The Team Behind SimpliLEAD

Meet Our Founders

Two practitioners who've spent decades turning transformation strategy into measurable delivery outcomes — and are now building the next frontier of enterprise execution intelligence.

40+ combined years
28,000+ professionals impacted
Global enterprise reach
Naveen Babu Garikapati — Co-Founder & CEO, SimpliLEAD

Naveen Babu
Garikapati

Co-Founder & CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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10,000+ professionals trained, coached & mentored

25+ years industry experience · 12+ years in Agile coaching

CEO, SimpliLEAD Consulting — enterprise Agile & AI-enabled learning

Multiple-time "Trainer of the Quarter" — UnitedHealth Group

SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC 6.0) · Enterprise Agile Transformation Leader · PMO & Lean Portfolio Management Consultant

With over 25 years of industry experience — including more than 12 years dedicated to Agile coaching, enterprise consulting and capability transformation — Naveen helps organizations build scalable, adaptive and high-performing delivery ecosystems aligned to strategic business outcomes.

As a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC 6.0), Enterprise Agile Coach, Program & Portfolio Management Consultant and Leadership Mentor, he has enabled large-scale transformation initiatives across global enterprises by combining Lean-Agile principles, strategic execution models, PMO modernization and people-centric change leadership.

He currently serves as CEO of SimpliLEAD Consulting, where he leads strategic initiatives focused on building future-ready enterprises through Agile transformation, leadership capability development, enterprise consulting, AI-enabled learning ecosystems and scalable workforce transformation programs. Over the years he has trained, coached and mentored 10,000+ professionals — including executives, PMO leaders, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Program Managers, Delivery Leaders and Architects — across global organizations.

Credentials & Certifications

SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC 6.0)Project Management Professional (PMP)Program Management Professional (PgMP)PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation & PractitionerITIL V5 Foundation
Satyavrat Nirala — Co-Founder, Ontologist, SimpliLEAD

Satyavrat
Nirala

Co-Founder, Ontologist

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SAFe® Premier Trainer (SPT) — Top 30 SAFe Trainer & Consultant in the World

Originator of CIS & the HCI framework

Shipped HiMirrorly & HiCoachly — SimpliLEAD's HI-EI-AI Products

18+ years in Agile transformation & enterprise coaching

AI-augmented execution intelligence research & product development

SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) · Agile Transformation Coach · Enterprise Execution Intelligence Consultant

Over the last 18+ years, Satyavrat's work has moved from organizational transformation and Agile coaching toward the frontier of AI-augmented execution intelligence — building tools that hold leaders and teams accountable to the same rigor a board expects from a financial statement.

A coach and trainer focused on SAFe, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP and scaled agile transformation, Satyavrat is a Certified SAFe® 6 Program Consultant (SPC) and SAFe® Premier Trainer (SPT) — ranked among the top 30 SAFe trainers and consultants in the world — with additional SAFe® certifications spanning Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), Agile Product Management (APM), SAFe® for Architects (ARCH), Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) and Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) — alongside Release Train Engineer (RTE), Certified ScrumMaster®, Certified Scrum Product Owner®, Certified Agile Leadership I® and Professional Scrum Master credentials — earned across a career spent turning transformation strategy into measurable delivery outcomes for enterprise clients. He is also a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach.

CIS is the category we are building: a proposed field of study, ideated by Satyavrat Nirala, that treats communication as a set of attributed, method-tagged signals a buyer can audit, benchmark and defend to a board. HCI is the proposed framework layer Attune scores against, also ideated by Satyavrat Nirala, with empirical validation in progress. Attune is the first product shipped on that layer. This does not establish validated outcomes or identical scoring methods across the products and initiatives listed here.

Credentials & Certifications

Certified SAFe® 6 Program Consultant (SPC)SAFe® Premier Trainer (SPT)SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM)SAFe® for Architects (ARCH)SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)Release Train Engineer (RTE)Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)Certified Agile Leadership I® (CAL I)Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer AssociateMarshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach
"We built SimpliLEAD on a simple belief: that every organisation — regardless of size or sector — deserves access to the kind of transformation expertise that actually moves the needle."

Naveen Babu Garikapati & Satyavrat Nirala, Co-Founders

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