An author is not defined by degrees, titles, or official positions, but by his words settled in the hearts of his readers. It is the reader’s understanding, emotion, and reflection that truly shape an author’s place in the world. This work stands not as a declaration of qualification, but as an invitation: to read, to feel, and to discover meaning, because at the end, it is the reader who grants a book its identity, and an author his true recognition.

Brindha Kalyanaraman is an internationally certified Emotional Intelligence (EQ) consultant and business coach for women in digital entrepreneurship worldwide. With a strong foundation in corporate human resources, behavioral science, and emotional intelligence, deeply rooted in spirituality, she helps you align your inner world to build clarity, resilience, and meaningful success. EQ Genie is her first book in a series dedicated to nurturing emotionally intelligent, conscious, and prosperous community leaders for the future.

Sarath Parambil is a business coach, entrepreneur, and leadership mentor who works closely with MSME business owners to help them build stronger businesses by first strengthening the person leading them. His work focuses on the intersection of mindset, leadership, systems, and sales — the often invisible factors that determine whether a business grows or remains stuck.Sarath’s perspective comes from lived experience rather than theory. Before becoming a coach, he spent nearly a decade building and running his own ventures. During this journey he experienced both growth and setbacks firsthand — managing teams, handling cash-flow pressure, navigating difficult partnerships, and facing the emotional weight that comes with being responsible for a business. These experiences shaped his belief that many business problems are not purely strategic problems, but leadership alignment problems.Over the years, Sarath has worked with business owners across multiple service industries, particularly MSMEs that once experienced strong growth but later found themselves struggling with stagnation, declining sales, team performance issues, or operational chaos. Through coaching, workshops, and consulting engagements, he helps entrepreneurs identify the deeper gaps that often sit beneath surface-level business challenges — gaps in clarity, decision-making, communication, and leadership identity.His coaching philosophy centers around a simple but powerful idea: businesses rarely grow beyond the internal clarity of the person leading them. When leaders align their thinking, values, and decisions, the business begins to move differently. When they don’t, even good strategies fail.Sarath’s work blends practical business structure with human understanding. He helps entrepreneurs build systems for sales, team performance, and operations while also addressing the personal patterns that quietly influence leadership behavior. His sessions are known for being direct, reflective, and deeply practical — focused less on motivational talk and more on helping leaders see the real cause of the problems they face.He is also known for his ability to translate complex leadership and behavioral insights into simple frameworks that business owners can immediately apply in their companies. Whether working with founders individually or with leadership teams, Sarath focuses on creating clarity, accountability, and alignment within the organization.Through his writing and coaching, Sarath aims to help entrepreneurs understand a truth many discover only after years of struggle: the most important work of building a business is often the work leaders do on themselves.When he is not coaching or writing, Sarath continues to study human behavior, leadership psychology, and business growth systems — constantly refining the frameworks he uses to support entrepreneurs on their journey.

Ipomea Chaudhary is a seasoned transformation guide, Pranic Healer and a Clinical Hypnotherapist who works with high-performance individuals across entertainment, business and leadership. With over 25 years of experience spanning media and then energy wellness, she supports actors, senior executives, entrepreneurs, home makers and businesswomen in building energy, emotional mastery, inner clarity and sustained personal power. Her work integrates neuroscience, psychology and energy intelligence to deliver transformation that is precise, disciplined and deeply effective. Known for her discretion and depth, Ipomea helps people take conscious responsibility for their inner world because excellence in the outer world demands stability, awareness, and self-leadership within, This book emerges from years of witnessing human behaviour at its most exposed, vulnerable and refined: how people break, rebuild, forgive, and rise. She writes as a trusted guide for those ready to live with courage, authenticity and conscious choice.

स्वामी सुमनानन्दनाथ (Dr. Suman Kumar Das)स्वामी सुमनानन्दनाथ एक गृहस्थ–ऋषि परंपरा के साधक, आधुनिक योग–तन्त्र अन्वेषक, और भारत की मिट्टी से जुड़े आध्यात्मिक–कृषि नवाचारकर्ता हैं।आपका जीवन–मार्ग केवल ध्यान और सिद्धि तक सीमित नहीं, बल्कि परिवार, समाज, संस्कृति और धरती–माता के प्रति उत्तरदायित्व में गहराई से निहित है।25+ वर्षों तक विश्व के अनेक देशों में कार्य करते हुए— ताजिकिस्तान, अफगानिस्तान, दिल्ली और फिर खजुराहो में “ललिता दिव्याश्रम” की स्थापना — आपने दिखाया कि गृहस्थ जीवन और आध्यात्मिक उत्कर्ष विरोधी नहीं, बल्कि एक ही साधना के दो पंख हैं।आपके शोध का केंद्र है—गृहस्थ–योग और मंत्र–साधनादेवत्व और दैनिक जीवन का संतुलनभारतीय कृषि–तत्त्व, प्रकृति और चेतनामन और मंत्र का न्यूरो–विज्ञानग्राम–भारत और आत्मनिर्भर गृहस्थ जीवन“जप, तप, सेवा, श्रम और सत्य–संतुलन” को आपने साधना का वास्तविक अर्थ माना है।> “घर ही पहला आश्रम है, माता–पिता प्रथम गुरु हैं, रसोई यज्ञकुण्ड है, और परिवार जीवन–धर्म का पथशाला।”आपने 41-Day Mantra Yoga System, Trigunātmak Agriculture, और Sonic–Spiritual Farming जैसे अनूठे मार्ग भारत और विश्व के साधकों के लिए विकसित किए।---मिशनगृहस्थ जीवन को साधना, सेवा, संस्कार, संवेदनशीलता और स्वावलम्बन के साथ फिर से प्रतिष्ठित करना — ताकि हर घर मंदिर बने और हर जीवन एक गीता बन जाए।---Current WorkLalita Divyāshram, KhajurahoMantra Yoga Global MovementGau–Krishi–Vanijyam ResearchSpiritual Futurism & Culture Renaissance---A Line That Defines Him> “संन्यास जंगल में नहीं, गृहस्थ की जिम्मेदारियों में सिद्ध होता है।”

Jennie Wheatle is a Virgin Islands educational and cultural icon who taught from Primary to Tertiary levels during her sixty years of public service. She was an English teacher who explored the cultural heritage of Virgin Islanders through her writing. She taught her students about their heritage and how to conduct oral-history research. She was the first Director of the Virgin Islands Studies Institute at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Together with her students and faculty, she conducted extensive research on the lives of Virgin Islanders.Eileene L. Parsons is one of the Territory's cultural icons who spent many years teaching at high School. She was the Territory's first cultural officer, leader and organizer of the annual August Monday Festival, founder and lead dancer of the Heritage Dancers, member of the B.V.I Singers, and Minister of Government for several years. She spent many decades helping Virgin Islanders preserve their heritage amid the socio-cultural changes that have taken place since the mid-twentieth century.

Basanti from Mohishila Colony, Asansol, studied at Asansol Girls’ College and trained as a beautician at Shahnaz Husain Institute, later running a salon for 36+ years. She began practicing and teaching yoga during Covid, wrote for Yoga Samvad, and authored Rannaghorer Tukitaki. A theatre actress, dancer, artist, and craft enthusiast.