Now coaching Founders and CXOs India / Worldwide

Clarity under pressure — for the people building under the most of it.

Coach to the founders scaling India's defining companies — grounded in systems thinking and a doctoral inquiry into how people hold judgment when the stakes don't let up.

Naina Sahni
PhD MGM
MIT Master Practitioner
Founder sAvaka
12+ Founders coached
20+ Years in hyper-growth
Author 3 books
0Years inside hyper-growth
0Founders and CEOs coached
0Books published
Flatland · CULTure at Zomato · Systems of Grace
PhDDoctoral research, MGM
MITMaster Practitioner · Compassionate Systems
01 — In the room with

The founders building India's defining companies.

Hover a company to see who ↓
CARS24Vikram Chopra
ZomatoDeepinder Goyal
BlinkitAlbinder Dhindsa
BijnisSiddharth Vij
XpressBeesMohit Sardana
AnimallNeetu Yadav
LeverageEduAkshay Chaturvedi
CARS24Vikram Chopra
ZomatoDeepinder Goyal
BlinkitAlbinder Dhindsa
BijnisSiddharth Vij
XpressBeesMohit Sardana
AnimallNeetu Yadav
LeverageEduAkshay Chaturvedi
GlobalLogicDigital engineering
armSemiconductors
magicpinLocal commerce
PravaayuHarsh Baid
SheerMEMiguel Ribeiro
Massive RestaurantsZorawar Kalra
Market on MainstreetVedant Lamba
sAvakaAarnav Bhasin
GlobalLogicDigital engineering
armSemiconductors
magicpinLocal commerce
PravaayuHarsh Baid
SheerMEMiguel Ribeiro
Massive RestaurantsZorawar Kalra
Market on MainstreetVedant Lamba
sAvakaAarnav Bhasin
From building Zomato's culture alongside its founder to the founders scaling what's next — the work happens where the decisions are made.
Systems Thinking Iceberg — events, patterns, underlying structure, mental models
02 — The thinking

Where the leverage actually lives.

Everyone can see the events. Below the waterline are the patterns that repeat, the structures producing them, and the mental models that built those structures.

The real work happens three levels deeper than where most people look — and that's where the coaching goes.

01EventsVisible · reactive
02Patterns + TrendsRecognisable over time
03Systems + StructuresInvisible · high leverage
04Mental ModelsDeepest leverage point
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03 — The work

Two decades, in receipts.

Not titles — the things actually built, led, and learned along the way.

'05–'06

Ekartha

QA and HRBP to Engineering — the first view into how teams hold together under pressure.

'06–'07

IBM

Recruiter — reading people and fit at scale.

'07–'10

RMC — Resource Management Consulting

Headhunter placing leaders into growing companies.

2010

EmiratesAvenue.com

Community management — building connective tissue for an online community.

'11–'19

Zomato — Operator

Content → Chief of Staff to the founder · led Feeding India into the fold · embedded through the company's defining years.

'19–'23

Zomato — Coach to Deepinder Goyal & Core Leadership

Executive coach and strategic advisor to the founder and leadership team through the company's transformation.

'20–'22

Grofers → Blinkit — Coach to Albinder Dhindsa & Core Leadership

Embedded through the Grofers-to-Blinkit transformation — pushing the whole team toward clarity on what they were building and why.

'20–'23

Animall

Coach to Neetu Yadav and core leadership — building frameworks for growth and identifying levers for sustained performance.

MIT Centre for Systems Awareness — Master Practitioner, Cohort 7

Source lineage for all frameworks in this practice — Reflective Leadership Cycle, Core Leadership Capacities, Generative Social Fields, and the Four Dimensions of Well-being.

2023

Published — CULTure at Zomato

Co-authored with Deepinder Goyal and Ashish Goel. Author of Flatland and Systems of Grace · TEDx speaker · Professor of Practice, NSBT.

2025–

Founder & President — Ananta NGO

Building the institutional infrastructure for the next layer of leaders and communities.

Now

PhD Scholar — MGM University

Original theory on how people and systems hold clarity under sustained pressure — the ARSL and GBLA constructs.

Now

Co-founder — ILEKA

Building the institutions that teach the next generation of leaders.

Now

12+ founders and CEOs in active practice

Zomato · Blinkit · CARS24 · Bijnis · Xpressbees · Animall · Massive Restaurants · Market on Mainstreet · Pravaayu · LeverageEdu · sAvaka · SheerME.

Now

Co-founder — sAvaka

An operating system for living organizations.

03 — In their words

What founders and CEOs say.

Naina is the longest-standing coach I've ever had, and the most demanding. She doesn't tell you what you want to hear. She asks the one question that reframes the whole problem. Over two years she has changed how I lead, how I think about building the company, and what I expect of myself. Every leader I've sent to her comes back sharper.
Vikram Chopra
Founder & Builder, Cars24
Naina worked with me from 2011 to 2023 and became a critical part of Zomato's leadership inner circle — not just executing plans, but helping shape them. She co-led hiring sprees, met investors, navigated boardroom discussions, and coached me and my leadership teams across both Zomato and Blinkit.
Deepinder Goyal
Deepinder Goyal
Founder and President, Eternal
Naina spent ~2 years with Blinkit, me and our team. During the particularly tough period of a business overhaul — the transition from Grofers to Blinkit — Naina was the uncomfortable but necessary voice pushing everyone, including me, to seek more clarity about what we wanted to achieve.
Albinder Singh Dhindsa
Albinder Singh Dhindsa
CEO, Eternal · Founder, Blinkit
Her approach is driven by what's in your control, with a deep understanding of business and executional challenges. She creates a safe space for you to be vulnerable, and she works with YOU. Naina is an agent of change, and a source of wisdom — she's helped me build frameworks for my growth and identify meaningful levers to continuously level up.
Neetu Yadav
Neetu Yadav
Founder and CEO, Animall
Naina's guidance over six years was instrumental in transforming me into a more effective leader. She enhanced my communication, always challenged me to step outside my comfort zone, and through her emphasis on operating from first principles, I experienced significant growth both professionally and personally.
Miguel Alves Ribeiro
Miguel Alves Ribeiro
Founder and CEO, SheerME
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