I'm Akkul Dhand. Executive Director, Board Member and entrepreneur. My work connects strategy, operations, finance, technology & AI, and governance to build stronger businesses.
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My work sits where business functions meet. The decisions that connect finance to operations, people to performance, and technology & AI to business value. Always with an eye on what the business needs next.
As an Executive Director and Board Member at PLS, I work across operations, governance, finance, people and infrastructure. Building teams and systems has shaped a simple belief: growth only holds when the business underneath it does.
My career has taken me through sales and marketing at EastCoast Builders, business development and mortgage finance at HDFC, customer service operations at Convergys and into business leadership at PLS. Along the way, I have built functions, led teams and put the systems behind growth in place. I value clear ownership, honest numbers and decisions that make sense beyond the next quarter.
Previous roles include Board Advisor and Fractional COO at Blubird Integrated Services and Board Member & Advisor at Howl & Mane Productions.
From customer-facing roles to building functions, leading change and contributing at board level.
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My early roles spanned sales and marketing in real estate at EastCoast Builders; business development and mortgage finance at HDFC; and customer service operations at Convergys. Together, they built my grounding in customers, property, lending and service delivery.
My work has grown from setting up teams and business infrastructure to broader responsibility across operations, finance, people and governance. Today, I serve as Executive Director and Board Member.
Meet PLS (opens in a new tab)Building an India-first, globally aware business publication. A little context. A lot to think about.
Explore Makhana Mornings (opens in a new tab)Board Advisor and Fractional COO at Blubird Integrated Services.
Board Member & Advisor at Howl & Mane Productions.
An IICA Independent Director qualification and practical business playbooks extend the same interest: understanding how businesses work and how they can work better.
Leading businesses, sharing practical lessons and making complex decisions easier to understand.
My executive and board work at PLS Lawyers India spans operations, finance, people, governance and infrastructure. The focus: a business that works better as it grows.
Conversations for universities, students, founders and company teams. Real lessons on leadership, ownership, business fundamentals and moving from ideas to execution.
Explore speaking topics ↘Growth brings harder decisions. I work with founders and leadership teams on structure, ownership, cost discipline and the practical use of technology & AI.
Start with the bottleneck. Understand what is driving it, decide what needs to change and give someone clear ownership of the next step.
AI with a business purpose. Identify useful applications, check process and data readiness, and define a focused pilot with clear measures of value and human review.
Start a business conversation ↗A practical perspective on accountability, oversight and long-term business health. Grounded in board experience and an IICA Independent Director qualification.
Technology & AI belong in the board conversation. What value is expected? What data is being used? Who owns the risks, checks the outputs and decides when to intervene? The focus is clear oversight, sensible controls and accountable decisions as adoption grows.
Discuss a board opportunity ↗India-first, globally aware business media.
A little context. A lot to think about.
Sessions shaped around the audience, the questions they face and what they should be able to do differently afterwards.
A packed calendar can hide a lack of progress. How to choose the work that matters, make ownership clear and run reviews that lead to decisions.
How to move recurring decisions into capable teams, set useful limits and keep control as more people take responsibility.
The everyday decisions behind the job titles: cash, customers, people, trade-offs and taking responsibility when the answer is unclear.
Available as talks, interactive discussions or focused workshops. The format and examples are agreed around your audience.
Practical guides with diagnostics, worked examples and worksheets. Start with your business’s current challenge.
Move recurring decisions out of the founder’s inbox without losing control of the business.
Read the playbook ↗Turn recurring chasing into clear commitments, visible exceptions and timely decisions.
Read the playbook ↗Choose a useful first AI pilot and put basic controls around it before expanding.
Read the playbook ↗Activity is easy to count. Progress takes a harder question: what is actually better because of the work?
Shared effort works best when someone clearly owns the outcome. Otherwise, the problem gets excellent attendance.
Cost discipline means understanding the trade-off. Look at the effect on quality, capacity and the customer before celebrating the number.
My contributions to discussions on AI, culture, governance and learning at the Benchmark Six Sigma Forum.
A contribution on how AI can shape the way organisations work, learn and make decisions.
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Read my contribution (opens in a new tab)A contribution on using AI to spot warning signs earlier and support stronger oversight.
Selected as best answer · Benchmark Six Sigma Forum
Read my contribution (opens in a new tab)A contribution on feedback, learning and improving AI agents after they enter real use.
Selected as best answer · Benchmark Six Sigma Forum
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