Neuroscientist of the Mind, Coach at the Core | Purpose-driven mindset Coach | NLP Practitioner | Researcher & Lecturer | Founder of The Courage Quest | PhD in Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." – Nora Roberts
This quote isn’t just on my wall—it’s in every brave step I’ve taken. From leaving home to pursue a life built on science, service, and soul work, it’s been my anchor through fear, growth, and becoming.

Who I am:
I’m Dr. Srinidhi Desikan—a Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscientist, Lab Manager, Lecturer, NLP Master practitioner, and Life & Mindset Coach. My path bridges many worlds: the rigour of academia, the depth of the human psyche, and the quiet (yet loud) transformations that happen when someone remembers who they are.

What I do:
- I manage the VU Behavioral Lab, where I’ve built systems and community across faculties to support research in human behavior.
- I guide students through their academic and personal journey of discovery.
- I coach individuals—often those navigating identity, fear, and transition—through a non-profit, pay-it-forward practice that centers on growth over transaction.
- I write, speak, teach, and listen. And I hold space for people, even (and especially) when they don’t know what they need yet.

How I do it:
With both precision and depth. I bring together neuroscience, psychology, NLP, and lived wisdom.
My approach is raw and reflective—I go beneath the surface, gently but directly. We get honest. We get clear. We shift from “Why me?” to “Why not me?”

Why I do it:
Because too many people live beneath their truth. Because I’ve been there. Because I’ve watched science transform systems and life—and seen presence transform people.
And because I believe that courage, when met with the right support, creates lives that feel like home.

✨ Curious to work with me—on research, coaching, or something in-between? Just send a message.

Dr. Srinidhi Desikan

Altum AI

★ Agile ★ Full-Stack Data Science ★ Management ★ Mentoring ★ Technical Product Owner ★ AWS

► Responsible for the end-to-end development and maintainability of internal & external AI products
► Leading & supervising a team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers & Back-end Engineers
► Automating processes in Data Science pipeline
► Increasing company's revenue by 20% per quarter by developing AI products
► Cost Reduction on AWS as well as on Elasticsearch by 50%
► Agile implementation of AI products utilizing state-of-the-art approaches
► Mentoring team members
► Recruiting and development of worldwide engineering talents to scale the existing team
► Designing APIs Architecture
► Incorporation of Fast API

Lead Data Scientist | Technical Product Owner

★ Elasticsearch ★ Docker ★ AWS ★ EDA ★ Time-Series  ★ Clustering ★ Agile 

► Responsible for the end-to-end development and growth of Automated Valuation Model (AVM) product
► Using Curator API on Elasticsearch to data back up and restoring
► Deploying docker container on AWS EC2 / ECS / EBS
► Agile implementation in AI products
► Gathering, Researching, Pre-processing & Wrangling Data (EDA)
► Building, training & forecasting Time-Series model
► Developing Clustering model

Data Scientist

★ Regression ★ Deep Learning ★ AWS ★ Keras ★ Classification ★ ArcGis

► Data Pre-processing, Visualization (EDA)
► Predicting housing prices using ML algorithms & Deep Learning methods
► Developing classification models using Deep Learning (Keras framework)
► Building, training ML & DL models using AWS (Sagemaker, EC2)
► Calculating actual driving distances using ArcGis & OSMnx packages

Data Scientist Intern 

ecm.ai

★ AWS ★ Visualization ★ API ★ Database

► Creating value for the customers
► Data visualization
► Build pipelines on AWS
► Recruiting and development of worldwide engineering talents to scale the existing team
► Designing API's architecture
► Database research & architecture

Brainbox Technology

★ Laravel ★ PHP ★ MVC ★ API ★ JSON ★ Alexa 

►  Developing applications using MVC methodology, PHP frameworks (Laravel) & designed API’s
►  Encoding, decoding & building JSON files of loading Big Data
►  Developing Alexa in Greek language using Python
►  Communicating with customers, analyzing their requirements & developing systems

Junior Software Developer | Web Developer 

Traditional Grocery / Family Business

★ Communication ★ Responsibility ★ Soft Skills ★ Budget

►  Developed empathy and solution orientation by serving 100 customers per day
►  Responsible for the communication with suppliers

Customer Service

I empower rookie leaders to get 1% closer to their full potential playfully without burning out • 28% increase in client ARR • from crawling to walking | The Leadership Apex Coach

Oh, you're stuck in your career or life and don't know where to start?

Cool, cz…

I unlock minds from stagnant spots.

The last 2 years, I’ve seen professionals and executives share the same sentiment: “Is this it?”

4 years ago my life was:

- I was juggling gigs at two companies
- From the comfort of my home
- Making $5,000+ per month

Sounds cool right?
Well. It wasn’t.

- My days stretched into 14-hour marathons
- I was buried under 5+ hours of meetings daily
- Burnout and an unwelcome autoimmune said hello

(not the dream I signed up for)

So 4 years ago I decided life was too short…

- For “what ifs'” and workplaces that don’t spark joy
- Stagnation is the silent career and life killer
- Quitted from a toxic work environment

And I decided to get my coaching certification to help professionals with their career & life transitions.

This is how the Life First Mind was birth, my coaching program.
↳ for taking leadership of your own mindset, life, and career (with this order).

How did that play out for me?
(I'm grinning as I write this because…)

I've worked 1:1 with the most ambitious professionals and executives:

- Transforming stuck into start
- Elevating careers & lives, 1 mindset shift at a time
- Getting rid of 2nd thoughts, guilts, and regrets (pretty wild, right?)

I now collaborate with…

↳ the absolute game-changers.

That’s the power of reshaping your mindset.

- You define your own career path w/o hopping every 2-3 years
- You get unstuck from a 5+ years job that no longer excites you
- You attract ridiculous opportunities just bc your values are in sync

(cz who loves to feel stuck, right?)

↳ “Stop manipulating me Giannis, what’s your offer…”
Heh no reason to distrust me just yet, ok?
(you’ll get your chance when we discuss)

Here’s the deal:
I’m on a mission to guide you, navigate through career and life transitions w/o burning out or having to spend endless hours in recorded videos.

(+ making you brave again for: landing your dream job (remote or not), getting a promotion, asking for a raise, quitting smoking, having more personal & family time, leaving a toxic work environment and much more)

You in?

P.S. DM me “MIND” and let's get started.

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