Khurshed Dehnugara

Khurshed Dehnugara has specialized in working globally with the CEOs and Executive Teams of listed organizations, for twenty years. He has an unusual combination of business acumen and psychological training and is a highly experienced coach who brings leadership and strategy together in a challenging and collaborative way.

Dehnugara has a deep interest in the ability of organizational leaders to challenge their habits and work with the inevitable anxiety this creates, in large businesses that are designed for stability rather than significant change. He is an author of four books on this topic the latest being “100 Mindsets of Challenger Leaders,” published in 2019.

As a coach Dehnugara is particularly known for providing a strong challenge to habitual thinking. He specializes in working with those who are highly self dependent, intellectually strong, achievement oriented, skeptical about the value that coaching can provide and having to lead despite high personal stress levels.

Dehnugara’s early career was as a Commercial Director with GlaxoSmithKline. He has a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Pharmacology and a MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. He is a Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the UK Council for Psychotherapy. He also teaches and supervises students of coaching on the MSc in Coaching Psychology at the Metanoia Institute, London.