Bhawana founded BasilTree Consulting with one dream – to create an India born, impact-led, talent and leadership consulting firm that clients love and respect and treat as their own. Besides leading BasilTree, she is an Independent Director on the board of a public company, GMM Pfaudler, and is advisor to many boards, CEOs and business leaders, on aligning people practices with their business strategy.

After her Master’s in Applied Psychology, Bhawana started life in consulting with Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen. But post the large firm experience, it was at SHL that she found her mojo. Over 12 years, she grew the nascent business to several hundred clients and helped institutionalise leadership assessments in corporations in India.

Bhawana’s professional passion lies in demonstrating measurable business impact of people processes. But when not thinking of BasilTree, or travelling to a new destination, she has re-discovered her childhood love for sketching, over the backdrop of old Hindi melodies.