Reshma Narayanankutty has been appointed Director at EY-Parthenon after serving as Senior Manager, marking a key milestone in her consulting career. With experience across EY, Accenture, and SNP Infra Research Solutions, and as part of the World Energy Council’s 2024 Future Energy Leaders’ Programme, she will lead high-impact transformation and energy-focused mandates.
Reshma Narayanankutty’s ascent to the role of Director at EY-Parthenon marks more than a professional milestone—it signals the rise of a new-generation leader shaped by deep sectoral expertise, strategic thinking, and a global perspective on the future of energy and transformation. Her journey, built over years of navigating complex mandates across consulting and the energy ecosystem, reflects a blend of analytical rigour, people-centric leadership, and a commitment to shaping sustainable pathways for clients and industries in transition.
Stepping into the Director role comes after a successful tenure as Senior Manager at EY-Parthenon, where Reshma contributed to some of the firm’s most consequential engagements across strategy, transformation, and capability building. Her work has consistently intersected with sectors undergoing rapid reinvention—from energy and infrastructure to diversified industrials—giving her a vantage point into how businesses redefine themselves in the face of disruption. At a time when organisations are grappling with questions of resilience, digital acceleration, and sustainability, her elevation signifies EY-Parthenon’s emphasis on leaders equipped to drive multidimensional change.
Reshma’s career has spanned multiple touchpoints across the consulting spectrum, each sharpening her understanding of how strategy translates into action. Before joining EY-Parthenon, she spent nearly five years at Accenture in Gurgaon, where she helped steer transformation mandates for major clients, working across operations, change programmes, and digital-enabled improvements. Her grounding at Accenture was both wide-ranging and steeped in execution excellence—the kind of foundation that has proved invaluable in her current leadership role, where strategic vision must be paired with operational clarity.
Her experience at SNP Infra Research Solutions added another dimension to her expertise, exposing her to the intricacies of infrastructure research, investment evaluation, and long-term sectoral forecasting. It is here that she deepened her understanding of the energy and infrastructure value chain, an area that would later become central to her consulting identity. The ability to navigate data-rich environments, distil insights, and advise on future-forward opportunities became recurring themes in her work, reinforcing her value as a strategist with sector depth.
But Reshma’s trajectory extends beyond corporate leadership. As part of the World Energy Council’s 2024 Global Future Energy Leaders’ Programme, she belongs to a cohort shaping critical conversations on the future of global energy systems. The programme brings together emerging leaders from across the world who are reimagining energy access, sustainability, innovation, and policy. Her inclusion signals recognition not just for her professional contributions, but also for her potential to influence global discourse on energy transition—a defining challenge for both industry and society in the coming decades.
Being part of the programme places her at the heart of global dialogues around decarbonisation, renewables integration, breakthrough technologies, and equitable energy transformation. It also allows her to represent India’s perspective in conversations that bridge policy, business, and innovation. This global exposure enhances her ability to guide EY-Parthenon’s clients, many of whom are accelerating their own transition journeys, whether through diversification, operational transformation, or future-energy investment strategies.
As she steps into her expanded role, Reshma brings with her not just technical expertise but a leadership style shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and an unwavering focus on outcomes. Colleagues describe her as a strategic thinker who balances detail and direction, someone who can zoom out to see patterns and zoom in to solve with precision. This blend is increasingly critical in consulting, where complexity is the norm and leadership requires a steady hand paired with adaptive thinking.
Her base in Mumbai, a hub for India’s fast-evolving financial and industrial sectors, positions her strategically for high-impact mandates across the region. The market’s appetite for strategic transformation—driven by investment shifts, regulatory evolution, and global competitiveness—aligns well with her experience and the broader ambitions of EY-Parthenon in South Asia. Whether advising on operational efficiencies, growth strategies, energy transition pathways, or organisational transformation, her role will continue to shape decision-making for clients navigating change at unprecedented speed.
What distinguishes Reshma’s journey is the way she integrates her diverse experiences into a coherent leadership philosophy. Her grounding in management consulting gives her fluency in frameworks, transformation models, and strategic roadmapping. Her deepening expertise in energy and infrastructure equips her with sectoral credibility. Her global programme experience offers her a broader lens on sustainability and innovation. And her years of delivering for clients have honed her ability to lead with empathy, clarity, and conviction.
This combination becomes particularly powerful in a landscape defined by disruption. Organisations today are not simply refining operations—they are rewriting their purpose, systems, capabilities, and long-term value creation models. Leaders who can bridge commercial imperatives with future-oriented thinking are increasingly shaping the consulting industry’s future. Reshma’s move into the Director role embodies this shift, representing EY-Parthenon’s commitment to leaders who can connect vision with execution and market insight with global relevance.
Her leadership also reflects the growing representation of women in senior roles within strategy and management consulting—an industry that, historically, has seen gender gaps widen at higher levels. Her appointment serves as a signal to young professionals across the consulting ecosystem, particularly women, that leadership pathways are both accessible and expanding. It reinforces the role of mentorship, representation, and inclusive talent development in building organisations equipped for the future.
As she charts her next chapter at EY-Parthenon, Reshma remains focused on strengthening client value, enabling high-performing teams, and driving strategic clarity in complex transformation journeys. Her impact will be felt across engagements that define growth, sustainability, and operational resilience for clients, particularly in sectors undergoing rapid reinvention.
The milestones of her career—EY-Parthenon leadership, Accenture foundations, energy-sector depth, and global programme recognition—together tell a story of a leader who has built her journey piece by piece, with discipline and purpose. Stepping into the Director role is both a culmination and a beginning: a recognition of her achievements so far and a gateway to broader influence, greater responsibility, and a future that she is well poised to shape.
For EY-Parthenon, her elevation reinforces the strength of its leadership pipeline and its commitment to nurturing talent that brings both expertise and foresight. For the industry, it marks the rise of a strategist deeply attuned to the needs of a transitioning world. And for Reshma Narayanankutty, it is a moment that captures her evolution as a leader ready to take on the next wave of impact—across Mumbai, across the region, and across the global consulting landscape.
