Meenakshi Iyer, MBA, ICF-ACC, ICP-ACC

ICF-Certified Personal Agility and Self-leadership Coach, Inclusive Leadership and Remote Work Skills Trainer, OCM Consultant, Speaker

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Strategic | Responsibility | Connectedness | Learner | Achiever  

Meenakshi is a global citizen, an inclusive and collaborative servant leader, and a professional thinker and doer.

"Stop. Breathe. Think. Act." is her motto.

A T-shaped servant leader with a 20 plus-year international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, Meenakshi is a champion of personal agility, self-leadership, and inclusive, collaborative ways of working. She is fluent in four languages, and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. She is passionate about democratizing access to, and opportunity for, people development across the world.

Meenakshi founded NorthStar Solutions and Services in August 2019 to partner with mid-career IT/Agile professionals and leaders, and small to medium-sized businesses, globally, in co-creating successful outcomes for their transformation journeys, especially in this digital, VUCA economy. She specializes in supporting IT/Agile Project/Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile Coaches, new managers and mid-level leaders, and solopreneurs. Her clients seek her out for Coaching when they are:

  - Looking for a new role or promotion at work

  - Taking on a team leader role for the first time

  - Being promoted into their first mid-level leadership role

  - Seeking better engagement with remote/multi-cultural teams

  - Transitioning from being employed into becoming a solopreneur

An alum of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Meenakshi graduated from their Executive MBA program, with a concentration in Healthcare Management. She also has an Executive Master's Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Business Process Design for Strategic Management; and a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®.  An ICF-Certified Coach, and a Certified Professional Coach from Coacharya, she holds a BS in Physics from Bharathiar University, India, and as well as an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering. 

An IC Agile certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), Meenakshi started her Agile journey in 2014, and her Agile experience is in B2B product development and client implementation in the healthcare space in the US. She excels in the application of Lean and Human-centered Design in professional, organizational and agile transformations.

Meenakshi is an active member of the Lean In Agile (LIA) community, a global professional development and networking forum for women in Lean and Agile spaces. She serves on the Catalyst team for the Washington DC area Spiral, where she’s had the privilege of coaching and mentoring several LIA women in their professional transformation journeys. She lives in Virginia, USA, with her husband. In their free time, they enjoy going on road trips to the countryside, and visiting local wineries and breweries