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About us

We architect how people perform, and who they become.

K16 Growth Consultant LLP is a People & Performance Architecture firm in Ahmedabad. We work with founders and growing businesses to build what most firms skip: capable people, systems that run without us, and teams hired when the leader is ready to lead them.

Our mission

To bridge the people gap in growing SMEs: make the person capable first, build the systems around them, and then build the team, so the business runs without depending on its founder, or on us.

Our vision

Growing businesses across Bharat and the UAE that run on clear people systems, with founders free to lead and lean teams that perform like larger ones.

Why "K16"

K is for Krishna. 16 is for the 16 Kalas.

Krishna is called Poorna, the complete being, not because life was kind to him, but because nothing life gave him could break what was built inside him. The 16 Kalas stand for 16 dimensions of a complete human being. At K16 we map them to 16 capacities of a complete professional, in four pillars.

PILLAR 01

Inner

Clarity · Confidence · Discipline · Accountability

PILLAR 02

Knowledge

Domain mastery · Systems thinking · Decision intelligence · Learning agility

PILLAR 03

Relationship

Communication · Trust · Leadership presence · Team building

PILLAR 04

Execution

Goal architecture · Resilience · Independence · Vision

How we work

Three things, in this exact order.

Step 1

Make the person capable

Habits, knowledge, confidence and accountability come first. We never skip this step.

Step 2

Build the system

SOPs, dashboards and processes that keep running without us.

Step 3

Build the team

We hire only when the leader is ready to lead them.

An engagement is not about creating dependency on the consultant. Every habit installed and every system built should make you more capable, not more reliant. By the time we leave, you do not need us. That is the proof our work worked.

Leadership

The two directors behind K16.

Portrait of Akash Yadav

Akash Yadav

Director & CEO

Leads K16's People & Performance Architecture: HR consulting, capacity building and e-learning for growing SMEs. Thirteen-plus years across telecom (Vodafone, Airtel), MSME business coaching, and HR and recruitment consulting. Author of “After 40, Again: A Recruiter’s 90-Day Playbook to Bounce Back from Job Loss and Restart Your Career”.

  • HR business partnering
  • Training & development
  • Business process improvement
  • e-Learning & LMS
Portrait of Diksha Yadav

Diksha Yadav

Director & Founder, Growth Consultant

Founded Growth Consultant on a single mission: to bridge the talent gap for MSMEs with strategic hiring. She works with real estate, architecture and building-materials businesses, and finds specialised talent such as architects, interior designers, draftsmen and NBFC roles. She also sets up HR partnerships for businesses without an in-house HR team, so compliance and efficiency are in hand.

  • Recruitment
  • Talent management
  • HR partnerships
  • India & UAE
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