Pradeepkumar K Padmanabhan

Engineers' Growth Coach |
Former Army Officer |
Entrepreneur |
Engineer |
Author |

He is an Engineering and Management professional with over 30 years of rich and diverse experience across multiple sectors. His career began with a strong technical foundation, spending the first 10 years working with private companies, a public sector enterprise, and serving the Indian Army as a Technical Officer, where discipline, systems thinking, and leadership shaped his professional ethos.

Over the next 18 years, he transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding and leading two private limited companies along with several proprietary ventures. This phase gave him deep exposure to business strategy, operations, technology deployment, and people management.

Today, his primary focus is on sharing his knowledge, experience, and insights to help engineers achieve high-income growth and happy living.

As an engineer himself, he observed a recurring and critical challenge in the engineering community—low performance, job dissatisfaction, disengaged engineering students, and unemployment. Through decades of observation and hands-on experience, he identified the root cause as mindset misalignment. Many engineers struggle to align themselves with their profession, purpose, and potential.

He now dedicates his work to mentoring engineers toward clarity of purpose, fulfilling careers, joyful living, and sustainable high-income growth.

Over the years, he also noticed that a vast amount of technical resources remain idle, underutilized, or poorly utilized—primarily due to lack of awareness, guidance, and support from suppliers or manufacturers. This insight led to the creation of a powerful opportunity for engineers to emerge as “Technical Resource Utilisation Experts (TRUE®)”, transforming them into Leaders who can create value by optimizing and monetizing technical resources.

This realization shaped his Vision and Mission.

Through his transformative Engineers’ Growth Program, built on the Holistic Life Design framework and the TRUE Growth Model, he empowers engineers to unlock their full potential—not only in their careers but across all vital dimensions of life. His approach nurtures balanced growth in health, wealth, relationships, recreation, contribution, and spirituality, creating well-rounded, fulfilled individuals who thrive both professionally and personally.

Work & Education

Education
  • ME ( Computer Aided Design )

    Sathyabama University, Chennai

    2011

  • MDBA (Human Resource Development and Management)

    Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune

    2000

  • Young Technical Officers(YTO) Course

    MCEME secundrabad,Telangana

    1998

  • Young Technical Officers(YTO) Course

    Young Technical Officers(YTO) Course

    1997

  • Officers Training Academy

    Chennai

    1996

  • B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering

    Government Engineering College,Thrissur

    1993

  • B.Sc. Maths Ist Year

    St. Thomas College, Thrissur

    1989

  • Pre Degree

    Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur

    1988

  • School

    Government High School Elavally

    1986


Work
  • Founder

    TRUE GROWTH HUB

    Jan 2022 – Present

  • CNC Routers Specialist

    Zillion RPM Labs

    Jan 2019 – Present

  • Technical Director

    Kobolt Robotics Private Limited

    Nov 2016 – Mar 2019

  • CEO & Chief Consultant

    RPM Tools Consulting

    May 2010 – Dec 2018

  • Business Head – CNC ROUTER
  • LIPI Marketing Private Limited

  • Dec 2007 – Apr 2010

  • Managing Director
  • PADMANABHAA TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

  • Jun 2004 – Nov 2007

  • CAD/CAM Manager
  • PETMOULDS PVT LTD

  • May 2001 – Apr 2003

  • Officer
  • Corps of Electronics & Mechanical Engineers (EME), Indian Army

  • Mar 1996 – Apr 2001

  • Design Engineer
  • Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)

  • May 1994 – Apr 1995

  • Customer Relationship Executive
  • Green Signal

  • Nov 1993 – Apr 1994

Mentors

Some of the Amazing Mentors I’ve been fortunate to learn from and be guided by;

Blair Singer (Master of Masters)

Sales and Leadership Trainer

Suren Jayasekar

Founder - SuccessGyan Academy

Thaddeus Lawrence

An Amazing Human Development Coach

Aaron M Huey

International Warrior Trainer

Siddharth Rajsekar

India's Leading Digital Coach

Chief Life Designer

Rajiv Talreja
Puja Puneet

Asia's Leading Business Coach

Empowerment

Transforming engineers for purpose-driven careers and financial success.