Two decades inside the pressure. Now the research.

I work with founders making decisions whose consequences compound — inside organizations moving faster than their structures can comfortably hold.

I'm an executive coach and PhD scholar, and the founder of Aklara — the practice through which I coach founders and leadership teams at India's high-growth technology companies. My doctoral research explores how individuals and organizations sustain judgment, learning, resilience, and collective intelligence under conditions of uncertainty and sustained pressure. At its centre: what enables people and organizations to remain adaptive without losing their humanity.

My exposure to entrepreneurship began in 2005 when, at twenty, I became closely involved with my uncle's startup, Ekartha — my first glimpse into the realities of building a company. That deepened in 2011 when I joined Zomato during a period of rapid growth that shaped everything I understand about organizations, leadership, and scale. Over the years I worked across content, strategy, organizational development, and chief-of-staff roles alongside founders — and later contributed to Feeding India and was closely connected to the Grofers→Blinkit transformation.

What kept surfacing wasn't a strategy problem. Under pressure, what often deteriorates first is the quality of attention in the room — the capacity to hold competing perspectives, to learn while acting, to stay human while moving fast. The consequences surface later: misalignment, slower decisions, leadership fatigue, cultures that can't adapt.

My approach is informed by organizational practice and contemplative discipline in equal measure. I am a certified 200-hour Yoga Teacher and a long-term Vipassana practitioner. These traditions have deeply shaped how I understand awareness, learning, and what it actually means to lead well under pressure.

In 2023 I deepened my commitment to returning to my roots — my family, my community, my land. I live in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar with my mother, brother, sister-in-law, nephews Aarnav and Nirvair, niece Myra, and our dog Casper. Much of life unfolds between home and our farmhouse — conversations about learning, leadership, and community balanced by time in nature and the everyday rhythms of family life.

I'm also building sAvaka, an operating system for living organizations — the same questions, approached through product. At the centre of it all is one question: How do we help people and the organizations they create become wiser, more adaptive, and more fully alive?