We look beneath the organisation chart.
Atman is an Organisation, People & HR Transformation advisory firm helping founders, CEOs, CHROs and leadership teams build organisations capable of delivering their next stage of growth.
We look beneath the organisation chart.
Atman refers to the essence beneath the surface. That idea reflects how we approach organisations.
The visible problem might be slow decisions, leadership gaps, rising people costs, fragmented technology, weak performance or a founder becoming a bottleneck. But the underlying issue may lie elsewhere.
The structure may no longer support the strategy. Decision rights may be unclear. Critical capabilities may be missing. Leadership roles may have outgrown existing capability. HR processes may create complexity rather than value. Technology may be automating processes that should first have been redesigned.
We begin by understanding what is really happening inside the organisation before deciding what needs to change.
Senior expertise. Direct involvement. Atman brings together experienced practitioners who have led transformation from inside organisations as well as advised leadership teams from outside.
Nalini Thakur
Founder & Managing Partner
London Business School Sloan Fellow · IIM Lucknow Alumna · Sloan Masters Award Recipient
Nalini is an organisation and people strategy advisor with nearly two decades of experience across Energy & Renewables, Engineering & Manufacturing, Technology and Industrial sectors.
Having held senior HR and talent leadership roles with Honeywell UOP and Jakson, she now advises founders, CEOs and PE-backed businesses on organisation design, workforce effectiveness, leadership, talent and HR transformation.
A Sloan Fellow in Leadership & Strategy from London Business School, recipient of the Sloan Masters Award, and IIM Lucknow alumna, Nalini combines strategic business perspective with deep organisation and people expertise.
Turning business strategy into organisation capability.
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Vipin Singh
HR Technology, AI & Digital Transformation Partner
Vipin is a senior HR Technology, AI and Digital Transformation leader with 16+ years of experience helping global organisations transform HR through technology, process redesign, data and AI.
He has led eight end-to-end Workday deployments and large-scale HR technology transformations spanning 40+ countries, including leadership of a €45M global HR digital transformation programme. His experience covers the complete transformation lifecycle — strategy and business case, process and solution design, implementation, integrations, testing, data migration, change management, adoption, governance and post-go-live optimisation.
Vipin brings extensive experience across Workday, Oracle HCM, ServiceNow, payroll and the broader HR technology ecosystem, covering Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Compensation, Learning, Absence, Time, HR Service Delivery, analytics, integrations and employee experience.
A major focus of his current work is the intersection of AI and HR. He works with organisations to identify and implement practical AI use cases across the employee lifecycle — including AI-enabled recruitment, performance management, talent and skills, employee experience, HR service delivery, people analytics, intelligent automation and AI agents. He has also been directly involved in building AI-enabled HR products, including solutions for performance and organisational alignment that combine goals, continuous performance conversations, development, management insights and AI-driven coaching and recommendations.
His broader transformation experience includes HR operating models, process redesign, shared services, vendor and partner management, programme governance, change management and global adoption, working closely with CHROs, CIOs, HR leadership teams and business executives across Europe, the Middle East and APAC.
HR strategy → technology → AI → implementation → adoption → measurable business outcomes.
Runa Suman
Talent & Leadership Partner
Runa is a seasoned HR leader with over two decades of experience shaping people strategy, organisational transformation and high-performance cultures across global businesses. She has held senior HR leadership roles with Honeywell, Schneider Electric and Bharti Airtel, partnering with business leaders to translate strategy into organisation, talent and culture priorities.
Her expertise spans organisational design, talent and succession, leadership development, performance management, DEI, change management and HR digital transformation. She has led organisations through growth, restructuring and post-acquisition integration, delivering measurable improvements in engagement, retention, productivity and leadership diversity.
An alumnus of the Berkeley Executive Program in Management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Runa brings a strong business and transformation lens to building organisations where People, Purpose and Progress come together.
Building organisations where people, purpose and progress come together.
Impact that shows up in the numbers.
Reduction in organisational layers through a Span & Layers organisation effectiveness intervention.
Employees covered through the redesign of a performance management system.
Future leaders developed through leadership and succession initiatives.
Increase in internal leadership promotions following strengthened succession coverage.
Principles that shape every engagement.
Strategy before solutions
We start with what the business is trying to achieve before recommending organisation, talent or technology interventions.
Organisation before process
A new process cannot compensate for unclear accountability, poor organisation design or missing capabilities.
Evidence before instinct
Leadership, succession and talent decisions have significant business consequences. They deserve rigour.
Process before technology
Digitising an inefficient process simply creates an inefficient digital process. We simplify and redesign before we automate.
Outcomes before activity
The objective is not another HR initiative. It is stronger execution, productivity, leadership continuity, employee experience and organisational capability.
Partnership before presentations
Recommendations create value only when they work in practice. We work alongside leadership teams to help embed change.
When the business has changed — but the organisation hasn't.
- —Your business has outgrown its current organisation.
- —Too many decisions depend on the founder, CEO or a small number of leaders.
- —You are preparing for rapid growth, investment, a carve-out or restructuring.
- —Your leadership pipeline is not strong enough for your growth ambitions.
- —Performance and talent systems are not improving business outcomes.
- —Workforce costs are increasing without corresponding productivity.
- —HR processes and technology have become fragmented or inefficient.
- —You want to understand where AI can genuinely create value in HR.
- —You are preparing for a major HR technology transformation.
- —You need senior HR leadership without hiring a full-time CHRO.
If the challenge sits somewhere between strategy, organisation, leadership, people and technology, that is where Atman is designed to work.
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