About Soul Grow
Conscious Growth, Made Real.
About Soul Grow
Business, Brand and Leadership — treated as one connected problem.
Soul Grow brings business thinking, brand thinking and human understanding together to help organisations and leaders grow with greater clarity, intention and impact.
Why Soul Grow exists
The Work Starts by Seeing the Whole System.
Growth is rarely just about what needs to change. It is about understanding what is actually happening — in the business, in the brand, in the people who lead it, and in the people it exists for.
A company’s strategy is only as credible as the leadership executing it, and a brand’s promise is only as real as the culture behind it.
Not growth for growth’s sake.
Conscious Growth, Made Real.
The thinking behind the work
Getting Real.
For us, getting real is about creating the space to look honestly at where things are — without losing sight of where they could go.
It means being curious about the things beneath the obvious answer. The assumptions behind a strategy. The human truth behind the data. The behaviours behind the values. The person behind the leadership role. The reality behind the brand promise. The self we’re willing to see clearly, before we ask anyone else to change.
Because how honestly we lead ourselves shapes how well we lead everything else — a team, a brand, an organisation.
Because often, the opportunity for growth sits in the space between what we intend and what is actually happening.
That is the space we work in.
The Ecosystem
Exceptional Women. Purposefully brought together.
Soul Grow operates through a fluid ecosystem of exceptional women leaders, specialists and practitioners across disciplines.
Rather than maintaining a fixed team, we assemble dynamic squads around each challenge, bringing together the right combination of expertise, experience and perspective.
The women in our ecosystem are not there to fill a diversity quota.
They are there because they are exceptional at what they do.
Our ambition is simple: put exceptional women in rooms where their capability can create meaningful business impact — and make that capability impossible to overlook.
The Collaborators
About self. About leadership. About consumers. About brands.
Four Connected Dimensions of Growth.
01
Self
Growth begins with awareness.
Understanding the patterns, beliefs, values and experiences that shape how we show up gives us greater choice in how we move forward. For leaders especially, the inner work and the outer work cannot be completely separated.
02
Leadership
How we lead influences what becomes possible around us.
Conscious leadership is not about perfect leadership. It is about developing the awareness to recognise how we think, decide, relate and respond — and the ability to lead with greater intention.
03
Consumers
Behind every data point is a person living a real life.
We believe strong brands start by getting closer to that reality — understanding people in context, listening to the language they actually use, and finding the human truth that creates relevance.
04
Brands & Business
A business and its brand are experienced, not simply communicated.
What an organisation says matters. What it does matters more. We look at identity, strategy, culture, behaviour and experience — because sustainable growth comes when these things work together.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Kaushali Kusumapala.
Her experience brings perspective to see the bigger picture, ask better questions and know that what works on paper does not always work in the real world.
- First Sri Lankan female to be appointed Managing Director of Coca-Cola Sri Lanka and Country Director of Maldives
- Led businesses through crisis and transformation
- Built award-winning brands and drove innovation across consumer goods and technology
- Experience spanning global multinationals, local conglomerates and agency environments
Experience
A Career Built Across Brands, Businesses and People.
Leo Burnett
Agency-side brand building — where human truth becomes commercial work.
Fonterra
Multinational brand and category leadership.
Domino's
Commercial and brand leadership in a fast, operationally demanding business.
Hemas Holdings
Senior leadership inside a leading Sri Lankan conglomerate.
Atlas Axillia
Leading the business through COVID-19 and Sri Lanka's economic crisis.
Coca-Cola Sri Lanka & Maldives
First Sri Lankan female to be appointed Managing Director of Coca-Cola Sri Lanka and Country Director of Maldives.
Soul Grow Consulting
Founder & Principal Consultant. Conscious Growth, Made Real.
The belief at the centre
We Believe Conscious Growth Starts with Seeing Clearly.
Seeing the business as it really is. Seeing the brand through the eyes of the people who experience it. Seeing leadership beyond the title. Seeing ourselves with enough honesty to make different choices.
From there, growth becomes more than an ambition. It becomes something we can make real.
Beyond the practice
Features & Conversations.
Selected interviews and editorial features explore the experiences and ideas that inform Kaushali’s perspective on leadership, brands, purpose and growth.
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Every Engagement Begins with a Conversation.
Tell us what you are trying to grow, change, build or navigate. We will tell you honestly whether Soul Grow is the right partner for it.