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Innovation runs in our veins.
Praveen Manten,
Senior Coach,
Curriculum Design
Praveen is a seasoned executive coach with more than 15 years of experience helping CEOs make impactful decisions. His career in leadership development began in the early days of the internet, where he co-founded several tech companies. Most recently, he sold a thriving business in the healthcare sector. Since then, Praveen has shifted his focus entirely to coaching and mentoring, becoming a trusted advisor to leaders across industries. He has coached over 500 executives in helping them gain clarity, align on their strategy, and break free from old patterns to unlock their full potential as leaders.
Keith Martin-Smith,
Founder & Principal
Keith helps leaders see what others can’t, and act on what matters. He works with founders, CEOs, and executives to dismantle false narratives, rewire limiting patterns, and build cultures rooted in clarity, courage, and insight.
His work blends narrative strategy, systems thinking, and deep transformational insight. As an ordained Zen priest and lineage holder in Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Qi Gong, Keith brings a level of presence and embodied intelligence rare in executive advising. He’s not limited by a coaching model, but instead is a pattern interrupter, a guide who sees the deeper story and helps leaders respond to life rather than react to it.
He draws from Integral Theory, adult developmental models, somatic integration, polarity training, and real-world execution. Keith has worked directly with several founders of major developmental models of human growth, and brings that depth to every client engagement. His work spans tech, finance, wellness, design, and beyond—with clients who want real clarity, not just polish.
A lifelong martial artist, Keith sparred in national tournaments when younger and has cross-trained in disciplines from Muay Thai to boxing. He’s the author of five books, a recipient of multiple national awards, and a former UX strategist who’s helped shape messaging and identity for both Fortune 100s and founder-led startups.
His clients don’t seek comfort. They seek change. Keith shows up as a true partner: precise, present, and unafraid to name what needs naming.
He works where most people turn away—inside the stillness, the fear, the shadow, and the unquestioned instincts that worked until now—and helps leaders choose who they’re going to be next.
King stands as one of TaskUs’s most tenured U.S. leaders — a steady hand through the company’s meteoric rise from a 400-person startup to a 60,000-strong, publicly traded global powerhouse (Nasdaq: TASK). His reputation is built not just on tenure, but on relentless delivery, deep integrity, and his uncanny ability to bring out the best in every team he joins.
Today, King spearheads a global transformation initiative focused on leadership and management development. His work draws from deep operational experience, including his role as dedicated director to TaskUs’s largest account — one of the ten biggest companies in the world — where he helped scale teams, drive strategic alignment, and deliver results at the highest level.
King is at his best when serving as a strategic partner to senior executives, aligning cross-functional leaders and orchestrating global projects that move companies forward. His specialty? Driving excellence through clarity, coordination, and culture.
He’s driven by a belief that business can — and must — be a force for good. He partners with visionary founders, CEOs, and senior leaders who aim not just for scale, but for significance. His consulting expertise spans global team building, strategic planning, process optimization, and operational standardization — all in service of sustainable growth and conscious leadership.
King also serves on the Advisory Board for Continuing Education in Customer Experience at UC Santa Barbara and mentors emerging leaders through MicroMentor. When he meets kindred spirits — the changemakers, the peacebuilders, the restless souls trying to do better — he shows up as a coach, a thought partner, and a guide.
At his core, King believes in a simple truth: we create a better world by helping each person embody their highest self — while owning, not avoiding, their shadow. It’s that integration — the blending of private sector excellence with public sector purpose — that shapes King’s mission: to help build a more equitable, conscious future for us all.
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King Leung,
Founder & Principal