CAREER TRACK
The Skills That Got You Promoted Won't Get You Promoted Again.
For working professionals who are technically strong but want networking, persuasion, personal branding, and collaboration to stop being their blind spot.
12 Weeks · Weekly 1:1 Sessions · 100% One-on-One · Choose Your Focus Skills
Who This Track Is For
You Lead Without Direct Authority
Founders, CXOs, and senior managers who need to influence people who don't report to them.
You're a Strong Performer, Passed Over
Your output is solid — but visibility, not output, is the gap holding back the next step.
You Have a Specific Moment Coming Up
A promotion pitch, a leadership transition, a client negotiation — and you want to walk in prepared.
You're Moving Into a People-Facing Role
Individual contributors stepping into leadership or client-facing work for the first time.
Technical Strength Has a Ceiling. This Is What's Past It.
Whatever got you here — deep expertise, reliable output, being the person who gets it done — stops being the differentiator past a certain level. Ideas don’t land the way they used to. Promotions go to someone louder in the room. You’re doing the work, but somehow not getting credit for the judgment behind it.
That gap isn’t a personality problem. It’s a missing skill layer: influence, persuasion, and personal brand are just as learnable as the technical skills that got you this far — they’re governed by the same status, trust, and game-theoretic dynamics that shape every room you walk into.
We treat that layer as a system you can build deliberately, not a trait some people are born with.
How We Build It
Evolutionary Biology
The same status and trust signaling wired into every human group — now applied to boardrooms, stakeholder meetings, and org charts.
Neurobiology & Psychology
The psychological levers behind attention, memory, and decision-making — why some people get remembered and promoted, and others don't.
Systems Thinking
Persuasion, negotiation, and personal branding treated as structured, repeatable plays — not personality traits.
Choose Your Focus Skills
Click a skill to see what we build. Your actual focus areas are set together during your Evaluation Call — this is illustrative.
Program Structure
| Component | Format | Cadence | What to Expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnose | 1:1 intake session | Week 1 | Assessment of your role, goals, and the specific skills you want to sharpen |
| Weekly Coaching | 1:1 live session | 1×/week, 12 weeks | Framework taught and applied to your real meetings, pitches, and conversations |
| Real-World Application | Between-session practice | Ongoing | Apply frameworks directly in your actual workplace situations |
| Wrap-Up | 1:1 review | Week 12 | Consolidate frameworks into a lasting personal playbook |
By Week 12, You...
Walk in With Tools You Trust
Enter high-stakes meetings, interviews, or negotiations prepared, not improvising.
Build Your Network With Intent
Grow your professional web and personal brand deliberately, not randomly.
Influence Without Formal Authority
Move people and outcomes even when you don't have the title to back it up.
Handle Pushback With a Framework
Navigate difficult conversations and negotiations repeatably, not by instinct alone.
Meet Your Coach
I’m Rohit Borkar (CA, MBA – ISB), founder of PeopleMath. I spent years moving up as a finance and strategy consultant on the strength of technical output — until growing responsibilities demanded collaboration, selling, and high-stakes negotiation, and I found I had no framework for any of it.
I reverse-engineered the skill layer past technical competence through evolutionary biology, psychology, and game theory, and rebuilt my own career on it — leading APAC sales for Deloitte, driving India’s largest telecom merger, and anchoring hostile negotiations with tax authorities and senior government officials.
I built this track from the rooms and negotiations I had to win, not from theory.
How to Apply
Apply
Help us with some basic particulars. Time required: 5 minutes.
Profile Review
We review your information to evaluate if we are a good fit.
Evaluation Call
A call to evaluate further & outline precise gaps, work areas & priorities — and get clarity on our approach & outcomes.
Begin Your Transformation
If aligned, we start your personalised 12-week journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Most applicants aren’t starting from zero — they’re strong performers who’ve hit a ceiling that raw competence can’t clear. This track sharpens specific, high-leverage skills rather than teaching communication basics.
Yes — that’s the point of the Career Track. Your Evaluation Call is where we scope which skills matter most for your goals, and your 12 weeks are built around that focus.
Yes. Influence, personal branding, and stakeholder management matter before you have a title — often that’s exactly what earns you one.
Those are built for a room of 30 on a fixed syllabus. This is 100% one-on-one, built around your actual role, industry, and upcoming moments — not a generic case study.