Rajesh Nagjee, Dubai-based CEO coach and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator; timeline images name the company and year.

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Coach · YPO Certified Forum Facilitator · Certified Chair™

Rajesh is a Dubai-based CEO coach and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF), working with founders and CEOs since 1996. He has mentored 350+ CEOs and facilitated 300+ peer forums. Through LevelUp Management Consultancy in Dubai, he helps founder-CEOs of $3M–$20M companies find what is limiting growth before they invest in the next fix.

Rajesh Nagjee, Dubai-based CEO coach and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator; timeline images name the company and year.

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Coach · Certified Chair™

Helping CEOs unlock their inner force to break through operational bottlenecks, scale without stress, and build profitable companies they actually enjoy running.

Rajesh Nagjee, Dubai-based CEO coach and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator; timeline images name the company and year.

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Coach & Mentor

Helping CEOs unlock their inner force to break through operational bottlenecks, scale without stress, and build profitable companies they actually enjoy running.

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Coach · YPO Certified Forum Facilitator · Certified Chair™

Rajesh is a Dubai-based CEO coach and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF), working with founders and CEOs since 1996. He has mentored 350+ CEOs and facilitated 300+ peer forums. Through LevelUp Management Consultancy in Dubai, he helps founder-CEOs of $3M–$20M companies find what is limiting growth before they invest in the next fix.

30+

30+

30+

30+

Years as Coach

Years as Coach

Years as Coach

350+

350+

350+

350+

CEOs Mentored

CEOs Mentored

CEOs Mentored

40k

40k

40k

40k

CXOs Coached

CXOs Coached

CXOs Coached

4+

4+

4+

4+

Founder Exits

Founder Exits

Founder Exits

Everything Looked Right on Paper

Everything Looked Right
on Paper

I built my first seven-figure business early and nearly burned out doing it.

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The company was growing and the team was capable. Every decision still came back to me, and every absence slowed things down. Holidays were interrupted. Strategic work kept getting pushed. The business ran, as long as I was holding it together.

What I had built was a business that depended on me.


That realisation forced a hard reset. I stopped asking how to work harder and started asking a different question: why does the business need me for this at all?


That question led me to found Chrysalis Management Institute in 1990, and later to the Theory of Constraints at the Goldratt Institute. Since 1996 I have asked it of founders in one-to-one work and in 300+ forums, and it is why my work starts with a diagnosis.

The company was growing and the team was capable. Every decision still came back to me, and every absence slowed things down. Holidays were interrupted. Strategic work kept getting pushed. The business ran, as long as I was holding it together.


What I had built was a business that depended on me.


That realisation forced a hard reset. I stopped asking how to work harder and started asking a different question: why does the business need me for this at all?


That question led me to found Chrysalis Management Institute in 1990, and later to the Theory of Constraints at the Goldratt Institute. Since 1996 I have asked it of founders in one-to-one work and in 300+ forums, and it is why my work starts with a diagnosis.

On paper, everything looked right. The company was growing. The team was capable. In reality, every decision still came back to me. Every absence slowed things down.


I hadn’t built freedom. I’d built dependency.


Vacations were interrupted. Strategic work was constantly delayed. The business ran but only if I was holding it together. That experience forced a hard reset.


Instead of asking how do I work harder, I started asking:

Why does the business need me for this at all?

On paper, everything looked right. The company was growing. The team was capable. In reality, every decision still came back to me. Every absence slowed things down.


I hadn’t built freedom. I’d built dependency.


Vacations were interrupted. Strategic work was constantly delayed. The business ran but only if I was holding it together. That experience forced a hard reset.


Instead of asking how do I work harder, I started asking: Why does the business need me for this at all?


That question became the foundation of everything I do today.

Built on Proven, Field-Tested Frameworks

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Built from Decades of Running and
Fixing Real Businesses

1975-1986

1975-1986

Sun Umbrellas Limited

Sun Umbrellas Limited

Scaled the Hard Way

Scaled the Hard Way

Scaled a Legacy Business

Grew market share from 23% to 37% and moved a 95-year-old family business to professional management. What I learned: growth outpaces the way a business is run.

Grew market share from 23% to 37% and moved a 95-year-old family business to professional management. What I learned: growth outpaces the way a business is run.

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1986-1996

Nagjee Memorial Hospital



Founder & CEO

Founder & CEO

Founder & CEO

Built and ran one of India's first professionally managed rural trauma-care hospitals, a 150-bed hospital saving 500+ lives a year. Operationally successful, personally overloaded. What I learned: mission-driven work still breaks without decision systems.

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1989

1989

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

Lost Everything That Mattered

Lost Everything That Mattered

Lost Everything That Mattered

Personal loss and a business under strain arrived together. It became clear that the business could not run without me, and that this was the real problem.

Personal loss and a business under strain arrived together. It became clear that the business could not run without me, and that this was the real problem.

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1990

Chrysalis Management Institute Founded

CEO Freedom OS™ Born


Chrysalis Management Institute Founded

The roots of CEO Freedom OS™

The roots of CEO Freedom OS™

Began studying why capable leaders become the bottleneck in their own organisations. Trained executives across 16+ industries.

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2002

2002

London Business School

London Business School

Sloan Masters | 14 disciplines

Sloan Masters | 14 disciplines

Formal training across 14 disciplines, including strategy, constraints, leadership psychology and systems thinking.

Formal training across 14 disciplines, including strategy, constraints, leadership psychology and systems thinking.

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2004-Present

Milestone Dubai

&
Milestone Carpentry



Co-Founder & Chairman

Built a profitable Dubai business with my wife, Sejal, who leads it as CEO. 1,000+ projects delivered and multiple industry awards. What I learned: clear ownership and rhythm outperform hero leadership.

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2018-Present

2018-Present

CEO Coach & Mentor

CEO Coach & Mentor

YPO Certified Forum Facilitator

YPO Certified Forum Facilitator

300+ YPO, EO and CEO forums facilitated. One-to-one work with founder-CEOs of $3M–$20M businesses, starting with a diagnosis of what governs growth.

300+ YPO, EO and CEO forums facilitated. One-to-one work with founder-CEOs of $3M–$20M businesses, starting with a diagnosis of what governs growth.

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Why This Mission

This work comes from lived experience.

I’ve seen what happens when a CEO carries a business alone for too long. I lived that burnout cycle myself. I’ve watched strong CEOs lose clarity and energy as everything continues to depend on them.

That’s why I do this work. To help CEOs redesign how their companies run so leadership, decisions, and execution don’t collapse back onto one person.

This isn’t about visibility. It’s about building businesses that support the people leading them.

I work with CEOs of growing companies where decisions and execution still funnel back to them. For 30+ years, I’ve helped 350+ CEOs across 40+ industries redesign how their companies actually run by changing how decisions are owned, not by asking leaders to work harder.

CEO Freedom OS™ is the 120-day implementation system I built from that work. It installs clear decision ownership, operating rhythm, and leadership accountability so the business can move without the CEO as the fail-safe.

This isn’t theory or motivation. It’s structural change.

I work with CEOs of growing companies where decisions and execution still funnel back to them. Over the last 30+ years, I’ve helped 350+ CEOs across 40+ industries redesign how their companies actuallyrun by changing how decisions are owned, not by asking leaders to work harder.


CEO Freedom OS™ is the 120-day implementation system I built from that work. It installs clear decision ownership, operating rhythm, and leadership accountability so the business can move without the CEO as the fail-safe.

This isn’t theory or motivation. It’s structural change.

"I want to impact the lives of 1 million people who will never know my name."

"I want to impact the lives of 1 million people who will never know my name."

"I want to impact the lives of
1 million people who will never
know my name."

Rajesh Nagjee

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Mentor & Coach

CEO Mentor & Coach

"I want to impact the lives of 1 million people who will never know my name."

Rajesh Nagjee

CEO Mentor & Coach

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Rajesh Nagjee

What Global Business Leaders Say About Rajesh

Rajesh had the privilege of working with leaders and strategic thinkers who’ve seen real businesses from the inside and how leadership shows up when the pressure is real.

What Global Business Leaders Say

Rajesh had the privilege of working with leaders and strategic thinkers who’ve seen real businesses from the inside and how leadership shows up when the pressure is real.

What Global Business Leaders Say About Rajesh

Rajesh had the privilege of working with leaders and strategic thinkers who’ve seen real businesses from the inside and how leadership shows up when the pressure is real.

What Global Business Leaders Say About Rajesh

Rajesh had the privilege of working with leaders and strategic thinkers who’ve seen real businesses from the inside and how leadership shows up when the pressure is real.

How We'll Work Together

My work starts by finding what is limiting growth in your business, then helping you and your team build around it. Four principles shape how we work together.

My goal is simple: build systems that free you from operations so
you can finally do CEO-level work.

My goal is simple: build systems that free you from operations so you can finally do CEO-level work. Here’s what makes this different.

Diagnosis Before Prescription

A doctor who prescribed before examining you would lose their licence. We start by finding the hidden bottleneck that sets the pace for your company and naming it as a constraint, so your time and money go where they change the result.

Inner Game and Outer Game

Some constraints sit in the business: decision rights, delivery, demand. Others sit with the founder: how decisions get made and what to hand over. We work on both; a new structure rarely holds while old habits keep routing work back to you.

Owners Across Your Team

Delegating tasks gives you contractors. Owners appear when someone receives an outcome with the authority to act on it. We build ownership into roles, decision rights, and weekly rhythm, so your leaders make the calls you are making.

Ruthless Compassion

I learned this from Mother Teresa. Holding people to high standards and staying alongside them while they meet those standards. That is how I coach: honest feedback, steady support, and a clear expectation that you will do the work.

Start with the Question Nobody Has Asked Yet

What is constraining growth in your business? The Growth Ceiling Call is 30 minutes, and you do not need the answer before we speak.

You've Seen My Journey.
Now Let's Build Yours.

What is constraining growth in your business? The Growth Ceiling Call is 30 minutes, and you do not need the answer before we speak.

You've Seen My Journey. Now Let's Build Yours.

What is constraining growth in your business? The Growth Ceiling Call is 30 minutes, and you do not need the answer before we speak.

Start with the Question Nobody Has Asked Yet

What is constraining growth in your business? The Growth Ceiling Call is 30 minutes, and you do not need the answer before we speak.

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08:30AM - 2PM, Sat

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Proven frameworks for growth-stage operators

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LevelUp Management Consultancy, Dubai, UAE

08:30AM - 6PM, Mon-Fri
08:30AM - 2PM, Sat

Join Our Community

Proven frameworks for growth-stage operators

Contact Us

LevelUp Management Consultancy, Dubai, UAE

08:30AM - 6PM, Mon-Fri
08:30AM - 2PM, Sat

Join Our Community

Proven frameworks for growth-stage operators

Contact Us

LevelUp Management Consultancy, Dubai, UAE

08:30AM - 6PM, Mon-Fri
08:30AM - 2PM, Sat

Join Our Community

Proven frameworks for growth-stage operators

© 2026 Rajesh Nagjee. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Rajesh Nagjee. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Rajesh Nagjee. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Rajesh Nagjee. All rights reserved.