Aureve Core · 6 months · HR & People
HRBP, ESI Group → HR Manager, Arrow International
She had spent years managing other people's workplace experiences while quietly abandoning her own. That was the work.
The Situation
As an HRBP, she spent her days supporting others through difficult workplace conversations, managing conflict, and being the steady presence in moments of organisational turbulence. She was good at it. Exceptionally good. And completely unaware that she had built a professional identity out of serving others while consistently placing her own needs at the bottom of the list.
She came to Aureve with a complicated mix: resilience and exhaustion, empathy and suppressed frustration. She felt misjudged in her organisation — her honest opinions were read as harsh rather than helpful. She had been trained, somewhere deep in her formation, that expressing feelings was dramatic, that women who asked for things were demanding, and that her cultural background didn't give her permission to want more than what she had.
She used her job as a coping mechanism. She threw herself into work because working was safer than stopping to examine what she actually wanted. The mental and emotional exhaustion had become physical. She was running on reserve.
The Work
The irony was not lost on her: she spent her professional life helping people understand themselves better, and she had never done it for herself. Aureve Core became the space where that finally happened. We began where she had never started — with an honest inventory of what she wanted from her career, independent of what she believed she was allowed to want.
The sessions addressed her relationship with cultural expectations and gender conditioning — specifically the belief that asking for more was selfish rather than legitimate. We worked on how she communicated her own value, how she held boundaries with senior stakeholders, and how she navigated internal politics without defaulting to appeasement.
She made the move to Arrow International as HR Manager — a step up in title, scope, and recognition. But the more meaningful shift was internal: she stopped apologising for having opinions, stopped shrinking her salary expectations, and started showing up to negotiations as someone who knew what she was worth.
"Working with Sanket and Hir has been truly transformative. They helped me break old patterns and disbeliefs, face triggers head-on, and step into my most authentic self."
HRBP → HR Manager · ESI Group / Arrow International
The Takeaway
HR professionals — the people most trained to see others clearly — are often the least practised at seeing themselves. She had all the language and tools of self-development. What she lacked was permission to apply them to herself. The Aureve approach gave her that space. Everything that followed was already inside her, waiting.
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