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Waqt Gurus Consulting
About Waqt Gurus

Two practitioners.
One shared purpose.

Between us, we bring more than five decades of practitioner experience: executive leadership, transformation, executive coaching, and executive presence. At Waqt Gurus, we believe leadership is not something we achieve once. It is something we continually become.

Leadership Evolves Through Inner Shifts™

The most meaningful leadership growth rarely begins with a new framework or a better answer.
It begins with a different question.

A question that challenges how we think. How we lead. How we influence. How we see ourselves. We call these Inner Shifts™.

Why We Started Waqt Gurus

The gap we kept seeing.

Throughout our careers, we kept noticing the same pattern. Some of the most accomplished leaders were carrying the heaviest questions. Not questions about execution, strategy, or technical expertise, those they had already mastered.

The questions were quieter. “How do I influence without authority?” “How do I lead through uncertainty?” “Who do I need to become for the next chapter of my leadership?”

At the same time, we met equally capable professionals whose knowledge was undeniable, but whose capability was not always reflected in how they were experienced by others. Capability and presence do not always grow together.

We created Waqt Gurus to bridge that gap. Helping leaders strengthen both the person they are becoming and the presence with which they lead.

A winding country road through green alpine meadows, seen from above.

धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय।
माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ऋतु आए फल होय॥

“Slowly, slowly, O mind, everything happens in its own time.
The gardener may water a hundred pots, but the fruit arrives only in its season.”
— Saint Kabir

The word Waqt means Time. We chose this name because meaningful growth cannot be rushed. Leadership is not built in a workshop, or a book, or a single coaching conversation. It develops through experience, reflection, practice, and the Inner Shifts™ that unfold over time.

Meet the Founders

Two perspectives.
One shared conviction.

Leadership Within™

Rohit Singla

CFI Certified Executive Coach

I have spent 28 years inside rooms where strategy was discussed, transformations were planned, and difficult decisions were made. What fascinated me most was never the strategy. It was the people carrying its weight.

Have led strategy and operations across Fortune 500 enterprises, startups and high-growth SaaS companies, building the governance architecture, operating cadence, and business management systems that turn strategy into execution. Most recently served as India Board Director with accountability for governance, risk, compliance, business continuity, across a 3,000-person GCC (Pune and Hyderabad). For over twelve years, have partnered directly with India Heads as a Chief of Staff, bringing structure to ambiguity, connecting priorities to decisions, and driving follow-through.

Today, he brings that experience into executive coaching.

Not to give leaders the answers. To help them find better questions and their own answers.

Rohit Singla on LinkedIn →
Presence Beyond™

Deepa Singla

Executive Presence Strategist

The way we present ourselves is not about impressing others. It is about removing the distance between who we already are and how clearly that reaches the room.

Deepa believes that leadership is experienced long before a word is spoken. Certified through the Judith Rasband methodology, one of the most rigorous, psychologically grounded approaches to image in the world, her work is rooted in a single conviction: presence is not about appearances. It is about alignment.

Through executive presence, image strategy, personal branding, communication, and professional etiquette, she helps leaders strengthen the outward expression of their capability. Her work is never about changing people. It is about helping them become more recognisably themselves.

She works at her own pace, with people who find their way to her. Quietly. Without fanfare. Making a difference one person at a time.

Deepa Singla on LinkedIn →

Rohit works primarily on Leadership Within™. Deepa works primarily on Presence Beyond™. Together, they approach leadership from the inside out.

Knowledge is power.
Experience is powerful.

This belief sits quietly at the heart of Waqt Gurus. Knowledge gives us perspective. Experience gives us wisdom. One tells us what is possible. The other teaches us what is real. Between us, we bring decades of practitioner experience. But experience alone is never enough. Every client brings experiences we do not have. That is why we approach every conversation with curiosity before certainty. Listening before advising. Questions before conclusions.

Why Leaders in Complex Environments

Leadership becomes different as the environment becomes more complex.

More stakeholders. More ambiguity. More competing priorities. More responsibility, often without more authority.

The leadership challenge is no longer simply about knowing what to do. It is about seeing what others may not see, making decisions when there is no obvious answer, influencing across boundaries, and remaining grounded while the demands around you keep changing.

These are the environments we understand. Our experience spans global enterprises, Global Capability Centers, transformation, operations, governance and high-growth businesses. We bring that experience into the coaching room, not to tell leaders what to do, but to help them think more clearly about what comes next.

The Waqt Gurus Way

We listen before we advise.
We ask before we answer.

Every engagement is different. Every leader is different. But our approach remains consistent.

  1. Arrival

    The presenting issue is rarely the real one.

    The first conversation surfaces what is visible. What matters is what sits underneath.

  2. Exploration

    Patterns surface that have never quite been named.

    Not through assessment or diagnosis,through the quality of the question asked at the right moment.

  3. The Pivot

    The moment something shifts. Unplanned. Unscripted. Real.

    We have never seen a leader change because someone told them what was wrong. Leaders change when they suddenly see themselves differently.

  4. Integration

    New ways of seeing become new ways of leading.

    Insights that belong to the leader,because they found them,are the ones that last.

  5. Ownership

    The leader no longer needs us. Which is always the goal.

    Our goal is never dependence. It is independence. The work is complete when a leader has become more fully themselves.

What happens in the room stays in the room. Completely. Always. The coaching container is only as powerful as the trust that holds it.
A smiling colleague listening in a team discussion around a wooden table.
Frequently Asked Questions

What you may be wondering.

What is executive coaching?

Executive coaching is not consulting, mentoring, or training. It is a thinking partnership. A confidential space where leaders slow down long enough to notice what constant activity often hides. Our role is not to provide answers,it is to help leaders discover their own. Because insights that are discovered become part of who you are. Advice rarely does.

Why do you focus on leadership in complex environments?

Leadership becomes genuinely different when the environment is complex, more stakeholders, more ambiguity, more responsibility without equivalent authority. Our combined experience spans global enterprises, GCCs, startups and high-growth businesses. We understand these environments from the inside. That gives us context. Coaching helps leaders discover their own path through it.

What does Leadership Within mean?

Leadership Within is the inner work of leadership,self-awareness, confidence, strategic thinking, leadership identity, executive judgment, and influence. This is the work that happens long before anyone else notices. Understanding yourself as a leader, and growing intentionally into the next version of that leader.

What does Presence Beyond mean?

Presence Beyond is how leadership is experienced by others,executive presence, communication, professional image, credibility, visibility, and personal brand. It is the outward expression of leadership. Because leadership is not only about what we know. It is also about how others experience what we know.

Do I need to engage both Rohit and Deepa?

Not at all. Some clients work exclusively with Rohit. Others work exclusively with Deepa. Many choose to combine both. Leadership Within™ develops the person. Presence Beyond™ strengthens how that person is experienced. The choice depends entirely on your goals.

Do you offer virtual coaching?

Yes. Coaching engagements are available virtually across India and globally. The quality of the conversation does not depend on the room. It depends on the trust and focus both parties bring to it.

How do I get started?

Start with a conversation. Not a sales pitch. Not a diagnostic session. A conversation,to understand where you are, what is asking more of you, and whether this is the right moment for this kind of work. There is no urgency from our side. The right time is the one that is right for you.

If something resonates,
we would be honoured to begin.

If something in these ideas resonates with you, if you recognise the leadership terrain we have described, we would be honoured to begin with a conversation. No agenda. No pressure. Just the opportunity to think together.

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