Hi, I’m Nethra.

I coach for congruence. I help people and align their work with their values. My clients learn to write their own scripts to actualize lives that expresses who they are. I support my clients in making career transitions, building new businesses, and finding work they love. I work with entrepreneurs, engineers, startup cofounders, academics, writers, artists, and executives who want to chart their own path. I support them in deepening their self-awareness, communicating their needs and boundaries and building careers that actualize their full potential.

I provide consulting for companies and organizational trainings that support teams in transforming their communication to move from conflict to collaboration. I use a unique method that blends ethnography, design thinking, and Nonviolent Communication, a practice of empathetic listening and conflict mediation.

My Vision for Work

I work for joy. I write to reflect on the mysteries of our collective human condition that I witness as I accompany people through their lives.

I live by the water in a town called Sausalito, where the fog rolls over the bay and houseboats hug the docks like barnacles in technicolor, politely declining conformity.

I think about what it means to risk becoming ourselves. I spend my days supporting people to craft lives that express who they are. I help them build careers and relationships that are distinct, unique, and undeniably them. This involves bricolage and iteration, of building through trial and error. My own life has been a process of crafting.

My Background

I have a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. I have taught ethnography and listening skills at the Stanford d.School and the Department of Anthropology. My organizational tranings have supported employees in fintech companies, public libraries, non-profits, and universities to deepen their skills in listening and collaboration.