Dr. Kavitha is a Family Business advisor who is an Organizational Psychologist and an Associate Certified Coach. She has a Doctorate in Management, specializing in Organizational behavior and has an MA in Psychology along with a Post Graduate diploma in counseling skills. She is an Associate Certified Coach recognized by the ICF (International Coach Federation). She has undergone executive education Programs offered by ISB – Indian School of Business, and has been certified by the institute on a family business training lead my John Ward. While working with small groups and families she uses the fundamentals of the process work and has herself undergone Basic Human processes lab and Advanced Human processes lab under ISABS. She believes in looking at individuals and groups as a system and diagnosing ‘what is working’ rather than ‘what is not working’. She is trained and certified in this method of “Appreciative Coaching" by Fielding Graduate University. USA This academic background and the international training exposure give her the backdrop to work with the complex and challenging demands of family business advising. Dr. Kavitha has worked with Indian families and has been able to facilitate the building of the family governance structures. She is an empaneled facilitator who is advising and helping operationalize the family constitution. She has a decade’s experience of family business advising working with different family businesses. Having in depth exposure in the business arena gives her an added advantage while she is advising and facilitation in the family business. She has over seventeen years of work experience in the business world covering a wide range of industries and projects. She has consulted and trained with several organizations such as Bharath Dynamics Limited, VOLVO, DRDL, Deloitte, GE- Money, PWC, GMR, Dr. Reddy's, Airtel, BSNL, BAAN, Intelle Group, BSNL, Cyberabad Police,Neospark etc., She is passionate about working with both the executive and nonexecutive members of the family in a manner that they can contribute with more energy, talent and a sense of purpose, fostering an ability towards loving and fulfilling relationships, creating each one’s deep purpose, dream career, more energy, more balance and more fun! Her education in psychology, doctorate in management and the cross industrial experience gives her a unique leverage in grasping and helping individuals transform their Family Business ‘platform’ into ‘purpose’. She is able to work at two levels at the intrapersonal space and interpersonal space. This can then translate into positive change that benefits the individual in their personal as well as the family business. She meets the family business space as a sacred space that needs to be revered. She begins with bringing in five basic spiritual qualities to this space - ‘mindful-ness , ‘openness’, ‘trust’ , ‘authenticity’ and ‘reverence’. She has a firm grasp of the ethical and practical issues of working with a family business group and the individuals in it. She has the ability to put into simple, jargon-less language what is observed and the stature to raise any issue with the family or its members at the right moment. She knows six languages that is an added advantage – English, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Marathi. She works with the knowing that to be a ‘contributor’ in the family business space meets her own sense of expression, meaning and life purpose.

Lagan is a leadership development specialist whose focus is on adult learning and behaviour change. She is an ICF accredited Executive Coach, a researcher, group facilitator and consultant. While her career spans over a decade of entrepreneurial and management experience, during the past ten years, her work has been focused on helping top business schools and companies around the world design and deliver leadership development programs focused on measureable and sustainable results. She has worked in the capacity of Client Director as well as Program Director for London Business School since 2009. Her projects have included the design and direction of a leadership development program for over 300 senior officers of the Indian Police Service as well as an Emerging Leaders of Family Business program in partnership with The Indian School of Business (ISB). In addition, she has worked with companies worldwide such as Deloitte, Epson, BBVA bank, Santander Bank, and Danone. In 2010 Lagan relocated to New Delhi to set up her own consultancy. Her clients have included, Sauder School of Business (Vancouver, Canada), SREI BNP Paribas (India), ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain), and ISB (India). Lagan has also been committed to using her experience in learning design and leadership development to make a difference, by designing scalable sales training programs for a social enterprise called Dharma Life (www.projectdharma.net.in www.projectdharma.net.in ), and more recently as a partner of the WEE Foundation (www.weefoundation.org) a program that mentors and trains women entrepreneurs in partnership with IIT Delhi. She has enjoyed an extremely global and entrepreneurial career having lived and worked in 6 countries across 3 continents.  Lagan was born and raised in Canada, completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada.  At the age of twenty-one she founded a design company in New Delhi, exiting four years later to complete her MBA at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.  Lagan also has completed a MSc in Business Management Research (UK) and is currently working on her Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), at Henley Business School (UK) and Rotman Business School (Canada).  Her research is looking at how the science of adult learning can be applied to leadership development and more specifically how the cultural shift of Millennials is leading to new learning and leadership models in large professional services firms in India. When Lagan is not consumed with her research and work, she’s a proud mother to 3 very active boys, she’s passionate about the outdoors and travel – having travelled to over 40 countries globally, many trips involving long walks, hiking and mountain climbing – in 2011 she summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Parmit has 3 decades of experience, in both the public and private sectors. He was most recently the CEO – Strategy and Institution Building for the GMR Group. Prior to this, he was a Director and Partner at SDG (a US based strategy consulting firm), worked at Hindustan Unilever, and developed public policy in the ANZAC region. Parmit has led initiatives and advised Boards and CEOs on a range of strategic and organizational issues. He has worked with both multinational and Indian organisations, including family businesses ranging from first generation to third generation entrepreneurs. His domain experience includes infrastructure (energy, airports, highways), engineering, software products and services, consumer goods, foods, retail, and branded services. Parmit has lectured on strategy at management schools. He has authored a column on strategy and innovation in a major business newspaper, and co-authored two books, including “Innovative India” (Penguin Books), which explores an integrated framework to help organisations consistently deliver high-impact innovations.

Nitin Rajendran is an engineer with an executive program from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has over 15 years of experience in Change Management, Organization Design & Development, Business Excellence and Process Excellence.

Last six years, Nitin has been advising in the area of organization development (OD). It includes facilitation and execution of people, process & perspective enhancements for his clients. His clients (promoters, board members & business heads) are from traditional industries like construction, hospitality, trading, manufacturing & services to new age start-up that focus on m-commerce & product development.

Before setting this, Nitin helped Wenger & Watson Inc set up their Advisory BU and led it for 18 months. As its SBU head, he was responsible for whitepapers development, hiring and training of consultants.

During his 10-year stint at GMR Group, he had the good fortune of being part of teams that worked, from concept to rollout, on many critical OD projects that helped GMR Group scale along with business growth.

As an Adizes Associate and VP, Mr Bhan, whilst developing business in India and Middle East, also delivers core Adizes programs to various clients as required and enables complete Organisational Transformation of the companies. Adizes Institute, USA is rated amongst the Top 10 Large Business Consulting Groups in USA and the prime work of Adizes is to best implement Change Management in an organisation with an aim to create and sustain an environment of Mutual Trust & Respect therein, that enables an ordinary person to achieve sustainable extraordinary results. Mr Bhan brings to his work a rich and diverse background from his Senior Management experience in Services, Contracting, Engineering Consultancy and Business Development fields. It is noteworthy that in his last role before joining Adizes, Mr Bhan, served as a Board member and Regional Director of a British PLC that employed over 650,000 people and had presence in 120 countries, with a turnover in excess of USD 15 Billion. In his career of 16 years with this global conglomerate, Mr Bhan started up, and oversaw several country’s operations and helped them manage and sustain remarkable and rapid growth during boom as well as economic downturn. Mr Bhan is an avid and passionate practitioner and instructor of Heartfulness Meditaion as practiced under the auspices of Shri Ram Chandra Mission established since 1945 and recognised by UN DPI. Mr Bhan credits this simple to do, daily self development method for creating tremendous value and balance in his life and improving his quality of life, productivity and EQ ( emotional quotient) to a great degree. Mr Bhan regularly delivers lectures, talks and conducts Heartfulness workshops in India and abroad. Mr Bhan ran a very well received 6 week program – Shanti Sutra broadcast on Radio City’s Wellness Channel in Nov – Dec 2015. Mr Bhan,a member of MENSA, has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and has attended several leadership and management programs, through his career. He is married and has two teenage biological daughters and two foster daughters. He presently resides in Noida where he shifted in 2011, after 21 years in the Gulf region, primarily UAE.

Nitish is an IT and Management Consulting professional with almost two decades of professional experience. He is an engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur and has completed his MBA from IIM Lucknow.
He has worked extensively with Indian and multinational companies and delivered projects globally in the areas of process consulting and IT consulting for a wide cross section of clients across industries. He has a keen interest in the design and development of software solutions that enable teamwork and information sharing.
Nitish has also worked in the areas of strategy development and implementation, organization design and organization performance improvement.
His last corporate role was with Honeywell where he was leading the Business and Solutions Consulting team and also leading a global initiative to overhaul the organization wide customer support process.
He has a keen interest in working with family businesses and helping them grow and succeed across generations.

A process driven, result oriented and resourceful business professional with above 31 years of rich experience in Strategic Organisation Design and Development, with expertise in Organization Building and Optimal Human Resource Development & Utilization. Experience of closely working with Promoters, Entrepreneurs, Directors, MDs, CEOs, Business Heads, Expatriates and Corporate Functional Heads to strive and achieve the desired goals. Worked with reputed organizations at Tata Motors, Vedanta, Grasim, GMR, Spark Minda and LUMAX Industries. Successfully established Green Field Projects, M&A and JV startups. Currently Associated with People Process Teck, Bangalore / Gurgaon as Head – Strategic HR. Core Competencies : Organization Culture & Employee Engagement– Worked extensively in employee engagement initiatives in the organization through various new and tested initiatives. Organizational Change Management for a High Performance Organisation– Planning and execution of change management process. Proven track record and handled change management process successfully. Build performance driven culture in the business units with defined key accountabilities. Leadership Development and Talent Management – Worked extensively on Leadership Development and creation of bench for future business requirement. Established processes and systems towards Leadership Development at every level in the organization. Expertise on institutionalization of talent management process in the organization. Business Excellence for Institution Building – introduction and institutionalsation of Business Excellence Framework based on the Malcolm Baldridge Model as a certified practitioner and assessor. Assessments completed at Tata Chemical and Titan Industries as pat of TBEM assessments. Business Strategy and Goal – Rich experience and expertise in goal alignment and integration across the units and company. Academic and Special Certifications : Post-Graduation in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management two years full time with first division. Certified assessor for MBTI and other psychometric tools. Trained on Toyota Production System and Best Manufacturing practices.

Jaikrishna B (JK) is an enterprise advisor, family business advisor, and leadership coach, working through Praxis Space, an independent platform. He engages with promoter families, boards, and leadership teams on culture, governance, alignment, and leadership transitions, helping leaders and organisations translate insight into meaningful action.

Across a professional journey spanning more than 35 years, JK has held leadership roles in respected Indian business groups including the Murugappa Group, CK Birla Group, and Amara Raja Group. He brings extensive experience in HR and organisational leadership, including more than two decades as Group CHRO, where he played a key role in shaping people practices, governance frameworks, and organisational culture at scale.

Over a long-standing association with the Amara Raja Group, he has worked closely with the promoter family for over two decades, including more than 15 years in a family advisory role alongside his executive responsibilities. He continues to be associated with the Group as Advisor to the Promoter Family and as a member of the Board of the Rajanna Foundation, its CSR arm.

JK’s work lies at the intersection of promoter family dynamics, leadership development, and enterprise effectiveness. He brings a nuanced understanding of the interplay between family, business, and governance, supporting families and leaders in navigating growth, alignment, and leadership continuity with clarity, sensitivity, and responsibility.

He collaborates with advisors and organisations in the family business and organisational development space, bringing a complementary perspective grounded in leadership, culture, and governance.

He is a Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a certified Family Business Advisor from the Family Firm Institute (FFI), USA. He has also completed leadership and general management programmes at the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru (IIMB) and Harvard Business School.

Known for his reflective clarity and grounded presence, JK believes that leadership is less about position and more about awareness, alignment, and responsible action.