“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.”
Tom Landry
About Me
I was born and raised in Bangalore and now live in Oxfordshire with my wife and two daughters.
I run technology teams in a large multinational communications business. I came to the UK in 2004 for my first job here, and I’ve spent the twenty-odd years since working out — mostly by getting it wrong first — what makes a technical team good, and what makes someone worth following.
The short version of what I’ve learned about priorities: animals before people, people before technology. Everything else is detail.
I’ve had some excellent mentors and coaches along the way, and I know exactly what difference they made. That’s most of why I coach now, and most of why I write here.
Away from work I’m a beginner musician — jazz and blues, mostly guitar at the moment, with a tenor saxophone in its case waiting for me to find more time. What draws me to it is improvisation: the discipline of making something up in real time inside a structure everyone has agreed on. It turns out to be quite a lot like running a team.
I play social tennis for roughly the reason other people go to the gym.