theatre and Improvisation

Sakina is driven by a quest to enable others to grow personally and professionally. Her purpose is to reach out to 10 million people by 2025.