Exult Solutions

Exult Solutions Exult Solutions: Crafting transformative development solutions since 2008. Exult Solutions was founded by Rukmini Iyer in 2008.

From leadership to peacebuilding, we elevate organizational and individual potential for a harmonious world. Here are some of our core contributions:
Innovative Leadership Development: Spearheading transformative initiatives in corporate leadership and organisational development, focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI); wellbeing, strategy, culture change, facilitator training and building

mediation and dialogue capacity in systems. Strategic Peacebuilding Initiatives: A trusted facilitator in global peacebuilding efforts, known for designing trauma-informed spaces that foster dialogue and understanding in conflict zones and within corporate organisations and UN agencies, with a particular interest in religion, ecology, gender and technology in peacebuilding. Governance and Advisory Excellence: Demonstrated expertise in governance, serving on international boards and advisory roles that span corporate organisations and international NGOs, leveraging insights into international laws and cultures. Academic Contributions: Contributing to the academic sphere as adjunct faculty member with esteemed institutions, with a focus on mediation and conflict resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), leadership and management.

As 2025 came to a close, our Devi Mahatmyam study at Vishoka reached a turning point. Working with the final verses of C...
02/01/2026

As 2025 came to a close, our Devi Mahatmyam study at Vishoka reached a turning point. Working with the final verses of Chapter 10 and the entirety of Chapter 11, we moved beyond battle into aftermath, into the trembling, clearing, and restoration that follow the fall of Shumbha. The text does not glorify victory. Instead, it lingers in what comes after: the world shaking itself free, rivers returning to their courses, and clarity slowly re-establishing measure.

The Nārāyaṇī Stuti that follows is not flattery but recognition, a reminder that the fierce power summoned in crisis must also be released, lest it harden into permanence. At a time when the world feels exhausted by endless cycles of violence, this teaching feels urgent.

Read the full reflection here:
https://devimahatmyam.substack.com/p/after-the-battle-the-world-breathes

In a time marked by polarisation and moral certainty, I have noticed how easily disagreement slips into judgement, and h...
31/12/2025

In a time marked by polarisation and moral certainty, I have noticed how easily disagreement slips into judgement, and how quickly what we do not agree with is framed as wrong or even evil. While this can offer a fleeting sense of clarity, it often pulls us into a battle posture that narrows perception and drains creative power. This reflection emerges from my attempts, over the past year, to stay attentive to what lies beneath the hardening of positions I have encountered across institutions, movements, and conversations that matter to me.
I write from a growing recognition that much of this rigidity is rooted in unacknowledged grief: grief of separation from source and meaning, grief of disempowerment within institutionalised worlds, and grief of silencing parts of oneself in order to belong. Rather than turning pain into ideology, this piece is an invitation to work with grief as a source of discernment and wisdom, restoring relationship with self, others, and the living world as we step into the year ahead.
Read on at https://rukminiiyer.medium.com/beyond-rightness-working-with-grief-b0bdb907a95d

As the year draws to a close, I find myself returning to questions of belonging, courage, and connection.Earlier this mo...
24/12/2025

As the year draws to a close, I find myself returning to questions of belonging, courage, and connection.
Earlier this month, I joined facilitators from Hong Kong and South Africa for Threads of Connection — a conversation on how the Work That Reconnects is being lived, translated, and reimagined across cultures.
This feels like a good moment for slow listening: Not to resolve what is broken, but to remember what still holds.
Read my blog and watch the recording here: https://rukminiiyer.medium.com/threads-of-connection-holding-courage-grief-and-belonging-at-the-edge-of-our-times-19b0a49911f1

Threads of Connection: The Global Fabric of the Work That ReconnectsFriday, 12 December 2025 | 12:30 PM ISTRegister here...
10/12/2025

Threads of Connection: The Global Fabric of the Work That Reconnects
Friday, 12 December 2025 | 12:30 PM IST
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/253147265575160

Across the world, we are living through times that test the very fabric of our belonging: wars that mirror inner fractures, ecological loss that echoes our disconnection from the sacred, and systems that reward isolation more than interdependence.
The Work That Reconnects offers a way to meet these times, not by retreating, but by remembering. It helps us hold grief without despair, act without domination, and root our movements in interbeing.
On 12 December, I’ll be in conversation with Amanda Yik (Hong Kong) and Joanna Tomkins (South Africa), moderated by Denise Pang (Norway), for Threads of Connection, a global dialogue exploring how this Work is being reimagined across cultures.
From India, I’ll bring reflections from my work in leadership, peacebuilding, and systems transformation, on what it means to decolonise, to listen to the Earth, and to act from reverence rather than urgency.
Join us as we explore how the Work That Reconnects can help us remember who we are: threads in a vast, living web.

I arrived into Nairobi a couple of weeks ago exhausted, probably at the edge of a burnout. It has been a challenging ye...
29/11/2025


I arrived into Nairobi a couple of weeks ago exhausted, probably at the edge of a burnout. It has been a challenging year professionally with the turbulence in the world, both in terms of my corporate consulting practice and peacebuilding work. Of course there have been high points too: utterly rewarding pieces of work, several publications, podcasts and ideas that are still in the nursery. Nevertheless, sometimes the battles catch up with you. All I remember of the flight from Mumbai to Nairobi is boarding and settling into my window seat and being squashed against the window because of a rather large man on the middle seat. But it had been a few long days before that and the tiredness took over. The next thing I remember is the landing announcement.
The week in Kenya promised to be intense (and it was), with a board meeting, some colonial legacies needing to be challenged, and some ideation for the way forward. Thankfully, it was also a gathering of women, and when women gather, invariably magic happens. Even if the week was intense, it was nourishing. Some of us also managed to sneak out a little time to connect with the land and its beings, and they brought us the healing and grounding we needed.
I came back to a busy week of graduation seminars for a course I was doing this year, and then crashed into a viral fever, but the vibrant, grounded spirit of Africa continues to pulse within and evoke primal memories of connection with the planet as I heal.

Join us tomorrow for this session we're hosting at Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association (RPFAA) Asia-Oceania chapt...
28/11/2025

Join us tomorrow for this session we're hosting at Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association (RPFAA) Asia-Oceania chapter - it is open to all, but you need to register ahead of time (free) at this link: https://luma.com/ks03pol5

Here are some details:

​Join d’Arcy Lunn of Teaspoons of Peace for an engaging and interactive session on fostering a culture of positive peace—both in our personal lives and in our communities.
​In this session, you’ll explore:
​• Practical tips, actions, and approaches
• Strategies to improve communication, understand different perspectives, and build collaborative pathways for the future
​• Real-world insights drawn from d’Arcy’s work across 15 countries during his Rotary Peace Fellowship—from Switzerland to Liberia, Jordan to Israel
​Whether you’re a peacebuilder, community leader, or simply someone interested in creating positive change, you’ll leave with new tools, skills, and inspiration to make a difference.

In our November study of the Devi Mahatmyam at Vishoka, we entered the most intricate terrain of the text: the deaths of...
26/11/2025

In our November study of the Devi Mahatmyam at Vishoka, we entered the most intricate terrain of the text: the deaths of Raktabīja and Niśumbha, and the Devi’s first steps into Chapter 10. These chapters revealed not only mythic battles but the deeper mechanics of how harm multiplies, how ego reorganises, and how clarity interrupts both. Raktabīja showed us the danger of unchecked replication — in violence, in misinformation, in collective outrage — and the need to break cycles rather than overpower them. Niśumbha illustrated how ego sheds form after form, resisting dissolution even when its time is done. Through it all, the Devi’s lion reminded us of power held in right measure. And as Chapter 10 opened, sound became a tool of dispersal — a clearing of intoxication before renewal. These teachings feel urgent in a world struggling with retaliation, delusion, and the need for discernment.
Read the full blog at https://devimahatmyam.substack.com/p/the-echo-after-the-roar-moving-beyond

Across years of working in leadership development, peacebuilding, organisational transformation, and decolonial inquiry,...
24/11/2025

Across years of working in leadership development, peacebuilding, organisational transformation, and decolonial inquiry, I have witnessed a simple truth: spaces change when we change the way we hold them. Not through technique, but through presence. Not through authority, but through humility. And not through speed, but through relational depth.
Facilitating with a Decolonising Ethic is my offering to that truth: a synthesis of what I have learned while holding rooms shaped by power, history, grief, imagination, and the longing for repair. This manual distils the practices that help a space breathe: grounding that slows inherited urgency, questions that open rather than direct, multilingual and trauma-aware approaches that honour many forms of knowing, and an ethic of care that resists extraction and performance.
I created this manual because so many of us are seeking ways to convene that do not replicate the very systems we hope to transform. If you are working at the intersections of leadership, justice, ecology, community, or inner development, I hope this resource serves you. Since I cannot upload a file here, please reach out to me if you want a copy (or access it on my LinkedIn where it is uploaded).
If you feel called into conversation or collaboration, you are welcome to reach me at [email protected]
May this work support those who hold space as an act of courage, clarity, and repair.

It’s a deep honour to share that Coming Together in the 'Great Turning: Collective Liberation and the Work That Reconnec...
22/11/2025

It’s a deep honour to share that Coming Together in the 'Great Turning: Collective Liberation and the Work That Reconnects' is being launched globally today.
For over a decade, the Work That Reconnects has been a living thread in my facilitation and peacebuilding practice — a way of remembering our interbeing through systems thinking, story, and shared grief and gratitude. Co-authoring the short chapter on this work in India with my friend and colleague Mayuree Pandit felt like a homecoming: an invitation to root this work in the soil of our land, with all its ecological wisdom, caste complexities, and decolonial awakenings.
This book is not just a collection of essays; it’s a living map of the Great Turning, written by many hands. I would love for you to join us for the online launch today and be part of this unfolding conversation.
📅 November 22, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am PST/ 10:00 pm - 12 midnight IST
Register at https://workthatreconnects.org/event/coming-together-in-the-great-turning-book-launch/

How can you pray for rain,And not carry an umbrella?How can you yearn for peace,And not give up the violence within? ...
16/11/2025

How can you pray for rain,
And not carry an umbrella?
How can you yearn for peace,
And not give up the violence within?

If your life were a being,How do you partner with it?How do you give,How do you receive?How well do you dance with it? ...
16/11/2025

If your life were a being,
How do you partner with it?
How do you give,
How do you receive?
How well do you dance with it?

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