Naina is a New York–based partner at McKinsey who helps global organizations build better workplaces and smarter operations. For over 15 years, she has guided executives through major business evolutions, from rewiring legacy processes with AI to building high-performing leadership teams. While her experience spans multiple industries, she specializes in modernizing corporate legal departments and large corporate functions.
Naina’s approach is fundamentally human, a perspective shaped by her early career in global public health and grassroots advocacy. A leading expert on employee experience and workplace purpose, she has led more than 20 organizational health transformations worldwide.
Examples of her recent client work include the following:
- AI and global sourcing: Reimagined the workforce strategy and operating model for a Fortune 50 life sciences legal team, shifting routine tasks to AI and offshore centers while cultivating top talent and elite external partnerships for high-value work
- AI integration: Reimagined the global legal and compliance organization for one of the world’s largest asset management firms, embedding AI at the center of its day-to-day work
- Executive coaching: Coached executive teams across the life sciences sector to improve leadership dynamics and speed up decision-making
- Legal sector advisory: Advised an Am Law 50 law firm on elevating its client service delivery model
- Purpose-driven strategy: Overhauled the strategy, culture, and talent model for an iconic, celebrity-backed global health nonprofit
