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About Kiran Gopinath

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More than twenty years of work, brought together in one practice.

I'm a Certified Executive Coach and business consultant. For more than twenty years I've worked with global organizations and small startups, and XSL Consulting is where all of it comes together.

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What is XSL Consulting?

XSL Consulting is the sum of everything I've built, run and learned.

Every strategy I put together, every campaign I ran, every coaching conversation and all the hard work behind them went into how I work today. Some of it happened inside global organizations and some with small startups. XSL isn't a new idea. It's what those years taught me, offered directly to owners and leaders.

  • Certified Executive Coach, Berkeley, CA
  • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
  • MBA, Missouri State University

In person across Orange County, South LA and San Diego. Online anywhere.

What does that experience bring to your business?

It means you get someone who has seen how these problems play out at every size, and who knows which practices from large organizations are worth borrowing at yours.

  • The real problem, found soonerSymptoms aren't always the root cause. What looks like a data problem can turn out to be about people or process, and I know where to look.
  • A clearer viewWhen you're deep in the day to day, it's hard to see the whole picture. I help clear the noise so you can see the path.
  • Guardrails from the startEvery plan I build has checkpoints and fail safes in it, so you can catch problems early.
  • A plan built for youI don't bring a cookie cutter model. I get to know you and what your business actually needs, then we chart the course together.
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What makes my approach different?

I start with the Rings of Reflection, a method I built to look at your business through four lenses, in order.

  1. 1Who you areYou, the leader
  2. 2What you've builtYour business
  3. 3Who's hereThe customers you have
  4. 4Who's nextThe customers you want

Inside each lens are four rings, from the center out: Why, What, Where and How.

Step through the questions in each ring, one lens at a time.

See the Rings of Reflection

The order is the point. What you learn about yourself changes how you see the business, and what you learn about the business changes how you read your customers. By the time we get to a plan, it rests on the whole picture and not on a first guess.

It also means I never arrive with an answer before I understand your question.

Where would you like to go next?

See how the work runs, or read how I think.

Start with an email.

Tell me where you are, where you want to be and what's in the way. No pitch. I read every note myself.

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