Kavitha Lakshmi Manevannan
Certified Lifebook Leader at The Lifebook Company | Personal Branding Strategist | Image Consultant | Etiquette Expert | Public Speaker | Podcaster

Having donned diverse leadership roles globally for 14 years in the corporate sector, her job experience gave her ample opportunity to realize how portraying the right image was critical in the success of an individual be it at any designation. It was tragic to observe that many a time people’s first impression was their biggest barrier. This observation changed her trajectory. She picked up such candidates, and mentored and groomed them, helping them land their dream jobs /promotions. What started as a gesture to help individuals turned into her passion and profession. She quit her job when at the peak of her career to take this up full-time Style Tangent was founded by Kavitha Lakshmi Manevannan in 2014, initially just with the idea of bringing to the forefront well-qualified and deserving candidates who were facing rejection just because “He/She couldn’t fit in.” With time, her clientele included professionals, highly qualified women who wanted to make a comeback after a sabbatical, celebrities & sports personalities. 

Kavitha Lakshmi Manevannan
Certified Lifebook Leader at The Lifebook Company | Personal Branding Strategist | Image Consultant | Etiquette Expert | Public Speaker | Podcaster

Having donned diverse leadership roles globally for 14 years in the corporate sector, her job experience gave her ample opportunity to realize how portraying the right image was critical in the success of an individual be it at any designation. 

Having donned diverse leadership roles globally for 14 years in the corporate sector, her job experience gave her ample opportunity to realize how portraying the right image was critical in the success of an individual be it at any designation.

What is the hardest challenge you faced in your career and how did you turn it into an opportunity?

Well, I’d like to stay struggles and challenges are more things of the past with me. They no longer haunt me nor distract me. This does not mean I am immune to challenges. One does come across stumbling blocks occasionally. The word “Crisis” in Japanese has “danger” and “opportunity.” My strategy is to firstly take care of the danger and then look for the opportunities that come along with it. The recent pandemic affected us just like the millions across the world. After the initial phase of coming to terms with it, we worked towards moving our offline operations — online. This has turned out to be one of my best decisions professionally, where we are accessing people globally, enabling exponential growth.

How is Lifebook different from other programs?

There are 3 elements that set Lifebook above and beyond other goal-setting programs:
1. Holistic Approach – Lifebook helps you create a vision for all 12 dimensions of your life – not just your health, career, or finances, but everything in between that’s equally important.
2. Personalized System – Lifebook is an empty system that helps you get in touch with what YOU really want in life. All answers come from you, not at you. As a customizable blueprint for your ideal life, it’s grounded in what your idea of success and fulfillment looks like – nobody else’s.
3. Measurable Results – With our signature Lifebook Assessment tool, Lifebook actually measures your transformation after a specific time period, and for all 12 key dimensions of life.

Tell us about your social initiatives?

I work with underprivileged girls from tier 2 and 3 cities of India and enable them to take on a life in a city/metro where they have to migrate for higher education/career. I work with women who have been on a sabbatical from their career (marriage/childbirth etc) going through depression and loss of identity, helping them rediscover themselves. This not only empowers them but changes the entire economy and future of those families.

What have been the biggest challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Kavitha says her knowledge and wisdom come from the humbling experiences of life than the hallways of esteemed institutions!! Her life has been a roller coaster ride, full of ups and downs, twists and turns, but today she is grateful that she stands tall, having weathered many storms. She has been through it all, gender bias in her childhood, crazy boundaries set by society, family & culture. Breaking past these barriers was her biggest challenge. This was possible because she had a STRONG PURPOSE at the young age of 20. Ensuring her daughter would never undergo what she did, became the force that drove her towards where she is today. The COURAGE to BREAK PAST CONFORMITY is what fuelled her success!! It has not been easy, but it sure seems to have been possible!!!! Today, she has emerged as someone who could not just fly past these limiting beliefs but facilitates the empowerment of thousands globally.
What is your business success mantra that you have embraced as you sought to establish your success story”?

Whenever struck by challenges, I used them as vehicles to transform me from a WOMAN to WARRIOR, from VICTIM to SURVIVOR!

Message for people in today’s day and age.

Are you one of them who is LIVING LIFE BY DEFAULT or LIVING LIFE BY DESIGN?
Just pause and think about this……..

If you could design your ideal life – what would it look like? What would you do every day? How would your body look and feel? Where would you live and travel? Who would you love and how?
And the real question is: Are you living this ideal life right NOW? Are you who you truly want to be? Or are you struggling with finding direction, chasing goals that don’t belong to you?
The truth is – no matter how your life looks right now – you have the absolute power to turn it into a real masterpiece. You just need to get clear on what your masterpiece looks like. You just need a clear vision for your life.
 So, if you hear a quiet voice within, telling you that you can do more, be more, live more – connect with us to find out how you can take charge of your happiness and Turn Your Life into A Living Masterpiece with Lifebook.
SO, I URGE YOU TO FIND THE COURAGE TO DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND & SAY “THIS IS WHO I AM AND THIS IS WHO I WANT TO BE!!”

START RIGHT AWAY!!!!  THE ONLY THING THAT SEPARATES YOU FROM WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU WANT TO GO IS WHAT YOU DO!!!

Any other Happy moments /achievements you would like to share with the world.

Initially, apart from my clients in India, I had selective clients who were NRIs. Today, I have a client base in the USA, Canada, Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Some of my clients are at Google and the Silicon Valley, and students I’ve worked with are at places like Columbia University in leadership roles leading international students. I have successfully trained over 17000 people and coached more than 3700 clients globally to date. I have been privileged to be honored with Womanpreneur of the Year Award 2021 and Indian Achiever’s Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement and Contribution in Nation Building 2021-2022.

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