The thinking behind InnerArc

As a leadership development consultant working across India and internationally, I’ve asked myself one question for over two decades: why do leadership transformation efforts so often fail to create lasting change? That question is what InnerArc is built to answer.

Sustainable transformation begins with leaders who first understand themselves — not just what they know, but how they think, what they assume, what they do and what they’re missing.
Most programs start with the answer. InnerArc begins with the question.

The Founder-A Leadership Development Consultant in India

Image of Sreedevi Palit, leadership development consultant in India, wearing white shirt

Sreedevi Palit

Sreedevi has spent 25+ years as a leadership development consultant ,inside complex reality of large, matrixed organisations, enabling leaders, building centres of excellence, and designing programs that have reached 15,000+ leaders across India, EMEA, APAC and Americas.

  • 25+ years in leadership development and inclusion strategy
  • Experience across India, EMEA, APAC, Americas
  • Architect of women’s leadership programs reaching 2,000+ women globally
  • Thought leader and invited speaker on inclusive leadership, psychological safety and culture
  • Award-winning HR professional — HRAI Top DEI Leader 2023 and 2025


Years of experience
Leaders enabled globally
Women leaders impacted
Geographies covered

Why I founded InnerArc Consulting

Throughout my career, I have worked alongside talented leaders — people with deep expertise, strong track records and genuine ambition. Yet the same patterns kept repeating.
Critical signals missed. Assumptions unchallenged. The gap between knowing what needed to change and actually changing it.
Real transformation rarely starts with a framework. It starts when leaders turn inward — examining their own context, their realities, and what is genuinely getting in the way.

InnerArc is new. The thinking behind it is not.
— Sreedevi Palit, Founder