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Founders’ partner on Talent & Culture | Building teams fluent with AI, one cohort at a time

About

I'm a culture builder at heart. A decade across people and sales, mostly at startups. I've hired, built teams, designed culture from scratch, and sold. That range is what I bring to everything I do. I believe culture is a founder's values at scale. When it's built intentionally - with structure, not just feeling - it becomes the thing that holds a company together when everything else gets hard. The companies that get this right don't just retain people. They hold together through leadership transitions, hard quarters, and acquisitions. I'm now independent - consulting, coaching, and building. I work with startups on the people architecture that compounds - org design, employer branding, manager capability, culture, and performance systems. For startups that aren't ready for a full-time hire yet, I step in as fractional HR. For product companies selling to businesses but building for people, I offer fractional partnerships - I've been on both sides of that table. I'm also a coach. I work with a small number of clients on clarity, leadership, and the transitions that are hard to navigate alone. I've completed my training to be a coach, and coaching has made me a better listener, a more intentional enabler, and a stronger partner to the people I work with. Beyond consulting and coaching, I'm building in spaces I genuinely care about. Helping women leaving abusive households find their footing and rebuild; making HR teams feel equipped so strategic and creative work can actually happen; and supporting more people in becoming confident pet parents to result in more and more animals being adopted. My roots at TISS, where I studied development policy and human systems, inform how I approach organisational challenges: with a lens on equity, ethics, and long-term impact. If you're working at the intersection of people, organisations, and systems, or building something for the social good, I'd love to connect.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

lovable

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Fathom

Gamma

Work experience

Fractional/Freelance People & Culture Consultant at Self-Employed, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mo, Remote, Doing more of what I love (and great at) doing - building hiring & performance systems, capability building, succession planning, employer branding, coaching on culture building & reinforcement practices, executive search & hiring.

Founder at The Circle - Peer Learning for Professionals, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Remote, Designing and running programs that accelerate learning and using AI & automations at work.

Founding team at The Talent Deck, Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Director - People Success at Almabase, Jan 2023 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Built and currently lead the People Success function structured around three OKRs: talent density & performance management, employee experience & engagement, and operational efficiency. Key outcomes: · Setup hiring & performance systems in place that resulted in 90%+ new hires being 'Strong' hires, higher % of talent performing at 'Exceptional' levels · eNPS of 72 / GPTW score of 93 (both at 90-100% employee participation) channeled towards employee advocacy, reduced 'regretful attritions' year on year · AI and automation systems that meaningfully reduced People Ops & Recruitment Ops workload · Built and led the org-wide AI fluency framework My focus was org design, hiring, performance, culture and employer branding - implementing changes as well as systematizing existing processes to scale with business.

Education

Master of Arts (M.A.), Development Policies, Planning and Practice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences