Transformative career growth, built on Authentic Executive Presence™, the X-factor AI can't replace.
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Master Certified Coach, held by only 4% of coaches worldwide
Your audience wants the next role and can't see what's standing in the way. Coach Anush names it, on air and in plain language, in a way they can use the same day. Pick your format.
Three takeaways each, built for a four-minute slot. One of them happens on the studio floor.
See the segments Podcasts · For your listenersEach one ends with something to do, not just something to think about.
See the topics Print · For your readersPromotions, layoffs and reorgs, AI at work, working mothers in leadership. Quotes, background, and a headshot on request.
Send a press inquiryFour minutes, three takeaways, and something the viewer does differently that day. Four segments Coach Anush can deliver on air, and the news hooks they ride.
One mistake for each pillar of promotion readiness: presence, results, strategy.
Coach Anush's clients have earned raises of up to $50K.
From Executive Yoga, the most visual segment on this page: it can be demonstrated on a studio floor.
Strongest pegged to Mother's Day, back-to-school week, or Women's History Month.
Layoff and reorg headlines. Back-to-work September. Year-end reviews and promotion cycles. New Year career resets. AI-and-jobs news. Women's History Month and Equal Pay Day in March.
“Coach Anush has been instrumental to my career. She understands how to get to the root cause of an issue, teach you how to address complex — and often vague — scenarios, and to flourish as an authentic leader.”
Your listeners are doing the next-level job without the title, leading teams through reorgs and AI with less than they had last year, and wondering what still sets a leader apart. Eight conversations, each with something they can use before the episode ends. Coach Anush's own story, first-generation immigrant to Master Certified Coach, with 700+ leaders and high potentials coached along the way, runs underneath every one.
For listeners who got here on results and can't figure out why the next role isn't coming. Why the strengths that made them indispensable (grinding, delivering, doing it yourself) now keep them in execution, and what becoming the obvious choice for the next role actually looks like.
For an audience that believes presence alone will get them there. Promotion readiness is three things, not one: Authentic Executive Presence, results, and strategy. Your listeners leave knowing which of the three they are missing, and how self-made leaders at Fortune 500 companies close the gap until the promotion becomes the obvious call.
For managers leading through the third reorg in two years. Twelve years of coaching leaders through reorgs, COVID, and the AI revolution, distilled into how to lead a team through change and do more with less without losing your mind or your people.
For anyone with a conversation coming up that could make or break their career. Inside Fortune 500 companies, one meeting can carry a multimillion-dollar decision, a product used by billions of people, and the career of the person leading it. Asking for the role, pushing back, delivering hard news: the L.E.A.D. framework (Listen & Locate, Embody, Assert, Develop) gives your listeners a way to walk in ready.
For an audience asking what's left for humans. Delivery can be automated. Authentic Executive Presence can't. Why the presence people feel in the room and decide to trust now decides promotions more than ever, and how your listeners build it.
For shows that want something listeners can feel, not just hear. The 7 Leadership Master Steps in 7 Yoga Poses, first presented at BetterUp's UPLIFT summit: how leaders build Authentic Executive Presence in the body, not just on the slide, and sustain the pace they are being asked to keep.
For the women in your audience who are asked, in a hundred quiet ways, to choose. Coach Anush is a mother and a Master Certified Coach who coaches women in tech at Fortune 500 companies. The conversation: how to lead at the executive level and mother the way you want to without apologizing for either, what Authentic Executive Presence looks like when you're leading as a parent and at work, and how to have the promotion conversation when a family is part of the equation.
For coach audiences, and for the people who hire coaches. What mastery in coaching really asks of you, and why it is the price of admission for coaching leaders of leaders, from a Master Certified Coach who widens the ripple effect of coaching through workshops with other coaches.
Coach Anush is available as an expert source for stories on promotions and career growth, layoffs and reorgs, AI at work, Authentic Executive Presence, and working mothers in leadership.
Coach Anush Gagua, MCC, is the promotion readiness coach self-made leaders call when the results that got them noticed stop getting them promoted.
Her clients are high achievers and leaders at Fortune 500 companies, many of them women in tech, who built their careers from nothing and are now asked to lead through reorgs, AI, and shrinking budgets while being seen, heard, and trusted at the next level. She calls the work alchemy: the same leader, transformed into the obvious choice. What changes is Authentic Executive Presence: something people feel in the room and decide to trust, and the one thing AI can't replace.
For 12 years, Coach Anush has coached leaders through change: reorgs, COVID, and now the AI revolution. Before coaching, she was a PR executive and CNN World Reporter.
She creates impact at the individual, organizational, and enterprise level. The same work that gets one leader promoted changes how a team is led, and how a company grows its next generation of leaders.
She is the creator of Authentic Executive Presence™: The Promotion Accelerator and of Executive Yoga: 7 Leadership Master Steps in 7 Yoga Poses™, which pairs Authentic Executive Presence with wellness so leaders can sustain the pace.
She holds the Master Certified Coach credential, held by only 4% of coaches worldwide, and now widens the ripple effect of coaching through workshops with other coaches. Her mission: to break generational cycles of scarcity through transformative career growth, one self-made leader at a time.
Coach Anush was a speaker at BetterUp's UPLIFT 2024 executive summit, which featured speakers such as Adam Grant, Marshall Goldsmith, and Martin Seligman, alongside the best of the best from every industry. She has been invited to share her insights and coaching tools from thousands of sessions at the GATHER NORAM Coach Conference, and has delivered workshops at the ABHES National Conference, for the Wyndham Sales Leadership Team, at an LA Chamber of Commerce event, and at other events on leadership, peak performance, and leading through stress and resilience.
The short version, for producers, hosts, and writers on deadline.
Anush Gagua, MCC, known as Coach Anush, is a promotion readiness coach for self-made leaders at Fortune 500 companies and the founder of Outstanding Life Coach, Inc., based in Los Angeles. She is a Master Certified Coach (ICF), a credential held by only 4% of coaches worldwide, has coached 700+ leaders and high potentials, and before coaching was a PR executive and CNN World Reporter.
A promotion readiness coach prepares leaders to be the obvious choice for the next role. Coach Anush defines promotion readiness as three things: Authentic Executive Presence™, results, and strategy. Her clients are high achievers and leaders at Fortune 500 companies, many of them women in tech, who built their careers from nothing.
Authentic Executive Presence™ is Coach Anush's term for the presence people feel in the room and decide to trust: the X-factor AI can't replace, and the one that gets leaders promoted. It is the foundation of Authentic Executive Presence™: The Promotion Accelerator and of Executive Yoga: 7 Leadership Master Steps in 7 Yoga Poses™.
Promotion readiness and the self-made leader's ceiling; leading through uncertainty, from reorgs to the AI revolution; high-stakes conversations using her L.E.A.D. framework (Listen & Locate, Embody, Assert, Develop); Authentic Executive Presence™ in the age of AI; Executive Yoga; motherhood as an executive woman; and coaching mastery for coaches who work with leaders of leaders.
Coach Anush was a speaker at BetterUp's UPLIFT 2024 executive summit, alongside speakers such as Adam Grant, Marshall Goldsmith, and Martin Seligman. She has presented at the GATHER NORAM Coach Conference and delivered workshops at the ABHES National Conference, for the Wyndham Sales Leadership Team, and at an LA Chamber of Commerce event.
Use the invitation form on this page or email coach@anushgagua.com. A headshot, an on-set photo, a media bio, and a forty-second host introduction are on this page and free to use. Coach Anush is based in Los Angeles.
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Our guest today is Coach Anush Gagua, a Master Certified Coach, a credential held by only 4% of coaches worldwide, who has spent 12 years coaching leaders through change: reorgs, COVID, and now the AI revolution. She has coached more than 700 leaders and high potentials across Fortune 500 companies, and before coaching she was a PR executive and CNN World Reporter. She coaches self-made high achievers and leaders on the thing that gets them promoted and that AI can't replace: Authentic Executive Presence. She's the creator of Authentic Executive Presence: The Promotion Accelerator and the 7 Leadership Master Steps in 7 Yoga Poses, and she's here to talk about how leaders grow when the ground keeps moving.
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