Neesha Patel

Life & Career Design Coaching

Design a life and career you’re energized by.

A globally experienced relationship-builder, strategist, and communicator turned life design coach. After nearly two decades working with leaders across Canada, Hong Kong, and India, I now bring that same depth, structure, and partnership to personal growth.

As a certified Designing Your Life (DYL) coach, I combine a proven Stanford-based methodology with real-world experience in high-stakes environments. My work today is simple: helping people design meaningful lives and careers with intention and energy.

Experience across global institutions

My Career Journey

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

University of Pennsylvania

Where I built my academic foundation and developed a global perspective that shaped my early path.

An Ivy League institution recognized globally for academic excellence.

Psychology

Understanding how meaning, identity, and behavior shift - and how real change takes root.

Philosophy

Study in Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita - bringing depth, self-inquiry, and a steady inner foundation.

Yoga and Meditation

Practices that cultivate awareness, calm. and alignment from within.

My Career Journey

Depth & Perspective

What I’ve learned—both in boardrooms and through deep inner work—is what I bring to you. My background in corporate leadership, combined with studies in philosophy, psychology, and mind-body practices, allows me to support you with grounded clarity, compassion, and presence.

This is where strategy meets meaning.
And where alignment becomes the foundation for your next chapter.

The Pivot

I chose to shift my career toward work that felt more human, more meaningful, and more connected to the kind of impact I wanted to have in the world. That led me to become a certified Designing Your Life coach — so I can help people design lives and careers they truly want, not just the ones they think they “should have.”

Who I Work With

I partner with people who are ready to step into their next chapter with intention — whether they’re feeling stuck, craving change, or seeking more alignment and energy. Together, we move through three core outcomes:

Clarity

Get unstuck and design your next chapter.

Understand what matters, what’s in your way, and what you truly want next — with tools and frameworks that make big questions feel lighter and actionable.

Momentum

Let’s move your life forward, on purpose.

Build the habits, structures, and accountability you need to turn insight into motion — one purposeful step at a time.

Possibility

Redefine the edges of your potential.

Unlock new perspectives and reimagine what your life or career can look like through guided exploration, strategic reframing, and experiential tools that spark fresh direction.

How I Support Individuals & Organizations

I bring a refined, strategic coaching approach that helps individuals and teams elevate their thinking, strengthen alignment, and move with intention. Through thoughtful inquiry and tailored frameworks, I enable clients to create clarity, unlock performance, and sustain meaningful growth.

Individuals

1:1 Life & Career Design Coaching

Personal clarity, confidence, and momentum through warm, structured partnership.

Design a life and career that energizes you
Build habits, structure, and accountability
Translate insight into meaningful, sustained progress

Organizations

Leadership & Culture by Design

Modern, human-centered coaching and workshops for teams and leaders.

Leadership and communication coaching
Design thinking workshops for clarity and alignment
Support through change, culture, and transformation

Designing Your Life — Tools for Change

Grounded in Stanford’s renowned Design Thinking methodology, this work offers a sophisticated toolkit for navigating transition and shaping what comes next. Through reframing, wayfinding, and prototyping, you gain a structured yet imaginative path to clarity, possibility, and lasting transformation.

Wayfinding

Clarifying what energizes you and mapping your next steps with awareness and curiosity.

Prototyping Futures

Using design thinking to test small, low-risk experiments that reveal insights about what’s next.

Reframing Challenges

Shifting perspectives to unlock creativity, energy, and action where you feel stuck.

Is This You?

Here are some of the real questions, moments, and crossroads that bring people to this work

"I'm successful on paper, but something feels off."

You’re in a “good” job — yet you’re craving meaning, alignment, and energy, not just achievement.

"I'm at a crossroads and unsure what's next."

Career, geography, identity, lifestyle — something is shifting, and you want clarity before making your next move.

"I'm ready for a change, but I feel stuck."

You want momentum and direction — and a thought partner to help you move from intention to action.

"I’ve outgrown the life I built — now what?"

You’ve evolved, but your life hasn’t caught up. You want your outer world to finally reflect who you are becoming — not who you used to be.

You get one life. Let’s design it with intention

Ready to design your next chapter?

Let’s have a warm, no-pressure conversation about where you are and what you want next.