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Leadership Coach

20+ Years of
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Leadership Coach

VIRAJ – The Trainer, Speaker, and Coach

Viraj is recognized among the top soft & behavioral skills trainers, speakers and leadership coaches from India (Silicon India’18; StartUp City’19, WCRC’19). He is popular with his audiences for his brand of high-impact, storytelling, interactive, experiential and passionately delivered sessions.

Viraj engages with his clients and participants through his four-quadrant-model titled ‘New Age Leadership’ that covers modules such as Leadership, Executive Presence, Public Speaking, Innovation, Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration, Influencing Skills, Workplace Culture, Vision, Digital Presence, 2020 Skills, Agility and Personal Effectiveness.

His clients include the likes of PepsiCo, Accenture, ByteDance, Sony, GSK, Nestle, Pernod Ricard, Diageo, Sterlite, Foresight Group (IQVIA), Orbis (USA), Embassy of Denmark, Pladis, IOMEDIA (Ticketmaster) & many others.

VIRAJ – The Strategist

As a strategist, Viraj and his team, partner clients on projects such as Employer Branding, Innovation Capability, Revenue Strategy, Change Management, Transformation, Excellence, Go-Digital, Diversity & Inclusion, Workplace & Brand Culture and Leadership Alignment. His ‘strategy projects’ clients include the likes of Amazon, Cognizant, Accenture, Jindal Group, Sterlite, WTV, Fresenius, IOMEDIA, 7N, Goals 101, Foresight Group (IQVIA) and PepsiCo among others.

Viraj has in leadership roles with brands such as Sumitomo, Perfect Relations, Lacoste and in industries like Consulting, L&D, Education, Media, PR and Retail and many others

Viraj’s master’s education includes alma mater like Darden School of Business (University of Virginia) and IMD Lausanne (Switzerland). Partnering people, brand, organization & community growth stories through a sociopreneurial approach is the vision that drives Viraj.

VIRAJ – The Trainer, Speaker, and Coach

Viraj is recognized among the top soft & behavioral skills trainers, speakers and leadership coaches from India (Silicon India’18; StartUp City’19, WCRC’19). He is popular with his audiences for his brand of high-impact, storytelling, interactive, experiential and passionately delivered sessions.

Viraj engages with his clients and participants through his four-quadrant-model titled ‘New Age Leadership’ that covers modules such as Leadership, Executive Presence, Public Speaking, Innovation, Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration, Influencing Skills, Workplace Culture, Vision, Digital Presence, 2020 Skills, Agility and Personal Effectiveness.

His clients include the likes of PepsiCo, Accenture, ByteDance, Sony, GSK, Nestle, Pernod Ricard, Diageo, Sterlite, Foresight Group (IQVIA), Orbis (USA), Embassy of Denmark, Pladis, IOMEDIA (Ticketmaster) & many others.

VIRAJ – The Strategist

As a strategist, Viraj and his team, partner clients on projects such as Employer Branding, Innovation Capability, Revenue Strategy, Change Management, Transformation, Excellence, Go-Digital, Diversity & Inclusion, Workplace & Brand Culture and Leadership Alignment. His ‘strategy projects’ clients include the likes of Amazon, Cognizant, Accenture, Jindal Group, Sterlite, WTV, Fresenius, IOMEDIA, 7N, Goals 101, Foresight Group (IQVIA) and PepsiCo among others.

Viraj has in leadership roles with brands such as Sumitomo, Perfect Relations, Lacoste and in industries like Consulting, L&D, Education, Media, PR and Retail and many others

Viraj’s master’s education includes alma mater like Darden School of Business (University of Virginia) and IMD Lausanne (Switzerland). Partnering people, brand, organization & community growth stories through a sociopreneurial approach is the vision that drives Viraj.

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Fact Sheet

20 + years of training & coaching


Rated as a Top-20 leadership coach


Popular for passionate & engaging sessions on Executive Presence and New-age Leadership


Has been profiled on and has spoken on ET Now, CNN-IBN, NewsX, Economic Times, Business World, People Matters


Coached 500+ TEDx & TED Speakers, CEOs, Politicians, Sports Personalities, Coaches & Authors


Viraj is an established entrepreneur. His ventures include Open Brackets Learning, White Ladder Consulting and Astras Global based in London.

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Viraj is recognized as one of the top soft & behavioral skills trainers, speakers and leadership coaches.

Strategist & Consultant

Make impactful board decisions and strategize your growth

Coaching & Training

One-to-one or group sessions, choose your preference

Keynotes & Talks

Connect for highly impactful keynotes or talks

Influencer

Collaborate to elevate you to the next level

Collaborations

Accolades

Viraj is one of the ‘30 most influential CEOs to watch 2020’, according to CIO Bulletin.


Viraj is also recognized as the ‘Most Admired Leadership Coach’19’, by WCRC Leaders, Asia.


He has been awarded as the ‘Corporate Training & Learning Consultant of the year 2018’ – Silicon India.


In 2019, he was also the ‘Workforce Development Consultant of the year’ – Silicon India.


Viraj is recognized in ‘30 Dynamic Business Leaders of India 2019’ by Start-Up City.


Has been profiled on and has spoken on ET Now, CNN-IBN, NewsX, Economic Times, Business World, People Matters.


Coached 500+ TEDx & TED Speakers, CEOs, Politicians, Sports Personalities, Coaches & Authors.

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Viraj's Ventures

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Open Brackets Learning

Open Brackets Learning Solutions is a new-age training & learning company that designs and delivers 2020s relevant blended learning solutions. The company is an offshoot of “White Ladder Consulting”.

Delhi, India

White Ladder Consulting

Founded in 2011, Viraj is the co-founder of White Ladder Consulting. India’s top-ranked strategy, leadership coaching & training full-service consulting company.

Delhi, India

Animation, Media, Entertainment
LinkedIn Group

Collective. Active. Diverse.

Viraj Kalra heads the Animation, Media, Entertainment group on LinkedIn – the largest and only one of its kind group on the network.

This group facilitates networking opportunities ranging from services, jobs, events, funding, crowd sourcing, promotion, collaboration, information, problem solving to open innovations for 80,000+ people from over 20+ countries.

Viraj, through his network, credibility and influence can conceptualize and / or promote a brand, event, or project and in turn help to promote your offering.

For any Animation, Media, Entertainment related service or promotion, contact Viraj & join the LinkedIn group.

LSD - Leadership, Sales & Digital

LSD is a trifecta collaboration of three coaches – Viraj Kalra on Leadership, Gaurav Bhagat on Sales, and Avi Arya on Digital, in the form of a two-day workshop. Thus, the name LSD – Leadership, Sales & Digital. 

This learning initiative was kick-started in 2019 with close to 300 participants on-ground. While some participants came in as individuals, others were sponsored by their organizations.

This two-day workshop resulted in a community where several individuals connected with the coaches even beyond the workshop, as part of a community. This community coached them to become bigger, better, and stronger in their own areas of operation as leaders, as businesses, as entrepreneurs.

In October 2021, we are looking forward to hosting the event online with several other recognized coaches on board. This year’s event will be conducted as a series of sessions aimed at ensuring that leaders and businesses grow through a stimulus on leadership, sales strategy, and digital strategy.

The COVI10 Initiative

The Covi10 Initiative is a voluntary collective of 50 corporate coaches and executive leaders across different industry domains who have come together to help India fight the Covid19 crisis and make the country blossom all over again.

Our initiative involves identifying ten unique start-up ideas that are working in the field of covid relief already. Covi10 coaches will be supporting these start-up ideas to upskill and fund them from scratch.

We aim to connect all Covi10 resources with families who need it the most, under the areas of financial assistance; access to food, medication, hospitals, donors, doctors, and necessities; children, adolescents, and older people’s needs; emerging mental and behavioral construct and similar aspects.

We will be rigorously working towards providing personalized information and services to those who need it the most during these challenging times.

Lastly, supporting small and emerging enterprises remains our core target, as we aim to make them independent enough to support the relief effort themselves!

Connect with me if you would like to support the Covi10 initiative

The COVI10 Initiative

The Covi10 Initiative is a voluntary collective of 50 corporate coaches and executive leaders across different industry domains who have come together to help India fight the Covid19 crisis and make the country blossom all over again.

Our initiative involves identifying ten unique start-up ideas that are working in the field of covid relief already. Covi10 coaches will be supporting these start-up ideas to upskill and fund them from scratch.

We aim to connect all Covi10 resources with families who need it the most, under the areas of financial assistance; access to food, medication, hospitals, donors, doctors, and necessities; children, adolescents, and older people’s needs; emerging mental and behavioral construct and similar aspects.

We will be rigorously working towards providing personalized information and services to those who need it the most during these challenging times.

Lastly, supporting small and emerging enterprises remains our core target, as we aim to make them independent enough to support the relief effort themselves!

Connect with me if you would like to support the Covi10 initiative

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