Sumit Sahni is a leadership strategist, author, and executive coach with 25+ years of experience helping organizations drive growth, transformation, and execution discipline. As Founder of Fractional Edge, he works closely with promoters, CXOs, and leadership teams to navigate complexity, build leadership depth, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Prior to founding Fractional Edge, Sumit was CEO of InspireOne consulting, India’s leading leadership development firm. Before leading InspireOne, Sumit spent nine years with Harvard Business Publishing, where he led corporate learning across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, helping large enterprises scale leadership capability and strategy execution.
Over the past two decades, Sumit has developed and coached more than 8,000 leaders across India, the U.S., Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, working across industries such as financial services, technology, hospitality, insurance, consumer businesses, and professional services. His work spans strategic planning, change leadership, culture building, executive presence, innovation, and customer-centric growth.
Sumit is the author of AURA, a practical framework that helps leaders strengthen executive presence by combining confidence, clarity, and emotional intelligence — enabling them to inspire trust and drive impact.
As a Fractional Chief Growth Officer and Strategy Advisor, Sumit partners with founders, boards and leadership teams to sharpen strategy, align execution, and build leaders who can scale businesses sustainably.
Focus Areas with Fractional Edge
- Growth strategy, GTM clarity and execution rhythms
- Leadership development & top-team effectiveness
- Culture, change management & organization transformation
- Executive coaching and board-level leadership advisory