Strategic & Operating Advisors
Growth reveals what to optimize, and what to protect. We help leadership teams tell the difference, then move.
Kohli Advisors connects strategy, risk and execution for boards and leadership teams in financial services, fintech and PE-backed firms, drawing on decades of senior operating and board experience inside global institutions.
Our Services
Strategic & Operating Execution
Kohli Advisors helps leadership teams turn strategic priorities into working operating models, clarifying decision rights, governance, and the roadmaps needed to execute with confidence. We assess structures, accountability, and process to reduce friction and establish the cadence and metrics that make growth durable.
Risk, Governance & Resilience
We simplify complex risk and regulatory challenges and strengthen the information Boards and executives need to govern effectively. Alongside this, we help organizations build the capacity to anticipate, absorb, and respond to disruption across operations, technology, and third-party relationships.
AI, Emerging Risk & Executive Advisory
As AI reshapes workflows, accountability, and risk, we help leadership teams navigate adoption and governance without stalling innovation. We also provide independent, senior-level counsel to executives and Boards on the highest-stakes strategic, transformation, and governance decisions.
Executive Perspectives
A series for boards and executives on leading, governing and creating value in the age of AI, drawn from experience inside global institutions and the boardroom.
Featured Publications
Operational Resilience: Beyond the Checklists
Available now through Risk Books
Operational Resilience: Beyond the Checklists offers practical insights into developing adaptable, comprehensive and future- proof operational resilience strategies. Written for management teams and professionals across various industries, the book is supported by diverse case studies from financial services, telecommunications and automobile manufacturing.
“What sets this book apart is its engaging and timely exploration of a subject matter that is becoming increasingly critical to the business world. It demystifies the complexities of operational resilience and presents a compelling case for a unified strategy that leverages the power of integrated risk management. Through vivid examples and case studies, Operational Resilience illustrates how compliance naturally follows suit when organizations do prioritize resilience.” - Mike Campbell, CEO of Fusion Risk Management
Leadership
Nita Kohli, CEO & Co-Founder
Nita’s career has been defined by connecting functions. By linking strategy with execution, innovation with governance, and risk with business performance, she helps leadership teams and Boards understand enterprise-wide implications, navigate competing priorities, and exercise stronger judgment. She brings more than 25 years of senior leadership across Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Freddie Mac, Deutsche Bank and KPMG, most recently as Managing Director and Global Head of Enterprise Resilience at Citi.
She serves as an Independent Director on Audit and Risk Committees, and is the author of Operational Resilience: Beyond the Checklists (Risk Books, 2024). She is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and NACD Directorship Certified.
