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Kriti Soni

Summary

Passionate about creating environmental and social impact, I’m transitioning into sustainability consulting. With certifications in GARP SCR, GHG Protocol, LCA, and experience in impact program design and strategic project management, I want aim to leverage my skills in stakeholder management and data-driven decision-making to drive sustainable change.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sustainability and Climate Advocate

Freelancer
01.2024 - Current
  • Advocate Sustainability & Climate action opportunities for startups, individuals, companies, and government on social media
  • Delivered workshops for over 500 students from IIT Madras, covering opportunities in Nature Solutions, Energy Storage, and Plant-Based Foods.

Partner Success Manager

Wadhwani Foundation (NGO)
01.2023 - 08.2023

Social Impact

  • Partnerships for Social Impact: Conducted partnership pitch sessions with ~700 Entrepreneurship Cell leaders across 80+ institutes to co-develop entrepreneurial ecosystem for students
  • Program Management: Launched 5 entrepreneurship workshop cohorts, achieving ~2000 registrations in 3 months and onboarding ~30 institutes as channel partners

Program Manager

Wadhwani Foundation
01.2022 - 12.2022

Social Impact Program Strategy:

  • Revamped impact models to support growth of SME and early-stage startups thereby driving jobs.
  • Defined target segments, impact metrics, team structure, and implementation partners.

Governance: Developed and implemented dashboards to monitor & validate impact and operational metrics.

Executive Assistant, COO Office

CRISIL Limited
09.2018 - 01.2022

ESG Strategy -

  • Developed go-to-market strategy for launch of ESG based ratings, research and advisory services after analyzing market landscape, competition, and capability.
  • Led Launch of ESG Ratings for 225 companies, including data collection, framework creation, industry surveys, and launch event, engaging over 1000 financial leaders.
  • Developed ESG Training Modules focused on global market trends, regulations, and ESG reporting frameworks for finance professionals.

Operations Excellence and Governance -

  • Led change management to transition operations to centralized Centre of Excellence, achieving savings of ~INR 25 Mn
  • Digitized workflows from lead generation to collection and created governance dashboards improving pipeline to sale ratio by 50% & debtor days reduced by 25%
  • Authored client order booking policy, improving revenue estimation by ~25% points

Strategic Communication

  • Created business review presentations for board and management. Prepared presentations for PR, conferences, and media
  • Implemented interactive digital floor walk for S&P global board to showcase diverse business capabilities

Executive Assistant, CEO Office

Prime Focus Technologies
04.2017 - 08.2018

Business Strategy:

  • Evaluated business opportunity with global broadcaster; CEO invested USD 900K based on recommendation
  • Developed positioning and pricing for video platform, resulting in 2 client wins and active pipeline of 30 clients

Operational Excellence: Reduced 80% time to arrive at pricing and sales incentives by creating standardized models

Partnership: Led joint development and co-selling of AI capability with Microsoft; Generated 6 leads worth ~USD 100K each

Governance: Prepared board ppts & company’s vision for strategy; Managed governance for businesses, pricing & key projects

Associate Consultant

Zinnov Management Consultancy
10.2014 - 05.2015

Research and Strategy

  • Recommended GTM strategy to enter India market to Chinese tech provider; Client awarded new project worth USD 250K
  • Identified digital transformation trends in customer engagement & operations for a NASSCOM publication; Received 200+ subscriptions

Education

PGDM (MBA) Marketing Management -

S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
Mumbai
03.2017

B.E. Electrical & Electronics + M.Sc. Biological Sciences -

Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani
05.2014

Skills

  • CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY
  • SOCIAL IMPACT
  • STRATEGY & EXECUTION
  • PROGRAM & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

Certification

  • Certified for GARP SCR (Sustainability and Climate Risk)
  • Topped IIT Kharagpur's Sustainable Engineering & Life Cycle Analysis
  • Completed courses on GHG's protocol, TCFD, TNFD, BCG's Climate & Sustainability Virtual Program

Accomplishments

  • Authored 2 research paper abstracts on biosensors which got accepted at international conferences of IEEE and IIT Madras in 2014
  • Runners up at Citi Woman Leadership Award amongst 1100+ participants across 8 top tier B-schools in 2016

Custom

  • Captain, Badminton team, SPJIMR & BITS-Pilani: Led team to win 10 medals (7 gold, 3 silver) from 12 tournaments participated
  • Represented Rajasthan state at Under-19 National level Badminton Tournament in 2005

Timeline

Sustainability and Climate Advocate

Freelancer
01.2024 - Current

Partner Success Manager

Wadhwani Foundation (NGO)
01.2023 - 08.2023

Program Manager

Wadhwani Foundation
01.2022 - 12.2022

Executive Assistant, COO Office

CRISIL Limited
09.2018 - 01.2022

Executive Assistant, CEO Office

Prime Focus Technologies
04.2017 - 08.2018

Associate Consultant

Zinnov Management Consultancy
10.2014 - 05.2015

PGDM (MBA) Marketing Management -

S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

B.E. Electrical & Electronics + M.Sc. Biological Sciences -

Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Kriti Soni