About me

Bhavani is a respected leader in the field of internal audit and risk management with over 24 years of experience. She co-heads the Internal Audit & SOX function at Infosys and has played a key role in driving transformation through automation and analytics and by elevating the position of the internal audit team as value adding business partners. She jointly led Infosys to win the Institute of Internal Auditors India (IIA) National Excellence Award in 2018, 2019 and 2021. She is an active governor of the IIA India Bangalore Chapter, a National Council member of IIA India and was also the president of the Bangalore chapter for the financial year 2020-21. She recently pivoted from a full-time corporate life to a part time role as co-head and has embarked on her journey as an Executive and Leadership Coach and Trainer. Her vision, through her coaching practice “The Evolving Way”, is to partner with the leaders, teams and individuals on their individual and collective journey to personal and professional fulfilment through mental fitness and coaching. Prior to Infosys, she was a director at Deloitte India’s Internal Audit practice, having worked previously in the UK for 15 years including as Director of Risk & Assurance at Cancer Research UK, UK’s largest NGO where she was responsible for leading the internal audit, risk management and health and safety functions. Leveraging her many years of experience in internal audit and risk management, Bhavani has developed a special coaching and training focus on the interpersonal and psychological skills of audit and risk practitioners as this is the need of the hour for the fraternity. She is a regular speaker and trainer on the interpersonal and human aspects of internal audit and risk management as well as technical topics pertaining to the profession. In addition, she also speaks on topics relating to mental fitness, resilience, executive presence, self-management and leadership that have been tailored to address the increasing psychological challenges faced by professionals operating in today’s disruptive business landscape. She is a proud mother of five children with and feels privileged to raise and nurture children of very diverse personalities. She is further blessed with the title of grandma to a 3-year-old. She is also a passionate dog-mum to five crazy and loving dogs.