Team
Sonica Aron
Founder & CEO
Sonica founded Marching Sheep in 2013 with the objective of delivering tangible business value through enhanced people management strategies. An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur, Sonica is a certified coach, and certified administrator for psychometric instruments.
She brings with her a rich experience of process design & implementation across organizations and industries, people, structure & process integration post mergers and spinoffs and of driving people & HR effectiveness metrics with direct impact on business. Having been a strategic business partner and HR leader with companies like PepsiCo, Roche Diagnostics, Vodafone, ICI paints and Philips, Sonica brings in business appreciation clubbed with a strong understanding of the role effective people management can play in driving business results. She has been a trusted HR advisory partner to several organizations and a coach to several leaders in the past few years.
Krati Vyas
Consultant- Facilitation and Client Engagement
Krati is an HR Professional with more than12 years of progressive & insightful experience in various sectors like education, retail, and financial services entailing astute knowledge about various people processes with an expertise in supporting business leaders with multiple business restructuring initiatives. She has a proven track record of designing and reinventing different HR policies and processes that enable a well-managed and systematic HR function. Krati is a Certified POSH trainer and DEI enthusiast, who believes that organizations that wish to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace must make holistic efforts.
Shirin Khodaiji
Facilitation and Client Engagement
Shirin is an experienced mental health advocate & DEI Professional. With over 20 years of work experience amidst & with corporates, Shirin has facilitated interventions at several organizations across industries. She has also trained teachers & students of several schools & colleges across the country and also nurses of hospitals. Shirin is a trained Counselor from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and has trained in several areas of psycho-therapies including Neuro linguistic programming, the non-directive model of counseling, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Metaphor Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Marriage Counseling and Sex Education. She is a certified POSH Trainer and is also trained in Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness and as a career counselor.
Having traveled to almost 20 countries and spent considerable time understanding people and cultures, Shirin attributes a lot of what she’s learnt, to this exposure and broadening of the mind. She always manages to find the time to pursue her interests in performing arts, traveling, or just being herself
Bhaskar Batri
Manager- Marketing & Communications
Bhaskar Batri is a full-time creative professional with robust experience in varied industries. He has expertise in performance-based marketing along with adaptable & customer-centric designing approaches. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune. He has been a part of many successful design-based marketing campaigns which has helped ventures to communicate to their audience. At Marching Sheep he is responsible for both internal and external communication as well as is a part of projects around communication, employer branding, etc.
As a consultant, Nandini consistently immerses herself in the perspectives of individuals within organizations, translating these deep understandings into strategies that drive satisfaction, productivity, and overall organizational success.
Ishu Chaudhary
Operations Manager
Meghasri Pulluri
DEI Consultant – PWD Hiring
Meghasri is a recruitment and inclusion specialist with over 5 years of experience in sourcing, consultant development, and corporate engagement. She is specialize in creating inclusive hiring strategies for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), aligning talent with opportunity, and driving workforce diversity.
Meghasri collaborates with companies to open doors to meaningful employment, support career growth through planning and mentorship, and ensure every placement is a step toward inclusion. She bring strong leadership, time management, and communication skills to every project.
Meghasri proudly support inclusive communication through both spoken and sign language.
Umesh Mishra
DEI Consultant – PWD Hiring
Rakhee Sharma
Manager – Content and Brand Communications
Rakhee Sharma is a seasoned content and social media strategist with 10+ years of experience crafting powerful narratives for brands across tech, HR, and wellness. She has led high-impact digital campaigns at organizations like People Matters, Zee Media, and Pesto Tech, and currently serves as Manager – Content and Brand Communications at Marching Sheep.
With a strong foundation in journalism and a sharp eye for digital trends, Rakhee blends creativity with strategy to spark conversations that matter. Her expertise spans 360° social media management, brand positioning, lead magnet strategy, thought leadership content, and end-to-end execution of webinars, tweet chats, and CEO communications.
She brings hands-on proficiency in tools like SEMrush, Google Analytics, Hootsuite, Canva, Filmora, and Trello—driving both performance and connection.
Rakhee is passionate about purposeful storytelling and digital innovation, and is open to marketing leadership roles, freelance strategy projects, and meaningful collaborations
Advisory Board
Ms. Deepali Nath
Founder & Director – Solutio Global
Deepali Nath has over 30 years’ experience, both at the national and international level, working in the development sector. She has worked across “not for profit” and “for profit” organisations and has extensive experience of leading both types of organisations. Key positions held by her include: head of the social research division of Nielsen India, head of monitoring and evaluation at Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, global team member for International Development Enterprise and Director of Knowledge Management at Save the Children. Since 2016 Deepali has set up her own consulting organisation, Solutio Global, in partnership with her ex-colleague, Dr Sudeep Gadok, who was previously Director of Programs at Save the Children. The organisation provides a single platform with a full spectrum of services for organisations working in the social sector
In the last 3 decades Deepali has worked extensively in areas of knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, and research. Some of key projects led by her include: setting up and managing the Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) funded by DFID; setting up the Computerized Management Information System (CMIS) for the National AIDS Control Organisation, for the International Development Enterprises (IDE), for Save the Children; creating global focus on urban programming at Save the Children, designing 2 major flagship reports for Save the Children: World of India’s Girls 2014 and Forgotten Voices: The world of urban children in India, leading the All India Evaluation of the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Programme for UNICEF and Ministry of Human Resource Development which was the basis for revamping the MDM Program under the 10th Five Year Plan. In terms of geographies Deepali has worked across South East Asia viz. India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Ms. Sudarshana Kundu
Executive Director- Gender at Work
Sudarsana Kundu is the Executive Director of Gender at Work, where she is working with a range of organizations to drive institutional change for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. Through her work leading UN Women’s programmes on gender and governance, she has worked with governments and CSOs across the globe, providing recommendations on enhancing service delivery for women. She has advised numerous organizations on developing strategies that ensure public and private sector actors have a stronger social and economic impact, particularly with respect to gender equality. In the past she has also worked with a Fortune 500 company where she pioneered several new organizational development initiatives. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University and an MBA in Human Resources Management from the XLRI – Xavier School of Management, India. She is also an active board member of Nayi Disha, a not-for-profit focused on empowering parents who have children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.