Khurshed Dehnugara
Khurshed has an unusual combination of business acumen and psychological training. He is a highly experienced coach who brings leadership and strategy together for senior leaders in a challenging and collaborative way.
Khurshed has eleven years experience of coaching, team facilitation and culture change, working at the most senior levels of FTSE 100 organisations in the Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Telecommunications sectors. He has worked at Group Board levels for Aviva, GlaxoSmithKline, National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Prudential, Telstra and T Mobile along with many leadership teams of other local operating companies and subsidiaries. His early career was as a Commercial Director with GlaxoSmithKline.
Khurshed has a deep interest in the ability of organisational 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 the co-author of Challenger Spirit, a research project into those organisations that successfully disturb the status quo in their market. Khurshed is editor of the Challenger Spirit blog that is distributed monthly to 700 senior leaders worldwide.
As a coach he is particularly known for providing a strong challenge to habitual thinking. He specialises in working with those who are highly defended, intellectually strong, achievement oriented, sceptical about the value that coaching can provide and having to lead despite high personal stress levels.
Khurshed 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. Khurshed’s work is underpinned by his psychological training and he has an interest in Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural, Gestalt, Person Centred and Psychodynamic models of adult learning and change.
