Our Handwriting Analysis often reveal more than we realize. The way we hold a pen, the flow of our writing, and even the pressure we apply to the page can reflect the state of our minds. These subtle movements offer a window into leadership style, decision-making patterns, and emotional balance. What if your handwriting could uncover hidden strength. What if they expose the subconscious habits that hold you back as a leader?
In this episode of The Best Business Podcast, host Daryl Urbanski speaks with Anagha Deshmukh. She is a renowned strategist, corporate leader, and handwriting analyst. With more than 20 years of experience across Fortune 100 companies, Anagha brings a unique approach that blends systems thinking, analytics, and empathy. She shares her journey from engineering to the executive boardroom and into the science of handwriting analysis. Her key insight: handwriting is a direct printout of the brain’s wiring. It can reveal over 100 traits that standard assessments miss. With practice, those patterns can be reshaped to unlock growth and clarity.
Listeners will learn practical tools to identify and clear subconscious blocks, improve decision-making speed, and strengthen team cohesion. Discover how something as simple as pen and paper can help resolve hidden stress, release emotional barriers, and even ease physical discomfort. This episode offers a rare opportunity to understand the science behind handwriting and use it as a powerful lever for personal and professional growth.
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
- Discover how handwriting can accurately reveal over 100 subconscious personality traits standard profiling tools miss
- Understand how CEOs and organizations use handwriting analysis to hire, coach, and accelerate leadership decision-making
- Gain insights into how simple daily handwriting patterns can rewire your brain, eliminate subconscious fears, and enhance emotional intelligence
Resources
- Anagha Deshmukh: LinkedIn | X (Twitter)
- The PowerScripts: Website
- The Tuning Fork Consulting: Website | Facebook | Instagram
- BNI (Business Network International): Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | X(Twitter)
- Cummins Inc.: Website
- Best Business Podcast with Daryl Urbanski - Where you can find more insightful interviews like this one.
Episode Highlights
Finding the Root Cause of Chaos in Leadership
- Handwriting analysis goes beyond skills or surface behaviors to uncover the subconscious blocks that drive leadership struggles.
- Many corporate challenges stem not from lack of training, but from hidden patterns of thought and behavior revealed in handwriting.
- Guest Anagha Deshmukh, a strategist and handwriting analyst, brings over 20 years of leadership experience to this conversation.
- A teaching from her CEO father-in-law, “Find the root cause, don’t fix the symptom”, became her guiding leadership lens.
- She realized that many performance problems in corporations weren’t due to skills gaps but subconscious behavioral blocks leaders weren’t aware of.
The Science and Power Behind Handwriting Analysis
- Handwriting is described as a neurological printout of one’s internal state.
- It reveals traits like confidence, loyalty, honesty, leadership potential, trauma, and even health conditions.
- More than 100 traits can be identified from a single handwriting analysis, surpassing the limits of computer-based personality tests.
- Handwriting can even reflect physical pain or illness. Anagha recalls spotting signs of cancer and injuries before clients disclosed them.
- By practicing new handwriting patterns, individuals can rewire neural pathways, leading to greater confidence, clearer thinking, and emotional release.
Healing from the Inside Out
- A woman in Trinidad, unemployed for 15 years, secured a management role at a bank just six days after beginning handwriting exercises.
- An investor in Connecticut tripled his portfolio within two months after addressing his subconscious fear of success through handwriting practice.
- Anagha stresses that fear of success can be just as limiting as fear of failure, often holding leaders back under the weight of expectations.
- In her own career, handwriting brought clarity and alignment, merging her engineering mindset with emotional intelligence and purpose-driven leadership.
The Neuroscience of Writing and Corporate Application
- Writing with intention reshapes mental patterns, similar to how yoga trains the body.
- Research from Harvard and other institutions supports the connection between handwriting, neural pathways, and the subconscious.
- Executives use Anagha’s tailored exercises before investor meetings, speeches, and key decisions to boost clarity and confidence.
- Daily handwriting practice functions as a “mental gym,” strengthening both logical and emotional sides of the brain.
A Revolutionary Recruitment Tool for Cultural Fit
- In an AI-driven world, human alignment, values, collaboration, and trust, becomes the true differentiator for organizations.
- Handwriting analysis provides a rapid and data-rich filter, assessing honesty, loyalty, respect, authority response, and emotional tendencies.
- Small businesses can save significant time and money by evaluating cultural and values alignment before training or onboarding.
- In Europe, decisions are often made from signatures alone; Anagha’s U.S. approach uses paragraph samples to align hiring with company values.
The Human Spark That AI Can't Replace
- As AI evolves, leaders must return to humanity, intuition, and values as the foundation of leadership.
- AI can replicate data but cannot replace emotional processing, cultural alignment, or authentic human energy.
- Organizations that prioritize clarity, integrity, and emotional resonance will foster resilient and innovative teams.
- Handwriting analysis becomes a bridge to understand what makes each person unique, whole, and capable of extraordinary growth.
Real Change Comes From Within
- True leadership growth requires addressing the subconscious, not just adding new skills or attending more strategy sessions.
- Handwriting analysis reveals hidden fears, doubts, and patterns that block clarity and decision-making, making lasting transformation possible.
- As Anagha shares, even traits like fear of success can quietly limit leaders until they’re brought to light and released.
- She leaves listeners with the hope that something as simple as pen and paper can unlock breakthroughs in leadership, health, and personal growth.