About Nisha

I help cautious people leap and impulsive people land. I'm warm and I'm direct, and I'll ask the question you've been circling around. I focus on helping you think clearly enough to trust your own judgment, and zoom out enough to identify what really matters. My experience: I'm a tech strategist, former teacher, and management consultant, with a splash of finance. I've pivoted and landed career changes without a roadmap, which is partly why I'm good at helping others do the same. At LinkedIn and Salesforce, I built deep expertise in strategy and operations, and I know how big organizations actually work from the inside. I started my career as a Teach For America corps member, where I learned what relentless pursuit of results really means, and that great coaching meets people where they are. At Berkeley Haas, I was selected as a Graduate Student Instructor for Negotiations based on exemplary performance, and I coached and mentored students through one of the most competitive courses in the MBA curriculum. By going for my MBA later in my career, I focused on the courses most MBAs skip: Power & Politics and Interpersonal Dynamics ("Touchy Feely"), the course co-taught with Stanford on feedback, conflict, and the conversations most people avoid. I also facilitated Dialogues on Race. Four courses in how humans influence, navigate difference, and build trust, and I've been on both sides of these classrooms. As VP of Admissions for the Haas MBA student association, I reviewed applications and helped candidates tell their most authentic stories. I know what gets someone in and what doesn't. I'm a visual thinker, a former teacher, and I'm deeply interested in what stays human in an increasingly tech-driven world. The ability to negotiate, read a room, and have a hard conversation with grace. These skills compound, and there are learnable tactics to make them more natural for us all. I'm most excited by helping folks deepen their understandings of themselves and expand their toolkits to handle (thrive, not just survive) no matter what comes their way.