By profession I am a second generation manufacturing business owner. By passion, a certified business and leadership coach. The second grew out of the first. I work with leaders like me: working hard, struggling with things they rarely say out loud, and still wanting more. None of this is theory. This is my purpose, and the whole reason I coach.
Family businessCemetile IndustriesPartner, running it since 1996
Experience25+ years training leadersInitially as a volunteer, professionally since 2012
Certified byActionCOACH, USACenter for Transformational Coaching Dale Carnegie Institute
Based inPuneWorking with leaders across India
The real problemis rarely the strategy.
Come to think of it,if you disappeared for thirty days, would your business grow, survive, or stop?
Pick one of the three
Most common answer
Survive is what most owners say, and it is the most dangerous of the three. It means the business is held together by your presence rather than by its systems. Nothing collapses while you are there, so nothing gets fixed. The repair is rarely a new strategy. It starts with changing how you think about your own role in it.
Owners do not get stuck for want of ideas or effort. It is almost always something quieter. Decisions get taken the way they always have been, firefighting slowly becomes the job, and the effort that keeps the business alive is the very thing that stops it growing.
None of this is solved by a better plan.You need to change the thinking behind it.
Why meCoach and business owner, both
I still run the business I coach you about.
Cemetile Industries was started by my father in 1964. My brother was over ten years into the business when I joined in 1996. Thirty years on I am still running it with him, manufacturing interlocking concrete pavers, tiles, retaining wall systems and precast items, and executing projects on a turnkey basis.
Which means
The generation gap you cannot argue across. The month the cash does not cover what is due. The client who complains loudest and still has to be kept. The team that underperforms while you wonder if it is you. The work that eats the evenings and follows you home. I have experienced every one of these.
These are not stages of one programme. One runs over months, with an owner or with the partners who run a business together. The other is one to many, for an organisation, a network or a company.
One to oneOngoing, over months
Business and leadership coaching
For owners, partners and the leaders beside them. Structure and thinking in the same conversation, because one rarely moves without the other. Most people come because the business has stopped moving. What shifts first is usually how they see their own role in it.
My brainchild, one of a kind, run across India from Pune to Vizag. You learn to grow and scale a business in a structured way, and leave with strategies you can use the next day. Not a lecture. High energy fun with other entrepreneurs.
Built around what the team actually needs, not an off the shelf module. Team training, quarterly planning days, leadership offsites and keynote speaking, for companies and for social organisations.
We had reached a peak. We had our own glass ceilings and didn't know which way to go. Headless chickens, total mess. Today we know exactly who we are and where we are headed.
Vineet DhawanCEO, Digital Convergence TechnologiesLeadership coaching, over two years
At one point I was actually really frustrated and my dissatisfaction level was so high at that time that I met Sanjay, and I really found that he had a structured way of helping me out.
Navin GoyalCEO, PineticsBusiness coaching, 2017 to 2019 and since 2022
The boardgames workshop was an eye-opener. Twenty five years in this business, and it was the first time I understood the importance of the other key numbers. Not just the top line.
The first conversationWhichever of the three brought you here
Message me. You will be talking to me.
No form, no calendar link, no assistant. Tell me what is going on and I will tell you what I see, honestly, including when the honest answer is that I am not the right person for it.
CoachingThe business has stopped movingTell me where it is stuck and what you have already tried. For owners, partners and the leaders beside them.
BoardgamesYou want to book Business Brilliance Through BoardgamesTell me the group, the city and roughly when. I will tell you what the evening needs to work.
WorkshopsYou are planning an offsite, a team training or a keynoteTell me the team, the day you have in mind and what you want them walking out with.
Not sureYou do not know which of those it isSay so. Working that out is the easiest part of the conversation.
