Advisory Board
Ashish Saxena
A global leadership advisor with over 25 years of international experience across Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He has led multicultural teams and major strategic initiatives for organisations including Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, TCS, and General Electric.
Ashish specialises in emotional and spiritual intelligence, resilience, decision-making, and organisational change – bringing a human-centred approach that helps leaders build inclusive, high-performing cultures. His work integrates strategic clarity with deep people insight, making him a trusted guide for leaders navigating complexity and transformation.
Indrajeet Sengupta
With over three decades of experience heading cross-functional teams, he has partnered with global leaders to solve complex organizational challenges and unlock potential. His leadership philosophy centers on building high-performing teams, developing future-ready talent, and nurturing inclusive, purpose-led workplace cultures.
He is particularly passionate about HR Technology, DEI, mentoring, leadership and high-performing team development, executive coaching, long-term incentives, the future of work, and reimagining workplaces to become agile and resilient. He is currently developing AI applications for Human Resources.
Dr. Alan Richter
Dr. Richter is the founder and president of QED Consulting. He has consulted to corporations and organizations including CERN, NASA and the UN, many Fortune 500 Global companies, such as American Express, AXA, BP, BDO, ConEdison, Deloitte,Unilever, etc for many years in multiple capacities, primarily in the areas of leadership, ethics and values, diversity, inclusion, culture and change. He has worked in over 60 countries and is a recognized pioneer in both the diversity & inclusion and business ethics fields.
Alan is the co-creator of the Global Diversity Survey, the Global Gender Intelligence Assessment, the Global Leadership Survey, The Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks and The Global Ethics & Integrity Benchmarks. He also co-produced Global Words for Global Leaders – an inspirational leadership video, and co-authored Lost in Cyberspace -a team-decision based tool that explores the nature of global virtual teams.
Gayathri Sharma
Communications leader with 23 years’ diverse experience in leadership roles at both Corporates and PR Agencies. Led corporate reputation, digital/ brand PR, internal communications and crisis mandates for companies across industries such as: FMCG, Auto, Retail, Financial Services, F&B, Pharma, Energy, Technology, Aerospace & Defence. Steering Community Investment/ CSR strategy and programme management are also key strengths, as well as areas of keen interest.
Passionate POSH and DEI Champion, driving organisational change towards creating safe and inclusive workplaces. Certified trainer and Expert speaker.
Rakesh Prasad
Dr. Richter is the founder and president of QED Consulting. He has consulted to corporations and organizations including CERN, NASA and the UN, many Fortune 500 Global companies, such as American Express, AXA, BP, BDO, ConEdison, Deloitte,Unilever, etc for many years in multiple capacities, primarily in the areas of leadership, ethics and values, diversity, inclusion, culture and change. He has worked in over 60 countries and is a recognized pioneer in both the diversity & inclusion and business ethics fields.
Alan is the co-creator of the Global Diversity Survey, the Global Gender Intelligence Assessment, the Global Leadership Survey, The Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks and The Global Ethics & Integrity Benchmarks. He also co-produced Global Words for Global Leaders – an inspirational leadership video, and co-authored Lost in Cyberspace -a team-decision based tool that explores the nature of global virtual teams.
