Workplace conduct and conflict - Investigation and Prevention
Virtual. Rigorous. Human.
Workplaces have matured. Investigations must too. We make it happen.
What we do
Our Services
High‑risk investigations
Independent, structured investigations into misconduct, bullying, sexual harassment, and Sexual Harassment/Workplace conduct incidents - with findings that stand.
Internal capability building
Training IC members, HR teams, and legal committees in structured investigative methodology and defensible process.
Restoration & prevention
Mediation, facilitation, and team interventions that restore relationships and reduce recurrence after an incident.
Organisational resilience
System diagnostics that identify risk in your processes, policies, and culture - turning insight into lasting change.
Why our clients choose us
AWI‑CH - Global standards. Now in India.
Sreevidya Varma is the first AWI-CH Certificate Holder serving the Indian market.
Structured methodology
We bring a rigorous, documented interview and evidence framework to every inquiry; never improvised process. Your findings stand because your process was built to.
Psychosocial safety
Complainants and respondents are interviewed with trauma‑aware, culturally intelligent practice. We manage retaliation risk, power dynamics, and wellbeing at every step.
Defensible findings
Our reports are built to withstand tribunal scrutiny, appellate challenge, and board review. We don’t just deliver findings - we deliver findings that stand.
True independence
Based in New Zealand, serving India virtually. No local entanglements, no conflicts of interest, no pressure from the room. Pure independence, every time.
System‑level insight
We help organisations understand what findings reveal about their systems and build the capability to prevent the next incident.
Our clients
We work with multinational corporations, large Indian enterprises, and New Zealand organisations on highly sensitive investigation, capability building, and prevention, where independence, rigour, and discretion are non-negotiable.
Our team
Our team brings international investigative standards to India for the first time - structured methodology, defensible process, and psychosocial safety built into every engagement.
We don’t stop at findings. We help organisations understand what those findings mean for their systems - and build the capability to prevent the next incident.
Led by Sreevidya Varma, India’s first AWI-CH Certificate Holder and an AMINZ‑credentialed mediator, and Kavita Khanna, a people and culture strategist with 25 years of experience working with executive teams and boards, our team combines global investigative expertise with deep organisational insight.
The team
Sreevidya Varma
AWI‑CH Certificate Holder | AMINZ‑credentialed mediator
Sreevidya leads our investigative practice, bringing the global gold standard in workplace investigations to India.
As the country’s first AWI‑CH Certificate Holder and an AMINZ‑credentialed mediator, she specialises in high‑risk investigations, trauma‑aware interviewing, and system‑level analysis.
Her work helps organisations understand not just what happened, but what needs to change.
Kavita Khanna
People and Culture Strategist | 25 years with executive teams and boards
People and culture strategist, experienced in working with executive teams and Boards.
Widely regarded for expertise on practical recovery and strategies for workplace risk management & prevention of high-risk incidents. .
Called on for system checks and diagnostics for risk assurance and management.
Two lenses, one vision
Vidya establishes the facts with speed and fairness.
Kavita translates those findings into safer systems and stronger teams.
Clear answers today, stronger governance and fewer incidents tomorrow.
Based in New Zealand and serving India virtually with a higher standard of fairness, documentation, and governance assurance.
When to call us?
For investigations
When a Sexual Harassment (PoSH)or workplace conduct (GRC) matter needs independent, defensible investigation.
When an Internal Committee needs the methodology to conduct interviews that hold up.
When findings must withstand tribunal scrutiny, appellate challenge, and board review.
For internal capability building
When Internal Committee members, HR and legal teams need structured investigative methodology - not just compliance awareness, but the actual skills required to run a defensible inquiry.
Our capability‑building programmes are benchmarked to international standards, giving your internal teams the tools to investigate with confidence
For organisational resilience
When leadership needs to understand what an incident reveals about their systems.
When the same issues keep recurring.
When culture, process, and policy need to be examined honestly and fixed properly.
Culture diagnostics
Is your culture actively shaping how work gets done or explaining why it doesn’t?
We help leaders see clearly and shift deliberately.
Team effectiveness
High‑trust, accountable teams don’t happen by accident.
We build the conditions for teams to self‑manage, collaborate, and perform.
Performance and growth
Identifying what’s getting in the way of performance, learning, and progress and removing it with clarity and purpose.
Our approach
Virtual
Virtual first for speed, privacy, and reach.
Secure interviews across time zones, often from the participant’s home.
Digital evidence capture and full audit trail from day one.
Minimal disruption to teams and operations.
Targeted on-site only if essential.
Rigorous
Procedural fairness by design.
Clear scope control and evidence maps.
Board-ready Investigation Plan in 48 hours after scope approval.
Encrypted workflows and need-to-know access.
POSH-aware, policy-aligned, and audit-ready records.
Human
Dignity and respect at every step.
Trauma-aware interviewing with language choice and wellbeing supports.
Plain-English communication that people trust.
Cultural intelligence for hierarchy, privacy, and power dynamics.
Careful handling of retaliation and psychosocial risk.
Co-designed
Our methods, tailored to your context.
We align to your policy, law, and context before we start.
Co-investigation or assisted inquiry when you prefer to keep parts in-house.
Agreed cadence for updates to your authorised contact.
Practical recommendations offered separately from findings.
Adoption support for preventative steps and manager toolkits.