For senior leaders — and individuals at a crossroads
This work is for senior practitioners in India's development, philanthropic, and social-enterprise world — founders, programme directors, funders, policy practitioners — with a decade or more of leading change that touches real lives; and for individuals at a genuine crossroads in their work and life. You are not failing. That is precisely the problem: by every external measure you are effective, and somewhere underneath, you know that effectiveness and alignment have quietly come apart.
When leadership stops holding — the cost nobody reports
The decisions you carry affect thousands of lives. The systems you navigate resist the very change you were trained to create. And the costs don't show up in any report — they show up at home, in your health, in the shrinking distance between who you are at work and who you have energy left to be after it. This is change-management burnout by another name, and the reason so few leaders reach sustainable leadership: the sector trains leaders to deliver, and rarely gives them a structured place to examine the place they deliver from.
Conscious, transformational leadership development — three ways in
One-to-one companionship
Six structured sessions of executive coaching with Jayashree Vyasarajan Arasu — career psychologist, two decades inside India's development and education sector. Not coaching toward performance; thinking partnership toward executive alignment. Online or in Chennai.
₹25,000–30,000 · for senior leadersThe founding cohort — residential
Eight senior leaders, three days of leadership inner work, at a venue to be announced — forming for October 2026. Our first self-hosted edition: founding participants get founding pricing, and we ask three things in return — your honest testimonial, your name, and one introduction. By invitation and application.
Founding pricing — write to us for detailsThe 12-week immersion
Three in-person retreats (three days each), self-paced leadership development work between them, online handholding throughout, and two months of continued support after you exit the cohort. For those who want the practice, not the event.
₹75,000–1,00,000 per participant · Next cohort: November 2026Who you'll be working with
This work is led by Jayashree Vyasarajan Arasu — a career psychologist with two decades inside India's development and education sector. The Inner Compass isn't designed from the outside in; it's a practice she has lived, tested, and refined inside the very rooms it now serves.