Abhay Phadnis is a  B.A. (Psychology) from Poona University and a M.A. (PM&IR) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a Gold Medalist.

He has extensive COACHING & COUNSELLING EXPERIENCE and has logged over 750 hours of executive coaching including coaching based on tools like MBTI, CPI-260, and StrengthsFinder. His repertoire of experience include  psychometric instrument-based counselling (using MBTI, EUM, FIRO-B, CPI-260, 16PF, Workplace Big 5). He has  worked with David Leeper (master coach and coach supervisor based in the UK) on facilitation of coach training programmes in India; he is also my supervisor coach. He is an Associate Coach with the Centre for Creative Leadership (Singapore campus).

His prominent areas of consulting experience include psychometric assessment for selection and development, organizational diagnostics, HR automation design, competency mapping and assessment, HR and business strategies, organization structuring, facilitation of institutional forums, designing and running assessment and development centres, and design and implementation of mentoring programmes. Have also trained managers to become internal assessors for running Assessment Centres within their organizations.

He earlier, worked with Tata Consultancy Services, heading HR at their software research centre at Pune (1991-1997), and then with TranSys Technologies, heading HR for their Indian and US operations (1997-2000). Before joining TCS, he ran a hospital for 5 years and was then a full-time parent for 1 year.