Vijay describes himself as a wanderer, a dabbler, a student, a seeker, a Thriver, and a Sherpa.
His purpose is to help people awaken, heal, grow, and thrive through life’s transitions, big or small.
Overlapping careers spanning 25 years in advertising at Ogilvy and Mather, 22 years in leadership consulting through Roots and Wings, and 9 years in cancer coaching with Cancer Awakens (do the math!) gave him the opportunity to live and work across cultures and continents. Along the way, he earned some successes and more than a few scars.
In 2001, Vijay was diagnosed with colon cancer. He has been a cancer-thriver ever since. “Cancer healed me,” he says. That experience led him to co-author My Cancer Is Me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness and to pioneer Cancer Coaching in India.
Today, Vijay serves as an Independent Director on a corporate board and as an Advisory Board member to two non profits. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, stress and wellbeing, and cancer.
His superpower is clarity of thought and expression, rooted in relentless curiosity. He keenly explores three domains: Nature, Culture, and Self. After engaging deeply with many philosophies, he has settled on Absurdism: Life is a circus. Astonishing and amusing, all at once.
In his sunset years, Vijay practises meaningful mischief with people who can think deeply and laugh easily at themselves.
