Mounica Veggalam

You're really good at thinking through problems. Thoroughly.

There aren't many problems you can't solve with enough research and hard work. But if you're here, there's one big work-life change that keeps slipping away, despite your best efforts.

For most of my clients, that's landing a new job, a promotion, or finally starting an exciting side hustle. For others, it might be starting a community, or even bringing peace to their relationships.

Come to me with that ambitious goal. In three months, you'll make real progress without sacrificing every weekend.

Because we're going to address the three elements most people miss when they're trying to do something BIG.

Here's what I've seen in my work with highly analytical people when their usual methods for succeeding aren't delivering results.

The roadblock isn't in what you've been doing. It's an unconscious strategy problem. So you keep hitting the same blocks over and over, because you don't realize it's not a discipline, skills or market problem.

We all have habitual ways of operating that have built a decent life, and yours may have reached their limit now. When I say strategy, I don't mean a business plan. I specifically mean:

1. Your Decision-Making Strategy

Each of us uses a finite set of decision-making patterns, based on our childhood or worldview. Which means some viable options aren't showing up as available to you (and you don't even realize it). Your current decision-making strategy might be causing you to hesitate to move towards what you want or to decide from your fear of the consequences.

2. Your Achievement Strategy

You probably tried to mold yourself into whoever you needed to be to land the job or make good income. Those chameleon-like skills can get you pretty far, but can leave you relying on brute force, a strong inner critic, or waiting until things start hurting before you take bold action. We're not taught how to work with the emotions of fear, shame, anger and grief, so they stop us in our tracks and make us approach goals in an unsustainable way. Your current achievement strategy can leave you stressed out and feeling like your work and life are out of alignment.

3. Your Partnership Strategy

You might have some blind spots in how you show up in conversations and partnerships with your people. In your current partnership strategy, you might be downplaying yourself or overriding others in a way that makes real support unavailable to you. Our habitual ways of speaking and listening sabotage our attempts at creating the change we want.

Case Studies

Build the next phase of your career with self-awareness and emotional intelligence that leads to bold actions, and real results.

Alice, a manager at a big tech company, came to me after she'd been asking her manager for a leadership promotion for a year. She'd been taking on “stretch” projects, but after each one ended successfully, they still said the business case wasn't there yet.

By our second session, we got specific about her strength in building relationships, looked at her decision-making strategy in meetings with her team, worked with her frustration around all the effort she already put in, and worked through her anxiety about going to off-site events.

Outcome

She went to one off-site meeting and casually connected with a senior team manager, using her relationship-building strengths. Two weeks later, she was called in to talk about her Sr. Manager promotion. She got the promotion and moved into the new role within the next 3 months.

Anish, another client of mine, a manager at a large tech company, wanted to take on bigger projects but his team was relying on him too much. He had to hand-hold each person, working long hours to ensure they met the deliverables. We worked through his decision-making strategy around the scope of work he takes on and how he hands out responsibilities. We also looked at his partnership strategy in frustrating conversations with his team.

Outcome

He started talking with his VP and went on to grow his team and lead larger projects.

In both cases, their shortlist of what they could see and act on changed when we examined their unconscious strategies. They learned to use their inherent strengths to access creative ways to move forward and come alive in their ambition! That's what our work does.

Unlock new possibilities and perspectives.

About Mounica

I'm Mounica, and my specialty is helping analytical folks make the kinds of big work-life changes that set their lives on entirely different trajectories.

Whether that's building a new business or new income stream, building a body of creative work, taking on large leadership projects that lead to promotion.

I was an engineer at Microsoft before becoming a full-time coach. Since 2021, I have coached ICs and leaders at Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Airbnb, ServiceNow and startups.

I completed an ICF-accredited coaching program in 2021, then three years of ontological and leadership training with Adam Quiney and Bay LeBlanc Quiney, including The Forge.

The biggest changes in my life happened by building and jumping into the unknown, especially through the work I did with my coach who challenged my thought structures and my old achievement strategy of perform-and-burn-out cycles that got loud during my journey of entrepreneurship.

“The transformational shifts I experienced have been so pleasantly surprising. I created impossible things on impossible timelines.”

Dhivyapriya, People Manager

Ready to make that big change?

I offer a 3-month partnership. All you have to do is bring a big goal and the willingness to try things you haven't tried before, and sit with some emotional intensity in service of taking bold actions.

The investment is $5,000, or 3 monthly payments of $1,667.

3 private 1:1 sessions a month, over Zoom.
Access in between sessions. You're not paying for a set of calls, you're paying to have me completely in your corner, committed to you actually doing this.
Worksheets and meditations for the days when feelings like fear, doubt and guilt show up loud.

Book a free 30-minute call, and answer a few questions as you book. Many employers pay for coaching from a learning budget. I can send an invoice your company can use.

Book A Discovery Call Here

Not ready for 3 months? Custom ways of working are available. Book a discovery call to find out.

“I don't have words to describe the clarity and freedom I experience now. I'm doing my best work and I feel extremely empowered.”

K Jani, CTO

Not sure if this is for you?

The clients who tend to get the best results from our work together tend to have a few things in common:

Analytical folks

You work in tech, finance or adjacent industries that demand knowledge work. You have a passion for exploring your potential and brilliance beyond what you've achieved till now through solving hard problems.

Inwardly curious folks

Maybe you have some history with meditation paths, non-traditional paths that explore teachings of consciousness and human mind, or some sense of connection to something larger than yourself.

Builders

Your natural inclination is to make useful things, create tools, build communities or businesses or products. Once you have an idea, your brain cannot switch off! This isn't a requisite to work together, just a common thread I've seen. Maybe because I'm that way too.

While we can work on any type of big goal, past clients have worked on:

Building a consulting business

Building a community

Starting a side-hustle that becomes their new income stream

Writing a book, or building a body of creative work

Taking on leadership projects that lead to promotions

“Working with Mounica, I've learnt to lean into my fears and stopped running away from them.”

Reetch, People Manager

Questions people ask me.

How is this different from therapy?

Therapy generally works backward into what happened to you. Coaching works forward into what you want to build. We do touch difficult feelings, but always in service of changes you're trying to make in your work-life.

How much time does it take?

Three 1-hour sessions a month, plus whatever you choose to do in between for your goals.

I'm so burnt out. Is this for me?

It is, if you have some energy to slow down, look inward and take some action that energizes you, that feels like play. I often find that people who come to me are burnt out because of misalignment. In our work together, we'll make sure every action you take is aligned to what you actually want and who you are.

I'm not quite sure about the change I want. Can you help?

Yes, finding out what you actually want can be part of the process. In the first month, we'll run experiments to try out your ideas, collect real data and get clear on what you really want to build next. Then we'll put it into action in months two and three.

My life is full of commitments. Is this still for me?

In our sessions, I'll help you look at how your life is set up today, and build new structures to hold the change you want to make. You do still have to make space for our calls. I have supported people with complex health conditions and family limitations. If you're unsure, book a discovery call anyway, and we'll talk it through.

What if I want to keep working together after?

At the end of our 3 months, we can talk about a long-term support structure to hold the big change and whatever is required to keep moving forward. Most people who do 3 months end up renewing for the long-term support.

It's time to make the next move you've been thinking about for years.

Make real progress, and love your life. That's my mission in my private coaching.

Here's what happens next:

Book a free call

Pick a time on my calendar and answer a few questions as you book. Even if you're not sure you're ready, book anyway. I read every answer.

Talk it through together

In our 30 minutes, we'll get clear on whether this is right for you at this time.

If it's a fit

You'll get the terms and a time to begin. You can start chatting with me about your goals within 24 hours.

If it's not a fit

That's okay too. I may refer you to a colleague who can support you better. You won't know unless you book a call!