WHO WE ARE
We are trained and experienced professionals who have rigorously developed capabilities to promote human and organisational performance.
JINNY RIAT
LEAD CONSULATANT AND MANAGEMENT COACH FOUNDER @ THINKING PARTNERS
Jinny is a Lead Consultant and Master Coach with the experience of working with leaders across diverse verticals and developing innovative management interventions. She has worked with global firms in the UK and in India and is empanelled as a Lead Management Consultant with several MNCs.
She has been a practicing management for nearly two decades. She holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Coaching and Human Development from the Oxford Brookes University, UK. The two year Master’s programme in coaching has given her a deep understanding of the scientific and academic roots and her flourishing management consultancy has given her experience in applying those academic principles to clients from a wide range of industries, geographies and functions. She has dealt with a range of circumstances and leadership styles. Her rigorous training and depth of experience allow her to bring a variety of approaches to the management space. This means that she is able to adapt her style to what will work best for a client in a particular session. Clients often describe Jinny as having the ability to challenge current assumptions and perspectives with compassion and empathy and helping to create actions that are compelling and authentic for the client.
Jinny also works with high performance teams and helps bring a coaching mindset to the group dynamics and team-alignment to boost the effectiveness of the team. Jinny is also accredited to run PROPHET, a team profiling and coaching tool for leadership teams.
Jinny has a deep and broad capability to design powerful, innovative and contemporary management interventions
interventions for leadership development and effecting organisational culture. Her training as a management consultant and a coach allows her to do deep work even in large groups.
Jinny founded Thinking Partners in 2012.
SHUBHRA SHARMA
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND COACH
THINKING PARTNERS MUMBAI
Shubhra is a Human Resource specialist and a Leadership Coach, with more than 15 years of work experience within the banking and financial services industry.
She is able to combine her BFSI industry experience with functional HR expertise and apply them to both coaching and consulting assignments with equal ease. In her previous leadership roles at Citifinacial and Standard Chartered Bank, she has had both operational as well as strategic responsibilities.
As a coach, she works with teams as well as individual leaders in mid to senior roles to make breakthroughs and achieve excellence at work. Her coaching clients usually feel that her ability to relate to their work environment allows her to be a pragmatic and result oriented coach which in turn translates to greater progress for her clients.
As a consultant, she brings a wealth of knowledge and best practices to help organisations create and deliver on their people strategy. She is also a skilled facilitator and has run several leadership development interventions.
She is an alumnus of DU and NMIMS and is an ICF certified coach. She is also trained and accredited to administer PROPHET, a profiling and coaching tool for high performance teams.
At Thinking Partners, Shubhra additionally manages the Mumbai office.
SHILPA BHARDWAJ ENDOW
COACH AND CONSULTANT
Shilpa is an executive coach with over 18 years of total work experience. Her background includes leading HR teams for multinational organizations and helping senior leaders and their teams maximize their effectiveness. She has been certified in some of the leading coaching methods globally. She is an Associate Coach with Marshall Goldsmith in India, certified as a Results Coach with the International Coaching Federation, GROW certified coach and is also certified on the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centred Coaching approach.
Apart from these, Shilpa is a certified practitioner of coaching tools such as MBTI & Hogan. She holds a MBA in HR from the Fore School of Management and has completed her BA from LSR, DU.
Her coaching style is characterized by deep empathy, solution focus, an intuitive understanding of people, and a deep passion for helping people enable their potential. Prior to being an Executive Coach, Shilpa spent 15 years leading teams in global, multi-cultural environments that provided her with a great foundation to transition into her executive coach role.
In her previous career, she led the HR function for Yum!’s corporate and field operations for 4000+ people across multiple locations in India. She was responsible for leadership development & succession planning, employee retention, learning & development, and creating a differentiated culture. Prior to this, Shilpa was the People Strategy Lead at Sapient Corporation for the India operations for 5000+ people. She designed and drove successful interventions around leadership development, performance, growth and engagement. Shilpa has been frequently recognized by her stakeholders for her leadership, intuitive understanding of people, and ability to drive the right business outcomes.
SHRABONI MAZUMDER
COACH AND CONSULTANT
Shraboni is a senior consultant in the field of Strategic HR and Organisation Development, consulting with many Indian and MNC firms. She has 22 years of corporate experience.
An Organisation Development Consultant with multi-industry experience, she worked in full time Human Resources positions in leading companies before becoming an Independent Consultant.
Her specialist areas of work include developing strategies for business, organisation and personal transformation through micro and macro level change ideation and implementation. Her consulting work is centred around enhancing individual and organisational performance by applying the best thinking in modern organisational and business practices. She develops tailor-made organisational development solutions based on a deep understanding of organisational dynamics and realities.
She is a Coach to CEOs and their top teams. Personal effectiveness enhancement, Training and Leadership Development, Organisation culture definition and rejuvenation and Organisation Integration post mergers and take-overs are some of her other areas of expertise.
She has completed her PGDM in Human Resources from IIM Ahmedabad. Her other qualifications include a Chairman Level Assessor Level 4 Certification; and Level 1 & 2 Certifications from EFPA (European Federation of Psychologists Associations) since 2005.
NEHA KALIA
CONSULTANT AND FACILITATOR
CO-FOUNDER @ THINKING PARTNERS
Neha holds a Master’s in Business Administration from FMS, Delhi University. She has worked in multinational corporations like HSBC, Genpact and American Express. She has also worked with a financial services start-up and helped them design their services and processes.
Neha has been a process excellence professional with domain expertise in the financial services industry. She has over twelve years of experience in multiple functions ranging from operations, wealth management, financial planning and customer service to process excellence and project management. In her role as a Master Black Belt with Genpact, she has mentored other process excellence professionals and managers. She has spent close to six years of her career in helping run large scale change management programs ranging from process changes to cultural changes to organisational changes related to acquisitions.
As a process excellence professional, she brings to bear her training, experience, and analytical & problem-solving abilities to help clients design their service offerings, processes, systems and strategy. She also brings to bear her cross-functional domain expertise of the financial services industry when working on consulting assignments for clients in that industry. She is very passionate about Inclusion & Diversity in the workplace and leads the I&D vertical at Thinking Partners. As the COO and co-founder, she also heads strategy and business planning for Thinking Partners.
NISHTHA TIWARI
COACH AND FACILITATOR
Nishtha Tiwari has wide experience in leadership facilitation and consulting. In her previous role, she was working as a Manager for the Human Capital Advisory Services in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited. In her 14 years of experience, she has led a number of leadership projects and has worked with leaders in India, Singapore, China, Middle East and Europe.
She enjoys working with leaders across levels and spends a lot of her time facilitating long term learning journeys for them. Key areas of expertise for her include facilitating Leadership Development Programs, Executive Coaching, Emotional Intelligence for Leaders, Assessment and Development of High Potentials and Competency framework development.
Nishtha holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Delhi University, with a specialization in Organizational Behavior. She is a certified Hogan coach and is also a certified PEQM™ (Emotional Intelligence) consultant.
Our Advisors
Martin Vogel
Martin worked for 20 years in broadcasting, mainly in the BBC. Beginning as a reporter and news producer, he moved into strategy and digital media development and became an internal leadership coach.
Martin gained a Master’s with distinction in coaching from Oxford Brookes University, where he developed a research interest in the influence of stories on our sense of self. He also has professional coaching qualifications from the BBC’s coaching network and an MBA from the London Business School. Martin is a member of the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision and subscribes to its code of ethics.
Martin has consulted with clients ranging from small entrepreneurial companies, through NGOs such as Amnesty International and Action Aid, to large corporations including the BBC, Telegraph Media Group, Amgen, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and media clients overseas.
Martin creates a reflective space in which clients can connect with their values. He enables people to be more aware of their influence and to exercise leadership effectively and ethically. People appreciate the openness and candour that Martin brings and the sensitivity with which he enables people to face up to difficult issues.
Dr Tatiana Bachkirova
Dr Tatiana Bachkirova is Co-Director of the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. Her passion and expertise is in coaching psychology and supervision and she is engaged with this field in various roles.
As an academic, Tatiana is a Reader in Coaching Psychology at Oxford Brookes, teaching and supervising on the MA and Doctoral programmes in Coaching and Mentoring in the UK and Hong Kong.
As a coaching practitioner Tatiana supervises coaches, external and internal to various organisations, as individuals and in groups. She designs and delivers many consultancy projects nationally and internationally and is a regular speaker and keynote presenter in various conferences in the UK and abroad.
As a researcher and writer Tatiana is an author of many articles and three books: the Complete Handbook of Coaching (2010), Coaching and Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice (2011) and Developmental Coaching: Working with the Self (2011).
Tatiana’s national and international reputation has been recognized on various levels. In 2011 she has received an Achievement Award from the British Psychological Society SGCP in recognition of Distinguished Contribution to Coaching Psychology. In 2013 she has been invited to join the Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. In 2015 she won Coaching at Work Award as External Coach Champion.
What Our Clients Say
“Thinking Partners have delivered several team coaching assignments at Vardhman. The interventions positively impacted team effectiveness and performance and helped generate a culture of dialogue.”
– Sachit Jain, CEO, Vardhman Industries
“…there are no diagrams, no matrix and no pattern. This is about real attempts to find solutions to genuinely complex and tangled issues. And so they listen carefully, unpick and unravel knots and difficulties, restate and summarise, ask questions and ask again, then reflect back. They’re demanding and relish a challenge – they work with you rather than for you, they engage, collaborate – and ensure clarity and precision prevail. And crucially they’re perfectly comfortable navigating different and seemingly contradictory worlds… “
– The BBC on Martin Vogel’s work
“Week after week, Thinking Partners created sessions where we could challenge ourselves, learn to dialogue at different levels, enhance our quality and productivity using thinking tools such as systems thinking… We are seeing changes in our culture and fundamental way of working.”
– Sudhir Rana, VP, Sandhar Components
“Jinny’s honesty, integrity, exemplary expertise in her field, compassionate nature to empathise with my thoughts and feelings without getting enmeshed in them have been the hall marks of our sessions. Jinny is warm, generous, forgiving to a fault and dependable to the core….She has worked with big companies and high powered executives. Yet, She has never lost her humility nor her capacity to empathise.”
– Doctor, NHS, UK
“Thinking Partners is unlike any other consultants that we have hired because they did not occur as an external party clocking-in clocking-out. They felt like a part of the team, constantly engaging with us and reviewing the impact and relevance of the intervention. Thinking Partners felt so much like a part of Healthians that the team would often refer to them as part of the Healthians’ family.
I feel engaging with Thinking partners right at the early stage of the business was one of the sensible investment with clearly visible ROI’s today. We have not just aligned our thoughts but have been able to create a strong foundation to build a large business. Every module and learning session at Healthians is created after keeping Healthians as unique business in mind and that is what makes them true thinking partners.”
– Deepak Sahni, Founder & CEO, Healthians.com