Family Business Advisory & Leadership Coaching

Helping family business, leaders and organisations realise their fullest potential.

Samagra Advisory works with family businesses, senior leaders and entrepreneurs on governance, leadership and growth — bringing two decades of coaching, consulting and organisational psychology experience to every engagement.

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About Samagra Advisory

An Organisational Psychologist, Certified Coach and Family Business Advisor

Samagra Advisory is led by an Organisational Psychologist, ICF Certified Coach and Family Business Advisor with a Doctorate in Management, an MA in Psychology, and a Post Graduate Diploma in basic and advanced counselling skills. The practice works across family business advising, business leadership coaching, C-suite key personnel transformation and organisational development.

Currently serving as an independent director on ten publicly listed company boards across aviation, highways, energy, hospitality and retail, our founder brings a rare combination of boardroom experience and hands-on coaching practice. With over two decades of experience, she has coached more than two hundred heads of businesses and entrepreneurs, and has written a long-running column on business and leadership in one of the largest circulated regional daily newspapers, with over 720 published articles and columns to date.

Recognised within professional coaching and facilitation networks, she was a founding member who established the first International Coaching Federation chapter in the country. She holds an ACC – Erickson coach certification, has trained under Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's approach to coaching, and carries a certificate in Appreciative Coaching from Fielding Graduate University. She is certified in psychometrics, is a DISC certified professional, and is a trained family business advisor certified by the Business Family Foundation, Montreal, Canada.

She has worked with clients ranging from business owners and C-suite executives to senior executives, working women, film directors, physically challenged individuals and entrepreneurs — and regularly contributes to television and radio shows as a career and leadership expert.

20+Years of Experience
200+Leaders Coached
10Public Company Boards
720+Published Articles
What We Do

Professional Services

Focused advisory and coaching services for family businesses, senior leaders and organisations.

01

Family Business Advising

Guidance for business-owning families on governance, succession and the family constitution — helping build the structures that let family and business thrive together across generations.

02

Leadership Coaching

One-on-one coaching for business owners, C-suite executives and senior leaders, focused on sharpening presence, decision-making and the ability to lead with clarity and purpose.

03

Senior Management Strategy Retreats

Facilitated retreats for leadership teams to step back from day-to-day operations, align on strategy, and return with shared clarity and direction for the organisation.

04

360 Degree Feedback

Structured, multi-rater feedback processes that give leaders an honest, well-rounded view of their impact — paired with coaching to translate insight into change.

What Clients Say

Testimonials

Working through our family business advisory process gave our family a shared language for difficult conversations we had been avoiding for years. We now have a governance structure everyone trusts.

Family Business Promoter
Next-Generation Leader

The coaching engagement helped me see my own leadership blind spots clearly for the first time. The 360 feedback process was honest, well facilitated, and genuinely changed how I lead my team.

Senior Executive
C-Suite Leader, Listed Company

Our strategy retreat was the first time the entire leadership team left the office and actually aligned on direction. The facilitation balanced structure with space for honest conversation.

Management Team Head
Senior Management Group
Watch & Listen

Videos

Interviews, talks and TV appearances on leadership, family business and coaching.

Get In Touch

Contact

For advisory engagements, coaching enquiries or speaking invitations, reach out and we will get back to you shortly.

How to Reach Us

Email
kavitha@gudapati.in
Location
Hyderabad, India
Office Hours
Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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