World renowned leadership, talent management, and DEI consulting firm.
Recognized for building workplaces rooted in

Shift Leadership, Belonging, Empathy & Psychological Safety

Led by award-winning CEO Ritu Bhasin, bhasin consulting inc. (bci) is a full-service leadership consulting firm. We’re known for offering bespoke programming, training, and coaching in the following areas: executive leadership development; talent management; and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
We’ve presented to hundreds of thousands of people, delivered thousands of keynotes and workshops, coached over a thousand leaders, and worked with hundreds of organizations.

Shift Leadership – A New Paradigm for Leadership

In this difficult moment, workplaces are grappling with talent management related challenges that traditional ways of leading won’t address.

We need a new paradigm for leadership – one that is rooted in the fundamental principle that we must prioritize our team members’ needs first and foremost. And to make this happen, we, as leaders, must adjust and adapt how we behave.

We call this SHIFT LEADERSHIP because not only do we need to shift how we view leadership but, as leaders, we must shift our behaviors.

Our Areas of Expertise

Shift Leadership

A new leadership paradigm encouraging behavioral shifts to prioritize team members’ needs

Belonging

Equipping leaders with skills to create cultures where everyone can be authentic at work

Empathy

Leveraging empathetic leadership to unlock team cohesion, engagement, and belonging

Psychological
Safety

Fostering psychological safety to create workplaces rooted in trust, belonging, and innovation

Inclusive Talent Management

Ensuring that talent management practices reflect leadership and DEI best practices

Mental Health
Inclusion

Building awareness, disrupting biases, and cultivating belonging related to mental health

Empowering Professionals

Providing professionals with essential leadership skills,
practices, and strategies for thriving

Inclusive
Sponsorship

Guiding leaders to provide advocacy in a way that embraces differences and cultivates belonging

Wellness &
Mindfulness

Uncovering fundamental practices and disciplines for professional and personal wellness and joy

Cultural Competence

Teaching leaders to notice, understand, and adapt to cultural differences for greater belonging

Unconscious Bias

Exploring how to interrupt biases that are embedded in workplace practices and leadership behavior

Allyship

Inspiring leaders to be active in addressing workplace inequities and barriers across interactions

Our Services

We create customized leadership and DEI training programs that are practical, scalable, and target the needs of beginner and advanced audiences across a range of areas of expertise

Our keynotes for executive leadership conferences, retreats, and events provide cutting-edge, practical tools and strategies that can be implemented immediately by leaders

We deliver consulting and advisory services to help executive leadership teams with strategizing and executing best practices in talent management programming

Our executive coaching provides leaders with targeted strategic guidance on growing their skills, performance, and professional joy across a range of leadership areas

We deliver cost-effective and scalable online training solutions for all audiences across a range of inclusion and leadership areas – focusing on individual skills development

We've Got This

Unlocking the Beauty of Belonging

Many of us feel constant pressure to mask and curate who we are — to perform as someone we’re not rather than be who we are. And it hurts us. But we don’t need to live, work, or lead this way.

With Ritu’s bestselling and award-winning book We’ve Got This, she offers readers a roadmap for how to claim belonging so that you can thrive. And it also offers leaders an opportunity to become better allies by practicing empathy and learning about the barriers to belonging — all to unlock belonging for yourself and for others.

Featured Videos

The Mel Robbins Podcast

You Are a Badass: Unlock Your Most Authentic Self in 4 Proven Steps

As a Leader Be More Adaptive

Discover the difference between leading with your “Adapted Self” versus your “Performing Self”

Breakfast Television

Explore steps to cultivate belonging in the workplace

Your Core Wisdom Will Change Your Work Life

Learn more about harnessing your powerful inner compass - “core wisdom"

As Featured In

As Featured In

Ritu is a dynamic leader with amazing energy and a voice that is much-needed in the diversity, equity and inclusion space. Her authentic approach engages everyone in the audience to think again and to take a leap — from the novice learner, to the DEI student, to the non-believer. Ritu makes an impact and leaves a mark with both style and deep substance. I am thrilled that she is always ready and willing to partner with our firm to help move the needle in the right direction. Ritu is the master!

Joi Bourgeois

Global Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Kirkland & Ellis

Komal’s engaging facilitation style quickly put the team at ease to create a brave space for authentic and meaningful discussions leaving them with the courage to challenge the status quo and be disruptive in driving change.

Stephen Bobko

Vice President, HR, Talent and Education, Sephora Canada

Ritu’s passion for championing inclusion is contagious! Her personal experiences with experiencing marginalization heighten her understanding of all the nuances and challenges professionals from equity-seeking communities face in their personal and professional lives. Having worked with her extensively in a professional capacity, including at Netflix, I can tell you that her DEI knowledge runs deep — as does her ability to inspire leaders to commit to change.

Vernā Myers

Vice President, Inclusion Strategy, Netflix

Having worked with bci for several years across KPMG, I can say with confidence that Ritu is a true inclusion partner in every sense. From dedicated advisory guidance to in-depth training workshops to one-on-one coaching, Ritu and her team have been instrumental for helping to establish and grow our inclusion infrastructure and for elevating our senior leaders’ understanding of DEI best practices.

Kristine Remedios

Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, KPMG International

Our Resources

BLOG

5 Steps for Creating Belonging in the Workplace

TIP SHEET

How to Develop Empathy as a Skill in the Workplace

VIDEO

What Belonging Feels Like in the Workplace

BOOK

The Authenticity Principle

by Ritu Bhasin

Want to shift leadership, cultivate belonging, grow empathy,
and unlock psychological safety in your workplace?

Contact us to learn how we can help.
Subscribe to our mailing list to get the latest leadership insights right to your inbox every month.

Belonging in the Workplace

Create a culture of belonging by ordering Ritu’s bestselling and award-winning book.

Dr. Komal Bhasin, MSW, MHSc, DocSocSci

Komal is bci’s Senior DEI Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence and an accomplished DEI facilitator, coach, and strategist. Komal has over 20 years of experience in providing strategic and advisory guidance and program development across a range of sectors, with a particular concentration in mental health and racial inclusion. Komal is also the founder of Insayva Inc., a social enterprise focused on providing accessible DEI and health equity support to charities and non-profit organizations.

Komal has extensive experience in creating and delivering programming in a range of DEI areas, including unconscious bias, cultural competence, mental health inclusion, psychological safety, and allyship. She is passionate about driving transformational change in workplaces and has worked closely with bci clients – corporations, professional service firms, health care providers, and educational institutions – to embed cultures of DEI within their organizations.

Komal has provided one-on-one inclusion coaching to hundreds of senior leaders and brings a unique approach that is informed by her background as a psychotherapist. Using a trauma-informed lens and somatic approaches, she also has experience guiding leaders and teams in mending relationships, and rebuilding trust where harm has occurred due to inequities, intercultural conflict, value mismatches, exclusion, and psychological or geopolitical safety issues, with the goal of creating a more inclusive, resilient or organizational culture.

Komal also offers a performance coaching program designed specifically for BIPOC leaders. This program aims to help BIPOC leaders harness their place, position, and identity to thrive in the workplace and beyond. Komal is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

As bci’s Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, Komal offers tremendous expertise around workplace mental health. As a doctoral trained mental health clinician, certified health executive, and registered social worker, Komal has assisted organizations looking to advance employee mental health inclusion and well-being through offering programming on inclusive dialogue, anti-stigma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, resilience, and self-care. Komal is committed to advancing mental health and wellness across the life course; she currently serves on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario and previously served on the board of Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

When Komal is not working, you’ll find her painting, cooking or snuggling with her cat.