Dr Menaca Pothalingam

Leadership & Resilience Specialist

Menaca Pothalingam is a multi-award-winning Leadership and Resilience coach, talk show host of ‘Meet Menaca’, Social Entrepreneur, Advocate for Mental Health and an Ambassador for Women Empowerment. She is an international keynote speaker and the author of ‘Resilience Learned’. After 25 years in the Healthcare industry as a dentist and a six figure business owner, she decided to move into the world of coaching, putting her personal and professional experiences into practice. She’ll help you transform your life by tapping into your gifts, letting go of what’s holding you back, and develop a growth mindset that will help you increase your PERFORMANCE, PRODUCTIVITY & PROFIT. She’s a change catalyst to help you to step out of victim mentality, prevent burnout and stress-related illnesses and reach your full potential and live life on your terms. Menaca has overcome adversity including escaping the Sri Lankan Civil War, battling stress-related illness and succeeding as a migrant Asian woman in business alongside being a single mother. With qualifications in NLP, hypnosis, coaching, leadership and education, Menaca is helping others to take control of their lives, break free from the victim mentality and turn their dreams into reality. Menaca, who is lovingly described as “the next Oprah” of Asia, for her demonstrated resilience and the willingness and eagerness to continually learn and develop along with the urge to pay it forward. Menaca wants to leave a legacy of change as an individual who left this universe and anyone who crossed her path in better shape than she found it in.