Dr. Geetu Bharwaney is a globally recognised expert in Emotional Intelligence and enterprise team performance. She works with senior leaders and leadership teams in complex, fast-moving organisations to elevate strategic influence, strengthen executive presence, and improve collective effectiveness.
With over 36 years of international experience, Geetu brings a practical, evidence-based approach to leadership and team development. She partners with CEOs, senior executives, and leadership teams in highly technical sectors to help them navigate growth, transformation, stakeholder complexity, and high-stakes decision-making.
She coaches CEOs, CFOs, senior executives and their teams across sectors such as energy, technology, pharmaceuticals, and financial services, helping them accelerate their performance, communication, and decision-making.
Geetu’s work sits at the intersection of leadership psychology and enterprise performance. She combines:
Deep expertise in Emotional Intelligence
Advanced team coaching and facilitation capability
Strong commercial and organisational insight
Cross-cultural fluency across global environments
She is a certified practitioner and global trainer in the Team Emotional Intelligence (TEI) Survey and an experienced team coach, supporting leadership teams to:
Strengthen trust, accountability, and alignment
Improve decision quality and communication
Surface systemic patterns that limit performance
Translate behavioural insight into measurable results
Build sustainable leadership capability
Her facilitation style is structured, challenging, and psychologically safe. Clients describe her approach as transformative — often delivering impact sooner than expected.
Her mission is simple:
To help leaders and teams strengthen the inner and outer capabilities required to perform at their best — sustainably.
“Emotional Intelligence is at the core of the Human Being.”
— Dr. Geetu Bharwaney
“Emotional Intelligence is at the core of the Human Being”
Dr Geetu Bharwaney.
Geetu is not only a coach; she is a catalyst for meaningful behavioural and cultural change.
A 23-year cancer survivor, Geetu brings a lived understanding of resilience and renewal to her work. She helps leaders protect energy, maintain perspective, and perform at a high level without sacrificing long-term wellbeing in demanding contexts.
Author and Thought Leader
She is the author of Emotional Resilience (Pearson 2015), a widely used guide for leaders seeking greater agility, influence, and self-awareness.
Beyond coaching, she is a keynote speaker and contributor to global thought leadership in emotional intelligence, resilience, and team effectiveness.
Geetu originally trained as a workplace counsellor before coaching became a formalised profession, giving her strong foundations in behavioural insight and applied psychology.
She holds:
An honorary Doctor of Science degree
An MSc in the Psychology of Health (Distinction)
Chartered Fellowship of the CIPD
EMCC Global Assessor status
She is certified in multiple Emotional Intelligence and leadership assessment tools and supervises coaches internationally.
A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with more than 30 years’ HR and leadership experience, Geetu brings a strong organisational, behavioural, and people-development lens to all her coaching work.
Her MSc in the Psychology of Health (City University) included original research on Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and Health among 109 school leaders, awarded a distinction.
In 2016, she received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Aston University, where she completed her undergraduate studies in International Business and Modern Languages.
As an internationally recognised thought leader, she has published numerous papers and chapters on emotional intelligence, resilience, and team effectiveness.
Professional Affiliations & Certifications
Hogan-qualified and trained in Behavioural Coaching, with certifications in multiple Emotional Intelligence assessment tools
Qualified Scrum Master
Trained in Voice Dialogue work
Licensed practitioner in the Executive Arts suite of transformational coaching maps (Jim Ewing)
gbharwaney@eiworld.org
+44(0)-20-3507-0270
Ei World is a global consultancy specialising in the advanced application of emotional intelligence in leaders and teams. For nearly three decades, Ei World has worked across more than 45 countries, helping organisations achieve step-change improvements in leadership effectiveness and team performance.
Under Geetu’s leadership, Ei World deploys experienced executive coaches and organisational effectiveness consultants to support sustainable transformation — not incremental improvement.
** ‘Emotional Resilience: how to be agile, adaptable and always perform at your best’ (Pearson: London) is a definitive, comprehensive and practical guide that deeply explores the subject of emotional intelligence, authored by Geetu Bharwaney, Founder of Ei World.
