Meet the SHEROES - Payal Gandhi Hoon

Payal Gandhi Hoon is a NLP Specialist and founded Tamarai, an emotional wellness and corporate training center. Payal tells us how she kickstarted Tamarai and how NLP can help individuals as well as corporate for personal and professional excellence.. Read on to know more.

Tell us more about yourself. 

I am into the space of coaching for emotional well being and training in corporate excellence. As an army officer’s daughter; I got exposed to myriad cultures across the country. That translated for me to be appreciate diversity and uniqueness. Also I began embracing change at a fast pace for we moved often from one to place to the other.

I picked my first job in the capital with a training consultancy after my post graduation in HR. This gave me a flavour of being a consultant and working with different industry types across the country and Philippines. Post which I joined an ITES company; where my specialisation was to create training content. And then I joined a Big 4 company, which was a platform to add finesse and expertise to advisors in the consulting space.

What got Tamarai started?

As training professional, all through my career of more than 13 years I looked at challenging myself and learning something new every time. So I could add something new to my trainee’s professional acumen and much I wished to their life as well. My purpose really was to touch each person’s life in a positive way even if I met once. This propelled me into exploring an experiential way of transforming self as not just as a professional but also as an individual - Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

I pursued my NLP certifications in India and France and then set up Tamarai in Dec 2011– ‘A Lotus’ with the philosophy of “Our life is ‘Tamarai’- The Lotus – the petals of which will unfold the real you. Like a Lotus, no matter the conditions, it holds the promise to emerge and hold its ground in serenity." Tamarai is registered as a trainer member with an international NLP body – ANLP.

 How can NLP help an individual?

Apart from the corporate training, sexual harassment prevention and awareness training and other learning interventions, Tamarai offers open public and corporate workshops in NLP. It offers an opportunity and an oasis to take the time to reflect on matters whether personal or professional – that may have been brewing in your mind for a while. It enables for you reprogram your thoughts, words and actions in the format just like a computer that suits you the most and leads you to desired results.

NLP is a study of excellence – in thoughts, words and actions. And what is excellence – it is someone consistently and with ease being to generate the result that you may be wanting in your life – could be in the way you drive a car, manage time, manage yourself before a gathering, maybe to write a book, complete a project, make decisions…
 

 Are there any challenges you face in a work day? What are they?

Like anyone else, in the normal course of life – there are bound to be hay days and dull days. It’s just that the challenges vary based on the kind of work that we may be into.  And I firmly believe that each challenge can be converted into an opportunity.

When I started out in 2011, I wasn’t really sure of how to run a business and I had not known a world outside the corporate arena. True I had immense passion but then I opened my eyes and became curious to learn how things work- from managing a website, to contracts, to delivering end to end training projects, logistics and so on.

On a day to day basis; it could amount to managing external interruptions for largely the perception of people working from home is not viewed as really work.  Or could even being convincing people to explore something for their very own benefit. That sure translates to ‘different strokes for different folks.’

Message to all SHEROES out there. 

To be a SHERO, having the passion and skill is one thing; but you need courage, patience, perseverance, thinking on feet, and relentless hope to keep on moving! That surely will make you ride on success. On a lighter note- it may sound like a laundry list – but it works! The answer lies in the experience…

If nothing else, you living the life of your dreams and surely there would be no regrets of what if!

Wish you much cheer and many victories!