About Her
FARAH AKHTAR, Founder and CEO of UnleashYOU Excellence Academy is a professional driven with ambition and big dreams. She has 13 years of experience as a corporate professional, transformational business & life coach, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur. A die heart optimistic, and a fighter with a never say die attitude. She believes that life is absolutely beautiful and is waiting to give you all that you can hold.
She is committed to helping people live a life of happiness and success while leading with authenticity. She has worked with different multinational banks as well as asset management companies like Kotak Bank, Barclays Bank, Anand Rathi Pvt Ltd, Motilal Oswal Pvt Ltd. Her last stint was with CitiBank, doing various roles along with shouldering different responsibilities and during her last stint, she realized how a positive state of mind, self-awareness as well as self-introspection is of great importance. Hence the need for a coach is of utmost importance.
Her Journey
Farah commenced her career just immediately after graduation back in 2007 from H.R college of commerce and economics. She got campus recruited in Kotak Securities and then there was no looking back. Despite the fact that she had a successful career with a dream job, good income, high status, she was stressed, anxious, and was yet fighting to fit in. She just couldn’t understand why she felt this way. After which she moved organization and roles giving up 11 years of her life to banking and wealth management space.
DISSATISFIED AT A CORPORATE JOB
Over the years she has always felt a deep sense of hollow, emptiness, and a lack of fulfilment within but didn’t understand the purpose of that. She would reach her burnouts like her soul was conveying that this is not where she belongs. It was only after she lost her father back in 2017, seeing a life slip away in her own hands and dealing with that pain of loss.
STRUGGLING WITH FINDING PURPOSE
She took a back seat to self reflect and introspect as to what was her purpose and mission in life? What is it that she really wants from her life? She was just not born to do a 9 to 5 job and live a life of no impact. She wanted to do something more fulfilling, and contribute towards society, as well as help people. So she set off on a journey of self-discovery to understand what’s next in life for her, being an explorer by heart.
SELF-AWARNESS & INTROSPECTION CHANGED EVERYTHING
This journey took her down a lot of blind alleys and dead ends. Being in a place of losing herself, her identity to rediscovering herself, But eventually, it led her to become a life coach – with a mission!. The moment she discovered about coaching and a way to impact lives one day at a time, she fell deeply in love with it. It had a huge and profound impact on her life in turn as well.
REDISCOVERED & REINVENTED HERSELF
Farah found how to enrich and enhance her life to transform the way she dealt with painful thoughts as well as feelings. She built a stronger connection with herself and others, which led her to feel that sense of warmth, closeness, belongingness that she had been searching for all those years. She found her center and instantly knew that coaching, impacting people’s lives positively, seeing them live a life of joy and success gives her a sense of fulfilment. She instantly decided to quit her corporate career, her high paying job to follow her dream as well as her passion of spreading love, happiness, and success.
BECAME A COACH – WITH A MISSION !
Her Journey
Farah commenced her career just immediately after graduation back in 2007 from H.R college of commerce and economics. She got campus recruited in Kotak Securities and then there was no looking back. Despite the fact that she had a successful career with a dream job, good income, high status, she was stressed, anxious, and was yet fighting to fit in. She just couldn’t understand why she felt this way. After which she moved organization and roles giving up 13 years of her life to banking and wealth management space.
Over the years she has always felt a deep sense of hollow, emptiness, and a lack of fulfilment within but didn’t understand the purpose of that. She would reach her burnouts like her soul was conveying that this is not where she belongs. It was only after she lost her father back in 2017, seeing a life slip away in her own hands and dealing with that pain of loss.
She took a back seat to self reflect and introspect as to what was her purpose and mission in life? What is it that she really wants from her life? She was just not born to do a 9 to 5 job and live a life of no impact. She wanted to do something more fulfilling, and contribute towards society, as well as help people. So she set off on a journey of self-discovery to understand what’s next in life for her, being an explorer by heart.
This journey took her down a lot of blind alleys and dead ends. Being in a place of losing herself, her identity to rediscovering herself, But eventually, it led her to become a life coach – with a mission!,
The moment she discovered about coaching and a way to impact lives one day at a time, she fell deeply in love with it. It had a huge and profound impact on her life in turn as well.
Farah found how to enrich and enhance her life to transform the way she dealt with painful thoughts as well as feelings. She built a stronger connection with herself and others, which led her to feel that sense of warmth, closeness, belongingness that she had been searching for all those years. She found her center and instantly knew that coaching, impacting people’s lives positively, seeing them live a life of joy and success gives her a sense of fulfilment. She instantly decided to quit her corporate career, her high paying job to follow her dream as well as her passion of spreading love, happiness, and success.
“Every phase of your life requires a different you, reinvent yourself.”
– Farah Akhtar
Her Mission
“Is committed to helping people live a life of success and happiness while leading it with authenticity.”
With this purpose and mission, Farah started her firm called UnleashYOU Excellence Academy in 2018. Wherein she wants to help people to unleash themselves, break their mental barriers as well as their limiting beliefs to give them a magnificent transformation both personally and professionally. So that they can lead a meaningful and satisfying life to their maximum potential. At UnleashYOU Excellence Academy she helps individuals, corporate executives/leaders, and business owners with strategies, insights, along with the tools to solve complex problems/solutions and help them overcome their limiting fears or beliefs to accomplish their goals, and unleash their true potential. Through her insightful and innovative style of coaching, she helps her clients reflect inside out rather than outside in, by deep self-awareness and creating a sustainable behaviour change by decoding their limited belief system and fears so that they can live a life of success and happiness.
Her Mission
Is committed to helping people live a life of success and happiness while leading it with authenticity.
With this purpose and mission, Farah started her firm called UnleashYOU Excellence Academy in 2018. Wherein she wants to help people to unleash themselves, break their mental barriers as well as their limiting beliefs to give them a magnificent transformation both personally and professionally. So that they can lead a meaningful and satisfying life to their maximum potential. At UnleashYOU Excellence Academy she helps individuals, corporate executives/leaders, and business owners with strategies, insights, along with the tools to solve complex problems/solutions and help them overcome their limiting fears or beliefs to accomplish their goals, and unleash their true potential. Through her insightful and innovative style of coaching, she helps her clients reflect inside out rather than outside in, by deep self-awareness and creating a sustainable behaviour change by decoding their limited belief system and fears so that they can live a life of success and happiness.
A Message From Farah’s Side
Nothing makes me happier than watching honest and dedicated individuals, corporate executives, leaders, business owners achieve their dreams, knowing that I’ve played a part in making those dreams come true.