2019

Vedic
Leadership
Counselling™

A new-age counseling model built on time-tested

knowledge & wisdom to help leaders unleash
their full potential.

VEDIC MANAGEMENT CENTRE

www.vedic-management.com

Operating in an ultra-competitive world makes leaders
across various professions significantly stressed physically
as well as emotionally. While there are many quick-fixes
available for physical pains, emotional and mental
disturbances are hard to address.
There are many reasons for a leader’s emotional distress,
personal as well as professional. What we’ve often
observed is that since personal issues are delicate, leaders
who are cautious don’t discuss these personal issues with
those whom they are unable to trust.
In the age of extreme ambition and greed, it’s extremely
hard for leaders to find people whom they can trust in
an enduring manner, which thereby increases their
psychological distress.
In ancient Vedic India, rulers of various legendary
empires developed a methodology to identify, recruit
and promote deserving people into positions of
influence and power. Yet, when they had to deal with
their own personal issues, they preferred not to discuss
these with them - mainly because discussing their
personal fears and anxieties could make them appear
weak and vulnerable.
Therefore, these rulers sought advice and counsels from
the sagely Rishis, who stayed aloof from the material
world and lived in nature. These Rishis had no personal
ambitions and had achieved a state of perfect mental
equilibrium. That is to say that were always equipoised
and remained unaffected by the external circumstances.
These Rishis never marketed themselves. They had no
great personal belongings either. And had little or no
desires left in them. Ambitions, as the very concept, was
alien to them. Yet, they were sought after by all people,
who looked up to them and revered them as if they were
gods. Be they kings, kinsmen or nobody they looked
them all equally and provided them with perspective to
emerge from their challenges. Unfortunately, such Rishis
are hard to find these days.
The Post-Industrial Revolution era the western world has
sought to develop processes and people to help leaders
to perform better. Today there are many consultants,
advisers, counselors and coaches who claim to help
leaders enhance their performance and overcome their
stress at various levels. Yet, none of them seem to have a
concrete, pragmatic and/or proven methodologies to
address the problems overall. Their approach is more or
less based on trial and error method, with limited help
in isolated areas – no comprehensive overall wisdom.
It should not be a matter of surprise that the search for
the secret formula for leaders to keep their composure
and give their best under severe stress and challenges is
far from being solved.
We at the Vedic Management Centre through a
relentless research through ancient Vedic texts on
leadership, starting from Mahabharata, Pancha Tantra,
Artha Shastra, Neeti Shastra, Artha Sutra and Neeti Sutras
vis-à-vis prevailing management case studies and theories,
have found a remarkably efficient way to address this very
challenge through our Vedic Leadership Counselling
services.
Such Vedic Leadership Counselling has been ongoing
with a select number of individuals working in spheres
of influence in politics and business.
Vedic Leadership Counselling is essentially a 4 (four)
step process:
 1. Sampark
2. Samarpan
3. Samadhaan
4. Sambandh
Counseling is a complex art. It is not to be taken lightly.
And since our process is yet to be proven the single most
challenge is to earn our mentee’s trust. Sampark is a
systematic process designed to deliver just that. This step
often takes a lot of time since it’s essentially about us
understanding our mentees and then making them
understand us. Thereby confirming them our ability to
help them.
Once Sampark is achieved, it’s important that we connect
in a way that the trust earned is retained and never
questioned. Doubts are difficult impediments in any
relationship; truer in counseling. Samarpan is the process
of building ways to ensure that the trust earned is
retained and protected by either side at all times. And if
broken, neither the counsellor’s nor the counselee’s
interests are seldom compromised.
Once there’s Samarpan or Connection based on trust.
We then identify their personal as well as professional
challenges and present simple, yet effective ways for our
counselees to deal with them.
And once the mentee finds practicality of our solution it
leads to an ever-strengthening relationship – Sambandh.
Each step is tailored for each counselee and is designed
without any complex algorithms or jargons. We believe,
and have also most often proved, to our counselees how
even the most complex problems can be overcome with
simple solutions.
Of course, the process can be time-consuming. But we
do not believe in quick fixes. We believe in providing
ways to counselees whereby there are little or no
detrimental consequences.
Most leaders worry about confidentiality as the
information they have to convey – personal or
professional – can be sensitive.
Even though we perform our counseling services
through a legally binding confidentiality agreement,
we’ve developed an ingenious way for our counselees to
convey their situation without giving us the actual data
and information.
We call this model – MANA MAYA MANDALA
MODEL. It is a way we recreate a situation as a model of
the situation affecting our mentees without many efforts.
We then present a series of perspectives on situations
which the counselees may never have seen before on
their own. Multiple perspectives often provide multiple
solutions.
Of course, the process of examining complex situations
and providing new perspectives may not be entertaining.
At times they can also be stressful and/or confusing. We
make it interesting through various anecdotes, tales from
Vedic lore, that, besides being educating and
entertaining, also lead to intelligent conversations
empowering a greater understanding of the situation
dealt with.
WE WORK WITH…
We have a clear idea as to with whom we want to work
with. We are an organization that believes in ethical
profitability. We have never, nor will we ever,
compromise on our integrity. Openness to ideas,
perseverance to our goals, patience and broad vision to
see universal welfare are the bedrock of our very
existence. And we intend to work only with individuals
and institutions who believe, understand and adhere to
our values. We do not work with people who have a
questionable reputation or criminal records.

Vedic Management Centre is a

comprehensive management training, mentoring, consulting and related services organization
founded jointly by Dr David Frawley and U. Mahesh Prabhu. The word 'Vedic' comes from the
word 'Veda' which in turn comes from the root Sanskrit word 'Vid' – meaning wisdom. Wisdom
is that quintessential element we intend to introduce to prevailing management practices in a
way as to achieve our objectives. We intend to bring radical, sustainable as well as ethical
practices to our clients, students and mentees in a way as to work efficiently about all prevailing
legal, ethical and professional norms.

U. Mahesh Prabhu | Co-founder & Director | Vedic Management Centre

M: +1 917 387 2735 (USA) +91 951 129 6199 (India) |
E: mahesh@vedic-management.com | www.vedic-management.com