Shirish B. Joshi is an independent HR and OD consultant to leading corporate and social organizations in India and abroad. Organizations seek his advice in the areas of managerial compensation and knowledge worker productivity. He also works with companies as a facilitator for organizational change. Apart from this, Shirish regularly consults with the government, leading NGOs, and international donor agencies towards facilitating social and institutional development.
An alum of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Shirish worked with ONGC for 8 years and later joined Thermax Group in Pune. At Thermax, he rose to become the group HR head and member of the executive committee. Shirish is a visiting faculty at the Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, and also the Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC), Institute of Management Development and Research (IMDR) as well as the Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), all at Pune.