Your Leadership Partner: A Coaching Relationship Built on Trust and Experience
Jawahar Malhotra
Product & Technology Executive
Growth Leadership Coach
Hyperion Leadership Network
About You
You’re a CEO or C-suite executive navigating the loneliest role in your company. You’re leading through AI-driven transformation—whether that means staying ahead in an AI-first business or reinventing how an established company competes. The pace of change is relentless, and every challenge you face feels unique.
You need more from your leadership team. Maybe alignment is slipping as you scale, or priorities are drifting as you transform. Even the strongest executive teams can lose their edge. Conversations stay surface-level, execution gets muddled, and everyone’s moving fast but not always in the same direction.
Your business thrives on innovation in product and technology as well as seamless execution. Change management, transformation, acquisitions, and growth are constant challenges that require both strategic clarity and leadership excellence.
You don’t need someone to give you the answers. You need to be challenged to greatness—and so does your leadership team. You need a strategic partner to help you reframe the challenges, push you toward what’s possible, and enable you to unlock the right solutions for your business, your team, and yourself.
Why Partner With Me
You could get a coach, but does your coach have operational experience navigating the complexity you face? You could get an advisor, but does your advisor know how to coach you and your leadership team to peak performance?
I bring a rare blend of technology executive experience and deep leadership coaching expertise. Having led large-scale transformations and complex product and technology organizations in high-growth companies, I understand firsthand that success depends not just on strategy and execution, but on building trusted, transparent relationships across the leadership team.
My Experience Leading Technology Organizations
Over two decades, I’ve lived through what you’re facing:
Most recently at a fintech company, I diversified revenue streams—growing subscription revenue 4x in 12 months and launching a new product line from $0 to $2M while transforming a decades-old product footprint.
As EVP Technology at Medable, I scaled the team almost 10x starting at 40 while navigating from remote-first to a remote-hub model with hubs worldwide.
Revenue doubled in three years at HackerRank as we grew enterprise customers from low teens to over 100.
OpenGov installations jumped from under 100 to over 1,000 in two years while diversifying into higher-revenue products.
TeaLeaf’s successful acquisition by IBM delivered strong ROI, followed by doubling the business in two years.
Deep AI Experience Since Before It Was a Buzzword
I’ve been building AI capabilities for over a decade. I’ve established AI teams from scratch at four companies, creating strategic product capabilities that dramatically increased user value:
- Pioneering personalization platforms at Yahoo 20+ years ago
- Building supervised learning systems at OpenGov
- Developing AI-powered assessment engines at HackerRank
- Automating clinical trial configuration at Medable (reducing time by 5x)
- Most recently leading AI initiatives that transform how investors extract insights from vast data corpuses
I understand both the technology and how to translate it into business value.
My Coaching Approach
I’m not here to give you a playbook. I’m here to be your thinking partner—the person you call when you’re facing a tough decision, when your team dynamics are off, or when you need honest feedback that no one else will give you.
I’m your strategic partner, an honest sounding board reflecting what I see and hear, helping you shift perspectives, reframe problems, unlock your strengths, and operate from clarity, confidence, and alignment. My coaching style is direct, grounded in real-world experience, and focused on you as a leader first, your business second.
This partnership directly impacts your business by accelerating pivots, preventing execution drift, strengthening cross-functional trust, and inspiring confidence during transformation.
What Our Partnership Will Help You Achieve
All of these outcomes directly impact your ability to drive revenue growth—through better decisions, stronger team performance, and sharper strategic execution.
You as a Leader
- A deeper understanding of your leadership patterns—what serves you and what holds you back
- Greater self-awareness that helps you show up as your best self under pressure
- The clarity and confidence to make difficult decisions faster
- Discovery and strengthening of your core values that guide your leadership
- The ability to stay ahead of your company, exec team, and market—anticipating what’s next rather than reacting
- Confidence in proactively managing exec talent, including having difficult conversations when needed
Your Leadership Team
- Get more from your team—unlocking their full potential and proactively managing talent
- Stronger, more authentic relationships across the C-suite
- The ability to lead through uncertainty without having all the answers
- Enhanced alignment, collaboration, communication, and execution that prevents costly drift
- A team that’s more connected, focused, and effective together
Your Strategy
- Practical approaches to product, technology, talent, and AI-driven challenges that keep you up at night
- Clear approaches to change management, transformation, and growth
- Optimized investment in technology and innovation
- Maximizing value from your board while managing investor dynamics
Most importantly, you’ll have a trusted partner who knows your context, understands your challenges, and is fully committed to your growth as a leader.
How We’ll Work Together
This partnership is built on trust, honesty, and commitment to your growth. We’ll customize the engagement to fit your specific needs.
Our Core Coaching Relationship
Two 60-minute one-on-one sessions each month—your confidential space to think out loud, work through challenges, and develop as a leader. This is where we tackle what’s really on your mind.
Unlimited access to me between sessions via text and email. When you need a sounding board or a gut check before a big decision, I’m here.
Deep Work on Self-Awareness
We’ll start with the iEQ9 Enneagram Professional Assessment—a comprehensive tool that goes beyond personality typing to become a lens for understanding what drives your behaviors, reactions, and relationships at the leadership level.
Three dedicated sessions at the beginning of our engagement to surface and work with these deeper dynamics. The Enneagram helps us explore the unconscious patterns that shape how you lead, make decisions, and build relationships. This understanding is transformative—it’s about seeing yourself clearly so you can lead more effectively and authentically.
Support for Your Leadership Team
Four hours monthly to work with your C-suite—facilitating difficult conversations, building alignment, or helping you assess your team’s capabilities. I can work with them as a group or individually, whatever serves you best.
Our coaching conversations will often surface opportunities where your leadership team needs focused intervention—a strategic offsite, team effectiveness work, or capability development. Because I’m already embedded in your world and understand how trust, alignment, and shared context drive execution in tech organizations, I can design these engagements with deep context about your business and people.
The Experience Factor
Throughout our partnership, I’ll share lessons from my own leadership journey—the mistakes I’ve made, the patterns I’ve seen, the strategies that work in the real world of technology companies.
Consider me your personal board member focused solely on your development—someone who cares about your success and will tell you the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.
The Commitment
This is a 12-month partnership because real leadership development takes time. We’re building lasting capabilities that will serve you for the rest of your career.
Is This Right for You?
This partnership works best if:
- You’re ready to be challenged and get honest feedback
- You want a partner who’s been in your shoes and led complex technology organizations, not just someone with theories
- You’re willing to invest in yourself as a leader, not just your business
- You value a long-term relationship built on trust
- You’re open to customizing our work together based on what you and your team need most
Let’s Start a Conversation
The best way to begin is with an initial conversation to explore whether we’re a good fit and how we can customize a partnership that works for you.
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