IIT Madras
A semester course at one of India's premier institutes.
04 · For institutes
Teaching
The most useful things I know were never on a syllabus.
01 · What I teach
Three things, taught many ways.
Mindset
The beliefs that keep capable people small
Limiting beliefs, and the ceilings people inherit without ever choosing them. Most of the work is naming those out loud, which is usually the first time anyone has.
Confidence
Courage, presence, voice
Self-belief that survives contact with an audience. Presence and communication, on stage and on camera. Leading without a title, which is how most people actually have to lead.
Happiness
What the success is for
Habits that hold, and an honest look at what people are chasing. Achievement is easy to teach. Contentment is the harder subject, and nobody teaches it.
02 · Formats
Semester courses
The long arc
A full term with one cohort. Depth, practice and change you can watch happen week by week.
Intensives
One deep day
Workshops and multi-day intensives for cohorts, faculties and creator communities.
Guest teaching
The single room
Lectures, faculty days and community sessions, designed with the host rather than off the shelf.
03 · Recent classrooms
Where the work has happened
Creator Takeoff Academy
Coaching young creators past the beliefs that keep them off camera.
Institutes
IIT MadrasCreator Takeoff Academy
Mayo College Girls' School
"One of the best coaches this programme has ever had. The way you hold space for their feelings, help them shift the beliefs holding them back, and do it all with so much warmth. The students adore you."
Creator Takeoff Academy
04 · An invitation
Bring this to your campus
If your students or your community need this work, tell me about them. We will design the room together.
Let's talkCalls are unhurried, and there is nothing to prepare.
Everything else, in one place.