About us
Hi, I am Shweta
Founder, The Core Questin
Harvard University, IIM Ahmedabad, LSR; BCG, TEA, XSEED
Welcome to The Core Questin. Our dream is to enable leaders, teams and organizations to find and live their full brilliance. To unleash leaders and workplaces that are thriving - truly alive, inspired, high-performing and human-centric.
Purpose and fulfillment have been consistent themes in my career. I left a coveted job at BCG to work in the education sector and pursue my passion for actualising human potential. These themes are now central to our work at The Core Questin.
Each of us at The Core Questin has deliberately crafted a life, and built organizations, where we have chosen to hold purpose central. And we have an unwavering belief that truly unlocking the potential of human beings and the systems they operate in, has the power to create magic - not just for individuals and organizations, but for the world at large. That is our quest.
Our experience in the C-suite, and as advisors to the C-suite, leading and scaling organizations and driving large-scale change, has taught us that building thriving leaders, teams and organizations is a journey. A journey that starts every day. A journey of self-discovery, of stretching & learning, failure & courage, and digging deep to fulfil our own potential and the potential of those we lead. And it's a journey that doesn't have to be walked alone. In fact, a journey-partner can add depth, beauty and adventure to the quest.
This quest for maximising potential led to The Core Questin being born- to support this journey for other leaders, with the belief that thriving leaders, and thriving workplaces, are in fact the key to a better world.
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Shweta Anand Arora
Shweta has 17+ years’ senior leadership experience across the consulting, start-up, and non-profit sectors.
She was part of the Social Impact Leadership Team at BCG, Director and founding team member at The Education Alliance, and part of the core team that created and scaled XSEED.
She has supported large-scale change efforts in the government and helped create and scale organizations. She has expertise in change management,
building and leading teams and organizations, and learning and development.
Shweta holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She is an ACTP-trained coach from Coach for Life, USA and holds an ICF ACC credential.
Shweta is an avid reader, traveller and learner. She loves listening to podcasts, and is learning the piano and Spanish.
Shweta has 17+ years’ senior leadership experience across the consulting, start-up, and non-profit sectors.
She was part of the Social Impact Leadership Team at BCG, Director and founding team member at The Education Alliance, and part of the core team that created and scaled XSEED.
She has supported large-scale change efforts in the government and helped create and scale organizations. She has expertise in change management,
building and leading teams and organizations, and learning and development.
Shweta holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She is an ACTP-trained coach from Coach for Life, USA and holds an ICF ACC credential.
Shweta is an avid reader, traveller and learner. She loves listening to podcasts, and is learning the piano and Spanish.
Srikanth has over 20 years of leadership experience, including CXO positions at Leo Burnett, where he worked on some of India's (and the world's) biggest brands, across India and Western Europe and Walt Disney India, where he helped the Television network rediscover its mojo. He has also been instrumental in setting up two start-ups, a consumer engagement and Word of Mouth company and an Advertising Agency.
Srikanth is also a leadership coach and a co-founder at The Core Questin. In his words "I have always enjoyed helping people, especially young talent, grow and realize their true potential. At The Core Questin, I work with some wonderful, like-minded people to make this desire come to life every day. "
Srikanth has over 20 years of leadership experience, including CXO positions at Leo Burnett, where he worked on some of India's (and the world's) biggest brands, across India and Western Europe and Walt Disney India, where he helped the Television network rediscover its mojo. He has also been instrumental in setting up two start-ups, a consumer engagement and Word of Mouth company and an Advertising Agency.
Srikanth is also a leadership coach and a co-founder at The Core Questin. In his words "I have always enjoyed helping people, especially young talent, grow and realize their true potential. At The Core Questin, I work with some wonderful, like-minded people to make this desire come to life every day. "
Rameet is a co-founder and leadership coach at The Core Questin.
He has over 20 years of leadership experience, many of them in CXO positions across companies and industries. This includes being a Director and Vice President at Leo Burnett, the start-up CMO for Colors-Viacom 18, a Senior Director at McDonalds India, Global CMO at Zomato and in his most recent stint, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Digital Brands at Hindustan Times, India's second largest news company.
He is widely credited for having spearheaded the digital resurgence of Hindustan Times as a digital company and the various brands in the HT Media group including Mint and Hindustan. He also created and led the internationally acclaimed HT Brand Studio, oversaw the successful scaling of a multi-channel video network and relaunched Desimartini, India’s first movie review site.
Rameet was the original creator, curator and host of the HT Brand Leadership Series and the HT Brand Studio Live, a CXO show that garnered over five million views in just its first year and hosted over 250 CXO's in 35 episodes and three seasons.
Rameet is a highly awarded business leader and marketer, writer, keynote speaker and mentor.
Rameet is a co-founder and leadership coach at The Core Questin.
He has over 20 years of leadership experience, many of them in CXO positions across companies and industries. This includes being a Director and Vice President at Leo Burnett, the start-up CMO for Colors-Viacom 18, a Senior Director at McDonalds India, Global CMO at Zomato and in his most recent stint, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Digital Brands at Hindustan Times, India's second largest news company.
He is widely credited for having spearheaded the digital resurgence of Hindustan Times as a digital company and the various brands in the HT Media group including Mint and Hindustan. He also created and led the internationally acclaimed HT Brand Studio, oversaw the successful scaling of a multi-channel video network and relaunched Desimartini, India’s first movie review site.
Rameet was the original creator, curator and host of the HT Brand Leadership Series and the HT Brand Studio Live, a CXO show that garnered over five million views in just its first year and hosted over 250 CXO's in 35 episodes and three seasons.
Rameet is a highly awarded business leader and marketer, writer, keynote speaker and mentor.
Mandira is a qualified leadership coach. She is a graduate in Psychology from LSR, New Delhi, MSW from TISS, Mumbai, and PhD in Public Policy from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Mandira is passionate about developing leaders who contribute to their workplace by transforming mindsets, creating a culture of cultivating and harnessing people potential, and beating the odds to deliver beyond imagination.
She has 15+ years of leadership experience in public policy organisations that address intractable issues of society. As part of the senior leadership team, she steered and built PRS Legislative Research from a start-up into a renowned institution providing high quality data driven research to elected representatives. Her stints at Azim Premji Foundation, and Centre for Social Policy, Boston, USA focused on improving quality of education, making health care affordable, and skilling of the workforce.
While she thrives in scaling up such impactful organisations, it is in building their leadership potential that she finds greatest fulfillment.
Mandira is a qualified leadership coach. She is a graduate in Psychology from LSR, New Delhi, MSW from TISS, Mumbai, and PhD in Public Policy from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Mandira is passionate about developing leaders who contribute to their workplace by transforming mindsets, creating a culture of cultivating and harnessing people potential, and beating the odds to deliver beyond imagination.
She has 15+ years of leadership experience in public policy organisations that address intractable issues of society. As part of the senior leadership team, she steered and built PRS Legislative Research from a start-up into a renowned institution providing high quality data driven research to elected representatives. Her stints at Azim Premji Foundation, and Centre for Social Policy, Boston, USA focused on improving quality of education, making health care affordable, and skilling of the workforce.
While she thrives in scaling up such impactful organisations, it is in building their leadership potential that she finds greatest fulfillment.
More about us
Who we work with
Since our inception we have worked with leaders, leadership teams and organisations across geographies. Our clients and their organisations cover an entire spectrum of life stages – from early start-ups to multinationals, non-government organisations, educational institutes and unicorns. We have serviced the needs of leaders from over 20 different industries.
Needless to say that our work is industry and geography agnostic and highly customisable.
Our mission: To help you thrive
More and more organisations are dealing with the challenges of growth, scale and the increasing complexity of business. And these are not just start-ups for whom this is an accelerated curve. They’re organisations in all shapes, sizes and life stages, dealing with changing landscapes and marketplaces.
And the new normal of market disruption, economic volatility and unpredictability doesn’t make life easier.
As organisations deal with increasingly more frequent cycles of change, and the need for continuous innovation (and even transformation), there is an emerging realisation that their legacy will probably be as ineffective a shield in the future as legacy solutions.
Product, technology, investment, strategy, distribution and brand – all remain important, even critical, but none are differentiating answers on their own any more. Then what is?
The only real competitive advantage companies have left is the ability to leverage people – their own workforce. And if that was always the number one job for leadership, it has now become the only real one.
Organisations that thrive are aligned on purpose, values and goals. Their resilience, change-readiness and agility come from an inspired, engaged workforce.
Leadership, purpose, strategy and culture all sit on the same axis.
That is the kind of organisations we want to help build. Thriving at every level, till it shows!