Global Leadership Coach
Fractional CHRO
Leadership & Organisational Culture Evangelist
HR Columnist & Blogger
MDI, Gurgaon, Batch of 2007
PhD Scholar, IIM, Nagpur (2025-29)

I grew up in the Doon valley - the only child to my parents, shaped by the hills, and schooled at the famed St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun. Sport was my first language. A natural athlete, I played almost every major outdoor sport and cleared the Services Selection Board (SSB) assessment centre on my first attempt for the National Defence Academy back in 2000. Discipline, resilience, and competing with myself have stayed with me ever since.
 

I went on to pursue an MBA in HRM from the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, and have recently come full circle to academia as a PhD Scholar at IIM Nagpur - a pursuit that keeps the learner in me very much alive.
 

For 15 years, I served multinational companies and early-stage startups in senior HR leadership roles - sitting across the table from professionals navigating careers, organisations, and their own potential. That vantage point changed how I see people. I understood, with precision, what helps them grow and what holds them back. Coaching was the natural next chapter.
 

Today, I work as a Global Leadership Coach, helping leaders and professionals discover who they are at their best, and build the clarity, confidence, and conviction to lead from that place. My coaching style is inward-looking, grounded in self-awareness, and delivered with radical candour. I believe the most powerful shifts happen not when we fix behaviours, but when we change how we see ourselves.
 

I love to write. Mostly about real, emotive experiences - workplaces, human behaviour, the quietly profound things that happen between people in organisations. You'll find my blog and selected publications on this site. On LinkedIn, I share perspectives on the things I care deeply about: personal growth, emotional intelligence, organisational culture, servant leadership, and women in the workplace. I try hard to walk the talk. Every unconventional pivot in my journey was a deliberate choice because I genuinely believe we are all multi-faceted, and life is too short to be lived in a single box.
 

Our truest potential emerges only when we move beyond the comfortable and the familiar. Not merely to live, but to thrive.

When I'm not coaching or writing, you'll find me on a cricket pitch, deep in a crime thriller on Netflix, or in the middle of an honest, authentic conversation. My wife is an HR professional with a leading telecom operator in Delhi NCR. A few years ago, our greatest adventure arrived, and nothing since has felt quite as extraordinary.