Poornima Kulathu is an accomplished leadership mentor and coach, and former corporate leader with nearly three decades of experience across leading financial institutions, including American Express, Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Equitas. She brings a rare combination of strategic acumen and deep understanding of human behaviour, shaped by years of operating at senior levels within complex organisations. In her corporate career, Poornima held leadership roles, including Vice President, where she led product strategy and drove key business initiatives. Her work has spanned product launches, revenue growth, and advancing financial inclusion, particularly for semi-urban and rural women. She has managed high-value client portfolios and also led large-scale transformation efforts, including process re-engineering and enterprise-wide system migrations, notably at American Express Bank. Her experience cuts across operations, business development, product management, and sales leadership, with direct P&L responsibility and a strong track record in driving performance through structured sales coaching interventions. As an ICF-certified Coach with over 550 coaching hours, Poornima now works with mid-career and senior leaders on communication, stakeholder management, influence, negotiation, behavioural change, productivity, and career transitions. Her coaching is practical, context-driven, and anchored in real business challenges. She has supported women leaders across global organisations in transitioning into executive roles, mentored professionals from premier management institutes, delivered group coaching for mid-level executives across technology, BFSI, and other sectors, and conducted Development Centres involving behavioural assessments and feedback across FMCG, software, and tech organisations. Some of her clients include, IBM, DBS Bank, HSBC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Schneider Electric, Cadence Design Systems, Indian School of Business. Clients value her calm authority, sharp listening, and ability to translate insight into clear, actionable next steps. She creates a space that is both reflective and outcome-oriented, enabling leaders to think more clearly, act with intent, and sustain change over time.