About ASHRAM
Built to solve what full-time PMs can't.

Senior program and product leadership deployed fractionally. The seniority your program demands, without the cost structure of a permanent hire.

Aditya Raninga

PgMP. PMP.
8+ years. 20+ industries.

Aditya Raninga is a PgMP and PMP-certified Senior Program Manager with over eight years of enterprise delivery experience across financial services, healthcare, SaaS, and the public sector.

The frameworks that protect programs are not industry-specific. Delivery risk looks the same everywhere.

Most recently, Aditya led the Enterprise AI PMO at one of Canada's largest financial institutions, overseeing a $200M+ portfolio of AI initiatives spanning GenAI deployment, compliance automation, and customer experience transformation. He built the governance framework, AI risk taxonomy, and stage-gate compliance structure adopted at the enterprise level.

Before that, Aditya delivered complex programs in healthcare technology, professional services, and SaaS — building a reputation for recovering failing programs, standing up governance where none existed, and communicating risk clearly to executives who need decisions, not status updates.

ASHRAM Consulting was founded to make this level of leadership accessible fractionally. No full-time overhead. No onboarding lag. Embedded seniority from day one.

Aditya Raninga, PgMP | PMP — Founder, ASHRAM Consulting
Aditya Raninga
PgMP PMP Founder
PgMP
PMI
Program Management Professional
PMI's highest program management designation. Fewer than 4,000 active holders globally. Requires 10,500+ hours of program management experience.
PMP
PMI
Project Management Professional
Globally recognised delivery certification from PMI. Held alongside PgMP — the full PMI leadership stack.
$200M+
Portfolio
Enterprise AI PMO, RBC
Led the Enterprise AI PMO at a Tier 1 Canadian financial institution. 15+ concurrent AI initiatives across compliance, CX, and internal operations.
20+
Industries
Industry Agnostic by Design
Financial services, healthcare, SaaS, public sector, professional services, retail, manufacturing. Delivery risk does not respect sector boundaries.

Most organisations don't fail to deliver because they lack talent. They fail because no one is accountable for the whole picture at the right level of seniority.

Aditya Raninga — Founder, ASHRAM
Career Timeline

Eight years of
enterprise delivery.

Key roles and programs that shaped the ASHRAM approach to fractional delivery leadership.

2024
Founder — ASHRAM Consulting LLC
Fractional Program & Product Management

Founded ASHRAM to deliver PgMP-certified fractional program and product management to complex, high-stakes enterprises across any industry. Clients in financial services, healthcare, and SaaS from day one.

2022
Enterprise AI PMO Lead
Tier 1 Canadian Financial Institution

Built the Enterprise AI PMO from the ground up. Designed the AI governance framework, risk taxonomy, and stage-gate compliance model adopted institutionally. Managed $200M+ portfolio of 15+ concurrent AI initiatives across compliance, CX, and internal operations. Directly accountable to C-suite for portfolio reporting.

2020
Senior Program Manager
Enterprise Technology & Digital Transformation

Led cross-functional technology transformation programs across financial services and healthcare verticals. Specialised in program recovery, governance standup, and regulatory compliance delivery. Achieved PgMP certification during this period.

2018
Program Manager
SaaS & Professional Services

Delivered complex multi-market SaaS implementations and professional services engagements. Built early expertise in stakeholder management at the executive level and vendor accountability frameworks. Achieved PMP certification.

2016
Project Manager
Technology Delivery

Started in enterprise technology delivery, managing software implementations and infrastructure programs. Developed foundational expertise in Agile delivery, risk management, and cross-functional team coordination across multiple industries.

The Name

What ASHRAM
stands for.

Every letter reflects a principle that drives how we work. Not a tagline — an operating philosophy.

A
AI-Driven

We leverage AI tools and intelligence to augment delivery — better risk analysis, faster synthesis, sharper reporting. Not AI for its own sake. AI where it materially improves outcomes for the client.

S
System Improvement

Every engagement is built to improve the system, not just deliver the project. Processes, governance, and frameworks that outlast the engagement and give the organisation a lasting capability uplift.

H
Human Touch

AI optimises processes. Humans navigate stakeholders, build trust, and make judgment calls in ambiguous situations. We never confuse the two. Relationship-driven delivery is not a soft skill — it is the primary skill.

R
Resource Optimisation

Full-time PMs are expensive and often underutilised across the program lifecycle. We deploy senior capability exactly where and when it is needed. Right resource, right phase, right cost structure.

A
Agile

Agile where it fits. Waterfall where constraints demand it. Hybrid where complexity requires both. Methodology serves the program — not the other way around. No framework religion.

M
Maximise Value

Every program decision is measured against business value delivered. Cost of Delay calculated. Sunk cost fallacy called out. Capacity protected. Every engagement is ultimately about protecting and growing the organisation's return on its delivery investment.

How We Operate

Six principles.
Non-negotiable.

These are not values on a wall. They are the operating standards every engagement is held to, every week.

01
Executives get decisions, not updates

SteerCo structured around decisions, risks, and escalations. Not activity summaries. Executives leave every session knowing exactly what they need to act on, and what the consequences of inaction are.

02
Bad news travels fast

Watermelon projects — green on the outside, red inside — end careers and programs. We surface real risk the moment it exists, not after it compounds. Senior leaders deserve accurate information.

03
Senior leadership, not delegation

The person who scopes the engagement is the person who executes it. No bait and switch. No junior assigned to your program after contract signature. You get the PM you hired.

04
The Shadow Org Chart matters

The formal org chart says who reports to whom. The Shadow Org Chart says who actually makes decisions and where the real blockers sit. We map both in week one. Alignment built at the right levels.

05
100% utilisation is a warning sign

Fully loaded teams have zero capacity to handle what goes wrong. We design delivery with the slack required to absorb inevitable disruption without cascading failure. Capacity protection is risk management.

06
Leave the organisation stronger

Every engagement ends with documentation, playbooks, and capability transfer. Your team should be better at delivery after working with ASHRAM than they were before we started. No dependency created.

By the Numbers

The track record
behind the engagement.

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