TEDX SPEAKER • 8X AUTHOR • 2X EXITED FOUNDER

Your business needs less of you and more from your executive team.

I help growth-stage founders stop answering every question, elevate their leadership team's capacity, and scale commercial profit without working 60+ hours a week.

23++
Years Experience
2
Business Exits
1,500++
Leaders Coached
+$430K+
Bottom-Line Impact
Shivani Gupta - Keynote Speaker & Growth Coach

Shivani Gupta

2X EXITED FOUNDER

“Your business can’t outgrow the capacity of your leadership team.”

✓ TEDx Speaker•✓ 8x Author•✓ 21 Countries
Mum of 2 • 3 fur babiesMelbourne, AU
AUDIENCE PATHFINDER

Where is Your Business Right Now?

Select your current challenge to see the exact way to work with Shivani.

FOUNDERS & TEAMS ($2M–$30M+)
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IF YOU WANT:

“Stop answering every question and reclaim 15+ hours a week.”

✓ Practical frameworks•✓ Zero fluff•✓ Proven ROI
THEN CHOOSE:

Executive Coaching

1-on-1 and team advisory to remove decision bottlenecks and drive profit.

What Changes In Your Business:
  • Reclaim 15+ hours/week
  • Autonomous leadership team
  • +$430K single-quarter track record
THE FOUNDER TRUST MANIFESTO

Your business can’t outgrow the trust of your leadership team.

I’ve been where you are. The person everyone looks to for the answer.

I’ve built, scaled and successfully exited two businesses. I know what happens when everything comes back to you.

Your business needs less of you and more from your leadership team.

I’m Shivani Gupta - Growth Coach, TEDx Speaker and author of 8 books.

Over 23 years, I’ve worked with 1,500+ leaders, 100+ leadership teams across 21 countries.

And I’ve seen the same pattern again and again. Business grows. Team grows and the founder remains at the centre of everything. Often the problem isn’t another strategy or operating system. It’s trust.

I help leadership teams engineer trust so you can scale.

We work on the real conversations, behaviours and leadership issues getting in the way of growth using practical frameworks your team can actually use.

Because ultimately:

Trust scales. Founders don’t.

Away from leadership teams, I’m a mum to two teenagers, married to Scott, mum to three fur babies and always up for a great coffee.

Ready to stop being the bottleneck?

Let’s build the leadership team your next stage of growth demands.

Shivani Gupta sitting in armchair
Shivani Gupta.GROWTH COACH

“Trust scales. Founders don’t.”

23+ Years•2 Exits•1,500+ Leaders
PROVEN TRACK RECORD

23 Years. 2 Exits. 1,500+ Leaders.

“Your business can’t outgrow the capacity of your leadership team.”

— Shivani Gupta
TEDx Speaker & Author of 8 Leadership Books
Built and successfully exited 2 operating businesses
Coached 100+ executive teams across 21 countries
Specialist in professional services, HR firms, and construction

Mum of two teenagers, married to Scott, mum to three fur babies, and passionate about great coffee.

Shivani Gupta Keynote Speaker on Stage
KEYNOTE SPEAKER // GLOBAL STAGES21 Countries
23+
Years Grit
1,500+
Leaders
+$430K
Quarterly ROI
TEDX OFFICIAL TALK • GLOBAL STAGES

See Shivani in Action

Watch Shivani Gupta deliver her signature keynote on breaking founder bottlenecks, building executive capacity, and engineering trust across global leadership teams.

TEDx Official Presentation•Shivani Gupta
✓ 21 Countries•✓ 100+ Executive Summits
01 / THE BOTTLENECK PARADOX

Why working harder caps executive team growth and creates operational drag.

02 / REAL TALK PROTOCOLS

Navigating high-stakes tension and unspoken friction with radical candor.

03 / ENGINEERING TRUST

How to transition hesitation into proactive executive team ownership.

FREE 15-MIN TOOLKIT

The Founder Bottleneck Diagnostic

Identify where your leadership team is leaking time, decision speed, and revenue.

Founder Decision Load Scorecard
The 'Real Talk' Team Script
Delegation Authority Matrix
Executive KPI Alignment Sheet
Shivani Gupta Author
15-Minute Audit Tool
Score your team's decision speed

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COMMON QUESTIONS

Real Answers. Zero Fluff.

No 100-page slide decks and no empty hype. Shivani built and exited 2 businesses. She focuses on hard conversations, practical behaviors, and real profit.
RESOURCES & PROOF

Case Stories & Tools

CASE STUDY+$430K Net Profit

How an HR Firm Added $430K in 90 Days

How removing founder decision bottlenecks helped the leadership team close enterprise deals autonomously.

+$430K Net ProfitRead Story
SPEAKER ASSETGlobal Stages

Keynote Showreel & Speaker Kit

Watch excerpts of Shivani on stage and download event organizer details.

Global StagesView Showreel
BOOKS8 Books

8 Published Leadership Books

Shivani's practical books on focus, leadership capacity, and founder freedom.

TOOLKITFree Template

The Real-Talk Conversation Script

A 4-step framework to address missed KPIs and friction without defensiveness.

Free TemplateDownload Script
BRING SHIVANI TO YOUR STAGE OR TEAM

Ready to Stop Being the Bottleneck?

Whether you need a keynote for your next conference or coaching to remove bottlenecks in your leadership team, let’s talk.

✓ Keynotes • Coaching • Facilitation✓ 23+ Years Track Record✓ 21 Countries