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General Coaching

A Life & Business Coach is a professional partner who provides tailored guidance, accountability and practical tools to help you set clear goals, overcome obstacles, and accelerate both your personal growth and business success.

Coaching is future-focused and goal-oriented—helping you set actionable steps, build skills and stay accountable—whereas therapy dives into past traumas and mental-health issues to heal emotional wounds. Coaches don’t diagnose or treat disorders; they empower you to perform and grow.

  • Entrepreneurs & business owners

  • Corporate leaders & managers

  • Mid-career professionals & career changers

  • Aspiring leaders & high-potential talent

  • Teams aiming for better collaboration

  • Anyone seeking personal growth and clarity

Most clients see meaningful progress in 3–6 months with weekly or biweekly sessions—though some goals take as little as 6–8 weeks, and deeper transformations can run 9–12 months depending on your objectives.

Absolutely. Business coaching provides you with strategic clarity, improved decision-making and enhanced leadership skills—each critical for growth. By pinpointing blind spots, streamlining operations, and building your team’s emotional intelligence, coaching helps you:

  • Identify and capitalize on new market opportunities

  • Optimize processes for greater efficiency and profitability

  • Develop high-performing teams that execute your vision

  • Strengthen your leadership presence to inspire and retain talent

In short, coaching equips you with the mindset, tools and accountability to scale your business sustainably.

Life Coaching

Life coaching is a forward-focused partnership where a coach helps you clarify personal goals, overcome obstacles and develop strategies and habits to achieve lasting growth and fulfillment. Coaches use questioning, accountability, and proven frameworks—not therapy—to empower you to move from where you are to where you want to be.

Life coaching is future- and action-oriented—focusing on setting goals, developing strategies, and building habits to achieve your desired outcomes. Therapy is healing-oriented—exploring past experiences and emotional wounds to resolve mental-health issues. Coaches don’t diagnose or treat disorders; they guide you in taking concrete steps forward.

You might benefit from a life coach if you:

  • Feel stuck or unfulfilled, but don’t know what’s holding you back

  • Have big goals (career pivot, health, relationships) but struggle to turn ideas into action

  • Crave accountability and someone to keep you on track

  • Notice recurring patterns (procrastination, self-doubt, perfectionism) that derail you

  • Want faster progress than you’re making on your own

  • Need help clarifying your values, vision, or next steps

Business Coaching

Business coaching is a personalized partnership that helps you clarify your business vision, set strategic goals and overcome obstacles. A business coach provides accountability, insights and proven tools to improve decision-making, enhance leadership, optimize operations and drive sustainable growth—without diagnosing or treating any mental-health issues.

 

 

 

 
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Consulting is expert-driven and solution-focused—consultants assess your challenges, prescribe recommendations and often deliver implementation support.

Coaching is client-led and development-focused—coaches ask probing questions, hold you accountable and help you unlock your own insights and strengths to achieve your goals.

  • Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders seeking to validate ideas, refine business models and accelerate growth

  • Small- and Medium-Business Owners looking to streamline operations, boost profitability and scale sustainably

  • CEOs & Senior Executives aiming to sharpen strategic vision, improve leadership presence and drive organizational change

  • Mid-Level Managers wanting to enhance team performance, communication and conflict-resolution skills

  • Sales & Marketing Leaders focused on optimizing processes, motivating teams and hitting revenue targets

  • High-Potential Employees preparing for larger roles or leadership tracks

  • Teams & Departments striving for better collaboration, accountability, and aligned goals

  • Organizations Undergoing Change (mergers, rapid growth, restructuring) that need clear direction and resilient leadership

Cost And Payment

Coaching focuses on future goals, actionable steps, and personal development. While therapy often deals with healing past issues, coaching is more about improving present circumstances and building a path forward. Coaches do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions.

Coaching focuses on future goals, actionable steps, and personal development. While therapy often deals with healing past issues, coaching is more about improving present circumstances and building a path forward. Coaches do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions.

Privacy And Confidentiality

Coaching relationships are built on trust, so safeguarding your personal information is a top priority. Here’s how we protect your privacy and ensure confidentiality:

  1. Signed Confidentiality Agreement
    Before we begin, you’ll receive and sign a coaching agreement that includes a confidentiality clause. This legal commitment ensures that everything you share in sessions stays between us.

  2. Secure Session Platforms
    All virtual sessions take place over end-to-end-encrypted video tools (e.g., Zoom with waiting room enabled). Recordings are only made with your explicit permission and stored in encrypted folders, or deleted immediately afterward if no recording is needed.

  3. Data Encryption & Access Control
    Any notes, assessments, or personal worksheets are stored on secure, password-protected drives. Access is limited strictly to Dr. Tripathi and authorized administrative staff; no third parties ever see your data without your written consent.

  4. Anonymized Progress Tracking
    When tracking your outcomes (e.g., symptom logs, progress charts), personal identifiers are removed and replaced with codes. This aggregated data helps us refine our methods without exposing your identity.

  5. Clear Boundaries & Ethical Standards
    We adhere to the International Coach Federation’s (ICF) Code of Ethics and, where applicable, local privacy regulations. That means no dual relationships, no sharing of your stories, and an obligation to refer you to a licensed clinician if mental-health treatment is needed.

  6. Limited Disclosure Exceptions
    The only times confidentiality may be legally breached are if:

    • There’s an imminent risk of harm to you or others

    • We’re served with a valid court order
      We’ll always inform you first if we’re legally required to disclose anything.

  7. Your Control Over Your Data
    You can request at any time to:

    • Review or receive copies of your coaching records

    • Amend or delete personal information we hold

    • Withdraw consent for data storage (we’ll securely delete your files)

  8. Ongoing Privacy Reviews
    We regularly audit our security protocols and update them as needed—whether that’s upgrading software, rotating encryption keys, or retraining staff on best practices.

By combining rigorous legal agreements, secure technology, and strict ethical guidelines, we create a safe space where you can explore, grow, and heal with complete confidence in your privacy.

We safeguard your privacy by:

  • Confidentiality Agreement: You sign a binding contract up front.

  • Secure Platforms: All sessions use end-to-end-encrypted video, with recordings only by your consent.

  • Encrypted Notes: Worksheets and session notes live on password-protected, encrypted drives.

  • Ethical Standards: We follow ICF’s Code of Ethics and only ever break confidentiality for imminent safety risks or valid court orders—and we’ll always notify you first.

  • Your Control: You can review, amend, or delete your records at any time.

Yes. We comply with all applicable standards and laws, including:

  • ICF Code of Ethics for professional coaching confidentiality

  • GDPR for EU clients’ data protection

  • HIPAA (when handling any health-related information in the US)

  • India’s IT Act & Rules for local data privacy

Your privacy remains protected even after our engagement ends:

  • Ongoing Confidentiality: All session content stays confidential indefinitely, per our signed agreement and ICF standards.

  • Data Retention: We retain encrypted notes and assessments for a limited period (typically 2–5 years) to support any post-coaching follow-ups or references—then they’re securely purged.

  • Right to Erasure: You can request deletion of your records at any time, even after coaching concludes, and we’ll permanently remove them.

  • No Third-Party Sharing: Your information is never used for marketing or disclosed to others unless you explicitly authorize it—legal exceptions aside (e.g., court orders or safety risks).

  • Regulatory Compliance: We continue to honor GDPR, HIPAA (where applicable), and India’s IT-Act requirements post-engagement, ensuring your data remains secure and your rights preserved.