ART TO LEAD

A Kolkata-based coaching and leadership development practice

Coaching for All.

Art To Lead works with three audiences. Leaders looking for a coach.
Organisations building leadership at scale. Coaches earning their ICF credentials.

One conviction runs through all three. Coaching is a public good.

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LATEST UPDATE

Celebrate the 2026 ICF Coaching Impact Award

The celebration is now live across our social channels. Follow the latest updates, highlights and moments from this special achievement.

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Celebrate the 2026 ICF Coaching Impact Award

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I am looking for a coach

Executive coaching, team coaching, and group coaching for leaders. ICF PCC and ACTC credentialed practitioners. Coaches matched to who you are and what you carry. 7,500+ coaching hours across 2,500+ leaders in 20+ countries.

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I am building leadership in my organisation

Twenty-plus years of leadership development practice inside Fortune 200 organisations and as a consultant to them. We design and deliver leadership development, values-to-behaviours programmes, culture transformation, and team coaching for senior leadership teams. ICF ACTC certified team coach. Coachezzy is AATC accredited.

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I want to become an ICF-credentialed coach

Coachezzy, our ICF Level 2 accredited coach training school. Customised content, end-to-end support, alumni serving clients in five countries. Be the coach you want to hire.

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RECOGNISED BY

A practice built on credentials that travel.

ICF accredited at multiple levels through Coachezzy. Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Award (during Cognizant tenure). Featured in ET Edge Insights, Economic Times. ICF Engage Best Contributor of the Month, June 2025.

Most Impactful Coaching Leader, World HRD Congress, 2024. ICF Kolkata Chapter founding presidency. APAC Education Community Leader, ICF (two terms). Bengal Chamber of Commerce panellist. ISTD speaker.

Why Coaching for All

The same standard belongs in every room.

Coaching, in its formative decades, lived in glass towers. We built our practice on a different conviction.

The dignity of being heard, the discipline of being asked the right question, and the freedom of designing one’s own becoming belong to every human being.

We test our work by who it reaches. Fortune 500 executives, classical artists from economically modest backgrounds, hospital staff in rural cancer care, LGBTQIA+ professionals, advocates, educators, neurodiverse clients, women in transition, young adults, and elders in the last chapter of their working lives.

The same ICF Core Competencies belong in every room. That is the work.

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THE FOUNDER

One woman.Three lives. One mission.

The story of Art To Lead cannot be separated from the story of its founder — because the philosophy is lived, not theorised.

Sharmi Roy

Founder. CEO. Executive Coach. ICF PCC and ACTC.

President, ICF Kolkata Chapter · Credentialing Assessor, ICF Global

FIRST LIFE

Artist and art manager

Odissi dancer, teacher, and art programme manager. Learning presence, discipline, and embodied expression. The capacities that art teaches first.

SECOND LIFE

Corporate leadership

Fifteen years at Cognizant. Built the Coaching Centre of Excellence. Empanelled the external coach pool against ICF standards. Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Award. Learned how leadership is actually made, broken, and remade inside real businesses.

THIRD LIFE

Art To Lead and Coaching for All

Founded Art To Lead LLP. Built Coachezzy into an ICF-accredited institution with 200+ coaches globally. Founding President of ICF Kolkata Chapter. ICF Credentialing Assessor. Today the practice carries one conviction into every room it enters: coaching is for everyone, or it is not what we say it is.

Today Sharmi brings all three lives to her work.

The artist’s sensitivity. The consultant’s rigour. The coach’s belief in human potential.

Her clients span healthcare institutions, multinational corporations, social enterprises, and the arts.

IMPACT

Change that is measurable. And change that is felt.

7,500+

Coaching Hours

2,500+

Leaders Coached

20+

Countries Served

200+

Coaches Trained Through Coachezzy

400+

Employees Reached In A Single Organisational Transformation

“She brings rigour, warmth, and a rare ability to create lasting organisational change. Our people now genuinely live these values; they are not words on a wall.”

-- Dr. Ravi Kannan, Director, Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre. Padma Shree awardee. 2023 Ramon Magsaysay laureate.

SIGNATURE WORK

Four practices. One conviction.

Cachar Cancer Hospital

A four-year partnership with Padma Shree and Ramon Magsaysay awardee Dr. Ravi Kannan. A Managing Self programme for nursing supervisors during the pandemic. A values-to-behaviours team coaching journey touching 400+ employees that culminated in the hospital writing its own pro-poor patient-care anthem.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Sharmila Biswas

Executive coaching at Odissi Vision and Movement Centre, extending into facilitated pathways for 50+ young, economically modest classical artists on sustaining careers through their art.

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Sunil Madhav Sen Art and Culture Foundation

Founded 2017. Founder and active coach. Coaching and mentoring for cultural leaders, artists, and social-sector changemakers.

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WATCH THE WORK

Conversations from the Art To Lead YouTube channel.

Two seasons of sustained conversation about coaching, leadership, ethics, and the artistic life. 35+ episodes and counting. A free educational channel for the wider coaching community.

Art to Lead Conclave II Podcast
Art to Lead Conclave II Podcast
Art to Lead Conclave II Podcast
  Watch the full Friends of Cachar Cancer Hospital series on the Art To Lead YouTube channel.
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

Built for collaboration at scale.

We work with foundations, cultural institutions, healthcare organisations, social enterprises, and ICF Global. If you are building something that requires not just skill but soul, we would like to hear from you.

We are also open to partnerships with international development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, and cross-border foundations whose missions align with the conviction that coaching is a public good. If you are exploring how professional coaching might serve work of that kind, we would like to be part of the conversation.

ABOUT

Art To Lead LLP

Art To Lead LLP is a Kolkata-based limited liability partnership. We work as one practice across three lines of business.

Our coaches hold ICF credentials. Our methodology integrates applied neuroscience, systemic team coaching, and the embodied capacities that art has always taught. Our work spans corporate, institutional, and social-impact systems, with a strong focus on values, inclusion, accountability, and sustainable impact.

Coachezzy, our ICF Level 2 accredited coach training school, is a division of Art To Lead LLP. Founded in Kolkata. Practising globally.

Begin a conversation with Art To Lead.

Whether you are looking for a coach, building leadership in your organisation, or considering becoming a coach yourself, the first step is the same. A conversation.

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