Your Client Doesn't Just Receive Your Work. They Receive Your Culture.
The workplace is not behind the work. It is the work. Great Place To Work® partners with professional services firms across India - wherever expertise, judgement and people are the offering - to build cultures that show up in the quality of the delivery, the strength of the client relationship, and the people who stay to see it through.
132
professional services organizations assessed in India
110,000+
employees surveyed
Professional Services Trends in India
Culture vs Burnout
Utilization targets and client-first availability often override work-life boundaries, especially for consulting, audit, and advisory teams during peak cycles.
Up-or-out career models
Rigid pyramid structures push talent toward narrow promotion windows, leaving mid-level employees uncertain about long-term growth paths.
Client pressure trickling into internal culture
Deadlines and client demands are frequently passed downstream without buffers, straining trust between managers and teams.
Fragmented, project-based teams
Constant staffing rotations across engagements make it harder to build consistent manager relationships and a stable sense of belonging.
Skill obsolescence risk
Rapid shifts toward AI-enabled advisory, analytics, and automation are outpacing structured reskilling for existing talent.
Uneven recognition systems
Recognition is often tied narrowly to chargeable work, undervaluing mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and non-billable contributions.
Build and Sustain a High-Trust Culture
We turn diagnosed feedback into action, then keep it moving through continuous listening:
Diagnose Culture
We help you capture candid employee feedback through our flagship Trust Index™ Survey - reaching every professional, whether they sit in your office, at a client site, or on a deployed engagement. We also diagnose through:
- Focus Group Discussions across practices and service lines
- Readiness Pre-Survey
- People Practice Evaluation
- Manager Level Insights – the sector’s highest attrition-risk group
- Client-Site & Deployed Employee Assessment
- Generational and Tenure Cuts – where early-career exits begin
- Appreciative Inquiry (1 on 1) Meetings with Partners and Leaders
Earn the Certification
Great Place To Work® Certification is the global benchmark for workplace culture, backed by 30 years of research and data from over 100 million employees across 170 countries. No jury decides it. Your own employees do.
- Measured through the Trust Index™ Survey – a globally validated instrument, not a self-assessment
- Benchmarked against professional services peers in your sub-sector and size band
- Certification is valid for 12 months, with automatic consideration for every relevant Best Workplaces™ list
- India’s Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services, Staffing & Recruitment, for Women and for Young Talent
- A seal your talent recognises, and your clients increasingly ask about in RFPs
Build and Sustain a High-Trust Culture
We turn diagnosed feedback into action, then keep it moving through continuous listening:
- Results & Insights presentation to HR, Leadership and Partners
- Data cuts & deep-dive on Emprising™ (practice-wise, demographic cuts, heatmaps, benchmarks)
- People Philosophy (EVP) and People Practices Intervention
- People Managers Intervention – retention through daily leadership behaviours
- Action Planning at an Org / Practice / Service Line level
- Quarterly / Monthly Pulse Surveys and Governance Check-Ins
- Professional Services CXO Roundtables and the For All Leadership Summit
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81% believe that their leaders listen to them keenly.
A Complete Partnership Across
the Culture Journey
Diagnose Culture
We help you capture candid employee feedback through our flagship Trust Index™ Survey - reaching every professional, whether they sit in your office, at a client site, or on a deployed engagement. We also diagnose through:
- Focus Group Discussions across practices and service lines
- Readiness Pre-Survey
- People Practice Evaluation
- Manager Level Insights - the sector's highest attrition-risk group
- Client-Site & Deployed Employee Assessment
- Generational and Tenure Cuts - where early-career exits begin
- Appreciative Inquiry (1 on 1) Meetings with Partners and Leaders
Earn the Certification
Great Place To Work® Certification is the global benchmark for workplace culture, backed by 30 years of research and data from over 100 million employees across 170 countries. No jury decides it. Your own employees do.
- Measured through the Trust Index™ Survey - a globally validated instrument, not a self-assessment
- Benchmarked against professional services peers in your sub-sector and size band
- Certification is valid for 12 months, with automatic consideration for every relevant Best Workplaces™ list
- India's Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services, Staffing & Recruitment, for Women and for Young Talent
- A seal your talent recognises, and your clients increasingly ask about in RFPs
Build and Sustain a High-Trust Culture
We turn diagnosed feedback into action, then keep it moving through continuous listening:
- Results & Insights presentation to HR, Leadership and Partners
- Data cuts & deep-dive on Emprising™ (practice-wise, demographic cuts, heatmaps, benchmarks)
- People Philosophy (EVP) and People Practices Intervention
- People Managers Intervention - retention through daily leadership behaviours
- Action Planning at an Org / Practice / Service Line level
- Quarterly / Monthly Pulse Surveys and Governance Check-Ins
- Professional Services CXO Roundtables and the For All Leadership Summit
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Our People
Gaurav Choudhary
Director - Strategic Accounts
Gaurav Choudhary is Director and Vertical Head – Professional Services at Great Place To Work® India. He brings nearly two decades of experience across advisory, consulting and strategic sales, with Enterprise roles at Gartner, Dun & Bradstreet and SBI Capital Markets. At Great Place To Work®, he leads the vertical's work with professional services firms across India, helping them build cultures that attract and retain their best people.
Sanjana Sehgal
Sanjana is a seasoned workplace culture consultant with over a decade of experience in HR consulting, research, and analytics. For the past four years, she has been associated with Great Place To Work as a Program Lead, where she has played a pivotal role in guiding organizations on their cultural transformation journeys. Currently, she leads Delivery for Professional Services organisations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Organisations complete the Trust Index employee survey and a Culture Audit of people practices; results are benchmarked against industry and national standards to determine Certification and qualification in Best Workplaces lists.
Not necessarily. Certification data shows firms can sustain demanding client work while maintaining high trust. The differentiator is whether workload pressure is paired with fairness, support, and recognition, not whether pressure exists at all.
With Gen Z now forming a large share of entry and mid-level talent in the industry, firms that don’t adapt career growth models, feedback frequency, and flexibility risk losing talent faster than they can hire and train it.
Great Place to Work uses the Trust Index survey to capture how employees experience credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie their workplace, regardless of how frequently teams rotate across client engagements.
It’s an organization where employees consistently trust leadership, feel fairly treated regardless of role, and take pride in their work measured through anonymous, statistically validated employee feedback rather than self-reported claims.