Shaping the future of leadership where human understanding & AI strengthens organisational performance.
NextAxis is a strategic HR and executive coaching firm that elevates how organisations design people strategy, build leaders, and drive performance.
We operate at the intersection of business intelligence, human behaviour, and applied AI to create systems, leaders, and teams that move with clarity and deliver with consistency.
"Empowering leaders to build organizations where empathy drives action, clarity fuels decisions, and performance follows."
"Shaping the future of leadership where human understanding & AI strengthens organisational performance."
Aligns people decisions directly with business priorities for measurable impact.
Senior HR judgment and leadership without the full-time overhead costs.
Builds leaders who can influence, align teams, and execute effectively.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Richa Shailesh brings a two-decade career across giants like Jindal, Bacardi, EXL, Aon, and Educomp. She has led finance, delivery, operations, and HR, giving her a rare 360-degree understanding of how clarity and execution shape results.
She blends commercial thinking with AI-driven clarity to help leaders make sharper decisions and build teams that stay aligned under pressure.
"Richa's coaching creates visible change. Leaders who grow. Teams that trust. Organisations that perform."
Visualizing the acceleration of organizational performance through alignment.
Typical improvement in Decision Velocity & Team Alignment over 6 months.
We automate the mundane to focus on the strategic. By clearing operational fog, leaders make decisions 3x faster.
Proprietary frameworks that map individual behaviors to organizational goals, creating a self-correcting culture.
Leveraging data-driven insights to predict leadership gaps before they impact the bottom line.
Senior HR Leadership • Zero Overhead
For young companies that need senior HR judgment without the full-time cost. We build the people engine that makes your business stable, compliant, and scalable.
Bespoke 1-to-1 • Strategic Decisions
Coaching that strengthens leadership where organisational goals and people dynamics intersect. Sharper judgment, cleaner conversations, calm decisions.
Group Immersions • Team Reset
High-impact Labs that reset alignment, strengthen trust, and accelerate execution across leadership teams. Drop cross-functional friction.
Clarity • Presence • Articulation
Whether starting out or stepping up, your career is built on how you think and respond. Make decisions based on clarity, not pressure.
Great organisations win through clarity, aligned behaviour, and leaders who know how to move people and performance in the same direction.
Understanding how businesses work is non-negotiable. You can't coach what you don't comprehend.
Stakeholder alignment precedes acceleration. Strategy only works when people are ready for it.
Leadership is a system, not a personality. We build environments that sustain it.
Reebot
Games
Empower
Business
Rungta
University
Reebot
Games
Empower
Business
Rungta
University
"Richa’s coaching made my leadership sharper, clearer and far more effective. It improved how I lead conversations, align my team and influence outcomes."
AVP, HSBC
"What shifted for me with Richa was how I think. She helped me approach challenges with more clarity, structure and confidence, which changed the way my team performs."
Practice Manager, Wipro
"My communication became far more strategic after working with Richa. I now influence better, articulate better and drive alignment without friction."
Associate Director, NTT
"The leadership program was a great learning experience that helped us build confidence, teamwork, and better communication. The activities brought us closer as colleagues and taught us that asking the right questions is key to effective leadership."
Organization
"Richa has an intuitive ability to connect with people. She builds trust effortlessly, which is why leaders genuinely take her suggestions and implement them. Sessions with her feel like therapy, but with clear actions that transform leadership."
Organization
"Richa trained my cohort and everyone’s career graph started to look like a startup’s funding chart. That’s what happens when someone gives you the kind of clarity you can’t get from Google, parents or ‘follow your passion’ reels."
Corporate Babaji
"Richa brings the judgment of a senior CHRO with the agility of a partner. Our leaders trust her instantly, and that’s why her interventions work. She rebuilt our people architecture and brought strategic clarity that changed how we operate."
CEO, US Technosoft
"Richa’s clarity is rare, and her ability to translate that clarity into systems, culture and compliance frameworks is even rarer. She helped us lay down the intellectual and operational foundation of our people function at a stage when most startups are still improvising. For any founder looking for a Fractional CHRO who can think deeply, build deliberately and elevate both people and performance, she is an exceptional asset."
CEO, Empower Business Solution | Ex-PVR