Harsh Binani is an Indian businessman and co-founder at Smartworks India's largest managed space provider. Harsh Binani began with a small start but always believed in reaching for the top.
Harsh is an alumnus of Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in business studies. He is an Economics graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
He also holds the CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in risk management, investment and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani started off working in the industry through chances he was given to get experience in order to help him with his future plans. With over 7 years of expertise in management and real estate consulting, Binani has worked with "Mckinsey", the world's premier consulting firm in Chicago.
Through his five years at Mckinsey He was primarily involved in tactical and operational matters in insurance, infrastructure, as well as healthcare.
He also was Chief of Staff at Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani was able to see state-of-the-art workspaces during his tenure in the United States, which made it easy for him to think about potential future career plans.
He took the decision to join Neetish Sarda, a man who was brewing with passion with his latest business, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani came to Smartworks in 2017, bringing in more ideas, passion and exceptional people skills to the team.
After the introduction of Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda, Smartworks saw exponential growth which opened the way to greater creativity to make your workspace a better experience.
Initially Smartworks was initially started as a working space, but Harsh Binani, and Neetish Sarda soon realized it to be a very crowded market that had little to no innovation in terms of products and technology or the target audience.
Once they had narrowed down their target market, the group that wanted provide services to Harsh Binani in the hopes of breaking into large companies which was a task in itself.
Big enterprises were already settled in the traditional offices with certain patterns and services.
Through initial setbacks, feedback and even a few failures, Harsh Binani Harsh Binani returned time and time repeatedly to the drawing block in search of a new approach to the things that can be the key to reshaping the thinking of big companies.
After many hours of researching, changing approaches and pitching ideas, it came to pass! Smartworks landed their first client and since then, it's always been an high climb.
Smartworks has seen an exponential growth in the five years that Harsh Binani followed this adventure, thanks to the outstanding support from the whole team.
Harsh Binani believes it is essential to ensure that you believe in the concept that you are pitching to first before making any other client believe in the idea.
The story of Harsh Binani demonstrates, it is important to point out that settling in to what everyone else is doing will just lead you to where everyone else is heading.
Success stories are born from those that persevered in what they believe in no regardless of what. Harsh Binani is one of them.
Presently, Smartworks is India's largest provider of flexible workspaces with an area of approximately. 5 million sq. ft. spread across 32 locations in 9 cities across Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, in addition to Pune) and serves over 400 organizations from Fortune 500 companies.
The huge number of customers along with the opening of new centers and the presence of a footmark in all the prime cities is testimony to the determination and arduous work performed in by Harsh Binani as well as Neetish Sarda in their goal.
Harsh Binani is one of the most influencer leaders today, paving way for entrepreneurs who are convinced in their concept and wish to leave their mark and seeking to leave a legacy of their own.