The ongoing pandemic can be viewed as a great leveller, with 1.30 billion Indians having been brought together by multiple nationalized lockdowns and safety guidelines. There has been devastation all around – jobs lost - incomes lost – families lost. The key question that is confronting organizations is that should they continue with their narrow focus on profits but also embed sustainability and social purpose while driving business continuity.
There are two aspects to this discourse. One, consumers are increasingly evaluating companies based on being purpose driven, their environmental, social, and corporate governance factors. Two, it has been observed several times that companies that execute with “purpose” as the base have greater odds of creating significant long-term value generation, which can lead to stronger financial performance, increased employee engagement, and higher customer trust. How can purpose driven businesses impact and grow at the same time?
"My purpose is to demonstrate that exceptional outcomes can be delivered with good old values of dignity, respect, and fairness; and that purposeful business is wholly compatible with profitable business."
Nitin was appointed as Chief Operating Officer on 1 May 2019 and has been a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive since October 2013. In his COO role, he is responsible for delivering in year results (P&L) for Unilever globally.
In delivering this, he will focus on creating a faster and more responsive business focused on consumers and channels in each market. Nitin will also focus on leveraging synergies, building future capabilities, and accelerating the digitisation of the organisation.
His most recent role was President, Foods & Refreshment, and before this Nitin was President of Unilever’s Home Care Division from 2013 until 2017.
Nitin joined Unilever at Hindustan Lever Limited (India) in 1987 where he held various roles in marketing and sales. In 2000, he moved to Unilever London and was involved in a review of the organisation structure. During 2001, he worked as Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Unilever Executive Committee.
On his return to India in 2002, Nitin held more senior positions in laundry and household care, including Vice President Home Care, India (2004) and Executive Director for Home & Personal Care, India (2006).
In April 2008 he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Hindustan Unilever Limited, India and Executive Vice President for Unilever, South Asia.
Nitin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIM), in Mumbai, India.
For his efforts in blazing a trail for diversity, he won the GG2 Hammer Award in 2019. Previous winners were Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid. In 2020 he was given a Kindness Award by the Women of the Future network in recognition of his leadership, guidance and empathy. At the end of 2020, he was nominated to be appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of Heineken N.V. Nitin is married with two children and is based in London.
Mr. Sanjay Behl, Chairman of CII’s Leadership & HR National Committee 2021-22, Co-founder of Nextqore Inc. A US Delaware Based Company. CEO of Nextqore Private Limited - 100% subsidiary of Nextqore Inc. EVP Global Marketing, Nextqore Inc.
Ex-CEO of Raymond Lifestyle Businesses for 7 years (2013-2020) - Responsible for Textile, Apparel and Retail businesses. Executive board member of Raymond Apparel limited from 2013-2020
Besides the last 7-years in Textiles industry, 2 decades of prior work experience with 10-years in FMCG and 10-years in Telecom. Worked Hindustan Unilever, Nokia and Reliance in diverse functional and business leadership capacities across all the organizations, in India, Asia Pacific and Globally. Led some of the top Indian and Global brands – Vim, Surf, Rin, Sunlight, Nokia, Reliance amongst others; and 3 Global IPR's in Brand & Marketing operations.
Business and brand leadership experience ranging across consumer goods to service industry – project set-up, operation scale-up and managing large established brands and businesses. Led teams of diverse skill sets, experience, scale, structures, locations, cultures and nationalities.
Graduated from IIT BHU (Varanasi) and MBA from Sydenham Institute of Management, Mumbai. Avid enthusiast of technology and gadgets, a die-hard cricket aficionado and enjoy painting.
In today’s competitive business landscape, organizations have realized that they cannot go alone. Industry leaders are recognizing the power of “ecosystems”—a proven construct that can drive growth. They need the help of partners that bring unique capabilities, data, customers, and industry knowledge that can be a source of innovation. COVID-19 has added impetus across the field: a rise in automation and artificial intelligence, growth of ESG and stakeholder capitalism, an increase in intangible assets as primary sources of value. This was also a shared experience that reminded organizations across industries of the need to partner with each other to drive value.
The voice is loud and clear. Businesses must pursue innovative, agile business models to remain competitive and grow outside of their traditional core business—and many perceive “ecosystems” as a strong opportunity to do so. This session would give you an overview on
Nathan is a Partner and Chief Talent Officer of Deloitte India. He is a member of the Indian leadership team and serves on the Talent Executive Leadership of the Asia Pacific Region. He has over 30 years of experience in HR management, across diverse industries including Manufacturing, Services, Telecom, and Information Technology. He is an industry leader, mentor and an advocate of ethical leadership and developing future leaders through coaching. He has been acknowledged as one of the top Voices of LinkedIn 2020.
Dr. Richard Lobo is presently the Head of Innovation and the CQH . He is responsible for anchoring Technology Innovations that create at-scale long term impact and deliver disruptions into a competitive advantage. In his former role he was the Head of Corporate Strategy, Business Excellence and continuous improvement for India, US, UK, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco and Singapore operations at Tata Chemicals. Over the past few years he has been responsible for developing strategies for growth in South America, Africa, Australia and Asia.
He has over 18 years of experience in leading businesses, anchoring Business Excellence, Business Strategy, Innovation, Operational Effectiveness and EBITDA Improvement for multi-million dollar enterprises.
Dr. Lobo has a degree in Bio-Technology from the University of Mumbai and is an alumnus of IIM- Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology –Bombay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx), USA. Furthermore, he is a three time Gold Standard Champion at the Tata Business Excellence Leadership Program, Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a certified Computer & Electronics professional
In 2020 YourStory chose Dr. Lobo as one of the Top 50 Storytellers that bring Ideas to life. He has been recognized as a Global Industry Expert in Design Thinking by The Economic Times Masterclass 2021. Dr Lobo serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Tata Chemicals Ltd, and is Chairman of the TCL Institutional Biosafety Council in addition to Governing Council Member of The Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science & Technology and member of Technology Hub for EV Energy Storage set up by Dept. Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
A transformational and seasoned technology business leader with over 25 years of industry experience in leading innovation, engineering, product management and business development. Pankaj has built and led businesses across different technology stream like data communication, wireless technologies, end to end IOT platforms, cloud and mobile applications. At Siemens, he leads about 6000 employees working to provide innovative solutions in - Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructures, Mobility, Smart Energy and connected devices. Prior to Siemens, Pankaj held senior management positions at Cisco, Intel and GE Healthcare. He co-founded GainSpan which was later acquired by Telit Communications. Pankaj holds 32 granted U.S. patents. Driven by a value creation mindset, Pankaj is passionate about building entrepreneurial teams, which he believes is core to building innovative technology businesses of the future.
Mr. T.K. Srirang, Group Chief Human Resources Officer, heads Human Resources function & Infrastructure Management Services Group for ICICI Bank Limited. He also oversees the human resources function for ICICI group companies. He is a Member of the Research Advisory Council of IIT Bombay - Monash Research Academy, Member of Society of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Member of the Governing Body of The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), National Secretary & Board Member of National HRD Network and former Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) HR Sub Committee Western zone.
Mr. Srirang holds an MBA degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations and Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. He has been with the Bank since 2001.
In his 25 years of work experience at organisations like Coca-Cola India Limited, Ford India Limited, ICI India limited and ICICI Bank, Srirang has handled Industrial Relations, Mergers, Capability building, Leadership Development, Performance Management, Talent acquisition and Employee Engagement processes.
Manu Narang Wadhwa A human resource management specialist, Manu joined Sony Pictures Networks India in 2019 to drive the people strategy for the network. In her current role, she is responsible to create a compelling employee experience while establishing leadership and promoting best talent practices. With a career spanning over two decades, across various industries and countries, she has piloted the workplace and people agenda for dynamic global organizations like American Express & General Electric, in roles as Head HR, Talent & Development, M&A, HR Transformation, Change & Digital Innovation. Prior to joining SPN in 2019, Manu was associated with Coca-Cola, as the Head of Human Resources - India and South West Asia. She is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – National Leadership & HR Committee, Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) – Asia Pacific Advisory Board, Chandigarh University Corporate Advisory Board and Jombay Advisory Board. Manu holds a PGDBA in Human Resources from Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Rajasthan. An epicurean globetrotter, Manu likes to travel and experience culinary delights from across the world.
Although many companies continue to pursue a singular vision of the ideal leadership style, the ongoing crisis mandates tomorrow’s leaders to be able to thrive across multiple complex environments and navigate unforeseen challenges. As the world aligns itself to the new normal, there is a felt need to approach organizational leadership for the emerging current context. There is an urgent need to break the fixed solid models and graduate to leading with compassion, courage and be risk defiant. This will essentially involve appreciating and maintaining an equilibrium between the right and the left brain. In this context, organizations are seeking a new model for the age of agility and there is an increasing thrust on empathy, trust, conscious leadership as the new ask of leadership. This session aims todiscuss:
Robert Neuhauser is deeply rooted in a strong science background, as a Physicist with a PHD in Chemistry from TUM Munich and a Post Doc in Bio-Nanotech at MIT. Throughout his career, he has gained an unusual blend of leadership experiences, serving as a Senior Director for Corporate Strategy at Infineon, as COO in Siemens Healthcare Particle Therapy , as CEO of Siemens Motion Control systems and Chairman of the Board of Directors at a German-Chinese high-tech Joint Venture. Currently he is using his combined strategic, technological and leadership skills to help transform one of the largest innovative tech-corporations worldwide as Siemens’ Global Head of Talent and Leadership.
The Human Resources function has witnessed dramatic shift in purpose and processes during and in the aftermath of the pandemic. While HR has been the custodian of people and people related matters in organizations, does the present situation necessities the HR function to change its approach of handling the people agenda.
In this context, attendees will learn how conscious HR practice will enable:
Biddappa joined Unilever in India (then Hindustan Lever Limited) after working in Consulting for a little over 2 years. In a career spanning over 29 years in Unilever in Human Resources, he has worked in a variety of roles starting in India and then in HR leadership positions across markets and global roles in Unilever. Prior to his present role, he was the Executive Director HR for Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) and Vice President, HR for Unilever South Asia leading the function for Unilever’s businesses in South Asia for over 6 years from early 2013.
Since June 2019, he is the Global Vice President, HR for Unilever’s Home Care and H&W businesses and leads the team on Organization and People Analytics for Unilever. He is on the Global HR leadership team for Unilever and is currently based between London and Mumbai.
Biddappa has studied Economics and Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Biddappa loves playing Squash, is an avid reader (especially in coffee shops) and his purpose is to “Shape a better business that makes a better world”.
Rajesh Padmanabhan, is an accomplished corporate executive, board advisor, master coach & a start-up Entrepreneur. He brings more than 30 years of global diversified business, operating & consulting experience across industries in IT Services, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Mining & Metals, Banking & Infrastructure. He has successful track record of driving digital transformation, building boards, Excos and top teams along with driving effectiveness, running large human resources function globally with experience in corporate banking as business head & driving strategy.
Career History
Rajesh is an influential Senior Business Transformation leader and a matrix global professional who has done seven roles in seven varied industries, to his credit. Started his career handling systems on mainframes he went on to become a corporate banker, run P&L’s, execute Corporate Strategy, do new institutional business of SME ( Small & Medium Enterprises), SAP Functional, Business Consulting & Global HR. He built convergence between Business & People keeping Technology at the forefront. He has been in global roles for over 3 decades and managed diverse cross-cultured teams across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia & APAC.
He is passionate about digital acceleration, leadership development, people & culture change & skills building holistically for business value & excellence creation in his various roles with ICICI Group, Essel Propack as Global CHRO, The Oberoi Group as EVP, Group HR & OCLD ( Oberoi Centre for Learning & Development), EVP & Global CHRO at I-Gate , Group CVP, Business Consulting & CHRO Capgemini, Group CHRO for Vedanta Resources Plc and Welspun Group as Director & Group CHRO.
He has created customer – centric global business models across geographies with world class capabilities, building organisational excellence & running complex yet efficient structures to create enterprise value.
He now runs a new age business transformation lab, Talavvy (www.talavvy.com) as CEO using research, simulation, prototyping, validation & deep testing in the areas of digital acceleration, people & culture change, marketing & communication and leadership services.
He is on the board of Cornerstone International Group and is a Business Mentor with The Exco Group ( formerly Merryck & Company, Americas).
He is also on the National Board of CII Leadership & HR & is appointed as the Chairman of the CII HR Incubation Centre ( CHIC).
Personal
Rajesh is a Double Masters in Human Resource & Finance from the University of Mumbai. He won an UN Award for building world class diversity & inclusive practices at Capgemini. His hobbies include Cricket, Fitness, Motorcycles, Travelling & Research.
Ashok is the Group Executive President - Group Human Resources at the Aditya Birla Group.
In this role, he oversees HR for a portfolio consisting of a set of businesses across the conglomerate, as well as the Group Centres of Expertise - of Learning & Talent Development, Talent Staffing and Employee Relations.
Ashok carries over 32 years of rich and varied experience in HR, spanning multiple sectors in companies such as Asian Paints, GE Capital, Tata AIG Insurance and Vodafone India, prior to joining ABG in Group HR in October 2015. He has also moved across roles in IR and HR, as well as heading Factory Operations when in Ankleshwar, Gujarat with Asian Paints.
Across his career, Ashok has led HR teams to deliver both strong, strategic impact as well as building depth of HR processes. Ashok is a strong believer in talent and potential, and building of strong opportunities and careers for people.
Ashok was awarded the Seasoned HR Professional by NHRDN in 2015, and the CHRO of the Year – 2017 at the Business World Excellence Awards.
A seasoned human resources professional with over three decades of experience across industries like engineering, automobiles, services and pharmaceuticals, having more than two decades of experience in Pharmaceutical industry. He has experience in working with various organizations with multicultural workforce across geographies.
Experience in talent management and maximizing human performance through strategic application of a variety of HR initiatives. Successful track record of addressing challenges related to talent acquisition, development, diversity, total rewards, retention, employee relations, mergers and acquisitions, training & OD. Partnered closely with the business to drive strategic HR initiatives and managed operational responsibilities for effective talent management, maximizing productivity, change management, employee diversity, succession planning, organizational design and employee engagement in various leadership positions.
Currently working with Viatris as Head of HR-Global Operations, India, Emerging Asia & Access Markets.
Prior to Viatris (Mylan) worked with Ranbaxy as Global Head of Human Resources. held various HR leadership positions of Head of HR for Global R&D, Global Manufacturing & Quality, Corporate & Global Business Operations covering more than 132 countries. Was on Board of Ranbaxy Russia, South Africa, Poland, Zenotech and other Overseas Subsidiaries.
Previously held HR leadership positions with the Turner Morrison Group, India Tourism Development Corporation Limited, and Kelvinator of India Ltd (Whirlpool).
Udbhav holds Master's Degree in Business Administration and Human Resources Management and Bachelor's Degree in Science (Chemistry Honours) and Laws.
Professional Memberships
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : National Committee on Leadership and HR; IBDN American Chamber of Commerce in India, IMA India's CHRO Forum Life Member;
It is an established fact that hierarchical organizations and siloed teams stifle productivity and growth. Before the pandemic, however, many companies found it difficult to drive an operating-model reinvention when there were plenty of other competing priorities. The pandemic made it clear that they were far more capable than they had imagined of significantly changing the way they work. What calls for in future times is designing an agile and networked organizational structure.
This session will discuss
Yogi Sriram with 44 years in HR leadership am currently serving as Advisor to CEO & MD, Group Human Resources, Larsen & Toubro.
Sriram is a self-driven and focused thought leader, has proven expertise in the areas of HR Strategy, Policies, Senior level hiring, Team Building, Talent Spotting, Succession Planning, Career Sculpting, Mentoring, Organisation Development, Talent Management and Change Management. His leadership experience in HR spans across the Engineering, Construction, Hydrocarbon, Power, FMCG and Hospitality industry. He has led HR for logos such as L&T, Dabur, BP, Taj, ABB and NTPC.
Sriram’s goal is now to contribute to industry with his experience in leading HR for over 4 decades for large companies and more particularly after leading the HR function of India's most successful and large engineering and construction conglomerate L&T. At L&T, he has contributed by conceptualizing & implementing a Performance Management System called FAIR, developing a high potential programme with over 19000 assessments of leaders in 2 decades and several other first of the kind HR Policies, particularly in the area of Leadership Development & Talent Management.
The latest skill that he has developed over the last two years is Mentoring of business and functional leaders
Membership in professional fora:
Hobbies:
Collects HO/OO Scale Model Trains. Enjoys conversion of analogue trains into digital trains Likes wildlife photography particularly shy mammals, ODK, owls and other birds in flight photography particularly shy mammals, ODK, owls and other birds in flight
Faridun is a Partner and Master Expert and leads McKinsey’s Human Capital practice in Asia. Since joining McKinsey in 2002, he has focused on top team alignment and coaching, capability building at scale, mindset and behaviour change, leadership development and creating agile organizations. Over the last few years, he has served multiple clients across the world on these topics, plays a leadership role in McKinsey Accelerate (global capability building arm) been a formal coach and counselor to many senior executives.
His areas of expertise include:
A sample of his recent work in the last one year includes
Faridun holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Mumbai University and a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2002, he obtained his MBA from the London Business School. He is also a Certified Ontological Coach from the Newfield Institute. He holds multiple other certifications (Leadership Circle, Leadership Embodiment) and is a speaker at numerous conferences across Asia.
Atrayee is VPHRM in Tata Steel Ltd. She has spent 23 years in the company with 19years in Marketing & Sales spearheading the Branding Journey for the Steel Company. She is Humanities graduate with and MBA and has completed General Management Programme from CEDEP INSEAD France. She won the Chevening Scholarship by the British Govt. She has handled wide areas of HR and IR for past 4+ years before taking over as the Vice President HRM. She has been a passionate proponent of Diversity and Inclusion in her organisation and dreams to achieve the aspiring target for the same in the coming future. She is serving on the boards of The Tinplate Company of India Ltd (TCIL) & (KGSSL) Kalimati Global Shared Services Ltd - subsidiaries of Tata Steel, Indian Iron & Steel Sector Skill Council (IISSSC) and the European Centre for Executive Development (CEDEP-INSEAD), France.
Nikhil Maini is an entrepreneur at heart, a passionate rock climber and an avid reader. He started his journey as an HR Practitioner in 1996 with Jet Airways and went on to work with JP Morgan Chase. His final stint was with Hutchison Whampoa group where he headed HR for their telecom businesses in Australia.
In 2007, Nikhil founded his parent company Seven People Systems Pvt. Ltd. and has worked with more than 450+ organisations across 22+ industries globally.
In 2018, Nikhil started OKR International, a brand dedicated to growing the practice of OKRs globally. OKR International is a globally recognised OKR Services firm today, with clients across a dozen countries world-wide.
Nikhil is a coach and behaviorist by profession and over the last 25 years, he helped companies grow through his expertise in strategy planning, execution and organisation development.
The New ecosystem requires the need to reinvent organizational culture to meet the new business strategy and organizational design, adapt emotional and cultural drivers, reimagine the organization’s purpose, focus on the evolving employee expectations, and shape a future culture that is conducive to a great employee experience. The HR function is expected to anchor and lead the culture change process and help organizations to be more agile, risk-tolerant, experimental and resilient.
Companies that unlock a winning culture at speed and scale will transform at a pace that leaves their competitors behind. Developing a workplace culture around a growth mindset can be critical in helping employees become more engaged with and excited about their work, even in the face of challenges. In today’s fast moving and technology rich environment, HR needs to catalyze an organizational culture that identifies challenges and opportunities in order to keep their organizations growing.
Join in the session to engage in a provocative conversation around
Microsoft Responsibilities:
Ira Gupta leads the HR function for Microsoft in India which has an employee footprint that spans sales and marketing, research and development and customer services and support, in 11 Indian cities in the country. She is focused on making Microsoft India an exceptional place to work for its 16,000+ employees and ensures that Microsoft India is creating a culture that attracts and inspires talent that is passionate about achieving Microsoft’s mission.
Pre-Microsoft Work Experience:
Prior to Microsoft, Ira was part of the India leadership team at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare where, over 16 years, she worked in various leadership roles across HR, Sales and Marketing, Communications and CSR. Apart from leading a number of strategic HR initiatives for GSK, Ira was instrumental in setting up the communications & CSR functions for the company in India. Ira is also an Independent Director on a number of boards of companies in India.
Education:
Ira holds an Masters in Business Administration with a specialization in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India.
Anand Narasimhan is the Shell Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Faculty and Research at IMD, Lausanne. Anand advises organizations on transforming their leadership capability and on dynamics of boards. Anand's research on organizational change and leadership appears in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Academy of Management Journal.
Organizations are simultaneously experiencing two seismic shifts- one is an accelerative shift towards the future of work and the other is a paradigmatic shift in the future of the worker and workplace. Together, the two shifts will create exponential changes in how we organize and operate our businesses.
This session will discuss:
Raghu is a seasoned global executive with 36+ years of experience in driving business outcomes as a Human Resources professional. He retired from General Electric (GE) as the CHRO in early 2019, after 25 years with the company—doing work that spanned three continents, several multi-billion-dollar lines of business, and exciting corporate leadership roles. Raghu was also the head of talent and Chief Learning Officer of the company. At Mentora, Raghu serves as an Executive Director and Senior Faculty, leveraging his experience and expertise in driving pragmatic, application-oriented solutions in learning and transformational change.
Raghu is an expansive, creative thinker who leans into complex business challenges and garners trust through his authentic leadership style. He is often sought out to share his expertise at colleges and forums like Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the Economist, the Milken Institute, etc. He has authored a number of articles published in a number of publications, including HBR. He is a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Minnesota and has a management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was named as one of the top 50 Asian Americans in the world of business in 2009.
Raghu lives in Chicago with his wife, Bala and has two daughters who work in New York. In his spare time, Raghu likes to read, write, teach classical music and enjoys a good workout. A lifelong learner, he is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at UPenn.
Current responsibilities
Tanvi is responsible for leading the People Strategy for JLL India (-12,000 employees), JLL Business Services, Global (-2500 employees) and APAC Capital Markets (-500). Tanviwith a strong team of more than 100 HR professionals partners with the India Leadership Council of JLL, JLL Business Services Global Leadership and APAC Capital Markets Leadership to deliver Firm's growth and sustain its leadership position in the industry through progressive talent management practices.
JLL is the market leader in terms of market share, revenues, profitability, and team size for all the business lines in India. JLL India has been certified as a Great Place to Work for the fifth year(2021) in a row. JLL is a Fortune 200 Firm that creates value for its people and its clients, Globally, JLL operates in 1,000 locations across 80 countries
Experience
Tanvi joined us in 2017 and she brings in over 16 years of rich work experience from diverse industries ranging from Automobile, Agriculture, HealthCare, FMCG and now to Real Estate & Professional Services.
She has worked across different facets of Human Resources which includes Organizational Design & Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures and HR Transformation.
Contact
T: +91 9821872273 E: tanvi.choksi@apill.com
Education
MBA Human Resources from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2003-2005)
BMS-Finance from S.I.E.S College of Commerce and Economics (2000-2003)
Accolades
Ms. Shanta Vallury Gandhi is the Head of Human Resource, CSR and Internal Branding at RBL Bank. Ms. Gandhi brings with her over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector spanning various roles and functions including Business, HR and CSR. She has been in business for more than 25 years and in 2015 she moved to Head-HR
She is part of the core transformational team that set up RBL Bank. She has been instrumental in designing the HR, CSR policies, competency framework of the Bank and is also is the Chairperson of the Diversity Committee as well as the Staff Accountability Committee of the Bank. As Head of CSR she has formulated the CSR policy, strategy, planned employee engagement initiatives and has been responsible in making the Bank a socially responsible organization both in spirit and action.
Prior to joining RBL Bank, Ms. Gandhi was Vice President, Acquisitions and Partnerships with American Express in Gurgaon, India where she was successfully leading a channel of effective leaders and sales managers to drive the efficiencies across channels and products. She was managing the largest team of people in Amex India spread over multiple locations, and was also appointed as a key member of the Country Executive Team.
Prior to that, Ms. Gandhi spent a decade with ICICI Bank ,where she was responsible for channel development for cards, personal loans and consumer durable business for the Western region, expansion of the existing DSA channel and creating alternate channels of distribution like the DST network and telemarketing.
She has been the proud recipient of the awards Exemplary Women in Social Sector, From SVP India, Leading Woman in Banking Sector, From iiGlobal and NDTV Profit (Media Partner), Shining Image of India, From AIESAC
Ms. Gandhi is also Dream President of Rotary Club of Mumbai Inspire for the Year 21-22. Her focus is on Diversity & Inclusion and all her models are paying forward with not just giving back to the society.
Ms. Gandhi has a Masters in Marketing Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Masters in Economics from University of Mumbai.
Current Responsibilities
Sandeep is the Managing Director of JLL Work Dynamics in West Asia for JLL. This includes all products that we sell to occupiers - Facility Management Services, Project Management, Transactions Advisories, Lease Management & Workplace Consulting businesses. In his current role as a P&L owner, he is responsible for providing strategic direction to the business and focuses on strengthening client relationships, new business, and ensuring excellence in service delivery. He is a keen advocate of skill development, D&I, technology applications in real estate, and sustainability. Sandeep is a part of JLL’s sustainability council, India CSR committee and also JLL’s APAC diversity & inclusion council. Besides that he is on the governing council of NSDC’s Toursim & Hospitality Sector Skill Council and also chairs the subcommittee for industry engagement and placements.
Having trained as a Mechanical Engineer, Sandeep has over 25 years of experience in the corporate sector and has held a diverse set of roles ranging from general management to strategic leadership.
Prior to joining JLL in 2013, Sandeep led multiple service businesses in the smart building, food refrigeration and telecom industries, for organizations such as UTC and Johnson Controls in India, China, Singapore, USA and Africa.
Education and Affiliations
MBA- University of Dallas, USA MS- Mechanical Engg, Oklahoma State University, USA BE- Mechanical Engg. Poona University, India Courses taken LSE – Summer School Leader Development Courses @ IIM-A&B
T: +91 9990399754 E: sandeep.sethi@ap.jll.com
Sangeeta Ray is a Chartered Accountant by profession also did her Executive MBA from ISB (a premier institute). In her current role she is running as Head of Real Estate Business of Siemens in - India & Bangladesh, responsible for over 6000k sq ft. of property across the two countries and helping Siemens maintain their offices and industrial locations in line with business needs and also at par with latest technologies at the right price points.
In the past Sangeeta has been leading assignments in the nature of controlling , Audit and general management. Her strengths have been perceived by the management in the area of Entrepreneurship and Process Orientation.
She has been working with Siemens for more than 30 years now and has worked in various capacities , business, entities , gaining a diverse experience which makes her perspicacious & versatile. Because she is from commercial background, she believes her strength lies in blending business needs with innovations and with this belief has been steering various leading-edge innovation & digitally advanced developments in the growing Real Estate market. Her nature of learning, re-learning, un-learning with time and an open mindset is what has been of great help to her in her need to be relevant.
Shilpa Kabra Maheshwari is Executive Vice President & Country Head (Human Resources) at Siemens Limited. At Siemens, Shilpa is leading the HR function and is passionate about making a difference to organisation transformation and talent building through leadership development, culture enablement diversity and inclusion and digital change management.
An experienced management professional Shilpa comes with more than twenty-two years of experience with a wide exposure to various facets of business and strategic HR. Her forte lies in launching and facilitating major capability building, leadership development and change programs. She has designed, established and facilitated large scale change and people transformation initiatives across new setups, pre-opening teams, greenfield projects, R&D engineering centres with consistent success. She has held leadership positions across Engineering, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Gas and Financial Services sectors with 7000+ workforce in multicultural environments.
Shilpa has graduated in Economics (Hons) from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and holds an MBA in Human Resources from Faculty of Management Studies, Udaipur. She has a keen interest in Leadership Studies and its applications to the industry and holds a doctorate thesis in Human Resources in the area of Leadership Development. She is an accredited trainer by Marriott, HR Excellence Assessor by CII, Assessment Center Assessor, Hay Job evaluation & DISC Profiling and a certified coach. Also a passionate writer, she has authored a book “Human Resource Strategy - Architecture for Change”, published by Sage India.
Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and over 30 books. He edited Human Resource Management 1990-1999, served on editorial board of 4 Journal and on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller (16 years), has spoken to large audiences in 90 countries; performed workshops for over half of the Fortune 200; coached successful business leaders, and is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. He is known for continually learning, turning complex ideas into simple solutions, and creating real value to those he works with in three fields.
Organization. With co-authors, he has influenced thinking about modern organizations (Reinventing the Organization) by empirically showing how organization delivers 4 times business results over talent (Victory Through Organization), defined organizations as bundles of capabilities (Organization Capability) and worked to delineate capabilities of talent management (Why of Work; Talent Accelerator), culture change (GE Workout), learning (Learning Organization Capability), and collaboration (Boundaryless Organization).
Leadership. With colleagues, he has also articulated the basics of effective leadership (Leadership Code and Results Based Leadership), connected leadership with customers (Leadership Brand), shown how leadership delivers market value (Why the Bottom Line Isn’t), shapes investor expectations with an ability to measure leadership (Leadership Capital Index), and synthesized ways to ensure that leadership aspirations turn into actions (Leadership Sustainability).
Human Resources. He and his colleagues have shaped the HR profession and he has been called the “father of modern HR” and “HR thought leader of the decade” by focusing on HR outcomes, governance, competencies, and practices (HR Champions; HR Value Added; HR Transformation; HR Competencies; HR Outside In). He spearheaded a “gift” book on the future of HR (The Rise of HR) distributed to over 1,500,000 HR professionals), in which 70 thought leaders freely shared their insights.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped existing workforce trends and catalyzed new ones. Hybrid Work Is the New Remote Work. Many companies are rethinking the workforce mix and beginning to rely on highly skilled freelancers and the ever-growing gig economy. The expansion of remote work and a dynamic need for new capabilities have given way to an on-demand talent model. The emergence of the gig economy requires organizations to manage a hybrid workforce of contractors, gig workers, temporary workers, and on-roll employees. Reimagining the factory/ in-person set-up as a virtual/ hybrid and/or less-contact one in order to create a dynamic, distributed and inclusive workplace will also be a key future consideration. A systematic approach to post pandemic ways of working can capture the upsides of these models while mitigating the risks.
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Avijit currently is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Tata Capital Limited, the Financial Services company of the Tata Group. Prior to this role, Avijit was the founding CEO of Tata Cleantech Capital Limited (a Joint Venture between Tata Capital Limited and The International Finance Corporation, Washington) from 2012 to 2015 and the CEO of Tata Securities Limited (the Equity Broking and Investment Banking arm of Tata Capital) from 2007 to 2012. Avijit continues to be a Director on the Board of Tata Securities.
In the early part of his career, Avijit held key positions in Tata Motors in the Passenger Car Business Unit handling Strategy and in Corporate Finance handling Mergers and Acquisitions. He was also the COO of Tata TD Waterhouse Securities Pvt Ltd, a Joint Venture between the Tata Group and Toronto Dominion Bank of Canada.
Avijit is a second generation Tata employee and spent his growing up years in Jamshedpur. Having ranked All India 11th in the Std XII ISC Board Exam, he went on to obtain a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT - Kanpur followed by a MBA from IIM - Bangalore. Thereafter he joined The Tata Group as a TAS (Tata Administrative Services) Officer, and over the last 25 years, has worked on various assignments in the areas of Automotive and Financial Services.
He is a Fulbright Scholar, having undergone the Fulbright Program at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 2006 and was recognized as a Young Leader by the British High Commission in 2013. Avijit is also a member of the CII National Committee on Leadership and HR.
Pankaj is an entrepreneur, who believes in the power of work capital i.e., deploying capital to give meaning and access to work. This thought led him to create two ventures which are constantly transforming the world of Work and HR Tech.
Pankaj is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of PeopleStrong, which comprises three independent businesses: PeopleStrong HR Tech, Taggd, and Wheebox and Founding Partner of Work10M, an initiative that aims to make work accessible to 10 million people by 2030.
A part of the Prime Minister’s task force of Mission KarmYogi – Pankaj is working with the Government of India for introducing capacity building and reforms in bureaucracy. He is also on the advisory board of Sunstone Eduversity, India’s only Pay after Placement B-School
Pankaj believes that an equitable world should be our gift to the next generation and supports the cause through YouinYou, a trust that works to provide education to underprivileged kids, where he is the Founder Trustee and as the member of Advisory Board of Empower Foundation – a not for profit organisation.
On Twitter : @PankajBansalPB
Sonali is the Vice-President Human Resources for Asia Pacific, India, Middle-East & Africa Supply Chain, Labour Relations and Singapore Headquarters at Procter & Gamble. She has holistic leadership experience of 23 years across P&G, leading multicultural organisations in Country/Region HR leadership, handling mergers /acquisitions, Business Partnership, Change Management, Talent Development, Equality & Inclusion./p>
She has lived and worked in India, Vietnam, Singapore, building a legacy of talent internally, as well as the external community via mentoring. Arising out of her first-hand experience as a female leader pursuing an international career, Sonali is committed to driving positive change and inclusion in the organization and community.
Krishnamurthy (Krish) Shankar is an Executive Vice President and the Group Head of Human Resource Development at Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for envisioning the roadmap for HR, driving strategy, and implementing operational priorities aligned with the overall organizational mandate./p>
Krish has over 30 years of experience and has led several global HR functions in organizations like Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Unilever and Unilever. Prior to joining Infosys, Krish was the Head of HR for South Asia at Philips. In his wide ranging experience in these organizations, he has led the transformation of HR into a strategic partner, facilitated organization-wide transformation and capability development, and was instrumental in building a strong talent pool through a series of leadership development initiatives.
Krish holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and has received an executive certificate in Strategy and Organization from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Krish is an avid reader, loves wildlife photography, and trekking. A football enthusiast, he occasionally runs half-marathons. He is passionate about teaching and exploring new ideas in HR and organization development. Krish is based in Bangalore.
As organizations emerge out of the pandemic, the HR function is negotiating a new talent landscape to craft a strong and durable talent strategy for the post-pandemic world. While efficient and effective hiring continue to be important, HR must also consider the effects of large workforce transitions accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis and the key role that reskilling plays in helping close talent gaps. The blurring line between work and life while working remotely means that employee experience is even more critical and HR is expected to foster engagement and inclusion for all employees. The new Talent Mantra will involve moving away from a traditional approach and link talent to value, the best talent should be shifted into critical value-driving roles. Also, there is a great need to optimize workforce planning and strategy to tap into growth opportunities in the post-COVID-19 world.
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Saurabh Govil is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Wipro, and a member of the Management Team. He leads all Wipro’s HR functions, including talent acquisition, talent engagement, and learning and development programs.
Saurabh has been a HR practitioner for over two decades, and has worked with organizations like ITC and GE. Since joining Wipro in May, 2009, he has been instrumental in transforming the organization. His work with people, processes, and organizational structure over the last three years has contributed significantly to Wipro’s growth, improving operations and introducing many new initiatives.
Saurabh is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur where he completed his master’s in human resources. He is on the advisory board of SHRM India. Saurabh has been a regular speaker at NASSCOM’s HR summit. He also contributes to NHRDN’s journal as an author.
Leader with 19 years of experience across Human Resources, Sales and Operations spanning across industries like FMCG, Telecom, ITES, BFSI and Natural Resources. Currently Group CHRO for Vedanta.
Before joining the Vedanta Group, Srivastava served as vice president-HR and talent acquisition head at Citibank, India for two years. There she led the centralised recruitment team responsible for hiring at entry, middle and senior-management levels in the retail bank, corporate bank, phone banking business, operations and technology and shared services wings.
Having started her career in sales, Srivastava handled sales for Godrej in Gujarat and Maharashtra, as an assistant sales manager for two years, before joining GE Capital as assistant manager-operations. She then spent almost four years with Reliance Communications, from October 2002 to May 2006, as head-value-added services. She was part of the team that launched the CDMA services in 2002.
From June 2006 to July 2010, Srivastava was employed with Genpact, as assistant vice president-talent acquisition. Her responsibilities included recruiting leaders for middle management across the verticals of Genpact—finance and accounting, BFSI, analytics and call centres.
Srivastava completed her PGDM in marketing and sales, from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
The whole ecosystem of work and business is undergoing a big shift. The future of work is now clearer than ever before. As we look to the future of work, the needs of employees are increasingly changing. The function of HR has also changed. From attracting the right candidates, to boosting the experience of employees, there is a need to remodel their workplace systems and create new best practices and prepare for the flexible future of work. There will need to rethink key HR imperatives for organization design, leadership and culture. How HR adapts in this ecosystem and shape this shift will determine the success of businesses.
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Chaitali is a Senior Partner with the Management Consulting division of PwC India and leads the People & Organization Practice for India. Additionally, she is PwC India's Territory Leader for Upskilling for the Digital World and works with clients to help them get ready for the Future of Work.
Chaitali specializes in Business Strategy, Talent Management and Organizational Effectiveness with extensive International Business and General Management experience. She brings her own leadership experience of having led businesses in India and across the Asia Pacific and Middle East region.
As the PwC India Lead for People & Organization and HRT, she is helping multiple clients across sectors, to get their organization and people across levels, ready for the future, by being focused on operating model and structures, people and processes and capability / skills that will be critical to get future ready.
Prior to the current role, Chaitali was a Partner with Korn Ferry Hay Group, and worked extensively with clients in the Technology & Financial Services, partnering with Promoters and CXOs in their leadership journey.
Prior to this, she was operating as the Managing Director of Experis, part of the USD 21BN Fortune 110 – ManpowerGroup, where she was responsible for building and expanding the Professional Services staffing business of the Group across 13 countries in the APME region through both inorganic and organic growth opportunities.
Chaitali has also led the Consulting brand of ManpowerGroup – Right Management in India. In the 7 years at Right, as its Managing Director, she was instrumental in building a successful Talent and Career Management consulting brand for the organization. As the MD for India, she was responsible for restructuring and building a profitable business, brand building and key clients’ relationship management. Prior to Right Management, Chaitali has spent considerable years in management consulting with IBM Global Services and Tata Consultancy Services.
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Chaitali has been awarded ‘The Young HR professional of the Year Award’ and the ‘Women at Work Leadership Award’ at the Asia’s Best Employer Brands Awards 2012, Singapore.
Chaitali is a regular speaker at various CXO forums and events across India and APAC.
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Samit Deb is the cofounder of Navikenz, a digital tech service organization focused on AI solutions. He is an experienced leader, with global experience. Samit’s previous corporate role was to head HR for Bharti Airtel, where he worked with the CEO and the Airtel management board in pivoting airtel to a digital telco.
In over 25 years of experience, he has held leadership positions across the IT, ITeS, Telecom and Manufacturing industries. Post his MBA Samit was with Infosys over 15 years, as it scaled from USD 60 Mn to ~6 Bn. He worked closely with the founders and the Infosys CHRO, on the foundations of its many best-in-class HR practices, culture, organization structure and employer brand. In his last role there, he helmed HR globally for the Financial Services and Insurance vertical and their banking product platform - Finacle, managing over 35,000 employees for a 2.5 Bn USD business. Post Infosys, Samit headed the HR function of the Asia-Pacific region for Kronos Inc. (now UKG) a $2 Bn+ workforce management products company. During his 3 year stint, he was deeply involved with Kronos’ transformation from an on-premise to a cloud based IT Product company. Samit was CHRO of Biralsoft for 5 years, during the time it restructured as a vertical driven organization. He led a grassroots transformation of the company with codification of culture and simplification and automation of core processes, creating significant growth. He then co led the strategic reverse merger of KPIT, overseeing a successful integration and subsequent rise of the new Birlasoft brand. Samit holds a Masters’ degree in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur and is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand (India).
Rajeev is a People’s Leader with over 20 years of cross industry experience, handling several management roles. Currently, he heads HR and Communications for Asia Service Centres (India and Philippines) and is a key part of Business, Human Resources and Communication Leadership Teams across Sun Life.
His key focus at Sun Life ( ASC) has been to grow the organization by bringing in quality talent, developing it’s Talent Brand, enhancing employee capability, building leaders & careers and evolving a culture of excellence, collaboration and empathy. During his stint here, the India office has won Great place to work recognition thrice, got featured in Working Mothers and Avataar Best Companies to work for Women in India. The Philippines office recently won its Great Place to work certification, which he is significantly proud of. He has also been driven towards developing campaign-based approach in order to bring opportunities for learning, growth and organizational support for our people.
He aims to help and support Sun Lifers during this long standing crisis through Wellness initiatives and also through Digital experiences. He is a big believer of the role technology, is playing and will play in creating an eco-system for delivering unique employee experience/s now and in the future.
Functionally, over the years, he has led and managed diverse aspects of Human Resources and Communications, which includes Leadership Talent Acquisition, HR Policy Guidance, Mergers and Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning and Organizational Development, Recruitment marketing and Internal Communications and more.
He is an Alumnus of Delhi University and Masters in Business Administration from International Management Institute, New Delhi, India.
Uma Rao is VP HR at Ashok Leyland. Uma is an HR professional with experience in a wide gamut of HR areas over the last 2 and half decades plus. She has worked in leading organizations in IT, Manufacturing, Telecom and FMCG space in companies like Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, Mars International India, Idea Cellular and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd.
She is an alumnus of TISS
With the Indian economy poised for unprecedented growth, businesses have an opportunity like none other and the key to unlocking this potential rests with the workforce! Yet the opportunity is fraught with challenges right from shortening business cycles, changing consumer patterns and huge reforms in compliance and labour laws in the imminent future. Employee expectations are also rapidly changing, with diverse employment models like hybrid working, gig and contract working and the pressures of cost, productivity and compliance remain ever-present. Now, more than ever, HR leaders need to strike the right balance between managing business complexities and rapidly evolving workforce expectations.
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As country manager - India for UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), Sumeet is responsible for the vision and execution of UKG’s long-term strategy and growth in the Indian workforce management market.
Sumeet joined UKG (earlier Kronos) in 2007 as a solution consulting and business development manager — and the third employee working in India — before bringing his business development expertise to his role as the head of marketing. There, he led the India marketing organisation to build a sustainable channel and alliance network in the region. In his most recent role he headed sales for the India region.
Prior to working with UKG Sumeet held marketing, sales, and business consulting roles at companies such as Aditya Birla Group, Oracle, and Tata Consultancy Services.
Sumeet earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, as well as a PGDIM (MBA-equivalent) in management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. Outside of work, he is passionate about playing squash with his two daughters and is an avid reader of non-fiction books, particularly those on artificial intelligence and how to change the world.
Organizations stay ahead of the curve on their capacity to adapt quickly to the changing business landscape — and building an effective learning ecosystem is essential to gaining a competitive advantage. According to The World Economic Forum's "Future of Jobs" report, 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025. As a result, the L&D function needs to strategically identify skills their organization needs in the future and develop a learning plan to close any skills gaps. But with the hybrid workplace in full effect, leaders now need to focus on seamlessly delivering personalized learning for their workforce. Enter "Blended Learning," or should we say re-enter.
With your workforce distributed between office spaces and homes, the challenge not only lies in addressing and delivering the learning needs but also assessing how those learning sessions would look? How can blended learning be best utilized for the future of work? How does HR decode human-machine balance? These and many other critical questions will be discussed during this session while you learn how to better leverage technology to enhance the learning experience.
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Dr. Rajani Gupte is the Vice Chancellor of the Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune.
She joined Symbiosis as a founding member of the Symbiosis Institute of International Business in 1992. Later she was the Director of the Institute for nearly a decade. She has earlier held several leadership positions at Symbiosis - Dean- Faculty of Management, Dean-Academics and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the Symbiosis International (Deemed University).
She is an Independent Director on the Governing Board of NSDL, L& T Finance Holdings and some of its subsidiaries. She has been frequently invited on committees of important organizations, such as International Trade Panel - Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and World Trade Organization Committee, Government of Maharashtra. She has also served on committees of Higher education appointed by the University Grants Commission.
She is a part of a Think Tank of eminent economists formed by NITI Aayog. She is also a member of NITI Aayog Consultation Group of Experts for the Education Vertical.
She has received several awards for her outstanding contribution to education. A distinguished academic, she received her Doctorate degree in Economics from the prestigious Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Pune.
Ellie has 17 years’ experience in the coaching and development industry, having worked with several FTSE100 companies and helped run YSC, a global leadership consulting firm. Before setting up Mindbeat, she was a Director at YSC, where she set up and successfully built their India business for 2 years.
Customer experience is about delighting our customers, because if we delight them then they buy more and come back. And the employee experience is about how do we have employees that are delighted to work for our company and create great products and service, that we believe that we do truly see people as the heart of our business. Organizations that take the time to learn, think through and act thoughtfully to create a great employee experience will not only have an edge in attracting and retaining talent but also enabling these employees to create a great customer experience.
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Sunjoy is a HR professional with about 28 years of experience in Human Resources and organization development in both Indian & MNC companies. He has played a key role in making HR a true strategic business partner by creating sustainable HR solutions, policies and initiatives which made organisations more successful.
Sunjoy has been a part of the HR Leadership team in leading multi-national Organizations, like DHL Express, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson Controls, Reliance Retail & Otis elevators. He joined DHL Express India ltd in 2013 as Vice-President– Human Resources for India business and has completely transformed their people management strategy by adopting a Employee First strategy. He has done some amazing transformation in DHL through robust people policies, practices and enhancing employee experience through End 2 End digitalization. He has led DHL Express India to be a Great Place to work No 1 in India in 2021 & amongst the Top 5 Best Employers for last 5 years. He has also led DHL to be a Best employer with Aon India and Top Employers Institute as well.
He has also won the DPDHL CEO – Employer of Choice Gold award in 2015 & 2020 from Dr. Frank Appel ( Chairman of DPDHL ) and DPDHL – Health & Well being award in 2014 & 2017.
He holds a M.B.A degree in HR and is a member of the Best Employers club of GPTW and National HRD network. He likes to do yoga and is an avid cricket fan.
Kiran Menon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tydy, the only Onboarding Platform that uses automation and intelligent insights to deliver an employee experience aimed at talent retention. During his 17+ years of experience in consulting and sales, he has worked across multiple geographies including Europe, USA and Asia and led teams at Opera Software, Case Consulting Group and Technology Holdings. Under his leadership, Tydy has transformed the EX process for leading brands like Unilever, ABInBev, Swiggy, Genpact and EXL, to name a few.
The importance of reward and recognition and its direct impact to business growth and profitability is well known. However, in a post-pandemic scenario, it is important to rethink reward and recognition with changing employee preferences, the high attrition rates being seen across industries & geographies and the business challenges. It is important to transparently link employee goals to business priorities and maintain a strong element of flexibility.
It is important to go back to the basics and rebuild your reward and recognition playbook. This session will provoke thoughts on:
Mr. Balaji Sreenivasan is the Executive Vice-President, Human Resources at Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited (CPIL), since November 2020. He joined CPIL in 2005 in the Human Resources function. Over the course of 15 years, Mr. Sreenivasan served through leadership roles in the Human Resources function at Colgate-Palmolive Company’s divisions and subsidiaries in India, Turkey, Central Asia & Caucasus, North Africa/Middle East Region, as well as at the Asia Pacific Division HeadQuarters in Hong Kong. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Sreenivasan was Human Resources Director, Asia-Pacific Supply Chain, where he and his team partnered closely with business leaders to strengthen organizational capabilities and drive transformation towards an agile and empowered culture across the region.
Anandorup is a Partner with Deloitte in Human Capital Consulting. He has over 18 years of professional experience across a range of areas in HR advisory. Prior to Deloitte, Anandorup headed AON’s performance, rewards and organization consulting practice across India, Middle East & South East Asia. He has worked in the areas of executive compensation design and benchmarking, long term incentive plan design, sales incentive plan design, governance structure definition, remuneration committee advisory, performance planning and scorecard design etc.
Mallika Mutreja heads Rewards for Unilever South Asia. She is a Global HR Leader with diverse experiences across HR business partnering, Employee Relations, HR Services and Reward.
Her purpose is to create a winning legacy and leave a lasting impact. Her purpose has been the guiding force across roles whether it was leading collective bargaining negotiations, landing complex restructuring & change management projects or most recently, leading the COVID taskforce & vaccination program for HUL. An avid traveler, she enjoys road trips, reading detective fiction and spending time with family.
As remote working blurs the line between work and life, unprecedented ways of working are taking a considerable, detrimental toll on employee mental health and negatively impacting productivity as a result. As it turns out, there’s a whole lot more to it than a discussion about work-life balance, and HR leaders are prioritizing employee well-being and mental health. The narrative, however, is now shifting to identifying the happiness drivers to power to people strategy and graduate to being a “happy” workplace. A continued focus on nurturing employee well-being and driving happiness is also critical to developing workplace resilience.
Join this session to know more on how to design effective wellbeing strategies and shape the organaistion with a sense of joy and well being at the core.
The progress made in the D&I space may be derailed by the adverse effects of the pandemic. For human resource leaders, lessons from the pandemic crisis have highlighted the need for HR to have a clear and unequivocal mandate to create equity initiatives that drive positive change for all stakeholders across the ecosystem. The business case for diversity and inclusion is stronger than ever. It only helps if there are diverse viewpoints on the table while solving for unprecedented problems.
Circa mid-1990’s, it was the India of the post-liberalization era and Dr Saundarya Rajesh was a woman, who after a career break, was seeking to return to the workplace. Despite burgeoning career opportunities in a globalized economy, Dr. Saundarya noticed that women were receiving a raw deal. This was even more aggravated in the case of women who took breaks in careers. Observing the loaded inequities in the workplace for all underrepresented talent pools, she set up Avtar – a social enterprise focusing on creating diverse, equitable and inclusive organizations. Today, she is recognized not only as having created several thousand careers for women on breaks, but also for pioneering the discipline of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Indian workplaces.
For her path-breaking work of the past 20 years in this space, she has won accolades such as the Ministry of Women & Child Development’s #100Women Achiever Award, Twitter’s #Web Wonder Women Award, The Winds of Change 2019 Award by the Minnesota Forum on Workplace Inclusion, NiTi-Aayog’s Women Transforming India Award, Golden Aviator Award, Asia’s most Innovative Diversity & Inclusive Leaders Award and the list goes on.
An irrepressible advocate of the potential of women’s workforce participation, Dr Saundarya is the advisor of choice for an impressive list of organizations and leaders on the benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In the last two decades, she has personally trained and mentored over 10,000 leaders in the Indian corporate sector. Through Avtar, which is India’s first DEI solutions company she has helped diversity champions create a strong Business, Talent, and Culture Case for their organizations to espouse diversity talent in their workplaces.
The team at Avtar, under Dr. Saundarya’s leadership is steeped in creating many innovative and effective DEI solutions along the lines of Experiencing, Enriching, Enabling and Embedding Diversity in organizations. All interventions from the house of Avtar take their origin in primary research. Training solutions such as “A&B (Allyship & Belongingness) of Inclusion”, “Unconscious Bias Training”, “Men as Gender Advocates” “Multi-generational workforce training,”, Audit & Advisory solutions like DEI Assessments and HR Policy Review, Recruitment solutions for hiring people from different underrepresented talent pools and most recently, India’s only diversity job portal – myavtar.com are part of Avtar’s offerings.
Under Dr Saundarya’s leadership, Avtar conducts India’s largest gender analytics called the “Best Companies’ for Women in India (BCWI)” that recognises the Top 10 and 100 Best Companies that have designed and implemented the best practices towards gender inclusion of India Inc. The half-decade long BCWI journey has seen women’s representation at the 100 Best companies grow from 25% in 2016 to 34% in 2020. In 2019, Avtar also created Corporate India’s largest Inclusion Index – The Working Mother & Avtar Most Inclusive Companies Index (MICI), to identify companies whose diversity intent transcends the strand of gender to include diversity of abilities, that of sexual orientation, age, culture et.al.
The results of these studies culminate each year in India’s most respected awards conference - Best of the Best (BoB) that Avtar hosts in partnership with Working Mother. Currently in its 5th edition, BoB witnesses several hundred leading lights in the space of DEI congregate and share best practices in the spirit of collective growth. Apart from BoB, Avtar conducts many successful large-format conferences which have been breakthrough platforms enabling under-represented talent groups and organizations intent on DEI to learn and grow. Other than BoB, some of other flagship DEI events include Diversity Job fairs, Power of I – Virtual DEI conference, Segue Sessions - Large format skill-building and networking platform for women.
Making her writing debut in 2018, Dr Saundarya Rajesh’s book The 99 Day Diversity Challenge published by SAGE is India’s first experiential book on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and has won several acclaims from industry leaders. In a captivating, unique format the book is designed to develop diversity and inclusion mind set in any organization or even individual within the proverbial 99 days.
An inspiring speaker, an author, and a very sought-after DEI strategist, Dr Saundarya’s inclusive vision is also to see young girls from underprivileged families create empowering white-collar careers for themselves. This she influences through Project Puthri, an initiative that instils “Career Intentionality” in the minds of under-privileged girl children from Corporation/Government schools. Presently Puthri mentors over 6000 girl children from below poverty-line families.
Dr Saundarya’s work in the space of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the workplace, is unparalleled in India. Her journey towards creating inclusive and equitable workplaces is inspirational. We can expect that her nation-building work in building organizations, communities and societies that truly harness the power of diversity will continue relentlessly for many more years to come!
Parmesh Shahani is an award winning author, curator and LGBTQ inclusion advocate. Until recently, he served as the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab. Parmesh has guided many of the country’s leading companies on their LGBTQ inclusion journeys. His first book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (Sage Publications) was released in 2008 and re-released in June 2020 as an updated edition and his second book Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace (Westland Business) was released in August 2020 and recently conferred with the CK Prahalad Prize for Best Business Book of 2021. Parmesh holds an MS in Comparative Media Studies from MIT (2005). He is a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a board member of KHOJ International Artists’ Association.