To find meaning and purpose is a goal of life; enacting it makes it complete. Born from the visionary “aha” of purpose, Open Flow Experience assists others to walk theirs.
About Open Flow Experience (OFE)
Open Flow Experience LLP (OFE) is a multidisciplinary strategy and advisory firm that operates at the intersection of ecology, human potential, systems thinking, spiritual entrepreneurship and conscious action.
At its core, OFE works with a fundamental premise: Human progress is deeply interlinked with awareness, adaptability, and alignment with natural and universal systems.
OFE assists clients in
- Learning for life
- Discovering purpose
- Engaging with self
- Shifts in consciousness
- Moving towards essence
- Co-creating outcomes rather than forcing them
- Becoming aligned and effective
How We Work
OFE works with a diverse global audience, including leaders, institutions, foundations, corporates, and academic ecosystems, through:
- Strategic Advisory (Transformation, Sustainability, Knowing)
- Executive & Leadership Programmes
- Research and Thematic Studies
- Institutional and Ecosystem Design
- Creative Incubation & Projects
- Conversations & Immersive Internships
Each engagement is designed to be experiential, insight-led, and outcome-oriented, enabling lasting transformation rather than short-term intervention.
Through this process, people are supported to:
- Become aware — of self, patterns, and context
- Understand consciousness beyond just concepts
- Move from information and knowledge to "knowing"
- Develop clarity of thought, feeling, and purpose
- Translate that clarity into direction and strategy
- Experience internal shifts that change external outcomes
- Move closer to who they are meant to be
What People Experience
This is what people often walk away with.
- Deeper understanding of themselves
- Access to their own inner clarity
- Alignment between thought, feeling, and action
- A genuine call to act from inner conviction
Case Study: Industry
Blue-collar workers needed to be trained.
Presentations didn't work.
Information didn't land.
So the approach shifted.
Through storytelling — connecting at a human level, something changed.
People understood and responded.
And that translated into actual outcomes on the ground.
Takeaway: Shift, connection and awareness
Case study: International KPO – Global Indian MNC
Crafted and deployed an ESG strategy when the company was under extreme pressure from clients and stakeholders to adopt ESG or face flight of investors/capital.
- Prepared policies - sustainability, environment, CSR, Supply Chain, Green Procurement and IT
- Engaged and sensitized Senior Management through focused internal workshops and built capacity
- Established KPIs and Tracking
- Case studies, sustainability disclosures and web content
Takeaway: Enhanced brand, recognition and commercial custom around ESG
Case study: Sustainable Banking
- Sustainability Strategy and Leadership–conceptualisation and implementation
- Sustainability Training/Employee Engagement–Training modules for employees, an industry first.
- Carbon Net Zero and Footprints
- Sustainability India Reporting - first in Indian banking
- SRI Fund and Strategic Philanthropy
- Environmental and Social Policy, ESG filters and ESG pre-Financing
- Client and Constituent Relationships – Aid agencies, institutions, HNI's, corporates, civil society
Takeaway: Positioning, Reputation, Business and Accolades including the prestigious FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year Award (repeat winner), USAID/USAEP Environmental Leadership, BSE Nasscom Best CSR Practices, and CMO (Singapore) Best CSR Asia Awards.
Case study: Water Management
Strategic Assistance to establish a Scandinavian water conservation firm in India and assist in international Business Development.
- Engaging with Scandinavian Embassies and their Industry Associations, stakeholders and and multifarious local entities including Government and local bodies such The Clean Ganga Mission/IIT's, Innovation Centres and Clients.
Takeaway: Business, Partnerships, Awareness on Water Conservation
Our Framework
OFE's work is anchored in four integrated pillars — the E's, collectively referred to as Essence. This comprises:
Ecology
Understanding natural and systemic intelligence
Advancing sustainable and regenerative approaches that work with natural systems, moving beyond extraction-led models towards long-term ecological and economic balance.
Education
New approaches and tools for rapidly changing times
Designing future-relevant learning ecosystems that build life skills, adaptive thinking, and global perspective, aligned with emerging geopolitical and economic realities.
Expression
Clarity in communication, meaning, and intent
Enabling individuals and organisations to cultivate clarity, meaning, and authentic communication through reflective practices, experiential programmes, and human-centric expressive development.
Energy
Working with attention, presence, and human potential
Reframing energy as a foundational driver of performance and wellbeing, integrating perspectives on focus, vitality, frequency, and systematic alignment.
This Essence is a way of being. These E's further correspond to respective P's to denote deeper connection, where Essence ultimately meets Purpose. OFE helps clients traverse this route.
From the E's to the P's
Each of the E's corresponds to a respective P, denoting a deeper connection beneath the practice.
Credentials
Viraal Balsari's three decades of experience covers Sustainability and ESG, Strategy and Partnerships, Research, Consulting, Sustainable Banking, Corporate Responsibility, and Social Impact. He has a natural affinity to Strategic Management, Transformation, and People and enjoys Creative Incubation and Spiritual Entrepreneurship; working along the continuum of ideation to execution. He has developed training modules, seeded stakeholder programmes, and implemented innovative ideas.
Viraal holds a Master of Science in Energy Management from the Norwegian School of Management (Handelshyskolen Bi) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He has lived, worked, and partaken in cultural exchange in countries as diverse as Norway, Denmark, and England. He has worked in leadership positions at marque organisations such as Harvard Business School (IRC), ABN Amro N.V. (India), Dansk Energi Management A/S, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Yes Bank. Viraal speaks three Indian languages and is a student of Spanish. His skills and interests are morphing into the raison d'être shared above, actualised through Open Flow Experience.
Viraal has full and ready support in this venture. An associated and dedicated team of 10, comprises professionals from fields as diverse as academia and education, leadership, coaching, applied research, digital platforms and performance marketing, organisational behaviour, transformation and talent management, social transformation and community building, design, construction, accounting and legal services. This team is largely based in India with some members resident overseas. Further resources, pooled on a project basis both in India and internationally are also available.
Viraal Balsari
Visionary & Practitioner