"Embrace your authentic power through Coaching, maximize your potential and of those you touch" - Taruna Aggarwal
About us

Life By Design

Life By Design with Taruna Aggarwal is a boutique Coaching and Training company enabling personal and professional development and a culture of Inclusion in Diversity.

We leverage on the diversity of perspectives, thought-process and lived experience based on Cultures, Race & Ethnicity, Generations, Gender Identity, Disability, Socio-economic status and the myriad of Intersectionality and enable you to design Inclusion and Belonging

Our holistic approach focuses on Individuals, Leaders and Systems; integrating research-based strategy design, Training & Facilitation and Coaching & Mentoring to co-create solutions specific to your needs.

OUR VISION

An Inclusive World where, Equity and Fairness defines an individuals' experience of life.

OUR MISSION

To create inclusive and equitable culture in the workplace and in society where everyone lives their full potential.

Enabling a culture of Inclusion in Diversity

Our Story

Our Logo

"As a kindled fire reduces wood to ashes, O Arjun,
so does the fire of knowledge (of self)
burn to ashes all reactions from material activities."

- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 37

The Inspiration for our Logo came from the Bhagavad Gita, a 5000 year old scripture, that is a practical guide to living an authentic life, relevant even today

The logo represents self-transformation and the impact of these ripples of individual change on sustainable positive change for a greater good.

The peacock feather at the centre of our logo symbolises inner wisdom, self-knowledge and self-awareness. The inner most square represents the self; empowered by a deeper understanding and inner transformation.
The expanding squares represent growing empathy and inclusion of others. The many colours represent Diversity in humanity.

Our Founder

TARUNA AGGARWAL
Taruna has devoted over 25 years working in HR development as a Coach, Consultant and Trainer. She is an Executive and Life Coach and a strong advocate of Diversity and Inclusion.

Taruna believes that a holistic approach to wellbeing at the individual, leadership, organization level is the way forward to bring about sustainable change in the society.

She believes in the power of Coaching in enhancing an individuals' experience of life, enabling inclusive leadership and organization cultures. She is working towards empowering youth, our future leaders, through her coaching-led interventions.

Taruna is dedicated to lifelong learning and constant movement. Backed by her experience in HR Consulting in the early days, she set-up her Executive Search firm, Target Search Consulting in 2007. She subsequently extended the services to offer Training, Consulting and Coaching under Life by Design with Taruna Aggarwal since 2017.

Born and brought up in India, Taruna is now settled in Singapore. She has lived in Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Indonesia and has travelled around the world, enabling her to develop an inclusive multi-cultural worldview.

COACHING EXPERIENCE

10 years of experience in Executive, Leadership & Life Coaching and Training & Facilitation across industries.

  • ICF- PCC Credentialed Coach
  • Certificate in Mental Health Literacy for Coaches
  • Certificate in Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness Practitioner
  • ICF Certified Mentor Coach (MCCP)
  • ICF Certified Assessor
  • Cultural Orientation Framework Assessment Certified
  • Conversational Intelligence Core Skills Practitioner
  • Advanced Certification in Training and Assessment (ACTA)
  • M.B.A in Human Resources, Bachelor of Science

OTHER EXPERIENCE

15+ years of experience in Human Resource Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Recruitment and Executive Search

  • HR Consulting for Leadership Development
  • Executive Training & Development consulting experience
  • Diversity and Inclusion Consulting
  • Coach Education and Coach Mentor experience
  • Evidence-based Coaching Research - Quantitative and Qualitative
  • ICF Certified Mentor Coach (MCCP)
  • ICF Certified Assessor
  • Cultural Orientation Framework Assessment Certified
  • Conversational Intelligence Core Skills Practitioner
  • Advanced Certification in Training and Assessment (ACTA)
  • M.B.A in Human Resources, Bachelor of Science

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