

Unlock Your Leadership Potential
Make relationships your competitive advantage.
In the age of AI, leadership becomes more human—not less.
Lead from the Inside Out
As technology accelerates, your advantage won’t come from having more information. It will come from how you connect—how you build trust, read what’s really going on, and lead people through ambiguity with clarity and care.
You’re in the moments that matter: high-stakes meetings, tough conversations, decisions that ripple. You want to lead with impact—without the tight chest, the overthinking, or the sense you’re performing leadership rather than living it.
This is where mindful presence changes everything. It helps you stay calm when pressure rises, clear when things get messy, and credible when the room is watching—by working from the inside out.
Together, we build deeper self-awareness, emotional agility, and practical tools to manage mindset, energy, and state—grounded approaches you can use in real life. And because leadership is relational, your relationships shift too: you listen differently, ask better questions, and create the psychological safety that builds trust.
You can do this work one-to-one through executive coaching, or bring it into your organisation through team coaching and experiential, facilitated workshops.
What we do
Coaching topics
Our coaching topics span leadership, communication, self-management, presence, and building deep human connection. We also offer bespoke coaching—tailored to your goals, context, and challenges.
Business Storytelling coaching
We help you craft compelling presentations and uncover the stories that make you stand out.
Communication and difficult conversations
Build confidence in difficult conversations. Learn to give clear feedback, set boundaries, repair trust, and navigate high‑stakes dialogue.
Influence without authority
Learn to influence without formal authority. Build trust, map stakeholders, navigate politics ethically, and move cross-functional initiatives forward.
Relationship management and trust
Build high-trust relationships. Learn to read the room, adapt your style, hold candid conversations, and repair trust.
Leadership style and team leadership
Lead through others—delegate with clarity, coach your team, and build a culture of accountability through the behaviours you model.
Transitions and growth
Transitions are about landing a new role with confidence—building trust fast, clarifying expectations, securing early wins, creating long-term impact
Executive presence
Executive presence is staying calm and clear under pressure—speaking with warmth and authority, earning trust fast, and leading tough rooms with ease every day
Resilience and personal operating model
Resilience is the ability to stay steady under pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and keep showing up with clarity, energy, and perspective
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Programs
We create personalised learning experiences for you and your teams. Every program is experiential and interactive—less lecture, more practice. Below are some of the programs we’ve developed to build future-ready leaders.
Asking Better Questions
Ask sharper questions that spark better thinking, deeper trust, and clearer decisions—so conversations move from opinions to insight.
Coaching Skills for Leaders
Build coaching skills that turn you from problem-solver to leader-as-coach. Learn to ask better questions, give coaching feedback, and grow your team.
From Numbers to Narratives - Story Powered Data by Anecdote International
Story-Powered Data (Anecdote International): turn numbers into narratives that drive decisions—clear, credible, and memorable.
Listening to Understand
Learn to listen so people think better, meetings get shorter, and discussions get sharper.
Story Powered Leadership by Anecdote -Stories that shift outcomes
Story-Powered Leadership is a 3‑month virtual program that builds practical storytelling skills so leaders communicate with clarity, credibility and impact.
Become a Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor: deepen trust fast, ask smarter questions, and guide clients with confidence—so you become the person they call first.
Create a high performing team —without burnout, politics, or confusion.
Build a high-performing team with clarity, trust, and sustainable energy—so results rise without burnout, politics, or confusion.
Influence with Impact
Influencing with Impact: build trust, align stakeholders, and move decisions forward—without relying on authority.
Leadership Essentials
Master the core skills of modern leadership—feedback, coaching, accountability, and resilience—so your team performs with clarity and trust.
Connection Code - Deepening Relationships
Learn simple, practical techniques to make small talk feel natural, listen with presence, and ask better questions that build trust at work and at home.
Mindset Evolution
Build resilience, clarity and emotional control under pressure. Mindset Evolution gives you practical tools to reframe stress and recover faster.
Deep Dive into Visual Communication: Using Bikablo in Visual Storytelling and Graphic Recording
Through hands-on practice and expert feedback, you’ll refine your personal style and sharpen your visual thinking.
Visual Communication, Bikablo Basics
Build clear, engaging visuals in this bikablo® basics workshop. Learn a simple visual language to lead better meetings, workshops and coaching sessions.
Who we are
Jaya Machet is the Founder and Managing Director of Coaching Tiger. She knows the pressures and realities of corporate life first-hand—and works with leaders narrow the gap between intention and impact, so they can show up as themselves, more skillfully..
A specialist in senior leadership coaching and high-performance team dynamics, Jaya’s focus is simple: helping leaders stay human while performance expectations keep rising. In the age of AI, technical advantage is increasingly available to everyone—but trust, presence, and the ability to build strong relationships remain rare. That’s where her work sits: strengthening the relational skills that create clarity, collaboration, and momentum.
Her coaching style blends insight and challenge with steady support—creating a confidential space where leaders can think clearly, build self-awareness, and turn insight into action. With a long tenure in a global organisation, she brings a sharp understanding of the environments her clients navigate every day—complex, political, and fast-moving.
Our ecosystem
Coaching Tiger is supported by a trusted ecosystem of partners and practitioners. We work closely with Anecdote International, Bikablo, and RSVP Design to shape ideas and design bespoke programmes. When needed, we bring in expert coaches and trainers from our global network—so the right experience, facilitation style, and industry context are matched to your people and your goals.
Why It Matters
You can feel it: the pace has changed. Priorities shift, teams are stretched, and expectations keep climbing. You’re asked to deliver more—faster—while staying calm, strategic, and human.
And in the age of AI, that “human” part is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s your differentiator. When information is instant and automation is everywhere, trust, connection, and the ability to bring people with you become the real advantage.
In this environment, leadership can easily turn reactive. You spend your days firefighting—moving from one urgent issue to the next—with little space to think, connect, or lead change proactively.
Leadership development gives you that space back: a safe, confidential place to step out of the noise, regain perspective, and make clear strategic decisions. You build practical tools to communicate with impact, strengthen relationships that hold under pressure, and lead tough moments with both authority and empathy.
As your intention becomes clearer, your impact follows. You grow into bigger responsibilities—and become the kind of leader people trust, want to work with, and choose to follow.
Because what’s next shouldn’t be left to chance. It should be shaped—deliberately—by you.
What our clients say
She knows her work, as a coach, very well. Her message is clear & precise. She drives to the point directly. I like her style of handling every one of us. She gives a "personal touch" in her approach.
Such a gentle style. I'm sure there were times when Jaya was looking into my soul! She seemed to know what I was thinking and who I am without me saying things. Magical.
Jaya was sincere, very clear and I liked that she was also very observant. She is very warm as a person and was skilled in guiding me to find the answers for myself.
Very insightful, Jaya's questions are always straight to the point and very skilled at creating a secure base immediately from the start.
Inspiring human being. Generous, gentle, challenging, caring, interested.
Jaya is a great mixture of pushing questions and doesn't also express her own opinions. She is also demanding and doesn't let you off the hook. Thank you!
I felt very comfortable. Jaya combines listening and pushing in a very smart way. She's a great coach and she made an impact on me and it was very inspiring.
Super coach! Very well balanced on the caring and daring scale. Jaya is a great provider of a secure base and a great leader.
Jaya was a breath of fresh air, steering us through the sessions with subtlety and high emotional intelligence. Her insights were always impressive and thought provoking and will remain with me. A special person.
Jaya created an incredibly effective and safe environment in which I could learn in the most powerful way.
Strong professional and great individual, Jaya guided us gently and strongly while supporting us along the journey as a group and individuals; she played a fundamental part in our journey.
Jaya has created a wonderful environment for our team. She inspired and challenged us which was a perfect mixture and provided great guidance.
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