IAC21 – Sample – SHRMI

About #SHRMIAC21

This is an exciting and pivotal time in the HR profession. Now, more than ever, HR teams are required to assume a greater leadership role, contributing to the strategic direction of their organization.

Business leaders and the workforce will rely on HR to drive scalable strategies, empower inclusive workplace cultures and enrich organizational success. That’s why the SHRM India Annual Conference 2021 is more important than ever. Are you ready?

This December 2-3, 2021, is a crucial time to join your fellow HR colleagues to refresh and ready ourselves as we move into 2022. It’s a time to learn through premier HR education. A time to foster relationships and form new partnerships. A time to advance your career and distinguish yourself as an expert in the profession.

What Can You do at #SHRMIAC21?

Peer Learning and Networking

Engage with your peers in group chats, one-on-one conversations and grow your network

Get equipped to be Future-Fit

Equip you as HR Leaders and People Managers to confidently reframe the future & thrive in the new world order

Earn up to 15 PDCs

Stay Current with your SHRM CP® or SHRM SCP®
certification

Leverage the immersive Virtual platform

#SHRMIAC is designed for maximized Learning & interactions. Engage in Online discussions & share Best Practices

Get ahead of the curve

Learn the latest in HR Innovation and how to leverage it for meaningful outcomes

Invest your time wisely

For over 7 decades, SHRM has been elevating HR. SHRMIAC21 will equip you to navigate the future with knowledge & confidence

What to Expect at #SHRMIAC21

A fresh perspective through unique and engaging sessions & formats

ENGAGING FORMATS

• Key Notes
• Skill Studios
• Workshops
• Masterclasses
• How-to Guides
• All you need to know about Toolkits
• Tech Talks
• Your Voice: Hot Topics
• Leaders Speak

SESSION TRACKS

• Total Rewards & Wellbeing
• Culture
• Technology and Innovation
• DE&I
• People & Talent
• Workplace Policy
• Leadership & Personal Growth
• Strategic HR

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#SHRMIAC21 At a Glance

Building Business Success on the Pillars of Culture & Resilience
Prescriptive Analytics for high impact learning outcomes
A Culture to thrive: Harnessing the Power of Cultural Transformation
Worker Wellness in 2022: Front and Center
Business Storytelling: One-Size Doesn’t Fit All
Pay Equity: A reality 'cheque'?
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Embracing Diversity to Make Work 'work'
A Look Ahead: Your Workplace of the Future
Happy for no Reason: A Chat with Mandira Bedi
It's not how you FEEL, it's what you DO: Changing the Nature of Engagement
The leap from HR Leader to Strategic Leader: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career and Company

Rewired & Recharged: Maximize the Power of Your Possibilities
Practical Tips and Tools for Psychologically Safe
Workplaces
Showcasing Brand 'YOU'
STOP telling them what to do! Embrace the Collective Genius of Your People
Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Council: A Bottom-up Approach to Building an Inclusive Workplace Culture
The Change Curve: Managing Uncertainty and Ambiguity Within Your Organization
Leveraging Technology to Attract, Mobilize and Manage Talent in Today’s Global Environment
Biting the Bullet: A How-to-guide on those Tough conversations
SHRM BIG DEBATE: Is Remote work putting your company in Jeopardy?

#SHRMIAC21 Speakers

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP

President & CEO, SHRM

Dave Ulrich

Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, & Partner, RBL Group

Dave Ulrich

Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, & Partner, RBL Group

Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group (http://www.rbl.net) 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.

Most recently, he posts new articles and insights each Tuesday on Linkedin (over 150).

Dave and Wendy live in Alpine, Utah, have 3 children and 10 grandchildren.

Amitabh Kant

CEO, NITI Aayog

Amitabh Kant

CEO, NITI Aayog

Mr. Amitabh Kant is presently CEO of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI). He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 batch). He is the author of Branding India - An Incredible Story. Mr. Kant has been a key driver of the “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and God’s Own Country” initiatives that positioned India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing and tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities – infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding based on extensive market research. Mr. Kant also conceptualized the “Atithi Devo Bhavah” – “Guest is God” campaign to train Taxi Drivers, Guides, immigration officials and make them stake holders in the tourism development process. Mr. Amitabh Kant was also the National Project Director of the Rural Tourism Project of UNDP which made a paradigm shift in spreading tourism to Indian villages which had core-competency in handicrafts, handloom and culture.

In his capacity as Secretary (Industries) Govt. of India, Mr. Kant drove the Ease of Doing Business initiative and ranking of States on outcome parameters. He is the Chairman of the Committee to implement Digital Payment in India.

Mr. Kant has been the recipient of Economic Time Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum. He is also the recipient of Sir Edmund Hillary
Fellowship award by the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is also the recipient of Golden Peacock Award for leadership in Economic Transformation - 2017.

Mr. Amitabh Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed. During his tenure in Kerala, he structured the Calicut Airport as a private sector project based on User’s Free and developed the BSES Power Project and Mattanchery Bridge under Private Public Partnership. He was also responsible for introducing new technology (fiberglass crafts and outboard motor) in the fisheries sector and launching beach level auctions which substantially enhanced returns to traditional fishermen.

Mr. Amitabh Kant did his schooling from Modern School, Delhi, graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Executive Chairperson, Biocon & Biocon Biologics

Dr. Praveer Sinha

CEO & Managing Director, The Tata Power Company Limited

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket Commentator

Manoj Jain

Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL

Manoj Jain

Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL

Mr. Manoj Jain, a Mechanical Engineering Graduate and MBA in Operations Management possesses rich and diverse experience encompassing more than 34 years with GAIL (India) Ltd. in the areas of Business Development, Projects, O&M, Petrochemicals, Pipeline Integrity Management and Marketing which has allowed him to gain insight and knowledge across multiple business units and functional areas. As Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India) Limited, Mr. Manoj Jain is also currently Chairman of GAIL GLOBAL (USA) Inc. (GGUI), GAIL GLOBAL (USA) LNG LLC (GGULL), Mahanagar Gas Limited, Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited and GAIL Gas Limited. Mr. Jain is also on the Board of Petronet LNG Limited.

in his previous stint as Director(BD), he was responsible for building GAIL’s Business Portfolio in India and abroad, Merger and Acquisition, Petrochemical O&M and Expansion, Exploration & Production, R&D, Start–Up, Health Safety & Environment management, Quality Management, Project Development including feasibility study and investment approval for new pipelines, process plants, renewables etc.

Mr. Manoj Jain was responsible for Gas Marketing activities in his role as Executive Director (Marketing-Gas). He also spearheaded the installation and commissioning of the USD 1.4 Billion grassroots Petrochemical complex, as Chief Operating Officer of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd, (BCPL).

Earlier, Mr. Jain worked in Operation & Maintenance at the Corporate Level for a number of years and his experience includes managing logistics of Gas Business with a perspective of Operation and Management of all pipelines of company and in the process played a significant role in establishing the National Gas Management Centre (NGMC) and systems and procedures for transmission and marketing of comingled gases.

Mandira Bedi

Actor, Author, Anchor, Fitness Enthusiast

Surgeon Rear Admiral Arti Sarin

Commanding Officer, INHS Asvini

Achal Khanna

CEO, SHRM India, APAC & MENA

Partha Neog

CEO & Co-Founder, Vantage Circle

Sonam Kalra

Award-Winning Singer & Composer

Sonam Kalra

Award-Winning Singer & Composer

Multiple award winning singer and composer, Sonam Kalra’s music emerges from a place of truth. Inherent in her beautiful, powerful voice and complex compositions is an integrity that reflects her philosophy of equality, inclusion, compassion and tolerance. She is internationally acclaimed as a versatile singer and composer- a musician with a message and also as an inspirational speaker and role model, expressing her learnings from her creative and deep spiritual journey through her music and her words. Her sustained training in both Western and Hindustani classical forms combined with the courage of her convictions, resulted in her brainchild, ‘Sonam Kalra & The Sufi Gospel Project’ which blends the many voices of faith through poetry, prayer and music to create one universal voice.

Her engaging and deep connection with her art and its message translates into a distinctive sound which has earned her critical praise and multiple awards and acclaim.

She has performed at prestigious stages, festivals and venues across 30 countries including The Sydney Opera House and MTV’s Coke Studio. Sonam has shared the stage with legendary musicians like Sir Bob Geldof and Sufi Legend Abida Parveen. She has also sung at Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor as well as Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’s weddings. She has performed at The World Sufi Peace Festival at the Pyramids, The Royal Opera House Cairo, Muzaffar Ali’s World Sufi Festival Jahan-e- Khusrau, The World Sufi Spirit Festival RIFF in Jodhpur, The International Faiz Festival for Peace in Pakistan and at The Indo- African Summit for the Indian Prime Minister, President of India and 52 heads of African states.

Sonam has been felicitated with many awards, including the Femina 'Woman of Worth' Award, the Indian Express Devi Award, FICCI YFLO ‘Young Women Achiever’ award for her work in the field of music, and the Global WIN Award for inspiring women worldwide.

True to her beliefs, Sonam as a singer, performer or motivational speaker uses her strong voice to speak out on a range of issues from child abuse, women’s rights and animal rights to helping raise money for cancer charities and education for children.

Sonam is a regular TED talks speaker and has been invited to share her message of inclusion at many conferences including Media Legend Tina Brown's 'Women in The World' summit, The Economic Times Women’s Forum and numerous WIN conferences worldwide.

Arnay Agarwal

Founder, eReadingShala

Arnay Agarwal

Founder, eReadingShala

Arnay is a two times TEDx speaker. As a TEDx Speaker he shared the stage with Ms P.V. Sindhu), author, writer, journalist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, Podcaster, and philanthropist at a young age of 12. He is also a regular invitee at Tedx, Schools, Colleges, Organizations. He has given two Ted Talks and more are lined up in upcoming months.

Arnay has been featured in various mainstream newspapers and magazines for his achievements. Featured in Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, Brainfeed, Education World, CFN, Mad4India, Indykids USA and many more for his work.

Please check Arnay's website for a quick glance at his profile (The website is a work in progress, however, it's sufficient for a quick glance.

https://www.arnayagarwal.com/

He has been invited by various organizations for public speaking for inspiring and motivating the audience. He is also well known for his soft skill talks. Invited by ( Edutalk Magazine, Brainfeed magazine, Whitecanvas, New Delhi, Trainers Club, New Delhi, TTC, Pune, and Institute of science and technology, Gwalior, SkillShark, Pune, SheSpace, Bangalore, etc, All India Radio, Radio Mirchi). He is a independent soft skill trainer. He gives talks at various schools, colleges and organizations. He gives talks on topics such as attitude of gratitude, anger management, how to be multi-talented, how to become a storyteller, how to stay positive, mantra of life, Early Entrepreneurship, how to be an avid book reader, pursuit of passion and many more.

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Arnay is a TEDx Where he shared the stage with Ms P.V.Sindhu.
Arnay received the most prestigious Top 20 Influencer Awards 2021
Arnay is the youngest soft skill trainer for various Has given trainings at, Anand school of Excellence, Ahmedabad, Trainers Club and TTC based in Pune, Institute of science and technology, Gwalior, GH Raisoni Public School Jalgaon, Suchitra Academy, Hyderabad, Singhania School, Thane, and many more. Highly appreciated and recommended by Schools and Colleges for his Public speaking and soft skill sessions. Arnay was highly appreciated for his public speaking and training sessions by these organizations as well.
Arnay is a 12 year old youngest child reporter for Times Of India, Student Edition who is taking interviews of various personalities and have a dedicated column in the TOI School edition for these interview
At a yount age of 12, Arnay is a junior Journalist and reporter for Indykids Newspaper based in the USA, a junior journalist and reporter for Brainfeed magazine, India
Arnay is the founder of The Talk Bar, where he interviews young achievers’ children (6-18 years) who are especially talented or working for the welfare of the society and have achieved greater (Meet Awesome Achievers with Arnay Agarwal). Arnay is Woking towards inspire and motivate youth.
Arnay is a writer and author for Brainfeed Magazine, he has published various stories and Articles in Brainfeed
He has written around 100 Articles and Stories that are published in various reputed mainstream newspapers and magazines in India, the United Kingdom, United States of
Published He has written 3 books. Available on Amazon.
He has a Reading speed of 650 words per minute. (Average reading speed of an 11 to 14-year-old is 150 to 200 WPM, Average adult reading speed is 300 WRM)
He is the founder of StoryTelling Society of India.( Promotes storytelling in India among youth). Empowering youth through
He is the founder of eRedaingShala. ( Promotes book-reading habits among Also promotes speed book reading). Empowering Youth through Book Reading.
He runs a podcast named ' Ek Kahani Arnay ki Jubani' it has 23000 Listens ( Youngest Child Podcaster of India to receive 23000 Listens)
Runs a Public Speaking Teaches public speaking to a batch of 10 kids.
Arnay has been invited to give talks and been interviewed by various organizations. (All India Radio, Edutalk, Brainfeed, Whitecanvas, Trainers Club, TTC, Institute of science and technology, Gwalior, Radio Mirchi, etc).
Featured in Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, Brain feed, Education World, CFN, and many

Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra

Director (HR), Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra

Director (HR), Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Mr. Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra is Director (Human Resources) on the Board of Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) with effect from 19.2.2018. Prior to this, he was IndianOil’s Executive Director in charge of West Bengal State Office. A Mechanical Engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Mr. Mohapatra joined IndianOil in 1987 and has since worked on varied assignments, including Terminal Operations, Supply Chain Management & Logistics. With in-depth knowledge and acumen in Supply Chain & Logistics, he had been associated with evacuation of finished products from IndianOil’s domestic refineries, and product upliftment agreements with stand-alone refiners as well as other oil marketing companies (OMCs).

Mr. Mohapatra was also one of the chief architects of the auto fuel quality (BS-III/BS-IV) upgradation programmes of OMCs in India. Between April 2010 and Jan. 2012, he headed the Operations function of IndianOil’s Maharashtra State Office, which oversees the largest number of bulk storage terminals & depots in a State. As Managing Director of IndianOil(Mauritius) Ltd., the Company’s overseas subsidiary, during 2012-2015, Mr. Mohapatra led a team of young professionals, registering sizeable growth in market share and profitability. He was also on the Board of Mer Rouge Oil Storage Terminal, a joint venture formed by four MNCs to set up modern oil storage facilities in Mauritius. Under his inspiring leadership as head of IndianOil’s West Bengal State Office, the OMCs released a record 10.5 lakh PMUY (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) connections in the first 116 days of the scheme, that is, over 9,000 new connections a day.
Always eager to try out new things, Mr. Mohapatra achieved cashless transaction facilities at almost all Indian Oil fuel stations in West Bengal State and piloted a smart auto-fuel complex that has come up at Rajarhat in Kolkata. Being a person with human touch, Mr. Mohapatra initiated his direct interaction with Young Officers of different functions in the State Office, which has been greatly appreciated. He also conceptualized and launched the now acclaimed Fab-14, which is a novel mentoring system within the channel partners. Widely travelled in Europe, USA, Africa and Southeast Asia, Mr. Mohapatra presented papers in several national and international forums and published a number of articles in international journals and supply chain reference books

Chitresh Sharma

CEO & Co-Founder, Refyne

Chitresh Sharma

CEO & Co-Founder, Refyne

Born and raised in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Chitresh Sharma graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Christ College, Bengaluru, in 2009. At the age of 19, Chitresh founded his first enterprise, an IT outsourcing and marketing company in Bengaluru.

The business witnessed rapid growth and put Chitresh on the map as a budding entrepreneur. However, after introspecting and being encouraged by his family to build a venture with wide-ranging social impact, in 2012, Chitresh decided to study overseas to explore new possibilities.

While pursuing a Master’s Degree in International Marketing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Chitresh found himself surrounded by new-age business ideas and concepts. The combination inspired him to research his dissertation subject, which ultimately led to his next project.

In 2013, Chitresh co-founded Glasgow-based Swipii, a digital cashback reward platform for shoppers. During the subsequent seven years, he learned the importance of staying focused on core goals and, more critically, work culture. He concluded that pursuing a sustainable growth trajectory centered around people strategy was the key to building a successful business.

In early 2020, Chitresh returned to India to revisit the idea proposed ten years ago – creating a business that would leave a positive social impact. Chitresh’s initial research revealed a stark lack of awareness about personal finance in India. The findings inspired him to combine this observation with his learnings about the benefits of Salary On-Demand during his time in the UK, which led to the establishment of Refyne.

Chitresh noticed India’s fintech landscape broadly has two options – UPI and lending, a duopoly with rampant exploitative service prices.

India historically lacked a standard credit score system. Chitresh began investigating how this affects the unbanked and underbanked population, which are not the primary focus of premium banks and lenders. His research uncovered that the absence of formal education on personal finance, among other factors, has led to the masses often falling prey to predatory loan sharks and payday lenders, exposing themselves to a quick but costly solution.

Chitresh, via Refyne, aims to empower companies and their employees and transform them into active promoters of financial resilience and independence. Chitresh envisioned building a company where team members have an aligned vision for popularising financial wellness and fostering a culture of collective growth.

When he’s not working, Chitresh enjoys spending time with his family and reading to sharpen his skills.

Sorabh Pant

Stand-up Comedian & Writer

P Dwarakanath

Former Chairman, GSK Consumer Healthcare

Ashwika Kapur

Educator, Science Communicator & Award-winning Natural History Film-maker

Shoma Chaudhury

Journalist

S.Y. Siddiqui

Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yashwant Mahadik

President - Global HR, Lupin

Yashwant Mahadik

President - Global HR, Lupin

Yashwant Mahadik (Yash) a seasoned global HR professional with over 30 years of experience in top-notch multinational corporations. Has established a track record of success in all his roles and assignments. His experience is diverse and varies across industries/sectors (Technology, Consumer and Healthcare) and geographies (India, UK, Japan, USA, ASEAN and Europe).

His strengths and areas of expertise include; Strategy (Business, Workforce and HR functional), HR and Business Transformation, Leadership Development, Organization and Culture building, Capability Building, Workforce Design & Planning, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Merger/Acquisition Integration and Executive Coaching. He has led/is leading global transformation programs and initiatives in J&J, Philips, SunPharma and Lupin at enterprise level. He is proficient and enthusiastic about evolving social and digital technologies and has a strong presence on social media platforms such as Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, etc and has a blog of his own (www.yashmahadik.com). He is recognized amongst top 50 most powerful HR professionals coming from India and is a leading HR thought leader who has worked in association with leading academicians in USA for conceptualizing and executing global strategic initiatives in areas of Human Resource Management.

Has a very high social (development sector) orientation - believes in sharing his earnings and time with social developmental causes related to education for the underprivileged. Is an avid golfer and enjoys travelling and reading. He is a very keen photographer and is a creator of many professional level, highly creative images using digital photography equipment and technologies. He is incubating his new and personal venture "Yash Mahadik Photography" in dedication of a noble wildlife conservation cause.

Raj Raghavan

Senior VP, Human Resources, IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd)

James Thomas

Vice President, SAP SuccessFactors India

Pallavi Kathuria

Managing Partner, Egon Zehnder’s

Ann Florell

VP & Head - HR. Target

Krishna Raghavan

Chief People Officer, Flipkart

Krishna Raghavan

Chief People Officer, Flipkart

Krishna Raghavan is the Chief People Officer at Flipkart. He and his team are responsible for designing and driving initiatives to attract and retain world-class talent, build competencies for the workforce while also strengthening Flipkart’s culture.

Krishna took over the role at a crucial juncture for Flipkart - to shape the organizations' people charter for the long-term. He laid out Flipkart's commitment to being inclusive, entrepreneurial & sustainable while focusing on employee experience.

Amidst a raging pandemic that hit the globe almost as soon as he took over, Krishna was faced with the unprecedented challenge of balancing a keen focus on the well being of employees while also ensuring that the country's wheels of commerce continue to stay in motion.

His leadership in steering the company through this time has been nothing short of exemplary and has earned him the respect of leaders across the organization as well as the larger HR community.

Prior to his current role, Krishna has been the Technology Head for Flipkart’s Fulfilment and Services, and Customer Experience Groups. In the course of his tenure at Flipkart, he has also spearheaded the launch of the marketplace platform and has led multiple strategic technology initiatives for Ekart. Aside from his strong technical expertise, he is also known to be a people’s leader. A leader who brings with him the right blend of technical and people skills, he has built exemplary engineering teams from scratch with his intuitive people management and sound organisational planning.

With a career spanning over two decades, Krishna is adept at managing cross-functional teams. He has worked across diverse geographies and work cultures and is known to be an active champion of driving a people-first culture in organisations.

Manu N Wadhwa

CHRO, Sony Pictures Networks India

Manu N Wadhwa

CHRO, Sony Pictures Networks India

“To believe in heroic makes heroes” Benjamin Disraeli - Driven by the purpose to strive for excellence, Manu focuses on nurturing ecosystems wherein individuals challenge their own, as well their team’s limits, to drive the growth of the organization and the universe around them.

With a career spanning over two plus decades, across multiple industries and countries, Manu has steered workplace & people agenda of globally dynamic organizations likes Sony Pictures, Coca- Cola, American Express & GE, specializing in roles like Head HR, Talent & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, HR Transformation, Change & Digital Innovation. She has also operated in board positions wherein, she was/is entrusted to safeguard the company's interest as it pertains to license to operate and sustain in the marketplace. Manu is a graduate of the GE Human Resources Leadership Program (#HRLP) and started her career as a Finance Analyst with Tata Unisys.

Apart from corporate endeavors, Manu is an active industry activist and member of various forums like Co-Chairperson of the CII Western Region Leadership & HR Committee, Member of CII – National Leadership & HR Committee, Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) – Asia Pacific Advisory Board, LNOD Advisory Council, Chandigarh University Corporate Advisory Board, Jombay Board of Directors and AIMA YLC. She is also an active participant in various country growth efforts, such as #Startup India and a regular speaker at industry forums, wherein she passionately delivers insights on Leadership and HR Transformation, Change Management and Human Capital Index, amongst other key topics.

Manu is a qualified MBTI, Six Sigma professional, Instruction Designer & Facilitator on variety of leadership & professional skills subjects. She has acquired her bachelor's in Finance, Statistics & Economics and master’s in human resources from Symbiosis Center of Management & HRD, India.

#GlobalHR #ChangeAgent #HRTransformation #StartupInvestor #BoardMember #TalentManagement #M&A #CultureTransformation

Hari T.N

Author, Angel Investor, Arkam, Fundamentum, & CHRO Bigbasket

Rohit Thakur

CHRO, Lead School

Indranil Chakraborty

Founder, StoryWorks

Eika Chaturvedi Banerjee

Founder & CEO - Eikam

Eika Chaturvedi Banerjee

Founder & CEO - Eikam

Eika Chaturvedi Banerjee is one of India's leading Women Business Leaders and has, inpursuing her purpose, founded 'Eikam Resonance' - an organisation, where she, along withher community of researchers and facilitators, delve into ancient wisdom to solvecontemporary issues. Among other initiatives, Eikam also blends modern ‐day managementpractices, leadership frameworks & corporate strategic directioning with perspectivesimbibed from time- tested ancient wisdom, history, mythology and literature.

A Chevening Gurukul Fellow for Leadership & Excellence from University of Oxford, Eika isalso, by training and passion, among the leading Corporate Mythologists in India, best-sellingauthor of 52 Red Pills, and a sought-after speaker on matters of organizational & personaltransformation, meaning & engagement, diversity & inclusion.

Eika's business experience over two decades spans Private Banking, General Managementand Entrepreneurship. Post her MBA, she started her professional life as a Banker with over12 years of core operating experience in various Business Leadership roles with StandardChartered Bank, ABN Amro (now RBS), Citibank & Kotak Mahindra. She then gainedentrepreneurial skills operating her Wealth Consultancy 'Finsutra', both in India & Singapore.In her last corporate role, for over 6 years, Eika has been the CEO of Future Sharp Skills Ltd(a Public-Private Partnership between Future Group & National Skills DevelopmentCorporation) - India's leading Skills, Talent and Leadership Development organisations. From2020, she serves as an Independent Director on the Board of the same Company.

Eika's living is deeply immersed in her age-old Indian wisdom, and she regularly draws uponher Indian blood memory for her unique pedagogy. She is the founder-curator for Aakhyaansince 2014, India's first ever Annual Mythology festival, a knowledge platform that she hasconceptualised with the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai - integrating thecorporate world, academia, and popular culture. Over the last few years, she has also built a"phygital" knowledge sharing platform, the 'Banyan Insight Talks' (BITs), a curated series ofgatherings with experts, practitioners, believers and seekers across the East and the West.

Chaitanya Peddi

Co-Founder & Product Head, Darwinbox

Dr. Sanjay Muthal

CEO, Kontempore

Nupur Mehta

VP Human Resources, NIUM

Anjan Pathak

CTO & Co-Founder, Vantage Circle

Pankaj Bansal

Co-Founder & CEO, PeopleStrong

Pankaj Bansal

Co-Founder & CEO, PeopleStrong

Pankaj Bansal is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PeopleStrong. Having observed the unorganized and non-integrated HR industry in India during his professional journey, Pankaj felt the need to create an entity that could effectively manage the complete employee life cycle, simultaneously ensuring a satisfied employee experience for its clients. At PeopleStrong, he is responsible for building strategic partnerships and managing the overall growth of the company, both in Indian and international markets.

A visionary, Pankaj is passionate about technology and truly believes that HR will take the leap into the next orbit by embracing technology. With this thought, he has led the team to develop PeopleStrong Alt, an on demand technology product that aims to simplify work life for its users.

Prior to establishing PeopleStrong in 2005, Pankaj worked with the Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology service company (erstwhile Hughes Software Systems), where he was a part of the founding team of the company’s business process outsourcing (BPO) division. He also worked with the engineering giant, SPML Infra Limited, and Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Pankaj’s stint at Withya Direct Inc., a digital media market company, as Chief Operating Officer acted as a turning point in his entrepreneurial journey.

An active member of Confederation of Indian Industries’ (CII’s) National Committee on Skills & Human Resources, Pankaj is currently Regional President – North at National HRD Network (NHRDN), a premier professional body for HR professionals in India. In his earlier stint with NHRDN, he served as the board member for almost a decade and has been one of youngest members in the network’s board. He is also the Non-Executive Director at The HR Fund, India’s first Venture Capital Fund, dedicated to investment in HR solutions companies, and Wheebox, the fastest growing talent assessment company in India.

Pankaj is a sought after speaker at various national, international forums and reputed business schools in India on wider HR management subjects including HR shared services, recruitment, HR technology and Analytics, besides entrepreneurship. Pankaj was recently awarded with Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices – Academia Awards 2016 by New Delhi Institute of Management, New Delhi and the Visionary Entrepreneurship Award – 2015 by Jindal Global Business School, New Delhi.

Pankaj holds a Masters’ Degree in HR Management from University of Pune, and a Bachelors’ Degree in Entrepreneurship from Delhi University, Delhi. He is passionate about supporting young entrepreneurs and his other interests include Urdu poetry and subjects dealing with spirituality. Pankaj resides in Gurgaon with his wife and a son.

Apoorv Kumar

CTO & Co-Founder, Refyne

Anand Shankar

Senior VP - Group HR & Director, Tata Management Training Center

Anand Shankar

Senior VP - Group HR & Director, Tata Management Training Center

Anand brings extensive and rich industry experience to his role at TMTC. Before joining TMTC, he was Senior Partner with Deloitte and leader of the firm’s HR Transformation practice. An alumnus of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he is a seasoned strategist who has helped organizations across the globe in navigating business challenges by driving transformational change, building talent excellence, critical capabilities, and future leaders. He brings with him over three decades of experience, and has curated some of leading research studies in the field of HR. He joined Deloitte in India in April 2018 and served in this capacity for 3 years. During this time amongst other assignments, he anchored one of the largest Learning Transformations and Integrated Talent Management for one of India’s largest commercial organisations, a large Financial Services Company, A global multi business conglomerate.

Anand moved back to India in 2018 after having spent over 25 years working across 5 countries in 3 continents with 3 leading consulting firms. During that time, he has worked on a wide variety of areas focused on leadership development, establishing corporate universities and learning academies, organization design and structuring, HR Transformation and Technology and Organisation Vision, culture and values.

Immediately before Deloitte, Anand was the Global Chief Commercial Officer for Aon Hewitt setting up of a commercially focused team, which would enhance the firm’s focus on profitable growth and was instrumental in enabling agile, fast, and innovative growth for Aon Hewitt, playing an active role in client, solution and portfolio development across geographies and regions.

Anand is a Global expert in Human resource, Future of Work, Future of HR, Global Talent & HR market knowledge, APAC & MEA cultural and geographic market and market intelligence, a Marshall Goldsmith certified Coach and Mentor.

Anand started his career 32 years ago as part of the pioneer batch of Management Trainees with the Taj Group of Hotels. He then left India to work with a Western European Retail Chain and subsequently switched to management and HR consulting.

Smriti Ahuja

Chief People Officer, Times Internet

Rajiv Naithani

EVP & Chief People Officer, Infogain

Sashi Kumar

Head of Sales, Indeed India

Mustafa Syed

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, Vani

Anurag Bansal

Chief Sales Officer, TalentSprint

Gaurav Chaubey

Co-Founder, Mesh

Gautam Ray

Executive Director, HR & Admin, CESC Ltd

Prasad Rajappan

Founder & CEO, ZingHR

Prasad Rajappan

Founder & CEO, ZingHR

Prasad Rajappan is the Founder & CEO of ZingHR - a global enterprise cloud applications provider for Human Capital Management (HCM). ZingHR has successfully empowered over 7,00,000 users across 550+ companies worldwide with 24+ HRMS modules.

ZingHR's disruptive innovations for the modern workplace include - Machine Learning for Recruitment, Robotic Interviews, Digital Onboarding, Artificial Intelligence enabled Chatbot, Face Recognition for real-time employee authentication, Zero Touch Payroll for real-time payroll processing with ZERO efforts, gamified and personalized learning with Zing Learn, Power BI embedded for HR Analytics, Geo-fencing and tagging for the mobile workforce.

In 2002, Prasad founded FileMyReturns.com, for e-filing Income Tax returns, for the Department of Income Tax, GoI. He also founded Cnergyis - an enterprise HR Technologies, Outsourcing and Services Company, in 2000.

Prasad has over 25 years of experience in ERP, Operations, Business Process Reengineering, Information Systems and Human Resources. He has held a number of senior management positions at reputed companies like Reliance Industries, Ernst & Young, and Mahindra & Mahindra. He was a part of the SAP Project Directorate at Reliance, which managed more than 30 SAP implementations across various industry verticals like Petrochemical, Energy, Retail, Life Sciences etc.

His stint with the automobile giant Mahindra and Mahindra Limited as Senior Manager - Business Process Reengineering, gave him exposure to different functions like Production Planning, Operations, Information Systems, Human Resources and Business Process Reengineering.

He is a Production Engineer and has earned an MBA degree from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS) in (HR, Operations).

Rohan Sylvester

Talent Strategy Advisor, Indeed.com

Maninder Kapoor Puri

Global CHRO, Mastek

Dolphy Dias

Director Strategic Sales, upGrad for Business

Saravana Velayudham

Head Customer Success & Growth, upGrad for Business

Ramanand Puttige

SVP HR & Head Global Talent Management, Cyient

Ashish Kumar Jha

Co-Founder, Director, Vani

Kamakshi Raman

Executive Director (HRD) - Management Training Institute, SAIL

Minaxi Indra

President, upGrad for Business

Syed Azfar Hussain

SVP - HR, Bajaj Finserv

Srivatsan Mohan

CTO, Empuls

Nirmala Gopalakrishnan

Senior Service Delivery Manager, Professional Services, Skillsoft

Cecilia M. Azavedo

Head of HR Business Partners, Biocon Biologics

Jasneet Kaur

Director - People & Culture, IPM India

Vinod Kumar Singh

Director (Personnel), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

Vinod Kumar Singh

Director (Personnel), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

Sh. Vinod Kumar Singh is Director (Personnel) on POWERGRID Board. Sh. Singh started professional career in 1985 with US MNC followed by NHPC and then joined POWERGRID in 1991. He has been a part of exponential growth of POWERGRID . Sh. Singh has worked in all facets of HR including Amalgamation, Turn around, Learning & Development & Culture Building which gave him exposure to entire gamut of company business.

Sh. Singh holds a B.Com (Hons) from Delhi University and a Post Graduate Management from Xavier Institute of Social Services (XISS), Ranchi. Prior to his appointment to this role , he was handling flagship projects such as Capacity Building, restructuring policies & procedures for NER States, strategic alliances etc.

Sh. Singh has been instrumental in implementing innovative HR , Learning & Development interventions which lead to empowerment & organisational growth. Sh. Singh has been a business enabler & strived to make POWERGRID the best working place. He has played a key role in nurturing the fresh talent and preparing them for business challenges & opportunities. He holds deep expertise in strategic alliances pertaining to Learning & Development for employees as well as external customers.

Sh. Singh was integral part of HR at the time of formation of POWERGRID and facilitated successful amalgamation of the diverse cultures, skill sets, expectations, policies and processes, into a single coherent entity. Sh. Singh is also elected as Executive Member of SCOPE , a common platform of CPSEs, focusing to collaborate , highlight , brainstorm and resolve macro level issues etc. pertaining to CPSEs

Sh. Singh was instrumental in various accolade & awards bestowed to POWERGRID such as “ARTODO” for best training organisation in Asia, “BML Munjal Award for Excellence in Learning and Development” , “ISTD”,“Dun & Bradstreet Award” , One of the India’s Best Companies to Work for 2019, by Great Place to Work Institute, India. , also featured in “Forbes Global Best Employer Award”, “ ATD Best Award 2021 “, “SHRM HR Excellence Award in Learning and Development 2020 ” , SKOCH Silver Award for its transformational performance to COVID-19.

D V Shastry

Executive Director, Natural Gas Society

D V Shastry

Executive Director, Natural Gas Society

Mr D V Shastry is an astute professional with passion for L&D and Human Resource Development (HRD). A strategic thinker and facilitator of change, he possesses more than 36 years of rich and multifarious experience in Oil & Gas Sector.

Presently working as Executive Director in GAIL (India) Ltd. (a Maharatna PSU) and Director on the Board of M/s GAIL Gas Ltd., Mr. Shastry heads GAIL’s three verticals – Training, R&D and Start Up.

He has also worked as Director (Personnel) in Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), a PSU under Department of Atomic Energy.

Mr. Shastry is M.Tech (Energy Systems Engg) from IIT,Bombay with PG Diploma in Management (DIM) & Advanced Certificate in HRM (ACHRM). Prior to dedicating to HR/HRD domain, he has had experience in the domains of Project Management and Operations & Management of Natural Gas Pipelines and Gas Processing Plants.

Apart from performing the key roles in various areas of HR and HRD, his major contribution has been in bringing transformational changes, particularly in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Training & Leadership Development, Mentoring, Employee Engagement & OD and establishing a strong Industry-Academia Interface.

It is under his leadership that GAIL’s Corporate Training Institute (GTI) has been transformed as a World Class Centre of Excellence in Natural Gas sector.

He is the recipient of many national and international awards like “DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD” by ISOL Global Foundation at Chicago, (USA), ISTD “EMERGING HRD THINKER AWARD", “Asia-Pacific Leadership Award”, etc.

He is actively involved with and is holding important positions in various professional bodies/institutions like Member, Board of Studies (BoS) - AIMA, Member, GC & BoS - Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Member, General Body (GB) – FORE Society, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), etc.

He is a member of national & international professional bodies like SHRM, NHRDN, NIPM, ISTD, ASME, etc. He is also a Member of Jury for the prestigious FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards.

Mr Shastry has a deep interest in spirituality, ancient Indian literature/scriptures, music and yoga, etc. He is also an erudite writer having several publications to his credit.

He has widely travelled across the globe in pursuit of his professional activities.

Tooba Modassir

SVP - Head, Learning, Performance & Talent Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Citi South Asia

Vartika Shukla

Chairperson & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited (EIL)

Vartika Shukla

Chairperson & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited (EIL)

Ms. Vartika Shukla is the Chairperson & Managing Director of Engineers India Limited (EIL). She is also holding additional charge of Director (Technical) and Director (Finance) of the company. An Engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Ms Shukla, is also certified with an Executive General Management Program from IIM (Lucknow).

Ms Shukla started her career as a management trainee in EIL’s Process Division in the year 1988. She possesses more than 32 years of extensive technical and consulting experience across the hydrocarbon value chain and has led company to the successful completion of many prestigious projects in Oil & Gas Refining, Petrochemical, Fertilizers sector both in India and Overseas.

She has been associated with the various functions of the organization during her vast career. As Director (Technical), she has steered the Process Design, Research & Development and the entire Engineering functions of the company which are critical for project implementation. She has also been very closely associated with developing in-house competencies and strategizing for new business opportunities both in the core hydrocarbon sector and in diversified areas of operations. She has been steering several new initiatives of the company in the area of BioFuels, Digilitization, Energy Efficiency, Make In India and StartUp India and was instrumental in forging several key Collaborative Partnerships for expansion of Technology Portfolio of EIL.

She has made immense contribution to the development of National Policies especially in the area of BioFuels and future road map for refining and petrochemical sector.

She is an active member of various Industry forums like FIPI, CII, FICCI, and has served on the Editorial Board of FIPI Journal as well. Ms Shukla has authored number of significant research papers in the arena of Refining, Petrochemicals Oil & Gas, offering strategies & technical solutions to the industry. She is also recipient of various prestigious national and international awards. She was the first woman executive in Indian Oil & Gas industry to be bestowed with PETROFED Woman Executive Award. She is also recipient of SCOPE Excellence Award and MoPNG Innovation Award to name a few.

Pratyusha Sharma

AVP HR, Talent Development & Transformation, Cognizant

Nishith Upadhyaya

Senior Director, Knowledge & Advisory Services, SHRM India, APAC & MENA

Dedeepya Ajith John

Director, South & Advisory Services, SHRM India & APAC

Satish Rajarathnam

Sr. VP HR & Global Head - Strategic Resourcing, Mphasis

Satish Rajarathnam

Sr. VP HR & Global Head - Strategic Resourcing, Mphasis

With over 23 years of experience, Satish Rajarathnam is a seasoned Human Resources professional who has held various HR leadership positions across multiple industries. Satish has continually been at the helm of strategic resourcing, organization change management, HR Business consulting & Agile transformation, as well as leadership and talent management.

Satish is associated with several industry groups and associations such as SHRM, Agile Leadership, LEGO serious Play, PCMM, Six Sigma, ISABs India and NFNLP, among others from which he has received certifications marking him a qualified practitioner. He heads the global talent strategy team for Mphasis and currently responsible for OD, Build-Buy-Borrow talent strategy. In his previous role with Cognizant, Satish was responsible for Global Banking & Financial Services people strategy, aligning HR interventions to business priorities, and functioned as a strategic business advisor to the executive management.

Satish’s leadership experience spans across organisations such as Cognizant, HCL Technologies, and Siemens. He has also been the recipient of awards such as Indian Achievers Award 2021, the Top 100 HR Tech Minds Award, and the HR Excellence Award, from the Government of Rajasthan and Higher & Technical Education, Maharashtra. Outside his experience with HR, Satish has built a reputation as a TEDx speaker. As an entertainer and an illusionist, he has worked on over 1200 performances in association with various corporate houses and international workgroups. As part of giving back to the society he is associated with Udavum Karangal an Orphanage at Chennai and as a Corporate Advisory Board member with Chandigarh University.

Satish is a research Scholar from Swiss School of Management, Geneva and a postgraduate in General Management from the Indian School of Business (ISB) and National University of Singapore (NUS)

Anjali Raghuvanshi

Chief People Officer, Randstad India

Archana Jerath

Sr. Director Operations, SHRM APAC & MENA

Dhanashree Thakkar

Vice President & Head Corporate HR & OD, Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Srikrishnan V

VP & Head - Vired for Business, Hero Vired

Chandrashekarr B S

Head - Total Rewards, India, Adobe

Mridula Shukla Varghese

Director - Talent Practice, Indian Sub Continent & Equality & Inclusion Leader - Asia, Middle East & Africa, Procter & Gamble

Manuel D’Souza

Partner, inGROUP Consulting Services LLP

Ashissh Kaul

Director, Knowledge & Advisory & Business Head, PSE, SHRM India

Mark T Fernandes

Head Organisation Capability & Development & DE&I, Kotak Life Insurance

Carmistha Mitra

Group CLO, Axis Bank

Rohit Chennamaneni

Co-Founder, Darwinbox

Gayathri Ramamurthy

Vice President, Learning & Development - India, Capgemini

Gayathri Ramamurthy

Vice President, Learning & Development - India, Capgemini

Gayathri is an HR professional and leads Learning & Development at Capgemini in India. In her current role she is responsible to make the most out of people’s talents by focusing on skilling needs of the future and strengthening competency building. Her vision is to leverage technology to create a continual and inclusive learning culture for a better future.

In her 20 years of work experience, Gayathri has led various diversified roles in Capgemini since 2009 in Diversity and Inclusion, Talent Acquisition, Management and Business Partnering.

In her last role, as a Lead for D&I, she was responsible for raising the level of awareness and ensuring that Capgemini is an equal opportunity workplace across all forms of diversity seen in society. She was also responsible for enabling a safe and equitable workplace for employees, through the Grievance Review Forum (GRC) and Policy on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POPSH) forums. Additionally, she is part of the core team of the global program on [email protected], to enable gender balance and build a platform for women to accelerate into leadership.

Gayathri brings with her an abiding passion in enabling transformation aligned to the organizations’ vision. Be it her role in setting up the talent acquisition process for engaging potential senior talent or in her role to build and develop leadership capability for tomorrow, she has been instrumental in opting for unchartered territories.

Gayathri commenced her career as a lecturer in a reputed college in Madras and went on to teach at management level. Her foray into the corporate world stemmed from a deep felt need to be able to apply many of the theories that established management gurus have developed, and which were the subject of varied debates during interactions with students and academia.

Through various life stages, she had the privilege to make choices to balance her life priorities and a yearning for learning. She strongly believes that the future belongs to life-long learners and that one needs to commit and strive to GET THE FUTURE YOU WANT!

Neha Pant

Associate Director - Knowledge & Advisory, SHRM India

Anuj Kathuria

Chief People and Strategy Officer, Waaree Group

Dr Alka Mittal

Director (HR), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, India

Shray Mehandiratta

Director Finance, Planning & IS, IPM India

Dependra Mathur

SVP & Global Head - HRD, Infosys BPM

Arun Balakrishnan

Former Chairman & MD - HPCL , Founder Chairman, HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL)

Palani Rajan

Team Building & Game Show Facilitator

Karthik Rao Ammathi

Regional Head - HR Services, Societe Generale Global Solution Center

Kunal J

Associate Vice President, Cybage Software

Saurabh Singh

Associate Director Advisory - India & Sri Lanka, SHRM

Mamta Sharma

Vice President - HR Head, Fiserv Global Services

Mamta Sharma

Vice President - HR Head, Fiserv Global Services

Mamta heads the HR function for Fiserv India and operates as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team for Fiserv Global Services across India, US and Costa Rica on all talent related dimensions, with enhanced focus striking the perfect balance between the hearts and minds, while building a strong employer brand in the country.

Mamta is a committed People, Talent and HR leader with globally diversified experiences in multiple markets and technology organizations. She has an illustrious record of driving transformation to build organizational depth, culture and capability. She is well recognized to be a thought partner to business leaders in helping shape longer term HR strategy that supports the business strategy.

Mamta builds effective connections with stakeholders, both within and outside the organization, through her strong commercial acumen focused on creating a compelling competitive advantage for the brand. She has developed expertise as a HR generalist coaching executives, Talent Management, Analytics, Succession Planning, Leadership Development, HR Delivery, Equality at Workplace and building and driving a high-performance culture.

She constantly challenges herself and the team to raise their thinking. She always steps up and takes charge in a crisis to manage it with dignity, integrity and transparency. She thrives in opportunities for managing complex assignments, executive leadership assimilation, intrapreneurship, business turnarounds and environments of change. She demonstrates passion, energy, creativity, cultural sensitivity, execution with speed and agility with highly effective consultative client partnership and relationship management skills.

At Fiserv, she is a big sponsor for D&I charter and plays an active leadership role internally in influencing progressive policies, pay equity and guiding Employee Resource Groups like Women’s Impact Network , UNITY and several others to enable them to unleash their potential and externally to bring more women into our workforce through different initiatives, as an e.g. Women in Tech returning to work after a career break.

Prior to this she has worked with IBM for over 13 years in varied global roles across geographies.

She earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, and a Masters in Human Resources Management from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI). She loves to travel across the globe, do candid photography and interact with people from diverse backgrounds. Apart from listening to music, she is also an avid reader on multitude of topics.

Tapann Sabharwal

AVP and Head of Training - India, Sutherland

Anil Santhapuri

Director - Skills Solutions, Global Talent Management, FIS

Anil Santhapuri

Director - Skills Solutions, Global Talent Management, FIS

Anil Santhapuri is a values-based and results-oriented Talent & OD professional, with 20 years of professional experience in the areas of talent management, learning & leadership development and consulting. In his current role as Director of Skill Solutions, Global Talent Management at FIS, he is leading reinventing and re-imagining the global talent value stream through the application of skills-based architecture to all things 'talent’ by pivoting jobs towards skills (workforce planning, learning and development, recruitment, Rewards & succession planning). His career span includes organizations like Western Union, HCL Technologies, CGI Information Systems, Mahindra Satyam and iGate Global Solutions, where he has designed and delivered award-winning talent initiatives.

Anil is a 4-time Brandon Hall Gold winner (2020 and 2021).He is a 3-time “Learning in Practice award” winner both in 2017, 2018 and 2021 from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine, USA. One of his career best moment is when in October 2017, Western Union was recognized as “#1 Organization for Learning Globally” by ATD BEST. Some of his individual industry recognitions are:

2022, recognized as “2022 Asia's Top 100 Power HR Leaders”
2021, being recognized by TA PAI Management and ETHR World as “Young HR Leader in India”
2018, was listed as an Emerging HR Leader in India, by Jombay in their HR40Under40 list
2012, was recognized as one of the "Top 10 Training & OD Professional Globally" by Training Magazine USA.

He is a digital transformation enthusiast and is currently a Technical Advisory Board member for Global Skill Development Council (GSDC) - an independent, third-party, vendor neutral, international credentialing and certification organization for latest technologies like: Blockchain, Six Sigma, DevOps, Cloud, ITSM, ISO, Agile and L&D professionals. Anil is also contributing to Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) as an adjunct teaching faculty for L&OD topics.

Anil is a passionate believer in empowering people through learning and is a ACC certified coach from International Coach Federation (ICF). His other passions and interests include writing poetry, practice of Vipassana meditation and inculcating values-based leadership in all walks of life.

Jai Balan

Head - HR, Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Nida Shahid

Senior Associate Director Knowledge & Advisory - SHRM India & Mena

Nikhil Norula

Head of Americas, Vantage Circle

Abhijit Bhaduri

Founder, Abhijit Bhaduri & Associates

Venka Reddy

Global HR Business Partner, Infosys Ltd

Hema Mani

Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR, Lennox International

Hema Mani

Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR, Lennox International

Hema Mani has over 26 years of experience in Strategic Human Resources Capacity , with wide ranging Multinational experiences from Kelly Consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Jain Group of Institutions, i2 Technologies and Honeywell.

She is a Leadership Coach certified under Korn Ferry Leadership Architect & Marshall Goldsmith and certified OD Facilitator from International OD Federation

She is currently Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR at Lennox International, part of her responsibility in Lennox India & Asia sourcing leadership team. Her responsibilities include HR, Site Operational Management, Driving Community Engagement, External Communications for the company in this region

Under her leadership, Lennox India has won several honors for HR such as the 13 best workplaces in Tamil Nadu by Times of India, 100 Best places to work for women in India 2016 by Avatar, Best places to work in Chennai by Economic Times, Dream companies to work in 2016 by Times Ascent. Best Community engagement Award by Economic Times. Lennox India has been certified as Top Great Places to work twice in row, More recently Lennox was Certified as the Top 15 Great Places to work under her leadership

She is the current the Chairwoman for CII-Indian Women Network in TamilNadu and part of her role she is focused on develop Leadership talent among women, Mentoring initiatives, Gender Parity diagnostics & facilitation in corporations and POSH activities

She has represented on topics of Human sciences in forums of IHRD,NHRD, ISTD, CII and SHRM. She has published a couple of papers on Execution Excellence in HR which is compiled into a journal released by Indian Institute of Science and another one on Innovative learning strategies was recognized by Nasscom. She is recognized as one of the 30 Women Super Achievers by World HRD Congress

Blessed with 2 children, when she finds the time, she loves to cook & read and is also a Yoga Practitioner and Meditator with Isha Foundation

Leena Sahijwani

HR Leader - Change Enabler

Leena Sahijwani

HR Leader - Change Enabler

Leena is the Vice President- Group Human Resources at the Tata Group since September 2018. In this role, she is responsible for group Performance, Rewards, Diversity and Digital Transformation along with leading HR function for Tata Sons that sets policy and governance for all companies at the Tata Group.

Leena has over two decades of experience having previously worked with Sun Pharmaceuticals, GE, Accenture, Aon Hewitt and Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare in various HR leadership roles.

Leena was leading HR function for global R&D and Quality organisations in addition to Talent Management at Sun Pharma prior to joining Tata Group. Prior to this stint Leena was working as Director- Compensation & Benefits responsible for C&B and HR Operations for GE in South Asia and ASEAN regions and C&B Branding and Communication work for GE globally. In addition she was leading the GE Women’s Network for GE South Asia and led several key initiatives developing diverse talent, during this tenure GE South Asia won GE Women’s Network Best Region awards twice in a span of three years based on the impact created. She joined GE in 2005 as the HR leader for Energy & Aviation engineering organizations based out of Bangalore.

She started her career with Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) from and worked on assignments in HR and Sales. She joined Hewitt Associates and consulted in the area of C&B and Job Evaluation for clients spanning varied industries like Consumer, IT and ITES industries. After working for two and a half years with Hewitt, she joined Accenture to lead their Compensation & Benefits function for ITES business.

Leena has an MBA degree in Human Resources from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune and Bachelors degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi.

A progressive thinker Leena is always keen to solve tough challenges and create an impact.

Nakul Pathak

Sr. Executive Director (HR), IFFCO Limited

Vishal Dhingra

HR Director, Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Prashant Varma

HR Head, Sharaf DG

Rajan Kalia

SHRM Advisor & Co-Founder, Salto Dee Fe

Rajan Kalia

SHRM Advisor & Co-Founder, Salto Dee Fe

Rajan works in the area of Business Enablement and Leapfrogging Organisations to the next orbit of growth. His ﬁrm focuses on 4 practice areas - Talent Management, Organisation Transformation, Executive Search and Leadership Skilling. He and his team has cre-ated the revolutionary One Minute Feedback mobile application tool, Karma Notes.

Rajan has a rich and varied 28 years experience in Human Re-sources . He does cuNng edge Talent Management work with Marc Eﬀron for Fortune 100 companies across the globe, closer home he is involved with Harvard Business Press, Stanford Seed and SHRM advising, consulting, teaching and coaching their clients.

For the past 9 years Rajan has been consulting, advising, training, coaching and launching organisations in their next growth orbit. He has worked with over 100 clients in varied sectors including Fortune 100 Global, Indian private and public sector companies. His clients seek his advice to solve complex Talent/ Performance Management issues, build robust Talent strategies and Transform Organisations.

Since 1992, Rajan has garnered his expertise through hard-won experience across multiple sectors – in manufacturing industry he worked with Eicher and Ballarpur Industries, in FMCG with Coca Cola, and in consul;ng with Eicher Consultancy Services (ECS), before geNng into ﬁnancial services with Max New York Life Insurance (MNYL). He spent over a decade in the ﬁnancial services industry.

In his corporate career, Rajan has been instrumental in seNng up HR functions, formulating the philoso-phy, strategy and policies of the function. He has speciﬁc expertise in the areas of Performance Man-agement, Compensation, Feedback & Talent Management. He has been instrumental in Transforming Organisations over the last 15 years. He regularly tweets and publishes on LinkedIn.

Rajan has been trained by Harvard Business Publishing in Case study methodology, DDI in Performance Management & Coaching, by SHL in OPQ Assessments. He is an international speaker, expert in the areas of Human Resources & Performance Feedback.

Rajan is Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is certiﬁed in Organisation Design from IIMB and in Behaviour Economics 101 from Rotman School, Toronto.

Lyanne Nathaniel

Head Retail & Customer Experience, SHRM India

Nitya Vijaykumar

Sr. Knowledge Advisor, SHRM India

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