About

Two decades studying what actually changes a marriage.

Dr. Kishore Chainani and Ritika Chainani are the co-founders and co-creators of the Extraordinary Relationships Program and Framework. Together they have worked with individuals, couples and families across India and the diaspora — arranged marriages, love marriages, joint families, nuclear families, dual-career households, and NRI families navigating two cultural systems at once.

1998

Married since

2008

Life coaching since

2017

Helping couples since

300+

Couples & individuals supported

Co-founder

Dr. Kishore Chainani

Dr. Kishore brings the diagnostic rigour of a systems thinker and the structural thinking of a designer to relationship work. His focus is on the beliefs and meanings beneath behaviour — the layer most couples never reach on their own and the layer where lasting change actually happens. He is the author of Be the Outlier.

Credentials

Professional Certified Coach (PCC)™ — International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP — Society of NLP
Coaching-skills training — NeuroLeadership Institute
Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI) — LOMA
Honorary Doctorate in Neurosciences (Honoris Causa) — Frankford International University, April 2025
Author, Be the Outlier

Co-founder

Ritika Chainani

Ritika holds the practice's fidelity to individual dignity and cultural context. Her work with women navigating in-law dynamics, motherhood, career and identity in Indian and NRI households is at the heart of how the framework meets clients where they actually live. She coaches full-time.

Credentials

Licensed Practitioner of NLP — Society of NLP
Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP — Society of NLP
200-hour Certified Yoga Teacher — Yoga Alliance
Full-time coach

Married since 1998. Helping couples since 2017. Over 300 couples and individuals supported across India and the diaspora.

Point of view

Where we stand.

Every marriage in trouble already contains two people who are trying, in their own way, to be understood. The recurring conflict is almost never the real conflict. Underneath is a meaning, a value, or a belief that has never been named — and the argument is the closest either partner has come to naming it.

Our work is not to teach couples to argue better. It is to help each person see the pattern they are contributing, take responsibility without self-blame, and design a way of being together that does not require anyone to become a copy of the other.

We do not promise that every marriage will be saved. We do promise that anyone who does this work honestly will finish with clarity about what is possible, what is worth carrying, and what they are actually asking for.

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