Bhushan Sethi

Partner, PwC US Consulting | Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business | Global Thought Leader | 2025 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business awardee

New York, New York, United States

About

Bhushan is a Partner within PwC's consulting business focused on Financial Services and Tech/AI led Transformation. He is an inspiring global leader, pragmatic strategist and results oriented practitioner with a demonstrable track record of delivering sustainable growth and productivity through designing and implementing new operating models, workforce strategies, and optimizing returns on Digital and AI-led transformation. For over 25 years, he has worked at the intersection of strategy, workforce and policy – delivering value for clients, building world class consulting practices and being a sought-after award-winning writer, speaker, educator and media voice on the future of work and AI. In 2025 he was recognized among the "Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business". Bhushan currently works with Financial Institutions, Tech firms and global multinationals to deliver enterprise transformation that enables sustainable business, customer, financial, workforce and regulatory outcomes. His experiences span front office (Lines of Business, Sales, Product) and enabling functions (Strategy, Tech & Ops, Finance, Risk, Compliance, HR). He serves as the lead PwC client partner role for a major US based financial institution, where he drives strategic account growth and manages the end-to-end client relationship, delivery and quality. He is widely respected for his ability to build sustainable relationships, inspire stakeholders at every level, and deliver collective business outcomes. Within PwC, Bhushan has established and led multiple practices including Global People and Organization co-lead (6 years), US Financial Services People & Organization lead (10 years) and Global workforce strategy lead (8 years). His reputation for coaching extends beyond client work—mentoring professionals and volunteering expertise wherever emerging leaders need guidance. Bhushan strategically reinvests his expertise through extensive publishing, speaking, and mentoring. He is a trusted voice on future of work, globalization, and AI, delivering podcasts, broadcast media appearances and presentations to diverse global audiences. His insights have been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Forbes, and he has been recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice and ranked #81 on the "2023 Power List of top 200 Leadership voices." He actively contributes to World Economic Forum councils and G20/T20 Future of Work task forces, authoring policy briefs on productivity, skills and jobs. He is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern, where he teaches a strategy consulting class to MBA students.

Experience

  • Partner, PwC US Consulting at PwC
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Bhushan is a Partner within PwC's consulting business focused on Financial Services and Tech/AI led Transformation. He is an inspiring global leader, pragmatic strategist and results oriented practitioner with a demonstrable track record of delivering sustainable growth and productivity through designing and implementing new operating models, workforce strategies, and optimizing returns on Digital and AI-led transformation. Bhushan currently works with Financial Institutions, Tech firms and global multinationals to deliver enterprise transformation that enables sustainable business, customer, financial, workforce and regulatory outcomes. His experience spans front office (Lines of Business, Sales, Product) and enabling functions (Strategy, Tech & Ops, Finance, Risk, Compliance, HR). He is widely respected for his ability to build sustainable relationships, inspire stakeholders at every level, and deliver collective business outcomes. He serves as the lead PwC client partner role for a major US based financial institution, where he drives strategic account growth and manages the end-to-end client relationship, delivery and quality. Bhushan is a sought after speaker, advisor and award winning thought leader operating at the intersection of strategy, talent and policy. He was recognized as one of the “2025 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business”. He continues to serve as Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business

  • Adjunct Faculty at NYU Stern School of Business
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Adjunct Professor: Consulting Practice experiential learning, Management and Organizations Dept, NYU Stern School of Business. I co-deliver full lifecycle Strategy Consulting course curricula for MBA students. This includes a combination of interactive presentation, story telling and hands on capability building. Additionally, I coach the students on how they complete their 12 week “real world” client case study in teams of 4-5 students. Each case includes formulating hypotheses, conducting analysis, developing insights, business cases and developing recommendations and implementation plans for clients across sectors and company size.

  • Partner at Strategy&
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Bhushan is a Partner within Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business focused on Business and Organization Transformation. He is an experienced global leader, pragmatic strategist and practitioner with a demonstrable track record of working with global organizations and leading multi-disciplinary teams to design and implement business, organization and workforce strategies that enable sustainable business, customer, financial, workforce and regulatory outcomes. He has worked with senior executives across industries and geographies to deliver on growth strategy, sustainable cost reduction, digital transformation and regulatory compliance.

  • Partner, Joint Global Leader, People & Organization at PwC
    Oct 2010 - Jan 2023 · 12 yrs 4 mos

    Joint global leader of PwC’s People & Organization practice, where he shapes and drives the firm’s global network strategy across 11000+ practitioners in 150+ countries delivering standalone and integrated solutions across strategy, management, technology and tax consulting disciplines. Specific industry expertise working in Financial Services (Banking, Asset Management and Insurance) and large global multinationals across industries. Demonstrable track record of working with business leaders to define and implement organization & workforce strategies which enable sustainable business, financial, regulatory and customer outcomes. Recent experiences include enterprise, front and back office operating model design, workforce strategy & planning, building digital workforce capabilities, post-merger integration, employee experience and culture led change. Bhushan is an award winning thought leader, public speaker, media spokesperson and influencer on "future of work”, culture, workforce strategy and diversity & inclusion. Featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC, Economist, CNBC, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, World Economic Forum, American Banker, HR Digest, Human Capital Institute and spoken at G20/T20 summits, UNDP, Wharton, MIT and multiple industry conferences, webinars and podcasts. Recognized as one of HRO 2019 superstars and part of 2019 & 2020 'most inclusive HR influencer list" Current member of T20 “Future of work task force” where he works with leading global think tanks, business and academic leaders to influence G20 public policy and current member of World Economic Forum Council on Skills and Education, having previously served on WEF Equality & Inclusion Council.

  • Senior Manager at Deloitte
    2005 - 2010 · 5 yrs

    Organization Strategies and Financial Services consulting