As a serial entrepreneur turned executive coach to founders and leaders, Dileepan believes in the power of business as a tool for both personal and social transformation. Over the course of a 20 year professional career, he learned that your own strengths and weaknesses are mirrored in the organization you build. And how you relate to your business is often how you relate to other parts of your life. This critical insight was borne out of deep work with exceptional guides that made his entrepreneurial journey less of a struggle and a lot less lonely. This experience led Dileepan down the same path advising and coaching top tier founders and leaders in their own business–and personal–transformation journeys.
Dileepan has built, scaled and sold three high-growth venture-backed startups and also served as a senior commerce executive at Twitter and eBay. Before working in the technology sector, he advised leaders at global Fortune 50 companies including PepsiCo and Unilever as well as public and non-profit institutions including the United Nations, US Department of State and the Gates Foundation. He brings this breadth of experience across sectors and in career transition to his coaching practice.
Blending executive coaching with depth psychology and spiritual traditions, Dileepan leverages a range of modalities in his work. He is trained as a coach through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), Conscious Leadership Group and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Marin. Dileepan also draws on his meditation and mindfulness experience from Buddhism. He received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley and MBA from Harvard Business School. Dileepan is a Third Culture Kid, born in London, raised in the Middle East and has lived and worked in over 40 countries on five continents. He currently resides in Los Angeles.