Rupa Shende

Rupa Shende is a Certified Life Coach partnering individuals to experience the joy of life and success. How? By helping them discover their goals, outline their action plan and execute it diligently. She is a great people’s person and her passion to explore new ways to achieve things, makes her excellent at connecting individuals with their inner selves to find solutions to better their lives. She started 1Step2Leap to extend coaching to everyone who has commitment and aspiration to experience the ecstasy of success.

1Step2Leap is coaching company that focuses on bringing the blue print of your dreams into action by infusing CLARITY enabling COURAGE and discovering CONFIDENCE. Her proprietary U- ACHIEVE model aims to bring out the best in committed individuals. It helps you realize the right opportunities and achieve your goals through a structured plan.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Rupa, right from her school days has the habit of breaking down large goals into small actionable items. Her consistent educational achievements reflect that this strategy is a hit. Rupa is a gold medallist in B.Com from University of Pune (BMCC) and ranked second (only two honoured with an A+ grade) in the university for her M.A from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. With additional MS (Finance) from ICFAI and ‘Train the Trainer’ certification from Dale Carnegie, Rupa has contributed over nine years to the finance industry with her stints at Morgan Stanley and Evalueserve. Her experience as an individual contributor and manager allows her to easily relate to the conce s at different stages. During her assignment as a manager, Rupa coached and nurtured her team to resolve everyday issues and remove negativity to enjoy and excel in their work.

INSPIRATION

Rupa discovered her passion for coaching while leading her team at Evalueserve. Her determination of coaching strengthened during her interactions with different people from across the world when she observed that almost everyone led a stressful life. Stress caused by no life threatening issues but by never ending nagging matters (for instance not getting along with colleagues, poor time management etc.,) which become a part of our daily life even without we realizing it, ultimately forcing us to join the race of robots doing monotonous work and putting a stop to our creativity and out of box thinking. Rupa helps you to realize your true potential and overcome any obstacle with a free mind and creative approach so as to reach the zenith you dreamt of. There is no better satisfaction than the Eureka moment you achieve with your will and hard work.

She strongly believes that everyone is capable of achieving success, measured differently depending on the various individual roles we play. Engrossed in our daily chores, we often tend to lose focus of the larger goal. This is where the coach plays a role and helps you to identify the opportunity, find solutions and bring that blueprint into action through small achievable goals. Rupa is very clear that coaching and success should not be limited to professionals or CXO levels. She extends her coaching to everyone who has a little commitment and aspiration to experience the ecstasy of success.

WHEN NOT WORKING

Interests and hobbies keep you lively and stress free, speaks Rupa’s experience. Practising Bharatnatyam for the past 20years, she is an active participant in professional shows.She loves Indian classical dance and music and can also play the metallic flute. She enjoys watching sports, trekking and is passionate about reading on holistic health, philosophy and leadership.