Hi, I'm Raghav Krishna.
I help social impact startup founders stop firefighting and start growing their impact.
Not by adding even more systems but by fixing what's actually generating the chaos.
When I was in search of a Chief of Staff, I didn't know that I would be God-sent a person who will transform and re-align the whole texture of my organisation.
- Puneet Aggarwal
Here's the problem
You have good people who buy into the mission.
They are competent. They do their job.
But somehow you're still the one who gets called when something goes wrong..
Still signing off on things that shouldn't need your approval.
Still coming back from time away to find three things that quietly broke while you were gone.
You've tried to fix it.
New tools.
A restructure.
Maybe someone came in, spent a few weeks with you, and left you a plan.
Six months later, the same things are breaking.
That's not a people problem.
It's probably not even a systems problem.
The fixes weren't necessarily wrong.....
.....they just all addressed what the dysfunction looks like rather than what's generating it.
Which is why they reverted.
And while that cycle continues, every hour you spend in the weeds is an hour you're not doing the work you actually started all this for.
"When I was in search of a Chief of Staff, I didn't know that I would be
God-sent a person who will transform and re-align the whole texture of my organisation. He revolutionized our organizational DNA, pioneering a self-managed culture that eliminated traditional hierarchies and empowered every team member to excel. His immediate impact was striking: within days of joining, he had established robust SOPs that brought unprecedented clarity and efficiency."
— Puneet Aggarwal, Founder, Nirogam
It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
When you fix the right thing, the change shows up faster than you'd expect.
Your team starts making calls you used to make.
Problems surface before they blow up.
You take a week away and come back to a team that handled things.
The fires that returned every quarter stop coming back.
It's what happens when you address the actual source of the problem.
Not just the most visible symptom.
And the time and headspace you get back?
It goes to the work that actually moves the mission forward.
"Under Raghav's exceptional leadership, our team successfully overcame numerous challenges by fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Together, we worked cohesively, leveraging our collective skills and expertise to develop effective solutions for various problems."
— Jessa Bordenave
"Raghav has an exceptional ability to identify the real constraints behind operational challenges—whether it is communication gaps, broken processes, or missing documentation—and guide teams toward scalable, long-term solutions."
— Atul Shukla
"He made a lasting impact on our growth. He brought structure to decision-making, empowered the team to take ownership, and created a culture of constructive feedback and improvement."
— Neha Singh
"One of his standout qualities is his ability to simplify complexity. Whether it's streamlining workflows or cutting through noise in a project, he has a remarkable knack for making things more manageable and focused."
— Dr. Kajal NK
"Raghav is a master communicator, able to get to the heart of the problem and come up with a solution in a short amount of time."
— Kevin Freidberg
Hi! I'm Raghav Krishna. I help social impact startup founders stop firefighting and start growing their impact.
Not by adding even more systems but by fixing what's actually generating the chaos.
I've spent 14 years working inside health programs, development nonprofits, wellness startups and my own company — a specialty food business I founded and eventually closed.
I've been the person who rescued failing global health trial operations. The one who cut a product line from 100 SKUs to a dozen and delivered a first profitable year in three. The one who told a founder that the way he was running things was the reason things weren't working.
I've also been the founder who ran out of road and steam and shut shop.
That's not a typical consulting background. It means I know what it actually feels like to be inside rooms with real stakes and with my own money on the line — not just what it looks like from a post-mortem.
It has led me to create the Organisational Dysfunction Diagnostic.
It measures how reactively your organisation is operating, which patterns are keeping the dysfunction in place, and why previous fixes haven't held.
You come out with a breakdown across three dimensions and a tier result — specific enough to know what you're dealing with, honest enough to be worth ten minutes of your time.