After completing her post-graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PM & IR) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Aparna made her foray into the corporate world through Nocil and moved into different roles in the HR function in organisations like Monsanto, Novartis, UCB, Deutsche Bank, Lafarge & Greaves Cotton. In her diverse roles, Aparna has successfully been a learning partner, mentor and coach to leaders, leadership teams, and organisations to build competencies, learning abilities and nimbleness for achieving purposeful performance.

An alumnus of IOD, Aparna is currently an Independent Director on several Corporate Boards. With over 28 years of experience in HR across different verticals, she is currently contributing as a Board Mentor with various boards & as an advisor to various corporates in areas such as Strategic Leadership, Planning, Organization Behaviour & Strategy for Board Room Effectiveness, Organization Culture & Development, Leadership Relationships, Temperamental Traits & Derailment Factors within Boards, etc.

Beyond her corporate role as an HR Leader, Aparna also dons the hat of HR contributor through her associations with the Indian Society of Training & Development (ISTD), All India Management Association (AIMA), National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM), National HRD Network, and Sumedhas, where she actively participates in disseminating her acquired knowledge and build the HR fraternity by creating future leaders.

Aparna is a celebrated author of 2 best-selling books - “Reality Bytes-The Role of HR in Today’s World”, (English & Hindi) Foreworded by Dr. T.V Rao & “ Between U & Me”, Foreworded by  Padma Bhushan PadmaShree Dr. Devi Shetty.