Executive Coaching & People Strategy
Specializing in neurodivergent leadership, team effectiveness, and people strategy for growth-stage companies.
Three ways to work together:
Executive Coaching for neurodivergent leaders
Team Development for executive teams
Fractional Chief People Officer for growth-stage companies
Proudly serving leaders at category-defining organizations
Who We Serve
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Neurodivergent Executives
Executive Coaching for Neurodivergent Leaders You’ve built an impressive career, but traditional leadership advice doesn’t fit how your brain actually works. The constant masking is exhausting. The executive function gymnastics are unsustainable.
Learn to leverage your pattern recognition, systems thinking, and unique processing style as the competitive advantages they are—with frameworks designed FOR neurodivergent minds, not against them.
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Leadership Teams
Build high-performing teams that leverage cognitive diversity Your executive team is talented individually, but not performing as a cohesive unit. Whether you're navigating post-merger integration, scaling through hypergrowth, or struggling with communication breakdowns—transform how your leadership team collaborates, makes decisions, and drives results.
With specialized expertise in team dynamics and neuro-inclusive leadership practices.
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Growth-Stage Companies
Strategic people leadership without full-time CPO investment You’re Series A-C and scaling fast, but don’t need a full-time Chief People Officer yet. Get experienced, strategic people leadership that grows with you—from someone who’s built and scaled people functions at high-growth startups.
OUR APPROACH
Why Cognitive Diversity is Your Competitive Advantage
Up to 30% of executives identify as neurodivergent – ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or simply processing information differently. Yet traditional leadership development assumes everyone's brain works the same way.
It doesn't.
Our evidence-based approach, grounded in neuroscience research and behavioral psychology, helps leaders and organizations leverage cognitive diversity as a strategic asset:
For individual leaders: Build sustainable systems that work WITH your brain—whether you're neurodivergent and exhausted from masking, or neurotypical and managing cognitively diverse teams.
For executive teams: Transform how your leadership team communicates, makes decisions, and drives results by understanding and leveraging different processing styles.
For organizations: Create cultures where diverse thinkers thrive, from neurodivergent-inclusive hiring practices to team structures that harness cognitive differences.
We specialize in helping neurodivergent executives stop masking and start leading authentically – but our frameworks benefit all brains
6 MONTH TRANSFORMATION
The Neural Edge: January 2026 Cohort
Join 11 other Director+ neurodivergent leaders for 6 months of transformation – combining cohort learning with private 1:1 coaching.
Stop masking. Build Sustainable systems. Lead authentically.
Price: $5,500 | 9 spots remaining
BEHIND IKSANA
Meet the Founder
I’m Rita Ramakrishnan, founder of Iksana Consulting—a leadership development practice that transforms accomplished executives into extraordinary leaders who redefine what’s possible. As an ICF-credentialed coach (PCC & ACTC) and former Chief People Officer with 15+ years scaling high-growth tech companies, I specialize in evidence-based coaching grounded in applied neuroscience and behavioral psychology — with particular expertise in neurodivergent leadership development.
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Client Testimonials
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Iris Shkedy
VP and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Payoneer
From the moment Rita joined us as a fractional Internal Communications and Leadership Development partner, she made a meaningful impact. She delivered value both operationally and strategically, managing day-to-day communications, while leading a full strategic redesign of the function, including mapping the current state, defining roles, designing the operating model, and creating actionable activation plans.
Rita also played a central role in leadership development, co-designing and facilitating our three-day global offsite that ignited an ownership mindset across our leadership team. Her work significantly contributed to strengthen the alignment, collaboration, and engagement across our leadership community.
Beyond her expertise, Rita is a true partner—strategic, creative, fast, dedicated, and exceptionally perceptive. She learns organizations quickly, tailors her plans to what the business truly needs, and consistently elevates the teams she works with. Any organization seeking fractional support in internal communications or leadership development would be incredibly fortunate to have her.
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Zoia Kozakov
Forbes 30 under 30, Product Lead for Device Digital Wallets @ JP Morgan Chase
Working with Rita for just a few months helped me advance as a leader and gain career clarity it would have otherwise taken YEARS to attain. Whether it was discussions around actionable frameworks for communication, critical thinking around very emotional and meaningful decisions, or just Rita's natural people skills/warmth, I couldn't recommend a better coach. I walked in, hoping for tactical suggestions on how to get promoted at my company as my goal. I walked out articulating who I am as a leader and seeing a far bigger future for myself than the one I had initially envisioned. Best of all? I now know what I need to do to get there.
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Halston Prox
CEO of HealNow
Rita really helped push me to think deeply about things and asked great questions to uncover the best path forward. I highly recommend Rita as an executive coach.
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Sandhya Jain Patel
Chief DEI Strategy Officer at Culture Prism
Working with Rita helped me see my strengths and capabilities in a new light. I realized I had so much more to give and I didn’t have to hide or make myself smaller. It has helped shape my leadership approach and the way I show up at work and at home.
READY TO GET STARTED?
Enough about us…
let’s talk about you!
Whether you know exactly what you need or you’re just exploring and want a sounding board, we’d love to chat.