Ms. Aparna Nair

Practice Head - Leadership Development
Aparna, one of the founding members of Leadership Centre brings in two decades of experience. Since the inception of Leadership Centre in 2016 she has created value for client organisations through consulting in areas of organisation development, culture, talent management and performance management initiatives. She brings in value for individuals and institutions through her facilitation of leadership programs for young, middle and senior level executives. She has contributed to the institution learning through design and developing content from first principles.

Aparna draws from her previous stints to generate value from being a first-generation entrepreneur who has successfully worked with reputed names across industries and from roles essayed in large institutions.

She is an accredited trainer from SMR, Malaysia, a qualified user of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator with extensive experience of the OPQ (Occupational Profiling Questionnaire developed by Saville and Holdsworth Ltd.) and application of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to businesses. Her understanding of business comes from the hands-on exposure she has had in field sales, team management, credit operations, project management and branch operations. She has worked in areas of learning and development, performance management, human resource planning and instructional design for e-learning as well.

Aparna has held key responsibilities in establishments like ICICI Bank and the erstwhile Blue Dart-FedEx prior to starting her consulting practice where she engaged with organisations like Godrej & Boyce, National Collateral Management Services Ltd. (NCML), ICICI Prudential, Citi WAI, Wealth Advisors (I) Pvt. Ltd., WNS, I-mint (erstwhile) and Thyssen Krupp.

At Leadership Centre some of the major industries she worked with include pharma, banking, insurance and financial services, retail, electronic payments, auto, etc. The client list includes industry leaders in the respective industries groups.

Aparna is an MBA in Marketing and has graduated in Commerce.