Coach Profile

A Coach Forged in Corporate and Entrepreneurial Arenas

Sekhar Palanisamy

Principal Coach

Dallas, Texas

Brief

A former Director at Dell Technologies and a seasoned entrepreneur, Sekhar combines deep corporate insight with hands-on business acumen.  Known for his calm, structured, and results-driven approach. Based in Dallas, Sekhar is passionate about helping leaders unlock clarity, confidence, and lasting success.

Director Level Experience managing teams of 250 and $40M budget (16 yrs)
Worked across US, India, Singapore and China Offices
Board Member in 4 mid size organizations
CEO in 2 Startups, invested in 6 Startups
Trustee in 2 non profit Organizations
Invested and exited in 4 Startups (real estate, restaurant, exports)
Owns multi-million real estate portfolio in Texas and India
Failed in X (lost count) businesses
Certified Business & Leadership Coach

Your Co-Pilot for Excellence

Demonstrated Experiences Across

19
Years Proven
Corporate and Entrepreneur Experience
1
Technology
Patents
10
Business
Invested
90
Businesses
Helped

Corporate Achivements

15 Years of Corporate Experience at Dell Technologies, Austin, TX

Started at entry level and served 8 years of Director positions across multiple organizations, managed teams of 250 and budgets of $40M.

Outsourced Manufacturing to Mexico
Worked with China Vendors for establishing factories in Mexico and outsourced computer manufacturing
Culture Transformation - 6000 People
Drove culture transformation of 6k members globally in supply chain and logistics function to break 20 year long DNA to prepare for futrue.
Led and establsihed 4DX culture and adoption across the organziation.
Order Management Transformation
Led process transformation of order management and led several technology efforts to improve order experience incuding website developments, Artificial Intelligence, Automation and investments.
Agile Transformation
Drove agile transformation across teams in India and Malaysia for faster time to delivery of software projects.
Process Transformation - Call Centers
Drove process transformation function for call centers to enable agent of future, workflow improvements and agent of future.
Artificial Intelligence and Hyper Automation Adoption
Enablement of several AI and automation use cases in area of call center management and field services. This also got TSIA award for Dell Technologies and 2 patents.
Service Process Management
Drove multiple transformation efforts to improve sales force case management outcomes using process mining and workflows.
On Time Delivery Optimization
Drove improvements to on time delivery of Dell products across North and South America. Identified, vetted and drove improvement projects across 25 touchpoints to achive comitted on time at each delivery.

Ongoing Business Ventures

12 years of experience as invesor, founder, scaling business, exit planning and venture capital.

Owner, Real Estate Portfolio
Trident Investments
Real estate cash flow investor owning multi million dollars of properties
Board Member and Trustee, K-12 Education
Aksharam International School, Aksharam World School
K-12 School with 1400 students and 150 teachers and support staff.
Part of 16 member board.
Board Member, Prime Vista LLC
Rental Car Company Dallas
Land developer and builder in one of India's fast growing city.
Partner, Artificial Intelligence Consulting
Kstrat Consulting
Enabling Artificial Intelligence capability for mid‑market and Fortune‑scale companies ($50 M+ revenue)
Founder and CEO, Real Estate Broker Office
Kanish Realty
Coimbatore Citys largest real estate broker.
Established modern MLS and listing platforms in unregulated market.
Grew to 25 brokers in 3 years with 18% market share in the city.
CEO, Rubber Band Manufacturing
Rubands
Manufacturer of Rubber Bands in India - One of the largest.
Strong distributor network catering to 75% of Indian States.
Co-founder - Construction Services Startup
Kanish Plasters
South India's largest wall plastering company.
Provided low cost and low carbon options to green buildings.
Grew the organization to 300 members in 5 years and exited.

Exited Business Ventures

Co-Founder - Land Development and Builder
Kanish Construction Company
Land developer and builder in one of India's fast growing city.
Completed 12 projects and over 250 homes.
Board Member, Ana Foods LLC
Texas based multi restaurant operator group.
Generate over $5M in revenue with multiple restaurant locations.

Failed Business Ventures

Co-Founder - Online Tutoring K-12
Powerkid Tutoring Academy
Failed to scale and achieve sustainable revenue and profitability.
Corporate Leadership
Entrepreneur Achivement
Startup Scale and Exits
Non Profit Ventures
Certifications

ACC Certified Coach - - 2025
PMP – 2024
Corporate Finance - Certificate Program – 2022
Sales Force Management – Certificate Program – 2023
Global Diplomacy - Certificate Program - 2019
Managing Company of the Future - Certificate Program - 2020
Technology Entrepreneurship – Certificate Program – 2019
Organizational Design – Certificate Program - 2019
Organizational Analysis and Structuring - Certificate Program – 2019
Certified Supply Chain Professional - CSCP - 2015
Masters - Industrial Engineering and Supply Chain Management
Mechanical Engineering
Clarity. Strategy. Execution.
Lead. Scale. Succeed.
Think. Act. Grow.
Results. Built Weekly.

The BStrat Advantage

Recognized by the best

Clients Trust BStrat.

From an early stage start-up’s growth strategies to helping existing businesses, we have done it all! The results speak for themselves. Our services work.

error: