In her career, she has held global leadership positions, including Global VP at MetricStream, Head of Governance and Compliance at Altisource, Associate VP at Infosys Technologies, Senior Director and Global Head of Quality at Nokia Siemens Networks etc. She has also had long stints at HP USA and India, and CMC UK and India.

In her diverse roles, one common component was driving strategic and complex change initiatives across multiple locations and functions, involving technology, process and most importantly people related changes. This gave Gowri the opportunity to coach and mentor hundreds of people and drive cultural change, internally within these organizations, across diverse locations, cultures and roles spanning executive leaders to fresh engineers.

The development, growth and change of individuals was one of the most fulfilling experiences that kept Gowri going. In 2013, Gowri co-founded GRT Consulting LLP, a niche training and consulting company, offering high end certification and custom training programs in the area of P3M – Project, Program and Portfolio management, PMO and organizational maturity. Some of GRT clients include CTS, EY, ICRISAT, HSBC, Infosys, Wipro, etc. GRT has offices in Bangalore, India and Auckland, New Zealand and runs programs globally.