ABOUT

I am Shelly Yadav Jain, founder and host of Shelly Thoughts.

 

I spent 13 years in corporate life, most of them at GE, Baker Hughes and Air Liquide, in engineering-heavy, high-pressure settings, and finished my corporate career in a Director role at Air Liquide India. I have run Shelly Thoughts full time since July 2025.

 

I bring two things into the room: a corporate insider’s sense of what pressure really feels like, and a practitioner’s habit of looking within before reacting.

 

My own practice is personal. I have learnt and practised Hatha yoga with my teacher (@smriti.yoga) for three years, and I completed Inner Engineering with Isha Foundation. My Gita is Bhagavad-gita As It Is, by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I share this practice as experience and never teach it.

 

I offer leadership coaching and facilitation, and I have worked one to one with a small number of coaching clients.

 

The bridge

 

What I learnt in those years is that the senior job is mostly an inner job. The decision, the tone in a hard meeting, the patience to build people who do not need you: all of it depends on how trained the mind is. Our scriptures said this long ago. The Bhagavad-gita As It Is (6.5 to 6.6) says that the mind can be a friend or an enemy, depending on how it is held. The Yoga Sutras (1.14) say that practice becomes firm only when it is kept up for a long time, without a break. The research on attention, habit and behaviour now describes the same thing in its own language. My work sits on that bridge: the old teaching, the new evidence, and a practice you can keep. I hold no coaching or clinical certification. This is reflection and conversation for leaders, not therapy, medical advice or yoga instruction.

 

I work with individuals, companies and colleges: online wherever you are, in person in Delhi NCR, and on site anywhere in India or abroad for organisations that ask.