Shehara Wanigasekera

Shehara coaches professionals who want to thrive in their careers with greater confidence, resilience, and impact.

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Her varied personal and professional experiences have shaped her practice and she brings compassion, maturity and depth to her coaching conversations. Through supportive challenge, she empowers clients to work through discomfort, broaden their perspectives and redefine what is possible. Honouring her client’s individuality is important to her. By creating a safe and inclusive thinking environment, she encourages them to explore their values, assumptions and beliefs, enabling them to take meaningful action. Her approach is practical, intuitive and value-driven.

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Clients typically partner with Shehara to steer through career transitions and strengthen their leadership capabilities. She also enjoys helping working parents discover their own magic formula for finding space for themselves amidst the chaos of caring for family members. In her work with organisations, she is a strong advocate for creating psychological safety and equitable working environments.

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Shehara’s clients have described their experience of working with her as a journey of growth, with powerful insights that have enabled them to achieve their goals with greater awareness, clarity, and focus.

As a former lawyer with over a decade of experience consulting and coaching professionals at a leading international law firm, she understands the demands of high-performing environments and its impact on individuals and organisations. In her previous role as Regional Learning and Development Manager, she successfully built the firm’s internal coaching capability through an award-winning leadership initiative and drove a culture of continuous learning.