A few words about the person walking alongside you.
Vivek's path to coaching — and the people walking it with him.
Twenty-five years on one road.
I'm Vivek. For a quarter century, I've worked in IT — beginning as a developer, then a lead, an architect, and eventually moving into management. Each role taught me something different: how to build, how to guide, how to design, how to lead people through change.
I loved the work. I still do. But somewhere along the way, the road started running me, instead of the other way around.
The conversation that changed everything.
In 2024, I sat down for a year-end performance review I wasn't expecting. My growth had quietly stalled — I had taken it for granted, the way you do when you're heads-down and moving fast.
The supervisor sitting across from me was Chris Welch, my supervisor at the time — and, though I didn't have that language for it yet, my first coach and well-wisher. Chris didn't tell me what to do. He didn't hand me a development plan or a list of fixes. Instead, he asked me to consider what my strengths were. Where I actually wanted to go. What I had stopped paying attention to.
I left that conversation different than I came in.
It was the first time someone had made space for me to find my own answers — and the first time I understood, in my body, what coaching actually was.
I signed up to give it away. It changed me first.
Around that same time, Chris was beginning his own work with the Maxwell Leadership speaker track. I looked at the offerings and chose the coaching path — not for myself, but so I could give my team the same experience Chris had given me.
Going through the Maxwell Leadership coach training, and then attending the International Maxwell Conference, was transformational in a way I hadn't anticipated. I walked in with a plan to learn techniques I could pass along. I walked out understanding that something deeper was being asked of me.
Coaching, I was beginning to see, wasn't a tool I could simply pick up. It was a way of being with people.
Becoming the coach my clients deserve.
I never set out to build a coaching business. I genuinely wasn't sure people would pay for what I was learning to offer. But the more I trained, the more I saw how this work was changing lives — and the more I felt called to take it seriously.
I joined the CaPP Institute — the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute — to begin the path toward my ACC credential through the International Coaching Federation. CaPP's mission resonated deeply with me: equipping coaches to support resilience, personal growth, and human flourishing, grounded in the science of applied positive psychology.
Somewhere in the middle of that training, the most important shift happened. My IT brain — trained for two and a half decades to diagnose problems and deliver solutions — had to learn a different posture. Coaching isn't about handing someone the answer. It's about staying curious. Listening actively. Asking the question that lets them discover what they already know.
That shift is still happening. I imagine it always will be.
Training & Credentials.
My coach training is through the CaPP Institute — the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute — through its two-part professional certification program. I completed the Coach Training Intensive and Business Development Day, and am currently in the final stretch of CaPP's Certified Personal and Executive Coach (CPEC) program, which I complete in June 2026. Alongside the coursework, I'm engaged in group and one-on-one mentor coaching with a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), as part of preparing for ICF credentialing.
I am also a Maxwell Leadership Team Certified Coach, having completed the Maxwell Leadership coach training. I am currently pursuing the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coaching Federation.
Before coaching, I spent twenty-five years in Information Technology — beginning as a developer and moving through lead and architect roles into management. That arc shapes how I coach: I've walked the road my clients are walking, and I know the kinds of patterns that quietly take a career off its own path.
Walking alongside, still walking my own path.
I'll be honest with you about who I am.
I'm an introvert by nature — someone who has always watched the room, listened for where the conversation was going, and waited until I had something worth saying before pitching in. That instinct made me a careful observer. It also, for a long time, made me hesitant to lean in.
Coaching has asked me to grow. To contribute sooner. To meet a moment with curiosity rather than wait for certainty. I'm working on storytelling — on the discipline of using a metaphor when it serves the client better than a sentence. I'm working on being fully present without trying to fix.
I share this because the philosophy at the heart of Boundless Summits — the answers are already within you — isn't something I learned from a textbook. It's something I'm living. I'm still walking my own path, and I think that's part of what makes me useful to clients walking theirs.
You don't need a coach who has it all figured out. You need a coach who is genuinely on the road with you.
The co-founder I met twenty-five years ago.
I met Prathiba at my first job. We connected almost instantly, and have been partners in every sense ever since.
She built a seven-year career in IT before pausing in 2008 when our older son was born. When our younger son started school, she rebuilt — this time as a Montessori teacher, choosing work that kept her close to the boys. Years later, when our youngest started middle school, she returned to IT, where she's now thriving in a successful career.
Watching her navigate three careers across two decades has been one of the great teachings of my life. Prathiba does whatever she does with full presence and genuine love for it. She treats every person — regardless of background, role, or title — with deep respect. She gives, constantly, without keeping score. And somehow she balances career, family, and the quiet work of being the steady center of our home, with a grace I'm still learning from.
When I came home from the International Maxwell Conference, the only person I could think to share this work with was Prathiba. Because I'd watched her with people for twenty-five years. I knew, before she did, how many others she could walk alongside.
She is now a Maxwell Leadership Team Certified Coach, co-founder of Boundless Summits Coaching Co. LLC, and the co-architect of this vision from our very first conversation about it. The values we coach by, the boundaries we hold, the kind of company we want to build — those came from a kitchen table, not a business plan.
This work is hers as much as mine.
Where we are.
We're based in the Plano–McKinney–Frisco corridor in North Texas. We coach primarily via video — which means geography is rarely a barrier — but we love working with clients who are close enough to meet in person when it matters.
If you're local, we're always open to a first conversation over coffee. If you're not, the distance hasn't stopped anyone yet.
A few small, true things.
We don't believe in the hustle gospel. We believe in the slow accumulation of intentional choices — the kind that compound quietly over years and show up as a life that actually fits.
We won't tell you what your summit should look like. We don't have the map to your life. What we have is a deep commitment to walking with you while you find it — asking better questions, reflecting back what you might have missed, and holding the space steady when the terrain gets hard.
And we charge for this work because it's real work — on both sides of the conversation. But we're also mindful that coaching shouldn't only be available to people who already have everything figured out. If cost is a genuine barrier, reach out anyway. We'd rather find a way than not.
If any of this resonates —
hit the trail with us.
We'd love to walk alongside you.
Begin a ConversationSit back. Let's start where you are.