Sudhakar Naik

About Sudhakar Naik

Helping product-led and tech-driven organizations unlock scalable growth through agility, strategy, and people-first transformation.A proactive AI advocate integrating GenAI, Agentic AI, and automation into agile workflows to boost productivity, streamline delivery, and unlock innovation. Known for blending a strategic mindset with hands-on enablement — empowering teams to adopt responsible, human-centered AI in their product and service lifecycles.Over two decades in the industry have taught me this: tools don’t transform teams — people do. That’s why my consulting isn’t about frameworks for the sake of it. It’s about helping businesses connect strategy to execution, build cultures of ownership and learning, and develop high-performing, customer-centric teams ready to scale. What I do : • Align business vision with agile execution • Build product teams that take real ownership, not just deliver tickets • Shape cultures that thrive on clarity, accountability & experimentation • Coach leaders and teams for growth, especially in pre-IPO or scale-up stages • Facilitate powerful workshops on strategy, agile transformation, team maturity, and leadershipWhether you’re struggling with slow releases, weak ownership, cross-functional silos, or misaligned priorities, we’ve helped organizations like yours shift from operational chaos to high-performance clarity — one workshop, one mindset shift, and one aligned team at a time. Who I Work With • Product Heads & Engineering Leaders • Founders & CxOs scaling agile delivery • CHROs building learning organizations • Enterprise teams shifting from project to product🤝 Let’s Connect If: • You’re ready to bring structure to your agile chaos • Your product team needs clarity, accountability & culture shift • You’re preparing for growth, M&A, or IPO and want agile ways of working to match • You need a fresh, human-led partner to accelerate results

Experience

1. Vice President - Transformation Leader

   Citi

   Mar 2023 — Present

   As a Transformation Coach Practicing and coaching agility culture and mindset. Enabling and Partnering with several Leaders ( Business as well as Technology ) within the Enterprise Technology Org, various business product teams, and functional areas across multiple sites and large-scale teams. Facilitating Agile adoption and passionately delivering great Products through customer experience as well as operational excellence. Working in close collaboration with the Enterprise Agile Coaches and key stakeholders across the firm. Promoting the technology vision, development and delivery, operational stability and quality process improvements, adhering to and implementing Agile principles.

Education

• GP Jalgaon

  Diploma in Computer Engineering

  1998 — 2001

• Indian Institute of Management Nagpur

  Senior Management Programme , Business Administration and Management, General

• Terna Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology