Our Community
One of the things we have always valued, as a firm and as individuals, is the opportunity to work with great people, learn from them and build exciting collaborations and enduring partnerships.
We feel that constantly evolving expertise, in multiple areas, is critical to the quality of our work. We know and realise that we can’t be great at everything. Having come to this conclusion a few years back, we started partnering with like-minded professionals who were great at what they did and were looking to partner to do meaningful work. Today we are privileged to be working with a community (both individuals and firms) that complements our expertise and offerings with their unique skills and perspectives.
Some of our partnerships extend in the area of Corporate Governance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Risk Management, Compensation and Rewards, Business Strategy and Innovation.
Bindu Vinodhan
Transformation Coach | Inclusion and Diversity | Organisational Effectiveness
Bengaluru
Bindu has over 25 years of experience leading Learning & Development, Organisational Development, Organisational Effectiveness, Leadership Development and Diversity & Inclusion portfolios across organisations like Vodafone, HP, EDS, Bank of America and WNS Global Services.
Over the last 5 years as an entrepreneur, she has engaged in enabling organisations and leaders through their transformational journey by coaching on executive presence, facilitating visioning, leadership transformation, business storytelling, masterful conversations and influence workshops.
Bindu has a B.E. (Electronics and Telecommunication) and an MSc. in Learning Technology from Oxford University.
Transformation Coach | Inclusion and Diversity | Organisational Effectiveness
Bengaluru
BS Dhillon
Corporate Governance | Risk Management | Corporate Law
Chandigarh
Balinder Singh Dhillon has almost 30 years of experience in corporate law, governance, risk management, strategic planning and implementation. He has held leadership positions in governance functions including Legal, Corporate Secretarial, Audit and Risk. He has worked as counsel in practice with corporate houses and has been associated with various corporate Boards as an executive and independent Board Member.
Dhillon graduated from Punjab University and is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Bar Council of India. He holds a Master of Laws degree from McGill University, Canada. As a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, he completed his accreditation under a Certificate of Qualification equivalent to a Graduate of Law through the Law Faculty, University of Toronto, Canada.
Corporate Governance | Risk Management | Corporate Law
Chandigarh
Pooja Mehta
Performance and Rewards | Organisation Design | M&A | Leadership Development
Gurgaon
Pooja has over 20 years of experience working extensively across multiple HR domains. She has led global assignments and worked with clients across industries. A majority of her corporate experience has been with organisations like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Mercer.
Pooja is a graduate of Psychology from Delhi University (1996). She completed her post-graduation from XLRI, Jamshedpur (1998). She is certified on IPE™ Job Evaluation methodology and EDAC psychometric tools such as LPA™ and MCPA™. She is also a trained Life Coach and a certified Hogan Assessor. Psychology remains her interest area and she has completed a specialization course in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, US.
Performance and Reward | Organization Design | M&A | Leadership Development
Gurgaon
Pavithra Gaikwad
Leadership Development | Executive Coaching
Bengaluru
Pavithra has over 20 years of experience in the areas of Leadership Development and Learning and Development including Coaching. She has also worked on setting up or strengthening HR policies and systems across organisations in India. She works both with corporates and more extensively in the social sector. Her work has spanned IT, ITES, Financial Services, Banking, Telecom, Retail, Microfinance, Education and Development sector. Pavithra completed her PGCHRM from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Leadership Development | Executive Coaching
Bengaluru
Ramkumar R
Executive Coach | Business Strategy | Educator
Chennai
Ramkumar R has over 20 years of experience helping individuals and organisations discover their true purpose and realize their potential. He does CXO coaching, leadership development and business strategy workshops for Fortune 500 companies, global MNCs, MSMEs and educational institutions.
Ram is a certified Executive Coach from Coaching Foundation of India (CFI), an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and a gold medalist in engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.
Executive Coach | Business Strategy | Educator
Chennai
Seema Menon
Leadership Development | Skill Assessment | Executive Coach
Mumbai
Seema has over 15 years of experience. Her work has been in the realm of learning with a focus on skill assessment and development. With over 7 years as a practising coach in both personal and business contexts, she applies her experience to design-focused interventions with clients to meet their needs.
She is certified and trained in Counselling, NLP, Human Process Work, Appreciative Inquiry and the Enneagram. She is also the Founder Member of the Enneagram Academy of India.
Leadership Development | Skill Assessment | Executive Coach
Mumbai
Shilpa Diwakar
Talent Solutions | Leadership Development | Coach
Bengaluru
Shilpa’s career of 25 years spans across the corporate and social development sector. She has worked with Cocoon since its inception in the design and delivery of strategic talent-related solutions in India and the region.
Her areas of expertise include leadership development design and facilitation, talent assessments and design of talent frameworks and HR systems. She works closely with organisations to help them grow and scale their people practices in alignment with their strategic growth plans.
Her career in the social development sector spans 6 years and specifically focuses on the capacity building of organisations and leaders in the social impact space. She has worked with several impact leaders as a Coach, helping individual leaders reflect and craft their development journeys.