Two decades inside the pressure. Now the research.
The coaching is the field. The research is the lens. Each keeps the other honest.
I work with founders carrying 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 high-growth Indian technology companies. My doctoral work develops original theory on how people and systems hold clarity, judgment, and learning capacity under sustained pressure.
I spent the better part of two decades inside India's hyper-growth ecosystem — from 2011 at Zomato, through content, chief-of-staff work alongside the founder, and leading Feeding India — and embedded in the Grofers→Blinkit transformation. What I kept noticing wasn't a strategy problem. What degraded under pressure was something earlier: the quality of attention in the room, the range of hypotheses a team could still hold.
I'm also building sAvaka, an operating system for living organizations — the same questions, approached through product.
The room she's trusted in.
Past and present engagements across some of India's defining growth companies.
Roles, training, and lineage.
PhD Scholar — MGM University
Original theory on capacity under pressure, under Dr. Ashish Gadekar. Two constructs: Adaptive Regulatory Shelf Life (ARSL) and Grace-Based Learning Architectures (GBLA).
Master Practitioner — MIT Center for Systems Awareness
Trained in the systems-thinking lineage of Peter Senge. Cohort 7.
Professor of Practice — NSBT · Co-founder — ILEKA
Teaching the next layer of leaders, and building the institutions that teach them.
Founder — sAvaka
An operating system for living organizations, with Org Brain as its org-intelligence layer.
TEDx Speaker — TEDxMGMU
Ideas at the core of the work, in public form. Talk linked once live.
Published author — multiple books
Author of Flatland, CULTure at Zomato (with Deepinder Goyal and Ashish Goel), and Systems of Grace. Also co-hosts the Beyond The Surface podcast.
Two decades, in order.
From the operator years where the questions first appeared, to the practice and research they became.