Mounica Veggalam

Mounica Veggalam, Leadership Coach

Most impactful leadership lies at the intersection of:
- Personal growth
- Showing up with strong presence
- Learning to connect and lead other humans

I support leaders to scale their impact and create business results by guiding them through the above areas.

Career and Leadership Coach

Microsoft

I often get asked, “How are you a leadership coach when you haven’t been a manager yourself?”

The leadership I talk about is not strategic or tactical.

It’s self-leadership.

Your career trajectory — whether you reach C-Suite heights, or stay stuck in the middle — it starts with you. With what’s going on inside you.

This is the powerful lesson I realized at Microsoft. 

I observed inadequate leadership, average leadership, and excellent leadership. 

I was in heated design discussion rooms, witnessed managers make technical choices from their insecurities, and noticed the best empathetic leaders lost in overwhelm without any recognition.

I also saw powerful leadership from people who challenged the status quo. And challenged their own beliefs.

They were the people who did the right thing
- even when they’re anxious,
- even when they’re frustrated,
- even when they were at the edge of saying, “screw this sh**”

Your frustrations, disappointments, and resentments are where your growth opportunities lie.

When you understand and transform your inner landscape, your capacity for leadership expands, and you'll see the outside results: the promotion, the better project, and the better titles.

That’s the best way to make an impact in this world.

This is transformational leadership.

If you want to learn to lead your people from the inside-out, reach out and we’ll talk.

I am deeply invested in my personal transformation and leadership. That’s how I’m a leadership coach. That’s how I lead my clients to discover entirely new ways of presenting themselves.

I offer trainings, coaching and deep personal transformation, so you can feel fulfilled in your leadership mission. Send me a private message and we’ll chat.

Software Engineer

Practice Fusion

One of my mentors there asked, “Would you rather teach your kids to be smart or to be kind?”

What if I could do both?

With that question, I realized how starkly I’m drawn to deep philosophical concepts and the nature of the human mind. 

And this realization would set it in years later. But I didn’t know that then.

This internship was my entry into the software engineering world. 

It was incredible, surrounded by brilliant people in the startup culture. This is where I released my first feature into production, had my first exceptional manager, and gave my first talk in front of 200 smart people (I was terrible). 

It paved the way for another incredible role at Microsoft.

I won’t lie— I was arrogant about my IQ and my ability to grasp technical concepts quickly.

But I also had crippling self-doubt and introversion that got in the way of my impact.

Even through all that, a couple of things are common today:
— I value people and human connection. Regardless of my arrogance and self-doubt.
— I’m constantly pushing myself beyond my comfort zone. No matter how scary it is.
— I always look at my side of things. Even when I don’t want to. Especially when I don’t want to.

Today, this helps me serve my clients powerfully, 
— I point to the truth at the risk of them not liking me.
— I can deeply support them in facing the risks and uncertainities.
— I invest time and energy in confronting my beliefs and blindspots, so they don’t have to manage my ego.

It's a deeply rewarding experience.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Life & leadership coach for professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs | Software engineer turned coach & inner-work guide

Hi there! 👋 I’m Mounica. I help visionary tech leaders fast-track their careers so they can create more impact, build stronger teams, and bring their vision to reality, all with joyful life-balance.

I’m a software engineer turned transformational coach. Throughout my career, I was driven and confident on the outside. I achieved accolades, promotions, and patents. On the side, I tried to handle all my dissatisfaction with life through meditation and spiritual studies.

But none of that changed the *experience of life.*

I was always looking into the future for everything to settle down. My conversations lacked joy. I was subtly controlling in my relationships so I didn't break down. I was obsessed with achievement. 

Now I have a general sense of creative joy while taking up big projects. And I'm more present with my family.

It wasn't an overnight transformation (nothing worthwhile ever is). I approach this work from an intersection of developmental psychology (think ontological leadership and Robert Kegan's constructive map) and Eastern non-dual spirituality. 

Here are 3 levels of transformation you can expect through working with me:
1. Embodying your leadership voice & an internal compass, so you show Executive Presence.
2. Holding multiple, often conflicting, perspectives, so you bring a vision you deeply desire to reality.
3. Holding multiple identities, so you find creative joy in every choice you make (and have you ready for non-dual interconnected perception of the world).

This work is not about adding knowledge or skills but creating a *fundamentally different kind of mind* that takes the largest perspective, is more complex, and can handle more uncertainty.

My clients report:
- Influence without losing their ethics or empathy
- Command respect in a room full of brilliant (or skeptical) people
- Have ease, joy, and fun creating the results they want

If you’re curious, send me a DM!

Helping tech managers fast-track their careers with personalized 1:1 coaching.

I help with -
- Making tough career decisions
- Landing the next big role and making a vertical moves
- Transforming into a leader who delivers, impacts, and inspires.

Management skills and Relationships come easy to people managers. But what sets you apart is the Leadership mindset. I help managers become leaders and achieve their career goals along the way. 

The typical titles of my clients include:
- Engineering Manager
- Director of Engineering/Program/Product Management
- PM Manager
- Senior/Principal Engineers/PM

Brian O'Connor (Fractional CMO)

Founder and President

The TalentHQ

We help you get the best talent in LatAm, in 53% the time.

Roles we place every week:
➟ Account Managers
➟ Customer Success
➟ Graphic Designers
➟ Project Managers
➟ Virtual Assistants
➟ Exec Assistants
➟ Data entry
➟ Sales

📞 Want talent?

Get in touch by:
Message me the word “talent” on LinkedIn
or
Book a free consultation call:
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Chat soon 👋

Founder, CEO

Outlier Growth

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Founder

Monitor Deloitte

Senior Consultant, Growth Strategy

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS)

Research large aircraft debt market to determine where we could provide solutions to specific airlines to improve cash flow or reduce costs
Create debt and leasing models in Excel to understand client valuations of our bids
Support sales team by taking inbound aircraft lease inquiries and qualifying them for follow-up
Analyze data to help guide the sales team for potential opportunities and assist in deal analytics

Commercial Leadership Program - Sales

Developed research to uncover financing opportunities and estimate market attractiveness
Compiled comprehensive recommendations of key findings and strategies to execute
Developed streamlined quarterly P&L presentation for GECAS

Commercial Leadership Program - Strategy and Marketing

GE Capital

Performed competitor analysis, financial projections, brand research, and analyzed personal financial statements
Wrote credit analysis for approval of proposed franchise customer loan requests
Underwent traditional commercial credit training

Commercial Leadership Program - Underwriter

ALPFA Holy Cross Chapter

Oversee new member recruitment and lead all meetings and events
Coordinate executive board duties including marketing campaigns and budget management
Develop relationships with corporate sponsors

Developed reporting for in-store credit acquisition by selling floor associates
Created a process for tracking results in a store test for greeters
Completed analysis for sales incentive compensation
Collected hourly application data for 28 days across 1,062 stores and created a report to maximize store visit efficiency

Commercial Leadership Program Sales Intern

Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group

Research and analysis of competitors and potential acquisitions
Sentinel product and client analytics
Design and produce reports off Microsoft Dynamics, FRx, and SalesLogix

Financial Analyst Intern

Perfect Fuel Chocolate

Took charge of several marketing projects, developed social media promotions, and sold product at local events
Refined the company’s financial projection model which was used in raising capital
Created an order fulfillment process and operated/refined the Zoho CRM system
2013 asked by the CEO to assist in weekend sales presentations and demonstrations

Business Operations Intern

Follow me for digital marketing tips | Advised 100+ executives to grow their business | Ex-Deloitte | On a mission to give 1M business owners the growth tools they can't access today | CMO for $5M+ B2B businesses

TalentHQ gets you the best talent in Latin America. FAST.

We have a pool of 25,000 candidates ready to go.

Roles we place every week:
➟ Account Managers
➟ Customer Success
➟ Graphic Designers
➟ Project Managers
➟ Virtual Assistants
➟ Exec Assistants
➟ Data entry
➟ Sales
+ more

How?
I spent 6 years as a management consultant building systems for Fortune 500s.

We have those systems ready to copy/paste into your business.

Don’t know how to:
➟ Onboard?
➟ Manage?
➟ Motivate?
➟ Pay talent?
➟ Design their role?

We do all that for you.

We get you the best talent. And you get pain-free hiring.

FAST.

But don’t take my word for it.

Hear what our clients have to say 👇

“We sent an offer to that Webflow dev you sent us. Insane find. Incredible talent. 30% lower in monthly than we said.”
- Sam Preston, CEO of Service Scalers

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“I could NOT be happier with the 3 hires I made from you for Cashflowy. Those 3 ladies work brilliantly together and are SLAYING.

Time for the next hire. The bar is now SKY HIGH!”
- Heidi DeCoux, CEO of Cashflowy

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“Great hire! She’s very communicative, on top of all her tasks and hungry to take on new work."
- Ross Beyeler, COO of Trellis

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“From tip to tail, they walked us through everything we needed to do, quickly found two amazing candidates out of about five that we interviewed, I think less than two weeks.

They took us through the entire onboarding, helped us with training SOPs, getting the new employees set up. Can't recommend them enough. We'll be definitely using them in the future for any offshore talent needs.”
- Ryan Bishop, CEO of Rho Nutrition

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“TalentHQ helped me find my first international contractor and I literally could not recommend them enough. They were incredible to work with great people. 

They helped me with any little question I had about managing, onboarding, and maintaining this contractor and our relationship that we have.”
- Ethan Ferguson, CEO of Grotto Digital

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Ready to get the best of LatAm in your business, fast?

APPLY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION.

I’ll take a look at your systems, copy / paste our proven systems, and help you design the role to help your business skyrocket.

Systems include:
➟ SOPs
➟ Onboarding
➟ Task management
➟ Management frameworks

Oh btw.

If months later you find out that person isn’t a fit?

We’ll swap them out no questions asked (for free).

Apply here:
https://calendly.com/brianfoconnor/free-talent-consultation

P.S. Don’t need to hire and just want the systems consulting?

Click my featured section to book a consultation ($1,250)

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