Sekhar
Palanisamy
14 years at Dell Technologies as Director. Patent holder. ICF Certified Coach. Author. He’s built 8 companies across 4 continents and coached 350+ business owners globally. He doesn’t just teach growth — he’s lived every version of it, including the failures.
Fortune 50
at Peak
Delivered
Founded & Built
Coached
Patent Holder — US-20210406832-A1 · AI Bottleneck Prediction
ICF ACC Certified Business & Leadership Coach · 2026
TSIA Star Award — Services Excellence
PMP — Project Management Institute · 2024
Wharton — Corporate Finance · 2022
Harvard — Technology Entrepreneurship · 2019
Stanford — Organizational Analysis · 2019
IIM Bangalore — Organizational Design · 2019
CSCP — Certified Supply Chain Professional · APICS
Board Member — 4 Mid-Size Organizations
Trustee — 2 Non-Profit Organizations
MS Industrial Engineering — Texas A&M · 2006
He’s Been In Your Seat
“I’ve been the founder who couldn’t step away, the executive who had to restructure 6,000 people, and the entrepreneur who failed more times than I can count. That’s what I bring to every coaching relationship.”
Sekhar started at Dell in 2008 as an entry-level engineer and rose to Director in 6 years — managing teams of 175 people, a $12M+ budget, and delivering over $50M in cost savings. He won the TSIA Star Award for Services Excellence and holds a patent on AI-driven bottleneck prediction.
While still at Dell, he was already building. Eight companies across real estate, construction, education, manufacturing, and food — all still operating. He’s run organizations with 300+ employees, managed multi-million-dollar real estate portfolios across Texas and India, and worked across offices in the US, India, Singapore, and China.
He’s also failed. Multiple ventures that didn’t work. He doesn’t hide it — he uses it. Because knowing what breaks a business is just as valuable as knowing what scales one.
Org Restructuring
Operational Optimization
Digital Transformation
Crisis Management
Change Management
Matrixed Organizations
Technology Investment
Org Turnaround
14 Years at Dell.
Entry Level to Director.
Started in 2008 and served for 14 years at Dell Technologies, Austin TX. Served as Director for the final 6 years managing teams of 175 and budgets of $12M+.
The Founders Who Come to BStrat
You’ve proven the business works. Now you’re hitting a ceiling that effort alone won’t break through. You need structure, systems, and someone who’s seen it before.
Everything routes through you. Decisions, approvals, quality control. You’re working more hours than any of your employees — and somehow things still slip when you look away.
You built this by doing everything yourself. Now you need to lead differently — through people, systems, and strategy rather than your own output.
The vision is clear. The plans get made. But 90 days later, you’re in the same place. The gap between what you intend and what actually happens keeps widening.
8 Companies Built.
All Still Operating.
Across 12 years, across 4 countries. Real estate, construction, education, manufacturing, food — not theory. Every framework Sekhar teaches has been stress-tested inside a real business he built and still runs.
He Lost Count.
And He’s Fine With That.
Not every bet pays off. Sekhar built and closed several ventures that didn’t work. He talks about them openly because failure isn’t the opposite of credibility — hiding failure is.
Executive Education & Online Certificate Programs
The Inertia Trap
Why businesses stop growing — and how to break the patterns keeping them stuck. The frameworks Sekhar has built across 14 years at Dell and 8 companies, distilled into a single book.
Ready to Break
Your Plateau?
A free 30-minute strategy call. No pitch, no obligation. Just an honest conversation with someone who’s been in your seat.