🌱 Advancing Conscious Leadership

About Sthir

We partner with ambitious young adults to cultivate clarity, character, and real-world capability. Our programs blend reflective rigor with action-oriented experiments—so you build momentum with purpose.

Portrait of Shalu Ahuja, Founder of Sthir

Founder: Shalu Ahuja

An engineer, business leader, and devoted parent, Shalu has led high-performing teams and built enduring products and services for over twenty-five years. Behind the résumé, she witnessed a recurring challenge: success without centeredness.

For the past decade, she has walked alongside young people through identity shifts, career pivots, and the uneasy quiet of uncertainty. A consistent insight emerged—ambition isn’t the issue; anchoring is.

Sthir exists to resolve that gap. We bring structure and substance, tools and accountability, so the next generation doesn’t just launch careers—they craft conscious, durable lives.

Mission & Values

Our promise is simple: clarity before velocity, experiments over abstractions, and growth in community.

Anchored Self

Decisions align when values are visible. We help you articulate your center and act from it.

Action Experiments

Small, focused tests create real data. Ship, measure, reflect, and iterate with momentum.

Conscious Community

Leadership is practiced publicly—through collaboration, feedback, and mutual accountability.

Founding Circle

Headshot of Arjun Menon Arjun Menon Product & Operations
Headshot of Maanya Gupta Maanya Gupta Programs
Headshot of Sanil Katula Sanil Katula Community
Headshot of Bahaar Ahuja Bahaar Ahuja Experience

Ready to Build from the Inside Out?

Join a cohort committed to purposeful impact. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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