The Advisory Team
Six senior leaders who have run this from the inside
Each has led restructuring, manpower and transformation inside a steel, power or mining major — not just advised on it. Together they cover HR, finance, operations, business excellence and the digital layer that makes change measurable.
Dr. R.K. Singh
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Restructuring & redeployment
Managed redeployment and separation of surplus roles for structural and performance reasons — with zero litigation.
Industrial relations
Resolved major IR flashpoints and disciplinary actions in union-troubled plants without escalation.
OD & leadership development
Marshall Goldsmith coaching, 360° feedback, 500+ IDPs and assessment centres with IIM and London Business School.
Evidence-based HR systems
Psychometric Talent-Management System tied to strategy; HR Cluster-Partner model delivering at shop-floor level.
Cross-border alignment
TRL Krosaki (Nippon Steel): HR alignment with the Japanese parent, expatriate management and cultural integration.
Signature outcome: Architected group-wide HR transformation across 9 businesses and 14,000 employees (JK Group); collaborated with Korn Ferry at TRL Krosaki, Hay Group in Hindalco and Marshall Goldsmith at JK Group.
Projects & relevant experience
TRL Krosaki Refractories (Nippon Steel)
Cross-border HR alignment with the Japanese parent; expat management; productivity-linked long-term wage settlements; redeployment of 100+ with zero litigation. Worked with Korn Ferry on org design.
JK Group & Hindalco
Architected group-wide HR systems and transformation across 9 businesses and 14,000 employees using Marshall Goldsmith coaching and 360° feedback at JK Group. 10 years shopfloor & corporate — layer rationalization, restructuring and compensation design at Hindalco.
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
Commended for empathetic people management through a successful plant closure and full workforce redeployment.
Leadership Pipeline
Built 500+ Individual Development Plans and online assessment centres; senior-leader programmes with IIM and London Business School.
Mr. P.K. Senapati
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Manpower planning & norms
Set manpower budgets and work-study-based norms across 50+ NTPC locations, for regular and outsourced workforce.
Organisation restructuring
Restructured the organisation in line with a changing portfolio and regulator norms to optimise manpower cost.
Industrial engineering & productivity
Work-study, time-and-motion, job-evaluation and production norms — from the National Productivity Council school.
Cost reduction
Shaped NTPC's manning strategy, reducing employee cost by 10% in a single year.
Consultancy heritage
Manpower restructuring for DVC, Tata Power and DISCOMs — delivered with Deloitte, PwC and NTPC's consultancy wing.
Signature outcome: Reduced NTPC employee cost by 10% and targeted ~₹2,000 Cr lower under-recovery through manning strategy and work-study norms.
Projects & relevant experience
NTPC Limited
Manpower planning for 25,000 employees across 50+ locations; organisation restructuring; productivity-incentive schemes; manning strategy that cut employee cost 10%.
DVC / Tata Power / JV Cos
Led manpower-restructuring assignments for Damodar Valley Corporation and Tata Power (Generation Cluster) and NTPC JV companies via the consultancy wing.
Deloitte / PwC (World Bank)
HR restructuring for APEPDCL (Deloitte, World Bank-funded) and institutional-development / HRM assessment for WBPDCL (PwC).
National Productivity Council
Manpower-assessment studies, job-evaluation, time-and-motion and work-sampling studies; established production norms across industries.
Bhagaban Parida
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Finance-led restructuring — Power, Steel & Mining
CFO/finance roles at NTPC, OPGC and TRL Krosaki–Nippon Steel; 10%+ profitability via cost-out, manpower and debt optimization.
Manpower & HR cost-benefit analysis
Advised numerous HR initiatives with rigorous cost-benefit analysis; manpower and fixed-cost rationalization tied to the P&L.
Value assurance & due diligence
At NTPC, financially vetted ₹8,500 Cr of proposals — including HR — with deep due diligence; every saving defensible.
Enterprise AI & secure digital platforms
Builds enterprise-grade, highly secured AI, automation and analytics tools; led SAP/ERP rollouts and digital enablement at scale.
Bankability & funding
Treasury and funding tie-ups of ₹1,500 Cr+, valuation, financial modelling and board-grade business cases.
Signature outcome: Plugged ₹240 Cr revenue leakage and added ₹24 Cr+ to bottom-line through finance-led restructuring across NTPC, OPGC and TRL Krosaki.
Projects & relevant experience
TRL Krosaki (Nippon Steel)
Turnover ₹2,600 Cr; profitability up 10%+ via cost reduction, manpower deployment and debt optimization; ₹24 Cr added to bottom-line; secured Board and Japanese-parent approval for the Gujarat greenfield.
OPGC (Odisha Power/Coal)
Plugged ₹240 Cr revenue leakage; new product line of ₹95 Cr turnover / ₹55 Cr profit; DPR for a ₹3,230 Cr expansion; funding tie-ups of ₹1,500 Cr.
NTPC Limited (2001–2022)
Financially vetted ₹8,500 Cr of procurement proposals; ₹12,000 Cr CAPEX; IPO listing and ₹6,000 Cr bond programme; SAP implementation.
Genexus / Aethel Carbon
Building enterprise-grade, highly secured AI and automation platforms and MSME technology ecosystems.
Mr. Sant Swaroop Sharma
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Integrated plant operations & excellence
Headed QA, Application Engineering and TQM across BF, sinter, pellet, HSM and SMS — drove Deming-Prize journeys at Tata Steel and JSW.
Major capacity expansion
Led expansion from 7→10 MTPA at Tata Steel and 8→12 MTPA at JSW, including SMS, HSM and CRM project sites end to end.
Safety transformation, the DuPont way
First-batch DuPont Train-the-Trainer; embedded behavioural and process safety plant-wide, training 5,000+ officers.
Lean Six Sigma & productivity
B-Tech Metallurgy (NIT Rourkela) and Master Black Belt; mentored 30+ Black Belt and 125 Green Belt projects; TPM/5S certified in Japan.
Now academia & advisory
Engaged with IIT Kharagpur's Centre of Excellence in Safety & Analytics; delivers sessions for the Adani leadership group.
Signature outcome: Led Deming-Prize business-excellence and DuPont-safety transformations across Tata Steel and JSW while delivering multi-million-tonne capacity expansions.
Projects & relevant experience
Tata Steel (27 years)
Headed Quality Assurance, Application Engineering and TQM & Business Excellence (Deming Prize); led the 7→10 MTPA expansion and DuPont safety across BF, SP, pellet, HSM, SMS and the new CRM.
JSW Steel — Karnataka (11 years)
Headed the SMS, HSM and CRM project sites and the 8→12 MTPA expansion; drove the Deming-Prize business-excellence journey.
DuPont India & McKinsey
Behavioural safety, Six Sigma and leadership coaching across industries; first-batch DuPont Train-the-Trainer, 5,000+ officers trained.
IIT Kharagpur — CoE Safety & Analytics
Engaged with the Centre of Excellence in Safety & Analytics; delivers behavioural- and process-safety sessions for the Adani leadership group.
Dr. Ajaya Gupta
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Business-excellence models
Assessor for JRD-QV (Malcolm Baldrige) and CII-EXIM (EFQM); implemented the Tata Business Excellence Model across operations.
Balanced Scorecard
Built 450+ scorecards and trained 1,000+ executives; doctoral research on Balanced-Scorecard / Business-Excellence fit.
TQM & quality systems
Head of TQM, Tata Steel Mines; lead auditor ISO 9001/14001/45001; Six Sigma and quality-circle deployment.
Mining safety & ESG
First-Class Mine Manager; ESG, EcoVadis, GRI and BRSR implementation; EHS risk and green audits.
International operations
Senior GM (Mining Services), Dangote Group Nigeria — mine planning, performance improvement and safety.
Signature outcome: 19 years at Tata Steel (Head of TQM, Mines) and Sr. GM Mining at Dangote; built 450+ Balanced Scorecards and led Business-Excellence award journeys.
Projects & relevant experience
Tata Steel — Mines Division (19 yrs)
Implemented TQM, ISO 9000, Quality Circles, 5S, the Tata Business Excellence Model and Balanced Scorecard across the Mines Division.
Dangote Group, Nigeria
Mine planning, performance improvement and safety for a large West-African mining operation over 20 months.
NTPC (Simhadri, Vindhyachal, Unchahar)
Deployed station vision, strategy maps and 200+ balanced scorecards across three NTPC power stations.
Business Excellence & ESG
Assessor for JRD-QV and CII-EXIM awards; guided multiple firms through EcoVadis, GRI and BRSR sustainability assessments.
Mr. Rajesh Mishra
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Digital facilitation at scale
Technology mapping and workflow digitisation for restructured org structures; multi-location rollout across 250+ person teams.
Workforce analytics
Deployment, utilisation and efficiency dashboards; technology-led efficiency benchmarking for large operations.
Process digitisation & automation
eOffice and workflow automation; automating routine roles to free and redeploy talent.
Decision enablement
Translates technology, workforce and process data into leadership-ready decision frameworks and matrices.
Signature outcome: Founder of Ashvik Solutions and digital facilitator for large-scale organisation-design and manpower-optimisation assignments across government, PSU and corporate.
Projects & relevant experience
Ashvik Solutions
Digital facilitation for large-scale organisation-design and manpower-optimisation assignments — bridging strategy, people and technology.
State-Scale Delivery (Jharkhand & Bihar)
Led large-scale digital project assignments across government, PSU and corporate, coordinating vendors, teams and multi-location rollouts.
Process Digitisation
Workflow digitisation to mirror restructured roles and automation of routine work to redeploy talent to higher-value tasks.
Decision Enablement
Workforce-analytics and decision-matrix delivery — turning deployment, utilisation and process data into leadership dashboards.
Put this team inside your transformation
Six senior leaders, one accountable delivery model — HR, finance, operations, business excellence and the digital layer, embedded until the new structure holds.
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