Karan Kumar launches Inflection

Inflection is an independent advisory practice for business growth and leadership

by e4m Staff
Published: Aug 26, 2026 12:05 PM | 2 min read

Karan Kumar has launched Inflection, an independent advisory practice aimed at helping leaders and organizations challenge assumptions and explore new possibilities for business growth and leadership development.
Inflection operates through two main practices: Business Advisory, which focuses on identifying growth opportunities and addressing limiting assumptions, and Executive Coaching, which supports senior leaders through transitions and complexities.
Kumar emphasizes that business challenges often stem from unexamined assumptions rather than a lack of ideas or capabilities, and Inflection aims to create space for leaders to reassess these assumptions.
With over 25 years of experience in various industries, Kumar has held leadership roles in organizations such as ITC and Fabindia, and he will engage in a limited number of advisory and coaching projects with senior leadership teams.

Senior marketing and business leader Karan Kumar has announced the launch of Inflection, an independent advisory practice helping leaders and organisations realise more of what’s possible and act on it to build stronger businesses and stronger leaders.

After more than 25 years of working across businesses, brands and industries, Kumar has increasingly found that the moments that shape what comes next are often not about a lack of capability or ideas, but about assumptions that have gone unquestioned. Inflection was created to help businesses and leaders examine those assumptions and act on new possibilities.

Inflection operates through two distinct practices: Business Advisory and Executive Coaching. They serve different needs, with clients engaging Kumar for either practice independently.

Business Advisory helps business owners and leaders identify and act on opportunities for growth by challenging assumptions that may be limiting revenue, profitability and business value. Engagements span business and growth strategy, commercial strategy, brand and customer strategy, marketing transformation, go-to-market strategy and strategic decision support, from specific challenges to ongoing advisory relationships.

Executive Coaching works with senior leaders, executives, founders and entrepreneurs navigating moments of transition, complexity or change. The work focuses on leadership identity, decision-making, self-belief, leadership transition, purpose and alignment, and sustainable success.

“My work has increasingly taken me to moments where the obvious answer is not necessarily the right one,” said Kumar. “Businesses rarely struggle simply because they lack ideas, and leaders rarely struggle because they lack capability. Often, the constraint lies in what we have stopped questioning. Inflection creates the space to examine those assumptions and discover what becomes possible when they no longer define the choices available to us.”

Kumar brings more than 25 years of experience across business growth, marketing, brand building and transformation, with leadership roles and work spanning organisations including ITC, Fabindia, DLF, ART Fertility Clinics and Hero Realty, across consumer goods, retail, fashion, healthcare and real estate.

He has built and transformed marketing organisations, launched businesses, strengthened brands, led significant growth agendas and worked with Chairpersons, CEOs and leadership teams on strategic and commercial priorities. Alongside this operating experience, Kumar has developed formal expertise in executive coaching, bringing together boardroom experience and leadership-development capability in his work with leaders.

With Inflection now launched, Kumar is taking on a select number of Business Advisory projects and Executive Coaching engagements with founders, CEOs and senior leadership teams.