Frequently Asked Questions

A consultant typically diagnoses your business problem from the outside and hands you a recommended solution. A mentor shares their own personal experience and advice. A coach works differently. Instead of diagnosing or advising, a coach helps you uncover your own answers by asking the right questions and helping you connect patterns you hadn't seen. Poonam's approach is coaching in this sense, helping you tap into your own wisdom rather than importing someone else's playbook.

It's a structured, ongoing process, typically involving regular sessions, designed to help leaders build clarity, capability, and self-awareness around the specific challenges they're facing in leading their business or team. It's distinct from therapy, which addresses psychological wellbeing, and from training, which teaches specific skills.

If the same challenges keep recurring despite your best efforts to solve them directly, delegation that doesn't stick, decisions that keep bottlenecking through you, growth that isn't translating into freedom, that's often a sign the issue sits at a deeper level than a temporary rough patch.

Engagements vary depending on your goals and stage, from a single 3-hour online group workshop to a full-year Annual Coaching Program. Popular formats include the 5-session "Winning in Your Core Business" series and the "Be Home Retreat," a 3-day in-person retreat combined with online sessions. See the Programs page for full details.

Pricing varies depending on format, length, and whether it's a group or 1:1 engagement, and programs are periodically updated. Rather than list pricing here, we'd recommend booking a discovery call, where Poonam can walk you through the program best suited to your goals and its current pricing.

No. The core work, building self-awareness, delegation capability, and vision-led leadership, is relevant at nearly any stage where you're responsible for more than just your own individual output, including early-stage founders and small business owners.

Erickson Coaching International is a globally recognized coach training and certification body, known for a solution-focused methodology that emphasizes helping clients discover their own answers rather than being told what to do. Poonam is certified through this program (2017), alongside her earlier training at Landmark Worldwide beginning in 2009.