Get to know Radhika

so we can build a better world together

My name is Radhika Bhatt, I’m a leader working at the intersections of career coaching, talent matchmaking, and impact.

I am a serial career changer and a generalist, an eternal dreamer, and an artist.

For the last decade, I’ve worked for government agencies (in the U.S. and internationally), nonprofits, Fortune500s, startups, and community organizations. Some of my past job titles include: Front End Developer, UX Designer, Service Designer, Program Manager, Deputy Director, and Partnerships Director.

As a coach, I bring all of these hats into our conversations to empower you with resources, strategies, frameworks, and perspectives to accelerate your path towards an impactful career.

I am dedicated to helping people find balance within their lives, connection to themselves and others, and meaningful careers and I do so using systems-thinking frameworks, multisolving, and holistic coaching practices.

Outside of my coaching work, I farm and I DJ, and one day, I will find a way to combine the two.

I’m a problem-solver

People come to me with their challenges and I’ll create products, processes, or programs that turn their storm into calm.

The time I built a solar panel at Sankofa Community Orchard in Richmond, VA through the Central Virginia Urban Farming Fellowship.

I’m a translator

I know how to communicate to help people from different teams, skills sets, and backgrounds understand each other and find common ground.

I’m a connector

I bring together the right people who can bring goals, missions, and dreams to life.

What does saathe mean?

The name of my business is Saathe Studio. Saathe (saa-té) means “together” in my mother tongue of Gujarati. Studio denotes a sense of play, musicality, and experimentation. I created Saathe Studio while recovering from intense burnout, rediscovering how to follow my intuition, and a deep desire to find more alignment with work and my values.

Saathe Studio has been a place for me to experiment with work, play, and creativity, and through this, I have been able to help hundreds of job seekers do the same in their career transitions into the worlds of climate and social impact.

Notable Clients:

Earth Advisors, a climate recruitment agency, places high caliber talent into climate jobs for government agencies and early-stage startups in the climate sector. I’m currently working with them as a sourcer and climate recruiter to bring talented people to impactful climate organizations.

Terra.do, a leading climate education company, teaches thousands of people around the world how to elevate their climate literacy and green skills within their learning ecosystem. I developed a career accelerator program for them to help their fellows move into climate jobs faster.

Collaborators have also included:

General Assembly, an innovative bootcamp program for technologists, helps people around the world transition into in-demand technology jobs. I worked with them as a career coach and helped their students strategize for effective job searches in various geographies around the United States.

The Opportunity Project, part of the U.S. Census Bureau, is an accelerator program which brings together technologists, government agencies, startups, and Fortune500 companies to build new technology using government open data. I served as Deputy Director and led the operations, partnerships, and day to day management of the program itself.

Why climate?

We need to reach a 50% reduction in global emissions by 2030 in order to avoid catastrophic global temperature increases by 2050. In order to reach this goal, there is much work to be done in every sector, in every country, in every corner of this world. Climate change affects everyone of us now and in the future, and requires intersectional, systems-level thinking to create lasting solutions.

We need every brilliant mind around the world using their skills to fight climate change in order to build a better future for ourselves and the next generation.

Workshop on Navigating Your Climate Career Transition at the Green Jobs Pavilion at The Nest Campus at NY Climate Week 2024

Transformation doesn’t happen in a linear way. It happens in cycles, convergences, explosions. If we release the framework of failure, we can realize that we are in iterative cycles ourselves and we can ask - how do I learn from this?

adrienne marie brown, Emergent Strategy

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My coaching strategies use human-centered design, emergent strategy, multisolving, empathetic storytelling, and co-active coaching principles to help you define, navigate, and pursue a more impactful career that meets your needs.