About VIKRITI
VIKRITI brings experienced executives from Fortune 500 companies, leaders of corporate initiatives, and advisors from major consulting firms together to support clients in the healthcare, financial, manufacturing, and retail industries.
VIKRITI drives strategic transformation, operational excellence, and team alignment to help businesses thrive in a fast-changing world.
Through our proven approach, we unite stakeholders, streamline operations, and harness change to deliver lasting results—whether you’re a start-up or an industry leader.
Let’s align your vision, energize your teams, and unlock new opportunities for growth.
VIKRITI helps organizations apply the most challenging project management concepts.
They are committed to customer service and to delivering high quality work. I turn to Jolly for best practices, for her deep knowledge, and for real-world solutions.
Meet the Team:
Jolly Nanda
Founder/Managing Member
Jolly Nanda brings a diverse background in Technology, Product, and Operations in the Healthcare, Manufacturing and Retail industry to VIKRITI. Specializing in Change Management and Strategic Operations with proven results in creation and execution of enterprise change management, talent management and business road maps leading to optimization, process re-engineering, Offshoring, Outsourcing, reduction of operating costs and increased customer satisfaction.
Lisa Fridland
Chief Innovation Officer
Lisa brings over 25 years of healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing experience in operations, product, program, and strategic leadership. She also has extensive experience in Change Management, human-centered design, and business process enablement driving improved outcomes, cost take-out, and operating efficiencies. She also leads our Smartsheet practice, with over 4 years of experience in enabling E2E processes with SaaS products and serving on Smartsheet’s Customer Advisory Board.
Shelley Grace
Sales and Account Management
Shelley is an adept senior-level revenue growth strategis who can lead teams to achieve challenging goals, and work cross-functionally to ensure coordination both within and across organizations. Shelley has served in executive and consulting roles in sales, marketing and business development at several companies (Optum, IBM, Unisys, AT&T, Renalogic, ThreeWire, Nightingale Informatix, Achieve Health Care Technologies).
Elisha Freisema
Executive Consultant - Clinical
Elisha Freisema is our Clinical expert and certified clinical research professional with 15+ years of Clinical Research, Operations and Consulting experience. She provides strategic and operational assistance to help bring healthcare innovations to market. Her background includes experience as a Director of Clinical Operations and Consultant at SynerFuse, Center Administrator for Primary Care Innovation, Institute of Public Health and other similar roles at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Eric Harkins
Executive HR Leadership and Talent Acquisition Consultant
Eric Harkins is the President and Founder of GKG Search & Consulting, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that helps organizations Get talent, Keep talent & Grow talent. He is also a ForbesBooks author of: Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn’t Suck; How to Get, Keep & Grow Talent. During his 25-year career in corporate America, Eric held leadership roles ranging from Manager to Chief Human Resources and Chief Administrative Officer.
Camille Kuretich
Executive Consultant - Reimbursement
Camille Kuretich has extensive knowledge of nursing practice, health policy and reimbursement. She works with clients to secure reimbursement, provide education, create reimbursement strategy, guides and support materials.
Joe Austin
AI/Data & Analytics Platform Leader
Austin specializes in data and analytics, technical platform development and AI. He has extensive experience with healthcare and AI Powered Enerprise Tech Platforms. He is the founder of Altascio Technologies and a technology partner for BizCafe by VIKRITI.
Michelle Lott
Executive Consultant
Michelle Lott has been on a mission, helping companies with all things regulatory – strategy and planning, regulatory submissions, audit preparation and remediation, due diligence, quality systems, compliance and more. She served a term on the FDA’s Device Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) Advisory Committee, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) Executive Development Program graduate.
Nivedita Dolly Rajan
Business Development
Nivedita is a seasoned professional with experience in healthcare, finance and retail industries. Most recently she has been involved with executive coaching, business development, research and development in the healthcare and retail industries.
Cathy Paper
Leadership/Executive Coach
Cathy has coached executives and managers at Best Buy, Paramount Pictures, John Deere and Apple, as well as many Minnesota-based privately held companies and service firms. Her naturally competitive nature – Cathy runs, played rugby and was a Minnesota State Tennis Doubles Champion – is inspiring and contagious.
John Pappan
Executive Consultant - Regulatory
John is a seasoned Regulatory Affairs Professional focusing primarily on project management and regulatory compliance within the Medical Device and Bio-Tech Industries. He has professional experience in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs, Connected Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, and a vested interest in business development.
Cecilia Stanton Adams
DEI Executive Consultant
Cecilia Stanton Adams is a DEI Practioner and Coach. She has over 20 years of experience in the diversity, equity and inclusion function. She is also the founder of the Diversity Institute. She has held senior level roles in companies like Allianz, Buffalo Wild Wings, Rasmussen College, Metropolitan State University, Capella University, Lehigh University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters in Sociology, Diversity and Inclusion, as well as in Industrial Psychology.
Melissa Fors Shackelford
Marketing
As an executive leader specializing in healthcare and technology, Melissa has built a career on transforming marketing and growth organizations into high-performing, data-driven engines of growth. Her expertise spans branding, digital transformation, and strategic marketing, consistently delivering record-breaking results and advancing industry best practices.
Beth Thompson
Executive Consultant
Beth has 40+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs for FDA-regulated products. From diagnostics to pharma to combination products to dietary supplements to veterinary, Beth’s done it all. She also has extensive experience with government agencies, state licensing and international regulations.
Frank Wittenauer
Talent Management Executive Consultant
Frank Wittenauer, a Talent Management Executive with proven success in transforming and leading global talent technology functions in large-scale, complex, Big 4 consulting environments. Expert at developing and executing innovative talent solutions and processes that drive high performance cultures; including career websites, international mobility solutions, online job boards, RPO, social media, people data analytics, various HCM SaaS/Cloud and hosted solutions.
Michele Zoromski
Executive Consultant - Life Sciences
Michele Zoromski has an MBA from Carlson, undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Chinese. With vast international experience in Asia, Europe, and South America, Michele is a collaborative strategist, risk taker, and out-of-the-box thinker. She has over 23 years of experience within the Life Science Space.
Strategic Partners
VIKRITI along with its strategic partner Altascio Technology are "Brewing Innovation Together: Linking Your Vision to Reality" under the brand BizCafe by VIKRITI.
VIKRITI and Altascio Technologies Inc have partnered to provide the technical capabilities to bring innovation to live at a affordable way. Creating a path to create proof of concepts to validate the idea to scaling it through Minnimum Viable Product to test the market, to fully Scale and evolve.
Altascio
Empowering Growth through Data & AI Innovations
VIKRITI along with its strategic partner GKG Consulting offers consulting services to help companies create a culture that high performers want to be a part of.
VIKRITI and GKG Consulting has partnered to provide consulting services to clients to get talent, keep talent, and grow talent. GKG Consulting helps clients develop a high performance, successful culture of growth and talent.
VIKRITI and Leading Business Ventures formed a strategic partnership to help clients develop success in commercialization, innovation strategy, and business development.
VIKRITI and Leading Business Ventures (LBV) has partnered to provide consulting services specializing in venture financing, acceleration, and business development. They work with clients to enable technology-based ventures through offering analytics, data-driven insights, and a network of domain experts.
VIKRITI and HILO Talent bring the right talent to your team.
VIKRITI and HILO Talent have partnered to provide talent acquisition to our clients growing talent needs. From Executive Search to being a recruitment process outsourcer, we customize our offering to your need and budget.
VIKRITI has partnered with Lean RAQA to offer services to construct strong regulatory strategies to establish a competitive advantage.
VIKRITI and Lean RAQA have partnered to enable clients to establish a strong regulatory strategy. Establishing a strong regulatory strategy is a competitive advantage to help position clients for success in the marketplace. Servicing the medical devices, drugs, biologics, cosmetics, and food industries.
VIKRITI along with its strategic partner M.ZORO to provide LIfe Sciences Go to Market consulting services.
Expert consultant with 20+ years of experience in the healthcare (delivery, insurance, and device) industry. Bridges all facets of business to build and implement high-impact strategies that can evolve and grow to gain the competitive advantage.
VIKRITI along with its strategic partner ProCFO offers expert financial officers that are networked across industries, verticals, specializations, and situations.
VIKRITI and ProCFO has partnered to implement a systematic, sustainable, and scalable financial system that helps you achieve your goals. Their approach isn’t a one-size-fits anybody structure but instead starts by understanding your perspective, learning what your switch is and recalibrating your entire financial system to have a deeper understanding of how things work and fit together.
VIKRITI and its strategic partner RockPaperStar provide exceptional consulting with strategic networking, to be able to make impactful connections, gain confidence, and reach goals.
VIKRITI and RockPaperStar has partnered to accelerate people into motion through networking coaching, sales training, and development. They provide strategic guidance for clients and organizations to reach their desired results. Services include employee sales coaching, 1:1 coaching, leadership development and networking training.
VIKRITI along with its strategic partners TVS NEXT offers a wide breadth of Technology Services.
VIKRITI and TVS Next has partnered to enable digital enterprises build next-generation solutions. We bring together elegant experiences, robust engineering and insightful data strategy combined with our “commonsensical” approach to help our clients re-imagine and thrive digitally.
Services Offered includes Product Engineering, Assurance, Data and Insight services. Onsite, Offshore and blended models supported, with multiple locations in the US and India.
VIKRITI along with its strategic partner Well Solution Group offers a wide breadth of Healthcare services.
VIKlRITI and Well Solution Group has partnered to offer a broad range of Health Cost Management, Quality and Healthcare Analytics services which include Fraud Waste and Abuse/ Payment Integrity, Claim Accuracy, Quality & Affordability Programs, Claim Process and Scalability, Clinical Programs Risk Arrangements Care Bundles, ACO, Capitation, and Network Agreements, Clinical Quality Utilization Management, HEDIS, Stars, Episode Grouping, Post Acute Care, Healthcare Analytics & Metrics, Value & Savings Model, Trends & Forecast.
