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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Rajiv Raghunandan

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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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Rianna Lobo

Rianna is a POSH consultant at Parity. During her career, Rianna has represented some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Intuit, Expedia, Samsung, and Lenovo.

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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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Sairam Vepakomma

Born and brought up in the IT Training industry, Sairam has 30+ years of experience in building skills at various levels including campus recruits, executives, trainers, etc..

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Surabhi Parvatikar

Surabhi is Head – Sales & Marketing and comes with over 15 years of experience across pre-sales, marketing and program management in the technology consulting and D&I verticals.

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Vidya Ravichandran

Vidya comes with more than 29 years of experience in the IT sector with specialization in Program & Projects Management and IT Service Delivery.

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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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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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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.

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.

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.

Rianna Lobo

Areas of Expertise

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Women Leadership

Rianna has pursued her LL.B. from Law Faculty, Delhi University and is currently pursuing her Masters in Business Laws from National Law School, Bangalore. She has been practicing law for more than 13 years and is the first Indian lawyer to practice Indian law in Japan.

During her tenure, she has represented some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Intuit, Expedia, Samsung, Lenovo. She has advised companies in their multi-million dollar acquisitions as well as assisted start-ups in structuring their investment deals.

She has advised domestic and multinational clients on various aspects of employment law from furlows, misconducts, disciplinary issues, terminations, employment contracts, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, drafting of human resource manuals, pre and post-employment restrictions, work conditions, maternity benefits, closures, etc.

She has also drafted prevention of sexual harassment policies, and conducted exhaustive workshops on prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace, gender sensitization, etc., for her clients across industries. She serves as the external member of the anti-sexual harassment committees of clients, and has considerable experience in sexual harassment complaints.

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.

Sairam Vepakomma

Born and brought up in the IT Training industry, Sairam has 30+ years of experience in building skills at various levels including campus recruits, executives, trainers, etc..

He worked in almost all roles given a typical organization. Sairam left Wipro Ltd (a global India-based IT Services organization) after spending 14 years. He spent several years designing, developing and delivering skill development programs as senior behavioral facilitator.

His special focus included facilitation on POSH sensitization, women empowerment and inclusivity programs. He was handpicked as a member an IC member. Conducted tough investigations when conciliations failed, where some of respondents even quoted law, bringing the offender to book and passed orders to organization.

Most challenging aspects in the role was encouraging women to gain confidence and come out and sustain tempo till the recourse is attained, in validating the case to nab false claims, collect all possible evidences from internal and external sources, sustain interest of witnesses, and maintain neutrality throughout the proceedings being a non-legal authority. Another challenge Sairam dealt was to understand the extent of outrage of women’s modesty that can aid in identifying the quantum of corrective punishment. Ensured recording and filing all proceedings of cases on online tool.

He spent most of the time majorly covered skill-scape comprising customer centricity, professional communication, corporate etiquettes, diversity/ inclusivity, PSH, team building, collaboration, IT consulting, negotiation, networking and influencing, presentation, interpersonal relationships, professional attitude, experiential learning and outbound learning and women empowerment. Sairam currently lives in Bengaluru – India.

Surabhi Parvatikar

Surabhi is Head – Sales & Marketing and comes with over 15 years of experience across pre-sales, marketing and program management in the technology consulting and D&I verticals. Surabhi seamlessly integrates enterprise solutioning through customized delivery, thought leadership and sales processes.

A result-oriented and strategically driven professional bringing agility and ownership across SMEs, mid-sized brands and start-ups with an in-depth understanding of business environments, she comes with expertise across pre-sales, marketing, content, program management and delivery, research and stakeholder management.

Vidya Ravichandran

Areas of Expertise

Competency Development

Program / Project Management

Process Implementation

Vidya comes with more than 29 years of experience in the IT sector with a specialization in Program & Projects Management and IT Service Delivery. She has worked for organizations like CMC Limited, Siemens, Atos, and has managed projects in multiple domains such as Hospitality, Retail, Public Sector, and Enterprise Security. She has worked in a multi-cultural environment and geographically distributed teams across Europe and the Asia Pacific.

She has a strong process-oriented approach and applies the same diligently thereby achieving business success and customer satisfaction. Her interpersonal and mentoring skills have helped her to be a successful competency development manager as well.

In her most recent assignment, she had served as one of the Sub-segment Heads in Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited managing a group of 100+ employees in Enterprise Security Product Development within the Building Technologies segment.

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.

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.

Our Team

Kalpana Tatavarti

Laxmi Char

Rajeev Shroff

Rajiv Raghunandan

Malini M.N

Rianna Lobo

Jyothsna Hirode

Vanya Umranikar

Sairam Vepakomma

Surabhi Parvatikar

Vidya Ravichandran

Piyush Tyagi

Savitha Manian

Kalpana Tatavarti

Areas of Expertise

“Without inclusion, diversity has no meaning”

Laxmi Char

Areas of Expertise

Rajeev Shroff

Areas of Expertise

Rajiv Raghunandan

Areas of Expertise

Malini M.N

Areas of Expertise

Rianna Lobo

Areas of Expertise

Jyothsna Hirode

Areas of Expertise

Vanya Umranikar

Areas of Expertise

Sairam Vepakomma

Surabhi Parvatikar

Vidya Ravichandran

Areas of Expertise

Piyush Tyagi

Areas of Expertise

Savitha Manian

Areas of Expertise

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