Our Team

Kalpana Tatavarti

Founder, Director

Kalpana brings diverse experience of over 25 years in Diversity, Workplace Inclusion, Leadership Development, Sales and Marketing. An Executive Coach and an angel Investor, she also serves as an Independent Director on boards of listed companies. She is also Founder of an NGO, Manasvini.

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Laxmi Char

Co-Founder

Laxmi has over 20 years of extensive leadership experience in training & development, project management, and projects aimed at driving revenue.

She served in leadership positions in companies, such as Yahoo and Dell.

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Rajeev Shroff

Director

Rajeev has successfully helped transform and transition scores of leaders into CXO roles, supporting leaders in times of strategic growth and change, building leadership competencies.

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Meena Jagtiani

Meena has diverse functional and sectoral experience of over 28 years with leading Indian and multinational corporations. She began her career in Sales & Marketing, moving to Strategy Consulting, Executive Search and Human Resources.

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Rajiv Raghunandan

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Shubha Apte

Shubha brings more than 30 years of business experience to her executive coaching, facilitating & consulting work.

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Abhaya Tatavarti

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Savitha Manian

Savitha takes care of operations at Parity Consulting. As a quick learner and go getter and a flexible person, she comes with a background of teaching and admin experience.

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Malini M.N

She has been in the training domain for over a decade. She has worked in organizations like GE, Sutherland Global Services and Deloitte, where she developed content and delivered programs to over 1000 associates in behavioral skills, soft skills, and Voice and accent training.

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Piyush Tyagi

Piyush brings 25 plus years of unique rich experience in building and leading strong sustainable teams to achieve business objectives in domestic and international environments. As a Coach, a trainer and a consultant, she enjoys working with people in their journey of personal evolution, growth, and achievement of their goals.

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Jyothsna Hirode

Jyothsna is an accomplished Diversity and Inclusion Leader, with industry experience of over 25 years. She brings deep expertise in the design and delivery of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) programs.

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Vanya Umranikar

Vanya is a law Graduate (LL.B.) from Symbiosis Society’s Law College, Pune, Maharashtra and a Member of Bar Association of Maharashtra and Goa. She’s been engaged as an external counsel since 2014 for some of the top Law firms in the country, such as Trilegal, J. Sagar Associates, S & R Associates, and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.

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Saroma Srinidhi

Saroma is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion at the workplace and helps with managing the online communities at Parity Consulting.

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Navitha Muniraju

Navitha Muniraju is a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant with over a decade experience in Human Resources Development and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) functions.

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Kalpana Tatavarti

CEO, Parity Consulting

Areas of Expertise

Business Consulting

Women Leadership

Workplace Inclusion

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Coaching

Trainer

Leadership Development

“Without inclusion, diversity has no meaning”

Kalpana brings a diverse experience of over 25 years spanning Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership Development, Marketing, and Sales.

She has partnered with marquee clients across industries to build inclusive workplaces in India. As a specialist in women leadership, she has trained and coached women executives & leaders across the organizational landscape on building successful careers. Her work in developing women leaders in organizations is distinguished by its holistic perspective and a keen focus on building enabling ecosystems.

She spent the early part of her career in the corporate world in Marketing & Sales. Later, as Founder at Maarpidi, a Leadership Development Firm, she partnered with several organizations to grow their leadership pipelines.

A Masters in Marketing & Sales, Kalpana is a certified Executive Coach, besides being certified in several transformational frameworks and tools.

She serves as an Independent Director on the boards of listed companies. As an Angel Investor, she invests in early-stage startups selectively. She is also Founder of Manasvini, an NGO, providing microcredit to economically disadvantaged women. (www.manasvini.org)

Certifications:

Masters in Marketing & Sales
Executive Coach from the Coaching Foundation of India
Psychometric instruments such as MBTI, FIRO-B, DISC and the EQ-i 2.0
Transactional Analysis (Org.), NLP (Master Practitioner) and Yoga

She is a member of the Core Committee at BSafe, a safety initiative of BPac in Bangalore.

An accomplished Carnatic Vocal singer, she enjoys writing both creative fiction & professional articles.

Laxmi Char

Co-Founder

Areas of Expertise

Leadership Training

Talent Development

Women Leadership

Workplace Inclusion

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Multi-Cultural Sensitization

Project Management

Laxmi has over 20 years of work experience with global companies in India and overseas. She has extensive experience managing diverse stakeholders, and is adept at leading simultaneous projects aimed at increasing engagement, expanding market penetration, and driving revenue. Her cross-cultural communication skills and drive for results has helped her to thrive in high pressure situations, and innovate for change.

Most recently, Laxmi was the Senior Director at Yahoo’s Global Business Solutions team, and was responsible for planning and project management across internal business leaders, talent managers and external vendors. Prior to Yahoo, Laxmi was the first woman to be hired as an Area Manager at Dell’s India based International Services subsidiary. She has held senior positions in leading Direct Marketing and Express Distribution companies.

She is a certified Trainer, having led the Learning and Continuous Development team at Dell. She has led training sessions on leadership, talent development, global communication and diversity challenges in India and internationally.

Rajeev Shroff

Director

Areas of Expertise

Leadership Transformation

Coaching

Technology Entrepreneurship

Thought Leadership Programs

Leadership Development

Rajeev has successfully helped transform and transition scores of leaders into CXO roles, supporting leaders in times of strategic growth and change, building leadership competencies.

Rajeev helps leaders define their direction through a series of powerful and purposeful conversations, based on their chosen direction, in context of their personal values and potential.

He has worked with diverse businesses in the Telecom, Govt., Wireless, Venture Capital, Organic food, Digital Media, Micro Finance, e-commerce, ITes and IT sector; empaneled with CoachSource, CFI, PwC, ThinkTalent and others.

Fractional CEO at SmartDrive, Rajeev performed roles such as Vice President, Avaya, and Senior Director, Global Services at Oracle, managed delivery organizations with headcount of 2000+ in India, China & Argentina.

He is certified as a CEO Coach through CFI, member of ICF, and trained through N.E.W.S. Coaching, Switzerland. He has attended various professional programs like the Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship, International School of Business Growth & Thought Leadership program and Franklin Covey Focus workshop. He is qualified as an Engineer in Electronics & Communication.

Meena Jagtiani

Areas of Expertise

Strategy and HR Consulting

Talent Management

Employer Branding

Meena has 3 decades of diverse work experience with leading organizations across sectors and functions. She developed the ability to understand emerging Industries, develop successful strategies, build goal-oriented teams and create and nurture a high-performance culture. Her unique experience in Sales & Marketing and Strategy Consulting prior to moving to HR built an in-depth understanding of business to create impactful HR strategies and interventions. She brings significant experience in working with senior leaders and driving the HR Agenda to deliver Business outcomes.

Her last assignment was with the Aditya Birla Group – a USD 42Bn conglomerate with diversified businesses globally. In her 11 years with the Group, she was part of the Senior Management team and was responsible for multiple roles. In her last role, as Chief People Officer – Textiles, Overseas Spinning & Acrylic Fibre Business she provided Strategic direction and led the HR function for the 3 Businesses globally. Prior to this, she was Group Head Talent Staffing & Employer Branding – Group Human Resources where she was responsible for leading the Talent Acquisition & Employer Brand of the Group globally.

She has honed her skills and gathered valuable experience while working with, IBM Daksh, Cerebrus, Korn/Ferry International, A F Ferguson, CMC Ltd. & NIIT. She leverages her strong operating and consulting experience to influence and provide solutions to leadership teams. Her business understanding and process orientation enable her to develop and institutionalize solutions on a global scale.

She is an MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management and has completed an Executive Development Program from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton Business School. In addition, she holds several professional certifications.

Rajiv Raghunandan

Areas of Expertise

Business Consulting

Business Process Outsourcing

Growth Ventures

Rajiv Raghunandan is Managing Partner at seedX, a high touch advisory and fund raising platform for early stage & growth ventures in India. He has over 17 years of experience across business consulting, outsourcing (BPO), technology and corporate finance in a variety of organisations such as Andersen Consulting, Infosys BPO, InfraHedge (A State Street Subsidiary) and Arvind Mills Ltd. His longest corporate stint was with Infosys BPO where he spent 11 years building the business from its infancy across all aspects of the services lifecycle namely sales, solutions, implementation and delivery.

Over the last 6 years, Rajiv has also been actively involved with multiple early stage ventures in different capacities. Ranging from advising on strategy, marketing & operations to himself being an angel investor in a couple of ventures, Raijv has inculcated a passion for enabling success of emerging ventures.

Rajiv holds a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has a graduate degree in accounting and a degree in management accounting from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Shubha Apte

Expertise Areas

Executive Coaching

Change Management

Women Leadership

Organizational Development

Large Transformational Programs

Shubha brings more than 30 years of business experience to her executive coaching, facilitating & consulting work. She has diverse industry experience having worked with multinational organizations, managing & leading large scale Transformation Programs, Technology Integration Programs, driving change management and quality improvement initiatives & setting up Technology captive centers.

She has also played an instrumental role in creating learning strategy, as well as facilitating organizational effectiveness initiatives globally. Shubha is an expert in Managing Change and Transformation. She is familiar with all aspects of organization development and has extensive experience and exposure to developing and implementing programs, which make a significant impact to the business and the individuals.

Shubha has worked with companies like Blue Star, Escorts, Motorola, Dell, Thomson Reuters, and TCS. Since August 2015, Shubha has been actively involved in coaching leaders, helping companies with process quality initiatives, designing and delivering workshops, evaluating Action Learning programs for corporates, helping startups with Organization Development initiatives. Her most recent accomplishment has been leading a “Women In Leadership” academy for Linkage Inc. in India.Shubha is passionate about developing women leaders and facilitating their career success.

She is also associated as a Mentor with Mentor Together, an NGO that helps young people with disadvantage backgrounds break the inequality of opportunity.

She is a Certified Executive Coach from Coaching Foundation of India(CFI) & Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching(MGSCC).

Abhaya Tatavarti

Areas of Expertise

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Women Leadership

Abhaya drives the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) vertical at Parity, where she partners with organizations to implement all provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. She has worked with organizations across industries, from start-ups to factory set-ups, to develop context-specific POSH solutions that are aligned with legal compliance. She has also advised clients on implementation strategies. At Parity, she introduced a socio-legal framework to all POSH content and content delivery. From drafting anti-sexual harassment policies to writing case reports as an external member, she is skilled in being a service partner for all POSH requirements.

She is an International Studies Major from Kenyon College, Ohio, USA. She has also completed an Executive Certification in Sexual Harassment Prevention and Workplace Diversity by National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

She serves as a resource for Sexual Harassment Cases that are handled by Parity Consulting, besides sitting on IC committees as an External Member. She serves as an external member for ten different organizations, and has investigated over twenty-five complaints. She also worked extensively on a best practices report that was released by Parity in collaboration with Trilegal and commissioned by NASSCOM. The report surveyed 120 plus organizations to cull out best practices of IC members.

Committed to the cause of diversity and safety at workplaces, she believes that it is a social and legal responsibility for all organizations to ensure that their workplaces are free of sexual harassment.

Savitha Manian

Areas of Expertise

Operations Management

Financial Management

Savitha takes care of operations at Parity Consulting. As a quick learner and go getter and a flexible person, she comes with a background of teaching and admin experience.

Savitha holds a post graduation degree in Computer Science. She has also done certification in embedded systems, data warehousing and manual testing. Savitha loves spending time together with her son and playing badminton. Her areas of interest include practicing Yoga, Bharatanatyam and net surfing.

Malini M.N

Areas of Expertise

Behavioral Skills Training

Gender Sensitivity

Primordial Strategies

Malini M.N has a post graduation in English Literature from the University of Madras, a diploma in training from Indian Society for Training and development and an LLB from Ambedkar Law college, affiliated to Osmania University. She is also a certified NLP Practioner.

Over the past few years, she has been freelancing with different corporate companies and academic sectors, where she has established a good client base for handling behavioral skills training programs like gender sensitivity, primordial strategies for corporate success, etc.

She has recently entered the legal space, where she has 2 years of court experience as an Advocate in Anti-corruption bureau and criminal matters. She also drafts petitions, represents matters and extends legal advice to clients.

She is an avid reader. At Leisure, she spends time reading novels, Legal books, and The Hindu.

Piyush Tyagi

Areas of Expertise

Personal Effectiveness

Selling Skills

Assertiveness for Women

Leadership Skills

POSH

Customer Service

Change Management

Piyush brings 25 plus years of unique rich experience in building and leading strong sustainable teams to achieve business objectives in domestic and international environments. She has a successful combination of strong communication and leadership skills with versatile experience in Operational Excellence, Stakeholder Management, Continuous Process Improvement, Coaching & training, Talent Management & strategy, Change Management, and Business Development.

Her corporate experience of over two decades includes relevant stints at NIIT Ltd., Schoolnet (an IL&FS initiative), Max New York Life Insurance, Om Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance, GE Global Servicing, Brickwork and LabourNet Services.

As a Coach, a trainer and a consultant, she enjoys working with people in their journey of personal evolution, growth, and achievement of their goals. She is an effective facilitator and has trained a cross-section of executives, individuals across Personal Effectiveness, Selling Skills, Assertiveness for Women, Leadership skills, Coaching & People Development, POSH in the workplace, Customer Service and more.

Piyush has been actively involved in Diversity and Inclusivity initiatives at the workplace. She has been a Core team member of Women’s network groups and has been an internal committee member on POSH committees.

She is driven by a sense of self-inquiry, leading her to attend self-enriching programs including 7 Habits of Highly effective people, Change Acceleration Program, Six Sigma, NLP, Mind Power, Reiki, Transcendental Meditation, Inner engineering, and Love Yourself, Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. She practices Access Bar and Vipassana.

She is a Certified Master Spirit Life Coach from CCA (recognized by International Coaches Federation) and an Internationally certified Workshop leader by Heart Inspired Inc. (USA). She holds a Masters in Business (MBA-PE) with specialization in Strategy.

Jyothsna Hirode

Areas of Expertise

Diversity & Inclusion Programs and Polices

Women Leadership Programs

Unconscious Bias Programs

Program Design, Development and Implementation

Program and Project Management

Cross-cultural programs

Strategic Planning and Consulting in D&I

Employee Resource Groups

Employee Handbooks

Diversity and Inclusion Learning

Diversity & Inclusion Surveys

Diversity Research and Analysis

Jyothsna is an accomplished Diversity and Inclusion Leader, with industry experience of over 25 years. She brings deep expertise in the design and delivery of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) programs. She has worked in several organizations in the IT sector and has created winning strategies to engage, grow and retain talent. These are based on a deep understanding of the ever-changing business needs, garnered through 15 years of line experience before she moved into Human Resources and specialized in D&I.

In her tenure in the D&I function in IBM, she led the advancement of women and cross-cultural programs in India/South Asia. She has set strategy, influenced leadership teams to own objectives and sponsor programs. She has also set up governance systems via Diversity and Women’s Leadership Councils. During this period, IBM India/South Asia was recognized by NASSCOM through the prestigious Best IT Products and Services Company for D&I Award. Later, as a D&I leader in the Global Diversity Center of Competence, she led the global surveys and awards process, supported over 120 Employee Resource Groups across the globe, and partnered with Global Talent Directors to support several business units for their D&I solutions. More recently she has consulted with Capgemini, especially in the area of women leadership.

Prior to her foray into D&I, Jyothsna was an award-winning people manager and worked to train and enable other people managers of a large business unit. Even earlier, she was in the core business of IT application development and management services. She has worked in startups as well as in large organizations in India and abroad and enjoyed the challenges of the software development and implementation business.

Motivated to extend her work with women leadership to the disadvantaged, she now engages regularly with a non-profit to enable underprivileged women increase their employability and connects them to opportunities.

She has a post-graduate certificate in human resource management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Electronics & Communication.

Vanya Umranikar

Areas of Expertise

Leadership Training

Talent Development

Women Leadership

Workplace Inclusion

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Multi-Cultural Sensitization

Project Management

Vanya is a law Graduate (LL.B.) from Symbiosis Society’s Law College, Pune,

Maharashtra and a Member of Bar Association of Maharashtra and Goa. She’s been practicing law in Pune since 2006 with expertise in:

Real estate acquisition, conveyancing, negotiation and advisory, having delivered precise resolutions to complex legal issues for real estate transactions within constricted time frame.
Transactional analysis, legal writing and skilled legal research; conducting arbitration matters including resolution of commercial disputes;
Corporate – compliance & advisory including litigation support;
Policy formulation and actively conducting trainings for corporates with special focus on POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment);

She’s been engaged as an external counsel since 2014 for some of the top Law firms in the country, such as Trilegal, J. Sagar Associates, S & R Associates, and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.

Saroma Srinidhi

Areas of Expertise

Communication

Community Management

Diversity and Inclusion

Saroma Srinidhi is a communications professional with over 7 years of experience in the IT industry. She is a writer by skill, but enjoys working on events, creating intranet portals and driving employee engagement. Saroma is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion at the workplace and helps with managing the online communities at Parity Consulting.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Psychology from Mount Carmel College and an MBA in Communication Management from Symbiosis International University.

Saroma is an avid traveller and animal lover. She also likes writing fan fiction, reading and is interested in forensic psychology.

Navitha Muniraju

Areas of Expertise

Diversity and Inclusion

Human Resources Management

Equality and Inclusive Culture

Assessments and Analysis

Navitha Muniraju is a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant with over a decade experience in Human Resources Development and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) functions. She was leading the D&I function at Infosys Limited and her areas of expertise are related to Gender, LGBTQIA, Disability, Culture, Multi-generational workforce and Working parents.

Navitha has worked on a number of projects with companies spanning across industries such as IT & ITES, Banking and financial services, Microfinance, BPO and Consulting that focused on understanding the organization’s D&I challenges and creating strategic programs to foster equality and an inclusive culture.

She also has experience in conducting assessments and analysis of diverse workforce metrics.

Navitha holds an MBA degree in Human Resources and Marketing. She believes that every individual should be treated equally and receive the same opportunities regardless of who they are and how they identify themselves.

At Parity, Navitha provides Content Development support for Parity’s initiatives and programs.

Our Team

Kalpana Tatavarti

Laxmi Char

Rajeev Shroff

Meena Jagtiani

Rajiv Raghunandan

Shubha Apte

Abhaya Tatavarti

Savitha Manian

Malini M.N

Piyush Tyagi

Jyothsna Hirode

Vanya Umranikar

Saroma Srinidhi

Navitha Muniraju

Kalpana Tatavarti

Areas of Expertise

“Without inclusion, diversity has no meaning”

Laxmi Char

Areas of Expertise

Rajeev Shroff

Areas of Expertise

Meena Jagtiani

Areas of Expertise

Rajiv Raghunandan

Areas of Expertise

Shubha Apte

Expertise Areas

Abhaya Tatavarti

Areas of Expertise

Savitha Manian

Areas of Expertise

Malini M.N

Areas of Expertise

Piyush Tyagi

Areas of Expertise

Jyothsna Hirode

Areas of Expertise

Vanya Umranikar

Areas of Expertise

Saroma Srinidhi

Areas of Expertise

Navitha Muniraju

Areas of Expertise

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