“Working with Chitra was a transformative experience. She has an exceptional ability to see not only the professional challenges you face but also the human element behind them. Her coaching style is a perfect blend of strategic insight and intuitive guidance, which allowed me to build confidence and develop a clearer vision for my leadership.”
Hans Melo, Cofounder and CEO, Menten AI
With a career spanning investigative journalism, technology startups, corporate strategy, and executive leadership, Chitra Ragavan melds her strategic and tactical insights and skills to help leaders around the world navigate complexity, overcome adversity, and leverage the power of Positive Instigation to leapfrog ahead of the competition and make a meaningful contribution to society.
The Positive Instigation Coaching Program is our premium offering, exclusively designed and built for CEOs, C-suites, senior executives, and government leaders. Our mission is to create a new cadre of leaders who can change the world by helping them unlock sharper thinking, stronger presence, and more decisive execution in their work and lives.
The Positive Instigation Coaching Method powers the program. It’s a proven and structured leadership and executive coaching system that guides clients through key shifts in mindset, strategy, and leadership. The Halo Strategy is a core pillar of the method, giving clients a clear way to define what they stand for, strengthen how they are perceived, and elevate their influence.
Reverse the Flow is a proprietary positioning method that shifts leaders, companies, and brands from chasing opportunity to attracting it. It establishes who they are to their target audience by anchoring their work to the problem only they can solve and creating a clear throughline that reframes their value. The result is that contracts, investors, talent, customers, media attention, and influence move toward them without constant pursuit, as a natural consequence of how they are positioned.
This program equips you to:
Strategy Rewire transforms how leaders think about positioning, decision-making, and long-term impact.
The Corporate Rewire is a bespoke, company-wide engagement designed to strengthen your organization’s strategy, leadership, and brand at scale.
The Positive Instigation Coaching Program is a high-touch, high-trust premium investment that builds sharper judgment, stronger brand authority, and more effective communication to boost performance and inspire confidence among boards, investors, employees, and teams. This is an executive and leadership coaching program designed for leaders operating at maximum velocity, high complexity, and pressure, including in media, corporations, startups, venture funds, law enforcement, defense, and government.
I work with founders, CEOs, venture fund managers and their portfolio companies, C-suite executives, private equity and companies managing high-risk, high-stakes transitions and turnarounds, and bold thinkers navigating reinvention and rapid growth.
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