Core Team

Founder & Managing Director

• Managing Director of Arpitha Associates Pvt. Ltd., a Centre for Excellence with offices in Malaysia, Singapore, and India.
• Director of Punarnava Ayurveda and Managing Director of EFIL Educational Services Private Limited
• Managing Director of Nidharshana Technologies, with Opptimise and Discoverself – assessment portals
• Nearly three decades of experience in management consulting and leadership coaching, with Vision, Values, and Learning as the cornerstones having created Evolutionary Excellence Model
• Nurtured and transformed over 30,000 individuals from organizations in different countries, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, the United States, UAE, and Sri Lanka.
• Proven expertise and experience in influencing high-profile business leaders and decision-makers
• Extensive experience in coaching  and Consulted with leading business houses, governmental agencies, public-service sectors, not-for-profits and social start-ups across the world
• Architect of developmental frameworks and assessment instruments for organizational and individual excellence and innovation: The DNA of Decision Making, The Excellence Framework, The Vision Values Instrument, and The Values Profile Instrument
• Originator of www.Storycards.in, a patent-pending endeavor that aims to promote human and moral values
• Author of three books, namely Discovery, Inner Realities, and How Full is your cup?
• Presented at several international conferences and seminars (such as AHRD, KAHRD, NHRD, IFTDO, TLC, AOM, NIPM, APERA) to audiences from diverse cultural backgrounds

LinkedIn Profile

Co-Founder & Director

• An entrepreneur, advisor, writer, and user experience professional with 2 decades of experience in designing and building world-class software platforms and rolling out end-to-end user-experience strategies
• Set up and managed Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) and user-experience teams for US-based ISVs and Enterprises across diverse domains.
• Currently heads Nidharshana Technologies, an Arpitha company, where he has been instrumental in designing and developing OPPTIMISE, a first-of-its-kind Behavioral Analytics solution
  • Nidharshana was adjudged the best startup @NHRD 2016 and identified as one of the most innovative startups in Karnataka @ELEVATE100
• Headed the Software vertical at Arpitha Associates, a management-consulting company where he was involved in designing, developing, marketing, and deploying its proprietary software platforms.
• At Arpitha, he also led the StoryCard business, managing operations, designing product strategy, and roping in clients, such as Microsoft, Intel, Happiest Minds, ELGI, and Kemin.
• In an earlier entrepreneurial stint, he set up managed a User-Experience services company.
• Conducted group workshops, one-to-one debriefings for C-level leaders and executives across organizational hierarchies, using the Nidharshana assessments & analytics suite
• Advised organizational leadership teams in multiple countries on people strategy
• An alumni of IIM Bangalore, Apex Institute, and Bangalore University

LinkedIn Profile

Design Strategist

• M.Des in New Media Design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad – and B.Tech in Print and Media studies from Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal.
• 15+ years of experience in the area of Content Strategy and Design, Information and Instructional design, User Experience and Building Visual harmony in products and services.
• A deep understanding of human motivation and an ‘essence centric’ approach as a base to develop design interventions, rather than just a form perspective.
• A core appreciation of inclusive design principles and approaches to enable intuitive experiences and interactions.
• An expertise to blend Education, Design and Inclusion as cornerstones for meaningful user engagement and delight.