“Ananya asked me one question in our first session that I'm still answering four years later: what am I actually optimizing for?”

— Rhea Kapoor, VP Engineering, on 18 months of coaching with Ananya Rao

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I'm Ananya Rao. I coach senior operators who are excellent at their jobs and stuck on what's next.

I spent eleven years running product and ops teams before I became a full-time coach — most recently as VP Operations at a 400-person logistics company. I work with senior ICs, first-time VPs, and founders who don't need someone to tell them what to do. They need someone to ask better questions and hold them to their own answers.

Ananya Rao, executive coach

How the engagement works

1

A 45-minute fit call

No pitch, just an honest conversation about whether this is useful for you right now.

2

Biweekly 1:1 sessions

A minimum four-month engagement, every other week, same time, no rescheduling churn.

3

Async support between sessions

Email or voice notes whenever something comes up — you're not saving it for the next call.

What coaching actually sounds like

“I stopped bringing Ananya my calendar problems in month three, because I finally understood they were never calendar problems.”

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Karthik Subramanian

Founder, seed-stage devtools startup

“She's the only person in my professional life who's allowed to interrupt me mid-sentence, and it's always because I was about to lie to myself.”

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Farah Contractor

VP Marketing, D2C fashion brand

11
Years in operating roles before coaching
60+
Senior leaders coached since 2021
4.9/5
Average client rating

What's included

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I take on a small number of new clients each quarter. Tell me where you are and what's not working — I read every application myself.

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