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Our Leadership

We are passionate about organizations and people meeting their full potential. We take pride in delivering what we say and in partnering with organizations in managing change and building internal capability to sustain the change.

Our services in transforming work, workplaces and businesses ensure the maximization of organization and people potential. We bring deep people and business systems expertise to our transformative consulting solutions that ensure the thorough execution of strategies.

Lokesh Nigam

Co-Founder | Director

Lokesh Nigam is the Co-Founder & Director at Kognoz Research & Consulting. In his 22 years of management consulting experience, he has worked intensely in Change, Employee Experience, Organization Transformation, Digital HR Transformation, and Leadership Development. Lokesh brings deep expertise in areas of strategic workforce planning, strategy mapping and deployment, organization set-up, Digital HR transformation, talent management, and leadership development with a consulting track record of advising global and Indian clients, across several industry verticals including Oil & Gas, Engineering, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Banking & Financial Services, Conglomerates, Information Technology, Services and Family Led Enterprises.
Lokesh has worked with Arvind Mills, KPMG, Eicher Consultancy Services (ECS), PwC, and Aon Hewitt in the past and was co-founder of Adyant Advisory and Kairos Research and Consulting before starting Kognoz. He holds an Engineering degree from Bhopal University, MBA in HR from SIBM Pune and is currently pursuing an Executive Fellowship program in Organization Behavior from XLRI, Jamshedpur in the area of organizational mindfulness. He is also a visiting faculty and teaches leadership at XLRI’ Jamshedpur.
Lokesh has advised C-Suite leaders, promoters, and entrepreneurs on areas like change, culture, organization design, OD, leadership development, capability building and executive coaching.
Lokesh is trained on and has deployed several methodologies with respect to large-scale change, assessing and coaching leaders on capability alignment to vision and strategy, thus having an ability to activate vision and mission on the ground. He is trained in Requisite Organization methodologies, which are important to integrated leadership development and driving capability-based organizations, He has the experience and passion for leadership development, and helping organizations create a thorough leadership pipeline at all levels and end-to-end human resource management hinged on communication, connect and technology, which is aligned to business objectives both in the short and long run. He has deployed the principles of appreciative enquiry to facilitate change in leadership, and organizations and create business-specific interventions to leverage inherent organizational strengths.
Lokesh has developed research-based methodologies for action coaching, and self-driven workplace systems to drive employee motivation.
He is passionate about large-scale change initiatives, organization design, and team science and is a thought leader in managing complex adaptive systems. Clients acknowledge him for his research-based approach to solutions and his understanding of wide-ranging business applications. He believes in the simplicity of solutions in complex situations.
Lokesh has worked in wide-ranging cross-cultural scenarios spanning organization development consulting across regions/geographies globally. He has advised C-Suite leaders in organizations across the globe as part of client organization development and leadership initiatives. He can interface with and coach business leaders to create sustainable business delivery environments by systematic alignment of human resources.

Manish Prasad

Co-Founder | Director

Harpreet Kapoor

Co-Founder | Practice Leader

Harpreet Kapoor, CEO of Kognoz Talent Solutions is leading Talent, Learn & Engagement consulting, products and solutions for ASEAN Region. She has over 10 years of experience in working deeply in the areas of HR transformation, Organization Design, Learning & Development, Talent Management, Engagement, Well-Being with a holistic approach on developing practices, policies, and digital enablement.

She has worked in various industries including Manufacturing, Automobile, IT, Technology, Media, Oil and Gas, Retail, Start-ups in streamlining & developing various HR capabilities, practices, processes & system around organization development, talent assessment, job design, organization restructuring, learning and talent management strategy development and deployment across organization. She has helped many organizations in enabling their career and learning marketplaces while working on the foundational principles coupled with technology enablement. She has been instrumental in creating some of innovative technology enablement solutions for HR practices and she drives deep client relationships and research-oriented solutions.

Prior to joining Kognoz Research & Consulting, she was leading North Zone Talent Management and Development in Future Group. In her earlier roles, she has worked with Anand Group in areas of Talent Management, Leadership Development and Employee Engagement. She was also instrumental in shaping talent managementpractices & policies at PepperTap.

She is certified in transactional analysis andvarious psychometric tools like Thomas, CEB OPQ etc. and has knowledge of various HCMand Learning platforms, to enable the right people solutions for the clients.

Harpreet holds a B-Tech degree in computer science from GGSIPU, Delhi and MBA in HR from School of Inspired Leadership. She is passionate about large scale organization change, organization design, changing paradigm in learning & talent space. Her personal interest is in yoga, holistic well-being and mindfulness.

Mahim Mongia

Practice Leader

Mahim is the HR Consulting Practice Leader at Kognoz with 16+ years of experience in the areas of organization transformation, leadership development, talent management, employee experience, and change management across multiple geographies: India, Japan, Southeast Asia, the US, the Middle East, Europe, and Australia. In his management consulting and corporate stints, he has worked in sectors like energy, mining, steel, power, infrastructure, real estate, oil and gas, manufacturing, FMCG, shared services, BSFI, telecom, IT, and ITES with reputed global organizations like Ernst & Young, Infosys, AIG, SunLife, Birlasoft, Jindal Stainless, and Jumbo Electronics.

He has consulted with several large and mid-scale organizations across the globe on enabling people to take the organization to the next level. His approach is based on linking people aspects to the larger business goals and vision, establishing a strong alignment before designing, identifying, and implementing any solution or program. He incorporates technology as a critical lever of implementation, wherever possible, in his solutions. He follows a listening and questioning approach while working with his stakeholders to understand and uncover their real needs. He handholds his stakeholders to manage any change, ensuring sustenance and real impact in the long run. He has leveraged innovative methods to drive large-scale change in organizations and is a firm believer in finding ways to maximize human potential.

He has completed his B.E. in Mechanical from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi (now DTU), and his MBA in Human Resources from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He is certified in psychometric tools like OPQ 32, Harrison, and Belbin Team Roles and has experience working with other psychometric tools like MBTI and Gallup Strength Finder. He is pursuing the journey towards ACC ICF Coach Certification. He is passionate about the intersection of business, psychology, behaviour science, data, and technology. He actively engages in strengthening the HR fraternity through keynote sessions, panel discussions, teaching, delivering guest lectures, and contributing to building the next generation of HR talent.