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Jaikrishna B (JK) .

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Leadership Coach & Advisor at Self-employed
📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Jaikrishna B, fondly known as JK, is an Enterprise and Family Business Advisor with over 35 years of experience in leadership roles at major Indian conglomerates like Amara Raja, CK Birla, and Murugappa Group. A graduate of Madras School of Social Work, he specializes in governance, leadership transitions, and organizational effectiveness. Colleagues describe him as strategic, meticulous, and a venerated leader.

Following his extensive corporate career, he has embarked on a "portfolio life," balancing advisory work and coaching with teaching and a return to his early passion for acting. This new chapter is driven by a desire for reflection, learning, and contributing his experience in a more personal and varied way, investing time in networking, reading, and viewing movies.

Unique fact: While at Amara Raja Group, he received the Exemplar Award from the apex leadership team, a recognition awarded through a secret vote by the Groups CEOs and function heads.

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Experience
35 Years
Current Role
Leadership Coach & Advisor
Location
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Family Business Governance
A primary focus of his current advisory work. He holds a Certificate in Family Business Advising and works with promoter families on governance and human dynamics.
Leadership Transitions
A key area of his coaching and advisory practice. He has recently navigated his own transition from a full-time executive to a self-employed professional.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Leadership Coach & Advisor
Self-employed
12-2005 - 1-2026
President - Group HR
Amara Raja Group
1-2004 - 12-2005
GENERAL MANAGER - GROUP HR
C K BIRLA GROUP
1-2000 - 1-2004
Head HR
Murugappa Group
5-1990 - 1-2000
Management Trainee to Senior Manager in different businesses/companies of Murugappa Group
Murugappa Group
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Education
1988 - 1990
MA (SW)
Madras School of Social Work
2018 - 2019
Certificate
The Family Firm Institute
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