Safety culture isn’t built in compliance documents. It’s built in how people show up every day.
Respecting Nature & LifeEHS Guru works with organisations across sectors to make EHS and sustainability part of daily operations — not just quarterly reporting. Four practice areas, one measure: is it actually working?
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EHS Guru started with a straightforward observation: organisations across India — many of them without dedicated EHS teams — needed access to expertise that changed how their workplaces ran. Not paperwork that got filed and forgotten. Work that moved.
A core consulting practice grew into four: EHS consulting, technology tools, ergonomics and wellness, and professional knowledge programmes. Each one came out of a gap we kept running into with clients. None of them were part of the original plan.
Today the client list runs from enterprises and hospitals to development finance institutions and small manufacturers. The practice has grown more complex. The reason we started it hasn’t.
Where the work happens.
A working world where protecting people and protecting the environment are treated as the same job — and where doing it properly is simply how a serious organisation runs.
The work is varied — audits, training, tools, certifications, ergonomics programmes. What connects all of it is the intent: leave a workplace safer than we found it, and leave the environment around it in better shape than we found that too.
Our Values
Respect
For the people in the workplaces we audit, and the ecosystems that the industries we advise operate within. This isn't a framed statement on a wall. It's the reason the work exists.
Ownership
When we take on an engagement, we care about whether it actually worked — not just whether it was delivered. If something isn't landing, we'd rather say so than hand it off and move on.
Passion
Most of us came to EHS and sustainability because we genuinely cared about it. That still shows in how we work. It's not a service we provide — it's something we believe in.
Empathy
We know what it takes to run an operation — the budget constraints, the regulatory timelines, the teams already stretched thin. Our recommendations have to work in that world, not just on a slide deck.
Our Team
Engineers, ecologists, auditors, social scientists. Most came to this field sideways, from something else.
Munish Kumar
Founder & Managing DirectorFounder. 17 years working across sectors and borders — 375+ audits, 18+ environmental and social impact assessments, and over 4,500 hours of training. Trusted by IFC, World Bank, ADB, and BII.
Dr. Priya Chaudhary
Senior Manager – ESG Services | QCI-NABET Approved EIA CoordinatorOver 10 years in Environmental Impact Assessment, regulatory compliance, and sustainability advisory, with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science. Manages Environmental Clearances and pollution control board consents, and prepares IFC-aligned Annual Monitoring Reports.
Amit Kumar
Sr. Manager – EHS Services | ISO 45001 Lead AuditorFive years in fire & life safety consulting, EHS audits, and ESG assessments. Has worked across four sectors: automotive, construction, healthcare, and real estate.
Dr. Ekta Melkani
Manager – Human Factors, Ergonomics & Social ImpactSeveral years in ergonomics research, workplace interventions, and community training, backed by a Ph.D. in Family Resource Management. Leads ErgoTattva’s team and client projects, and co-developed a patented ergonomic workstation for bead-product workers.
Jaivinder Singh
Manager – ESG & Responsible BusinessOver six years in ESG and EHS due diligence, environmental and social impact assessment, and regulatory compliance. Has supported IFC, World Bank, and ADB-funded hydropower and highway projects in India and Nepal.
Eraj Ali
Manager – Electrical & Energy | Auditor & TrainerSpecialises in electrical safety audits, arc flash studies, power quality assessments, and energy audits. Gold Medalist in M.Tech Energy Systems.
Vivek Kumar
Assistant Manager – ESG & Compliance | ISO 45001 Lead AuditorThree years in ESG and EHS consulting, Environmental Site Assessments, and environmental compliance for 70+ clients, including Redcliffe Labs, Signature Global, Wonderland Foods, and Fidelity International. Has delivered 70+ hours of EHS training and serves as faculty on the ESG Compliance Lead Course.
Himanshu Thakur
Assistant Manager – ESG & BRSRThree and a half years in ESG reporting, BRSR assurance, and GHG accounting. Has delivered BRSR and BRSR Core audits for UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla Group, Grasim Industries, Birla Cellulose, and Adani, and GHG emissions accounting for ITC Hotels.
Nikhil Tiwari
Consultant – EHS, ESG & Fire Safety | FSAI AP Certified Fire EngineerOver 10 years in EHS audits, fire and life safety, emergency preparedness, and environmental and social due diligence across manufacturing, infrastructure, and industrial sites. Has worked with JSW Steel, Reliance Power, Samsung Display, and Marsh McLennan.
Deepanker Singh
EHS Professional | IGBC-APSix years in EHS management systems, fire & life safety audits, risk assessment, and ESG reporting. Works across industrial, construction, and healthcare settings.
Harshita Goyal
Senior Associate – Strategy, Governance & CollaborationsOver three years in corporate operations, management, and strategy. Manages projects, stakeholders, and clients across EHS Guru’s divisions, alongside internal resource planning, business strategy, and partnerships.
Suman Kapooria
Senior Associate – Projects & ESGThree years in ESG due diligence, E&S annual monitoring, biodiversity assessment, and green audits. Has developed EHS and ESG training content and safety risk assessments for Amazon, Atlassian, Battery Smart, and Eldeco.
Dr. Shalini Prasad
Expert – Physiotherapy & Ergonomics | Certified Workplace AnalystNearly five years in sports physiotherapy, biomechanical analysis, and workplace ergonomics. Conducts workstation assessments and MSD prevention programmes in corporate and industrial settings, including for Titan, with a Master of Physiotherapy in Sports Sciences.
Akanshi Sharma
Associate – ESG & LegalOver a year in ESG due diligence, ESMS development, EHS legal compliance, and GHG accounting. Has delivered Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, dust compliance, and natural hazard risk assessments for DCDC Kidney Care, Max Hospital Pitampura, Eye-Q, Sangam Courtyard, Crown Worldwide, and Project Chamila.
Vishesh Harnal
Associate – Legal & ESGWorks across ESG and EHS compliance, turning regulatory requirements into practical action plans, from site audits to legal due diligence. Focused on helping organisations close regulatory gaps and build safer, more sustainable workplaces.
Shivangi Sharma
Associate Consultant – Social Governance & HRBackground in Social Work, with hands-on experience in ESG due diligence, community engagement, and environmental communication. Certified in GHG Accounting and Climate Finance.
Our Culture
A few real moments from how this team spends its time.
Our Recognitions
These eight entries are placeholder slots on the live page, awaiting real award, certification, and membership details to be supplied.
Respecting Nature & Life
Nature
The river downstream of a plant has no compliance department. Neither does the air above it or the habitat beside it. Someone in the room has to speak for them, and we took that as part of the job rather than a separate service.
Life
Every audit we sign ends with the same test: does the person on that shop floor go home in the condition they arrived in? Everything else — the frameworks, the reports, the certifications — is method. That is the outcome.
Four words under a logo. We’d rather they read as a commitment than a decoration.