What happens when leadership development moves from the slide to the conversation?
Today at EY, Shiffy Srivastava facilitated an engaging session on “Ignite the Best in Others” with our Directors and Senior Leadership Team.
What stood out was her approach.
She didn’t simply explain coaching.
She made leaders experience it.
Through practical exercises and real coaching moments, leaders explored how to:
* Ask better questions instead of rushing to give answers
* Listen beyond what is being said
* Probe with curiosity and purpose
* Use silence to create thinking space
* Challenge without taking away ownership
* Help people arrive at their own insights
The room became a space for practice, reflection and discovery.
And some of the most powerful moments came when leaders saw, first-hand, how one thoughtful question could completely change the direction of a conversation.
That was the real aha.
Shiffy’s strength lies in making learning practical, participative and immediately relevant to leadership.
There was no distance between the learning and the workplace.
The conversations were the learning.
The practice was the learning.
And the reflection turned that learning into something leaders could carry into their teams.
A strong leadership intervention doesn’t just leave people with notes.
It leaves them with a different way of showing up.
Shiffy’s work demonstrated exactly that.
Thank you, Shiffy, for creating a learning experience that was thoughtful, deeply engaging and genuinely relevant to the leadership moments that matter.
The real impact of coaching is seen in the conversation that happens after the workshop.
