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ZAVAYA
Transformational coaching for high-achieving women in leadership who are ready to lead and live with clarity, presence, and alignment.
You may be in the right place if…
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You carry a high level of responsibility, and rarely feel like you can fully exhale.
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You move quickly and hold a lot, but want to do it from a more grounded place.
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You want success that doesn't come at the expense of your peace, your presence, or what matters most.
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What begins to shift
This work is not about doing more.
It's about returning to a way of leading and living that feels more natural, more grounded, and more true to you.
Regulate your inner state
So you are no longer leading from urgency, pressure, or overextension.
Reconnect with your truth
So your decisions reflect clarity, values, and who you actually want to be.
Create sustainable momentum
So your success becomes more grounded, intentional, and deeply yours.
Women who've done this work
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Working with Sanji helped me shift from constantly anticipating the worst to focusing on how I want to feel at work. She guided me to recognize the conditions that support my best self, and what it feels like to experience those conditions, so I could move forward with more clarity and confidence.
Brooke Eskilson-Patterson
Sr. Product Manager · Mom of Two
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Our conversation was incredibly insightful. I'm feeling much more confident and clear on the steps I need to take. The most valuable shift for me was gaining a clearer perspective on how to approach the executive leadership team conversations.
Anushi Rajapaksa
CEO, Misti · Mom of Two
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Sanji has been THE DIFFERENCE in helping me pause, take a deep breath, reset, and re-align personal and professional goals. Especially as a full-time working mom of a toddler.
Saduni Jayakody
Engineering Manager, VicGrid · Mom
The work
Private Coaching with Sanji
Six months of focused 1:1 coaching for women in leadership ready for the success they've built to feel aligned, fulfilling, and deeply their own.
You'll begin to
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Make decisions with greater clarity and self-trust
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Shift out of constant pressure and into a steadier way of leading
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Strengthen your presence, internally and externally
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Create success that feels more aligned with your values, your season, and the life you want to build
What's included
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12 private coaching sessions over 6 months
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Ongoing voice support between sessions
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A tailored process designed around your patterns, goals, and season of life
Investment
Investment is shared in our private consultation, where we explore whether this is the right fit for where you are.
If the work isn't the right fit, I'll say so. I only work with women where I'm genuinely confident I can help.
Hi, I'm Sanji
Leadership without losing yourself.
I started my career as a software engineer. Fifteen years later, I was leading product and engineering as Chief Product Officer of a health-tech startup we grew from pre-revenue to seven figures.
From the outside, it looked like success.
Inside, something felt off.
As my career grew, so did the pressure, the expectations, and the constant pull on my attention. In 2022, I became a mom. By 2023, I was answering Slack messages during bedtime, physically there but mentally elsewhere.
I couldn't ignore it anymore.
In 2024, pregnant with our second, I stepped away. We moved back to Sri Lanka, where my husband and I both grew up. Our daughter was born there, surrounded by family and a slower, more grounded way of living.
That season changed how I see success.
I trained as a coach and experienced what real transformation looks like, not surface-level productivity, but a deeper shift in how you think, decide, and show up. When we returned to North Carolina, I knew I didn’t want to build success the same way again.
That’s why I created Zavaya. I work with women who are leading, building, and carrying a lot, and and want their success to feel as good inside as it looks outside.
I still love tech. I build with AI every day, excited by what's possible and close to the shift the leaders I work with are living through.
My work is grounded in evidence-based professional deepth and personal transformation, ICF-accredited coaching training, fifteen years leading through pressure, an MBA from Yale. It’s about aligning ambition with values, clear choices under pressure, and success that reflects who you are
Outside of work, I’m a mom of two. I run, lift, and spend as much time outdoors as I can. We travel as a family, and I’m always learning.
Do I need to know what I want to work on?
No. Most women come in with a sense that something is misaligned, not a clear diagnosis. We'll find the real edges together.
Is this confidential?
Completely. What you share stays with me. Coaching works because it's a space where you can be fully honest, without performance, strategy, or reputation on the line.
What if we're not the right fit?
That's what the consultation is for. If it's not the right fit for either of us, I'll say so. You'll leave the conversation with more clarity either way.
How are sessions held?
Via video, 60 minutes each, at a rhythm that works for you.
Final invitation
If this speaks to where you are, I'd love to hear from you.
Book a private consultation below. We'll have a thoughtful conversation about where you are, what feels misaligned, and what support might look like from here.
Where success feels like peace.