Prashant Sharma or Coach Prashant as he is popularly known, is a storyteller. His effortless and engaging style is peppered with real-life personal experiences with different people and different cultures that sets his performance apart from the rest. He has experienced everything he talks about.
Prashant Sharma is an ICF-ACC accredited Executive Coach and Training Facilitator with deep industry and entrepreneurial experience.
He is the founder of the company, First Personality, providing Leadership development and training solutions pan-India and overseas.
He has worked with some of the largest companies to coach and train thousands of professionals to reach their true potential. He has over 3,800 hours of Executive Coaching experience. One of his greatest assets is his ability to provide customized learning and content solutions to complex business problems.
Additionally, he is a training consultant with over 24 years of experience in designing, developing and delivering effective leadership development programs.
He conducted his first training intervention over twenty-seven years ago when he was invited by the New Delhi YMCA to lead a course on Public Speaking and Effective Communication.
In his career spanning about two decades as a corporate executive and entrepreneur, Prashant believes that life is a great teacher and he is determined to pass this lesson on to everyone he interacts with. He has overcome start up success and failures. There were times when Prasant hit rock bottom and faced hardships in business and life. But in spite of several challenges, Prashant did not let his failures prevent him from reaching for his goals. Instead, he has used his life experiences to develop his content and become a mentor and guide. And flourished! He trains himself to be a growth facilitator, helping his clients achieve competitive advantage in a global environment.
Initial days of Prashant Sharma
Upon completion of his Masters in the US, Prashant returned to India and joined the Taj Group of Hotels during the liberalization time in India during the pre-internet era.
At times, Prashant Sharma observed the disparity between the soft skills of the average Indian vis-a-vis the people in the West. One day he was invited by the New Delhi YMCA to conduct Public Speaking courses.
Prashant has been an IT pioneer. He co-founded a startup introducing barcoding in India. Despite coming from a non-business family, he then co-founded his second start-up NIWAS, which was a home textile export start-up company. In their prime, NIWAS had almost 200 people employed in his business! NIWAS was a roller coaster ride of good times and the not-so-good. He eventually retired from active operations in 2006. In NIWAS, he spent time on our staff training and also took side projects to train students in Public Speaking and kept his skills active.
He realized that soft skills training was what turned his hobby into a profession and took
advanced certifications in coaching and training. Prashant Sharma utilised the challenges he had experienced in his life to develop others and is proud to say that he is now a coach and trainer of choice to top companies. Prashant leads coaching interventions and behavioral training at all executive levels. More information can be see on his corporate activities on his Linkedin profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachprashant/
What Made Him Start This Business and Highest Educational Qualifications
He has always had entrepreneurial aspirations and noticed a huge difference in public speaking skills among his colleagues at Taj, where he worked. This sparked his passion to create a training program for his YMCA in New Delhi. His love for design and technology led him to build a two-star business in pre-internet India.
Looking into the phenomenal aspect of Prashant’s education, he completed his Master in Management from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He also completed a B.Com degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai.
Upon acquiring the distinction of securing Rank 1 in the University of Bombay, First Year LLB exam, Prashant was awarded the Sadhana Education Society’s TES Memorial Scholarship for the same.
Path of Inspiration For Others
Prashant has almost 3,800 hrs of Executive coaching experience and trained over 1,00,000 participants in more than 500 top corporates pan-India and worldwide. Prashant Sharma is the author of a bestselling book on Soft Skills (3rd edition), published by Asia’s largest publisher of IT books. He shares his corporate learnings and life coachings on his youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@thecoachprashant
He has trained thousands of participants over the years of training. Prashant is an industry- expert in executive consulting and coaching with senior corporates and entrepreneurs across verticals to enable them to get the visibility, recognition and growth that they deserve. Additionally, he has a deep experience in training and facilitating diverse cohorts: First Time Managers to Lateral and Mid-Managers level, right up to CXO level Consulting and coaching. To reach a wider audience, Prashant also has an channel on Instagram where he shares his daily life’s experiences: @thecoachprashant
Prashant’s focus is on helping his clients develop Executive Presence & Personal Branding, Sales and Client Centricity, Team Building, Leadership Development programs and other Behavioral training for Fortune 500 companies, GCCs, Global Multinationals, PSUs and SMEs.
One quote that inspires Prashant Sharma. “Leave an Impression…..Non a Stain.”
