Phenomenal Career Coach Mrinalini I am so happy to write this testimonial for Dr. Mrinalini. I have been in the high-tech industry for 22 years with a great track record behind me. When I first started working with her, I was feeling under appreciated and stuck, at work. This had been going on for a few months and I was in the middle of making a career move. During my 2+ months of working with Mrinalini, I had several major realizations - I matter; my opinions matter; I am as important as anyone else in the room. I play small to make other people feel good about themselves. Awareness is the first step! This has changed how I show up at work. I now communicate from a place of confidence. During tough conversations, I am able to hold my ground and continue to make progress without becoming aggressive or defensive. I have become conscious of the times when I’m playing small to make other people feel good. I have realized that I no longer need to do that. I look at the big picture. I have realized that I bring more value to the organization by asking the right questions and assigning the right tasks to the right people rather than doing them myself. I am clearly able to articulate my needs to my manager and to other organization leaders and get the support I need. She also provides valuable techniques for meeting facilitation. Her work goes far beyond career coaching. She goes deep into your formative years to understand what your limiting beliefs are and where they came from. The role I’m currently in, has a high-level of responsibility without direct authority. In order to thrive in a role like this, I need to inspire, influence, and get things done by many cross-functional teams. The work that I did with Mrinalini will serve as a strong foundation for this role as well as my future roles. I strongly recommend anyone who wants to up-level their career to work with Mrinalini. Mrinalini is an incredible coach!

Review I took Mrinalini’s Unshackled Career Women Course in the beginning of this year. This was one the best decisions in my life! After couple of career gaps, I was stuck and stagnant where to restart and kindle my dream career. Being a physician working in the clinical research area for years, I found myself in the state of vagueness and opacity. Mrinalini helped me see all possible options and narrow them based on my strengths and core values to ensure my passion and aspirations were aligned. In our work together, she provided keen insights and uncovered the underlying issue and offered concrete tools, processes and plan of action that enabled me to envision a clear path toward my goal. She is extremely passionate about helping her clients. She is very personable and has the ability to instantly connect with her clients. Together we were able to work not only on my career objectives but also my limiting beliefs. She helped me understand how and why I was holding myself back. She taught me very effective and long lasting methods to overcome these self-sabotaging beliefs. She helped clear decades of pain and resentment. I am so grateful to Mrinalini because she equipped me with the tools and techniques that I can always apply in my professional AND personal life. During the course, things came together in a very profound manner. I got called for an interview from a highly desirable organization and got an offer the next day. Today, I am more confident, fulfilled and have a clear vision of who I truly aspire to be. She has inspired me to shift the thought patterns, behaviors and habits to propel personal and professional growth and well being. I would highly recommend Mrinalini for any one who wants to get rid of self-doubts, feel empowered, get to the state of being LIMITLESS. She has extraordinary coaching abilities. Thanks so much.

My experience with creative and compassionate coach, Dr. Mrinalini Garv!! My experience with creative and compassionate coach, Dr. Mrinalini Garv, has been an extremely positive, supportive and encouraging. Mrinalini’s tenor is sincere; her inquiry and feedback are constructive, customized, and metered with empathy and care. ...I was able to realize what value I bring to the table, boosted my confidence and taught me how to advocate for myself and helped me to get a chair at the decision table. She has great techniques for promotion and salary negotiation. I was very fortunate to have the incredible opportunity to work with Mrinalini closely as my coach. She listens carefully and goes to the very essence of what you are trying to accomplish and focuses on the outcomes. Her ability to bring out the best in each of her students is truly remarkable. She helped me see things about myself that I was overlooking. Thank you, Mrinalini!! You have a great talent and skill at this.

Total transformation I found Mrinalini while searching for a service to help me update my resume. After our first conversation, I knew she could offer me so much more. She told me all she could help me with, including the guidance and support to help me reach my career goals. At the beginning of the pandemic, I had decided to invest in myself, so I decided to start her course, the Unshackled Career Women. Before meeting Mrinalini, I had been passively going through my career without deciding what I wanted. The first change I noticed after starting the course was making my concerns known to my boss. In the past, I felt my concerns were not always valid, and I would convince myself not to say anything about them; this changed while taking the course. It became more comfortable for me to have meaningful conversations, which came from me understanding my value as a physician and as an individual. I also stepped into two leadership roles while working with Mrinalini, becoming a medical director for a new clinic and co-chair of my company’s newly formed diversity council. Being apart of the diversity council was an extension of something I have always been passionate about, which is helping minorities. I saw so many significant changes in my professional life and personal life while enrolled in Mrinalini’s course. It is something I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone looking for clarity and fulfillment in their career.

"My career is not a hobby and I am going to treat it such" Deciding to work with Mrinalini as my career coach is one of the best decisions I have made for myself. Before consulting Mrinalini, I was in a place in my career where I often felt lost, undervalued at work, frustrated and uncertain of my career growth. I felt like I have reached a dead end and their was no way ahead for career advancement. Having consulted coaches to grow in other areas of my life, I thought it was high time to accept that I needed expert help to grow in my career too and that it is okay to ask for help. That's when I crossed paths with Mrinalini and life is not the same anymore. The core transformation that I have experienced after working with Mrinalini is that she reintroduced me to my value as an expert in my profession which I had started taking for granted for a while and so did the people around me as the world mirrors what is inside of us. One by one she helped me crush my long standing limiting beliefs about myself that was blocking the career success that was possible and available for me. She showed me what a valuable and unique asset I am to my company or for that matter any company that I may choose to work with in future. She coached me to never forget what value I bring to the table with my expertise and to always advocate for myself and my expertise wherever I work and to not only take up space at work but to unapologetically demand space at decision making tables and gain visibility at work. Her interview training skills and salary negotiation strategies are exceptionally beneficial and well crafted. Mrinalini is a compassionate, logical and highly knowledgeable career coach who has the rare skill to help her clients look at the most difficult situations as opportunities to step up and shine in their career. Mrinalini coached me to always look for outcomes & to not forget to highlight them, here are some of the tangible outcomes that I gained while working with Mrinalini in last few months: 1) I became more assertive in the workplace, started speaking up confidently in meetings. I started taking up space. 2) Two amazing dream job opportunities came my way back to back. 3) I interviewed extremely confidently for the job as if I was having a conversation & assessing if the job & employer is really a good fit for me or not and I easily demonstrated my value and got the job offer. 4) During negotiation phase I negotiated 10K in addition to what was offered to me and later it sank in for me, if I hadn't negotiated, I could have easily left 10K on the table and would have lost 100K in 10 years. 5) I learned to look at the employer as my equal during the interview process. They need me as much as I want them. This changed my perspective on how I show up for interviews differently now. "My career is not a hobby and I am going to treat it such" is one of the many valuable life lessons that Mrinalini has instilled in me that will stay with me forever. Thank you so much, Mrinalini for everything that you did for me. I am forever grateful to you.