Ms. Aparna Nair
Practice Head - Leadership Development
Aparna is a founding member of the Kautilya Leadership Centre with over two-and-a-half decades of experience. She has built the institution since its inception in 2016 by nurturing client relationships, developing content, and building organisational capabilities.
Aparna advises and consults Boards and Management Committees on strengthening their leadership bench strength. She designs and facilitates custom interventions for executives at the CXO and other leadership levels across industries. She also advises client organisations on aligning culture with business strategy, and on policies and processes related to performance management, talent assessment, compensation management, and rewards & recognition.
She has built proprietary psychometric tools for both clients and the institution. She mentors Human Resource professionals in deepening domain expertise and leading people processes within their organisations. She has created content from first principles and developed the knowledge management system for the institution. She is an accredited facilitator from SMR, Malaysia, with extensive experience in using the OPQ (Occupational Personality Questionnaire developed by Saville and Holdsworth Ltd.) and applying the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework to businesses. She is also a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner with deep experience supporting both individuals and groups.
Aparna brings value through her experience as a first-generation entrepreneur, having successfully engaged with reputed organisations across industries. Her business understanding is grounded in her hands-on roles in field sales, team management, credit operations, project management, and branch operations in large institutions. She has also worked in the areas of learning and development, performance management, human resource planning, and instructional design for e-learning.
She has held key positions at ICICI Bank and the erstwhile Blue Dart-FedEx before starting her consulting practice. She has worked with organisations such as Godrej & Boyce, National Collateral Management Services Ltd. (NCML), ICICI Prudential, Citi WAI, Wealth Advisors (I) Pvt. Ltd., WNS, I-mint (erstwhile), and ThyssenKrupp.
At the Kautilya Leadership Centre, she has worked across diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, banking, insurance and financial services, manufacturing, retail, electronic payments, auto, start-ups, and private equity. Her client list includes industry leaders in each of these sectors.
Aparna also serves as an Independent Woman Director on the board of a start-up.
She holds an MBA in Marketing and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce.
Aparna advises and consults Boards and Management Committees on strengthening their leadership bench strength. She designs and facilitates custom interventions for executives at the CXO and other leadership levels across industries. She also advises client organisations on aligning culture with business strategy, and on policies and processes related to performance management, talent assessment, compensation management, and rewards & recognition.
She has built proprietary psychometric tools for both clients and the institution. She mentors Human Resource professionals in deepening domain expertise and leading people processes within their organisations. She has created content from first principles and developed the knowledge management system for the institution. She is an accredited facilitator from SMR, Malaysia, with extensive experience in using the OPQ (Occupational Personality Questionnaire developed by Saville and Holdsworth Ltd.) and applying the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework to businesses. She is also a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner with deep experience supporting both individuals and groups.
Aparna brings value through her experience as a first-generation entrepreneur, having successfully engaged with reputed organisations across industries. Her business understanding is grounded in her hands-on roles in field sales, team management, credit operations, project management, and branch operations in large institutions. She has also worked in the areas of learning and development, performance management, human resource planning, and instructional design for e-learning.
She has held key positions at ICICI Bank and the erstwhile Blue Dart-FedEx before starting her consulting practice. She has worked with organisations such as Godrej & Boyce, National Collateral Management Services Ltd. (NCML), ICICI Prudential, Citi WAI, Wealth Advisors (I) Pvt. Ltd., WNS, I-mint (erstwhile), and ThyssenKrupp.
At the Kautilya Leadership Centre, she has worked across diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, banking, insurance and financial services, manufacturing, retail, electronic payments, auto, start-ups, and private equity. Her client list includes industry leaders in each of these sectors.
Aparna also serves as an Independent Woman Director on the board of a start-up.
She holds an MBA in Marketing and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce.