Prashasti Mishra

Overview

Prashasti Mishra is a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Dubai office and a member of the global Organizational Transformation Practice. She focuses on developing talent, organizational strategies, and operational frameworks for new entities. Prashasti is experienced in HR activation and transformation within the Abu Dhabi ecosystem.

Experience

Prashasti has more than 15 years of experience in organizational transformation, start-up and scale-up environments, culture shaping, and people strategy in the Middle East, North America, and Asia. 
She leads large-scale strategy and transformation engagements in the financial services, healthcare, media, and public sectors. Prashasti’s areas of expertise include organizational strategy and effectiveness, change management, operating model design and transformation, digitization, and automation.

Prashasti shapes culture transformation, talent strategy design, and change management at the corporate and functional levels. She advises clients on entity setup, privatization, M&A restructuring, salesforce transformation, and digital initiatives leveraging RPA, AI, and blockchain technologies.

Prashasti develops comprehensive change management strategies that address impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, employee communications, and training. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Prashasti worked at another leading global executive search firm.

Education

Columbia Business School, MBA

Oxford University, Master’s Degree in Management