Author & Leadership Profile
Esha Bhasin
CEO & Founder, Autism Center of Excellence
Esha Bhasin is the CEO and founder of Autism Center of Excellence (AutismCOE), a multi-state provider of ABA therapy, early intervention, speech therapy, and autism diagnostic evaluations across North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.
2026 TBJ Corporate Leadership Award
About Esha
A Medicaid & Public-Health Operator, Now Building the Autism Care Her Own Family Couldn’t Find
Esha founded AutismCOE after a member of her own family was diagnosed with autism, and she saw firsthand how difficult it was to find quality, timely care. That experience shaped AutismCOE’s core commitment: evidence-based care with no waitlist, and real support navigating insurance and Medicaid.
“That experience shaped AutismCOE’s core commitment: evidence-based care with no waitlist, and real support navigating insurance and Medicaid.”
Before founding AutismCOE, Esha spent nine years as a Senior Consultant at KPMG, where she led Medicaid implementation programs for state governments — coordinating subject-matter experts to ensure the smooth delivery of large, complex public-health programs. That hands-on understanding of how Medicaid and public-health systems are actually built is central to how AutismCOE removes barriers for the families it serves.
In 2026, Esha was named a recipient of the Triangle Business Journal Corporate Leadership Award.
At a Glance
CEO & Founder
Autism Center of Excellence — Jul 2021–present
2026 Triangle Business Journal
Corporate Leadership Award
Serves
North Carolina, Virginia & Maryland
Recognition & Verification
2026 Triangle Business Journal Corporate Leadership Award
In 2026, Esha was named a recipient of the Triangle Business Journal Corporate Leadership Award — recognition of her leadership in building AutismCOE into a multi-state autism-care platform. This is corporate leadership recognition, not clinical or outcomes validation.
Recently Published Blogs By Esha Bhasin
Read More From the AutismCOE Blog
Esha writes and is featured across AutismCOE’s blog on Medicaid navigation, autism care access, and building family-first healthcare systems.
Unit 23: ABA for School Readiness: The Role of Siblings and Peers
Children on the autism spectrum do not want to be social and do not like to have friends is a common myth. Actually, they find it hard to initiate and maintain social interactions with their peers. This could be a result of different conditions such...
Unit 22: ABA and School Readiness: Building Positive Behaviors
ABA and School Readiness are interconnected because ABA intervention can help children develop the skills and behaviors essential for school readiness. ABA helps children with autism to adapt to their school and the expectations of others, and deal...
Unit 21: Fostering Emotional Intelligence in Children: A Guide for Parents
EI is not just for forming and maintaining good relationships, it is also required by people to deal with stress and to achieve success in life. Kids with high Emotional Intelligence (EI) tend to be more courageous, persistent, sympathetic, and...