International Mandela Day offer for Rising Stars in business, sport and in health. Let's Talk.
Roshni speaks to Paige Lindenberg, Marketing Manager- Shelby SA and racing driver at Lindenberg Racing. Paige shares how she stays on track in motorsport, marketing and motherhood.
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Roshni Gajjar speaks to Franco Chiocchetti, Founder and CEO, RaceOn - a performance engineering company behind championship winning teams in motorsport.
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I'm in an ever evolving quest to discover the "Why". StratAstute has enabled that so beautifully - the purpose, people and partners I get to work with are fuel that keeps me going, despite the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship.
Grey hair wisdom earned and real-world tests of resilience navigated, over a rather choppy and turbulent decade. On reflection today, I realised that I love my work more everyday.
It takes, on average, 20 years to build a success story - we've only completed the formation lap...
What I've learnt most:
- Success is not a destination. The more you grow, the further to go.
Thank you for our support! Let's Talk to keep going and growing, with shared Purpose.
Roshni is a chartered accountant, practicing as a strategy consultant and resilience coach. Her passion and profession connect in the intersection of strategy, health and sports, which she believes are vital catalysts for success. In all she does, she advocates to "Lift As We Rise".
On 24 September, Heritage Day, here's to all who have the green and gold dancing in their hearts, on and beyond the sport scenes.
There is no place quite like our "home". Today:
> Celebrate our "geesvol" SA spirit;
> Acknowledge our diverse wisdom;
> Plant and water one seed carrying potential prosperity.
The future is in our hands...
Mould it, with positive intent, to grow, expand and share the pure joy of being South African.
Stay Passionately Resilient.
Roshni Gajjar is the Founder and Managing Director of StratAstute Consulting specialising in strategy consulting and resilience coaching for decision-makers, professionals and rising stars in business, sports and health.
On 9 August, South Africa celebrates Women's Day.
To all the women in South Africa and beyond - keep growing your world, with purpose-driven passion. Together, let's Lift As We Rise.
Women's Month Consulting and Coaching offer
Coaching sessions at R980.00 per session for 8 women, representing:
>Female entrepreneurs in business.
>Women in sport and sports administration.
>Rising stars (18 to 25) in sport.
Invest in one session or a series of sessions between 8 August and 8 December 2025. Send your details and share your goal. Contact via the website.
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>Lead with purpose.
>Perform with passion.
>Succeed with resilience.
Offer expires on 09 September 2025.
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Five years ago, our world changed in unthinkable ways. "Being present" now includes virtual meetings, shopping, learning, celebrations, relationships, sports ... In a virtual world, what does "Achievement" mean? Are you feeling that fulfilling sense of achievement?
Is virtual achievement the same as real-world achievement - feeling it, connecting with it and sharing the high-fives, handshakes, hugs, smiles and cheers that achievement invokes in us humans? What are the psychophysical trade-offs in this intangible virtual reality? It impacts people and therefore impacts teams, organisations and communities.
Change can be imposed on society and we deal with it. What needs to be acknowledged is that the process of change takes time to take root and settle. We all "just got on with it". We use real-world language to describe unprecedented events and a digital revolution in progress. We don't yet have the words to truly convey what the world has experienced, and continues to experience, in this age of sudden, crazy-paced change. The human mind, emotions and physiology are still trying to adapt.
In my work and conversations this year, I can hear the weariness, the fatigue, the overwhelm of all that people, teams and organisations have endured since 2020. Resilience compels us to adapt, to be agile, to get up and bounce-back - with 5G speed! Yet strategy is a long-term game; and will always be. In this context, it is natural for you, your team, your loved ones and ecosystem to feel a bit weathered by the next normal headwinds that keep blowing. These factors impact performance, progress and sustained resilience.
As the mind envisions 31 December, you may be asking the question, "So what now?"
Stop. Pause. Pat yourself on the back. Breathe. Try these steps:
1) Stay focussed on what you want to happen.
2) To year-end - unlock potential.
3) Take positive actions, with due discernment.
4) Calibrate your achievement scale.
5) Believe in the vision. Be sure to review it, refine it, revitalise it.
Doing this alone might get you to the finish line. Doing this with others, will get you to further into that “uncertain Future”. Your choice — what does “Achievement” mean to you?
If / when the voice nudges for support, Let's Talk about your strategy to stay purpose-driven, with motivated momentum.
Roshni Gajjar is the Founder and Managing Director of StratAstute Consulting specialising in strategy consulting and resilience coaching for decision-makers, professionals and rising stars in business, sports and health.
As adults, saying "Yes" to serve in the best interests of one's organisation, clients, career, relationships and community carries inherent trade-offs. Over time, the "tipping" effect leads to rolling hindsight gaps, evergreen in the mind.
Look closely into your own review mirror to find the prospective threads of progress:
1) Understand the story.
2) Evaluate the impact/influence to date.
3) Lift the lessons.
4) Acknowledge the experiential upside.
5) Reframe the "should haves" to "I choose to...".
Know and transcend your blind spots. Let's Talk.
Some conversations shape us in subtle but transformative ways...
This week, a client reached out for a chat. Having "survived" the past four years despite the odds, he acknowledged his mental and emotional fatigue. He felt lost and scared. I shared a 2020 Lift As We Rise webinar/podcast re: the state of mental health - one which, unknown to me at the time, would shift my approach from one-and-done strategy consulting to enabling success.
Over my career, I have observed that even the most accomplished leaders and athletes go through phases of deep vulnerability. Global statistics report that 49% of entrepreneurs suffer from at least one form of mental health challenge during their careers. Researchers at San Francisco University found that founders of start-up business are driven by the "no pain, no gain" theory and are twice as likely to experience depression, be admitted for psychiatric disorders or have suicidal thoughts and six times more likely to have ADHD. Digitisation and virtual reality are likely to increase mental health risks - the World Health Organisation warns of this.
Everything in life has a trade-off. As South Africans, we are damn proud of our resilience - the "just get on with it" culture can become a hard armour and beneath, unhealthy consequences can fester - physically our health slides, mentally our motivation slips, emotionally we become disconnected or dissociate, relationally/socially we stop showing up, and financially, we are less abundant. This attracts negative experiences and situations, because we become hyper-alert to danger, the cortisol rises and stress modulators short circuit, compromising decision-making and judgement. In SA, one in three people will be challenged with a mental health disorder.
Wherever you are at at this point in 2024, become aware or more aware of what the inner voice is saying. There are plenty reasons and valid distractions to ignore it, postpone it, hoping that it will go away. That is denying yourself the chance to thrive. Rise above the resistance, take action, then success will come. When you've done that, lift others around you because only then, can we thrive sustainably.
Success is a feeling. Own it, nurture it and invest in growing it. Switch it on and make it shine bright.
StratAstute Consulting offers Resilience Success coaching for decision-makers, professionals and rising stars in business, sports and healthcare. Our coaching programmes include optional resilience analysis and evaluations. Let's Talk.