Top 10 Executive Coaches — GCC

An editorial ranking of executive coaches practising in the Gulf, curated on published evidence.

Ranked #10 in the Q3 2026 edition of Top 10 Executive Coaches — GCC. Assessed against the published methodology.

Gaj Ravichandra

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Kompass Consultancy; registered psychologist

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kompass Consultancy, the AoEC's GCC and Levant delivery partner. A registered psychologist and high-performance coach who has worked with global corporates, government departments, educational institutions and sporting teams. Kompass states more than 15,000 coaching hours delivered internationally.

Why this placement

He is included on an explicitly different credential path from everyone else on this list, and the reasoning should be stated rather than glossed: he holds no ICF credential at all. What he holds instead is chartered psychology — MAPS with the Australian Psychological Society, MAICD with the Australian Institute of Company Directors — which is a longer and more regulated qualification route than any coaching certification.

He writes the Kompass blog and has kept it active through 2026, which is more sustained public teaching than most of this region's practitioners produce.

Editorial notes and exclusions

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