Founded in 2020, b.partners enables me to bring over 25 years of organisational experience to every client I work with. My distinct and complementary professional and academic competencies, combined with a genuine passion for being of service to people and their organisations, is what makes my approach unique.  

b.partners represents my obsession for creating engaging and compassionate workplaces that are still high-performance in nature. This enables meaningful careers, and invites more leaders to show true courage through their leadership.

These are not just words – it’s my purpose – it’s why I founded b.partners.  

 At b.partners, leadership change is what I do. I have built my career supporting senior leaders and leadership teams to understand, adapt and expand their impact.   

 My approach is best articulated through the Stockdale Paradox:  You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.  

The more senior you are, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth of where things really stand. Why would they?  Self-interest and self-protection are powerful forces.  The other challenge is internal - the more successful you are, the less likely you are to tell yourself the truth. Experience and success are both paradoxes in themselves.  Experience becomes a heuristic that invites you to shortcut curiosity and helpful-risk, and success is a salve for the brutal truths that you could easily avoid.

My difference is this: I help you uncover and respond to the truths that matter - skilfully, compassionately, and with total honesty. For your leadership. For your team. For your enterprise.  

In June 2025, one of the most gracious and talented team members I ever had the honour of working with, passed away in a New York Hospital.  Her name was Mercy Priyavadana.  A learning, talent and culture specialist that started her journey in Chennai, and ended up working in New York, Mercy was a generous, warm, caring and deeply committed human.  To honour Mercy, and her legacy, the Scholarship Board will select one young outstanding woman per year, and enable them to gain coaching and mentorship from a cadre of world-class Human Resources professionals.  To lift their skills, their ambition, and their connectivity, in the same way that Mercy did for countless hundreds of other talented people throughout her career. 

I support leaders and leadership teams to be honest.  To reflect and develop. To perform individually and collectively. To create positive change at a human level, at an organisational level, and eventually, at a societal level.  Better leadership enables a better world.  It’s not a cliche - it’s a truth.