Our Team

Sandeep Kaul

Sandeep is an alumnus of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon with 15+ years of extensive cross-functional business experience with organizations like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, MetLife and BNP Paribas. He has held senior positions in these organizations centering around P&L responsibility, Business Development, Product Management and Operations. Our aim is to leverage this experience to help corporates and professionals become more productive and achieve the desired business outcomes. He brings value specially in terms of understanding diverse businesses and what interventions will suit best for the desired business outcomes.

Sandeep is also the founder of India Strategy Think Thank, India’s largest e-group for discussing all issues pertaining to and impacting business strategy. He is a voracious reader and you can expect him to have insightful views on a wide range of subjects. He is your point man, if you are looking for someone to bounce your ideas with or get yourself mentored, leadership coaching, training programmes for BFSI sector and Sales interventions. He has also published the acclaimed thought paper, “ Why Training doesn’t deliver Business Results”. All our training programmes are designed using the Impact methodology formulated by him.

Rajiv Misra

Rajiv Misra is an experienced facilitator with over 3100 hours of facilitation to his credit . His focus areas are leadership development, managerial capability building, organizational assessment, development and organizational re- engineering. Rajiv has worked on diverse interventions in the arena of organizational culture transformation, establishing competency framework for supervisors and delivered workshops on competency and leadership development. He specializes in managerial and leadership development interventions and assessments.

He has been a key anchor in three major organization re- engineering initiatives. Some of the organisations he has worked are Wipro (Head HR BPO – West India) and Hexaware KPO (Head HR). He is an alumnus of MDI, Gurgaon. Currently, Rajiv is pursuing a fellow programme in organizational development from AHRD Ahmedabad where his topic of research is leadership interventions. He is the Pune chapter President of International Association of Coaches (IAC). He is also a certified from AHRD to design and run Assessment and Development Centres.

Payal Gupta

Payal Gupta is an organization development consultant and executive coach. She works with the intent to help individuals and organizations setup for success and explore their potential to be future ready. We work with CXOs, Founders, senior managers and board of directors; Large Corporates, family run businesses, MNC’s, Government run organizations we work with them all.

As an Organization Development Consultant, Payal, focuses on systemic change management, organizational development, leadership development, creating team synergy, building organization culture and facilitating large group work. She works with various industries like manufacturing, media, printing, IT, education, FMCG, Real estate, Insurance, Non-profit sector. She also teaches Organization Development to L&D and HR heads.

Payal holds a MBA in Human Resources, she is a Certified Coach, Certified Organization Development Consultant, a Masters in English Literature, has completed her Entrepreneur Development Certificate from Indian School of Business (ISB), Applied Behavioral Facilitator, Appreciative Inquiry Practioner

Shreyanka Basu

A communications major from Symbiosis Pune. Shreyanka Basu joins the dots between research, training, communication and consumer culture. She believes that if anything is worth doing it is worth doing well.With over a decade of marketing insights consultancy behind her for clients such as Nestle, Nokia, Airtel, Star TV, Radio Mirchi etc, she brings to the table a host of specialist qualitative techniques adapted to suit learning and training needs. Prior to her marketing insights stint she has been a French teacher, a copy writer and an advertising servicing professional.Her training modules focus on a diverse range of topics and have been experienced by Corporates such as Bharti Airtel, Radio Mirchi, Reckitt Benkiser, Canara HSBC Oriental Insurance.

She is a visiting faculty for consumer behavior, qualitative research, media studies, advertising at some of the most prestigious media and management institutes of the country such as Management Development Institute, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, National Institute of Fashion Technology etc.She has also conducted Management Development programs for working professionals on research based studies at IIM Lucknow.

Priyanka Kaul

Priyanka kaul is an alumnus from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi. She has had rich local as well as global experience in the field of textiles and designing.She has been a trainer and visiting faculty at NIFT and Wigan & Leigh. Since the last 7 years, she has been associated with the Arts scene in Mumbai. She has also won the META award in 2011 for theatre excellence. She has a passion for performing arts including theatre, dance and music.

At WhiteLight Consulting, she is focused on creating programmes that blend management and arts. She is also responsible for all business support activities including trainer accreditation.She has chosen the path of Reiki Healing as a spiritual discipline. She believes that all the change and progress we seek around us starts with inner transformation.

Om Katare

Om Katare founded Yatri theatre group in 1979. Om has to its credit 60+ productions and 4800+ performances both in India and abroad over the last 33 years.Om uses techniques which are safe, supportive and non-threatening like role play, improvisations, practical scenarios, staged performances, facilitated sessions – where a positive outcome is tested by acting out the solutions – to encourage change.

Some of the corporate clients that he has worked with are Hindustan Lever (Theatre was integrated with their 2012 business roll out plan), TCS ( Product launch of their accounting software for domestic market), HT Media, Shopper’s Stop etc.