In Sanskrit, Kritarth means one who has fulfilled their purpose through meaningful work done with full intention.
That is the standard the practice holds itself to. Every session, every training, every inquiry.
Done with full intention or not done at all.
Kritarth is built on a single premise: that the real problem, in organisations and in individuals, is almost never the one being presented. It is usually one level underneath.
The three services are three entry points into that same work.
POSH compliance addresses the organisational patterns that create unprepared committees and unsafe workplaces.
Facilitation addresses the team patterns that prevent decisions from being made.
Coaching addresses the personal patterns that prevent individuals from moving.
What holds all three together is a depth of NLP-based behavioural practice, built over 20 years across 100+ organisations, that reads what is actually happening beneath the surface.
In a POSH inquiry, in a leadership session, in a one-on-one coaching room.
The same depth. Three different applications.
45 years. XLRI Jamshedpur. Tata Steel. Practising External IC Member.
Harsh Kumar Sharan spent more than two decades at Tata Steel as Assistant Chief Personnel Manager before building an independent practice in HR compliance, POSH, and domestic enquiry work.
He is a practising External IC Member on Internal Committees across India. A Domestic Enquiry Expert with direct experience in complex, high-stakes inquiry proceedings — complaints against senior leaders, politically sensitive cases, committees facing their first real complaint.
The documentation standards, investigation protocols, and IC training frameworks that underpin SafeSpace are built on 45 years of this practice.
20+ years. 100+ organisations. Certified Design Sprint Master. ANLP Certified NLP Trainer.
Shakti Sharan founded Kritarth Consulting in 2010, having begun his practice in 2001. He has spent more than two decades working with organisations on decisions they've been avoiding and with individuals on patterns they've been unable to shift.[cite: 2]
He is an ANLP Certified Trainer of NLP, one of very few practitioners in India to hold trainer-level certification.[cite: 2]
He is a Certified Design Sprint Master, certified by the Design Sprint School under Tennyson Pinheiro. His work spans Performance Architecture, identity-level coaching, and POSH compliance training across 100+ organisations.[cite: 1, 2]
The name says it.
Kritarth: meaningful work done with full intention.
In practice that means this: when someone comes to us with a compliance gap, a team that can’t decide, or a pattern they can’t shift. We show up genuinely interested in solving it. Not in selling the next engagement. Not in making it more complicated than it needs to be.
We work at the pace the situation requires. We say what we actually see. Good work should be accessible.
That is Kritarth. Nothing more. Nothing less
We tell clients what we actually see, including when a different approach would serve them better.
We don't train to cover the topic. We build capability. In coaching, we don't work with symptoms. We go to the source.
Everything we bring comes from having done the work. Not frameworks we read about. Rooms we have been in.
We say what the situation actually calls for — even when it's uncomfortable, even when it costs us the engagement.