4^th HR Leadership e-Summit 2021

Prabir, a distinguished HR strategist, has handled all areas in HR, with special interest in Organisation Transformation, Talent Management, Executive Coaching, OD interventions, Global HR Strategy, Employer Branding and Leadership Capability Development.

Prabir has over the last many years been featured in the 'List of Most Admired HR Professionals in India' and has a number of awards to his credit, including a consistent Linkedin Power Profile. Among others, he is the recipient of the National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM) Medal, the Reckitt & Colman Award and the Citibank Leaders Award at XLRI, for the "highest level of academic performance, competence, originality, creativity, communication skills and leadership" as also the Director's Medal in the Civil Services Foundation Course. He was conferred the Asia HRD Award - 2012 for "outstanding contribution to the field of Human Resource Development" and "The Distinguished Alumni" Award at XLRI in 2016. He was named the "Digitalist of the Year" by SAP-Mint in 2018. He was recently ranked No. I amongst the "Top HR Influencers on Twitter from India" for 2020 by @BloggersAlliance. He sits as part of a New York based think tank of fifteen global CHROs, "The Thinking Ahead Group".

In addition, Prabir is widely recognised as a transformation guru and an accomplished thought- leader /tweeter whose views are closely followed across various platforms. He has been among the most widely followed CHROs globally with more than half a million followers on Linkedin. He is a sought-after speaker, executive coach and a visiting faculty at various business schools and top management training institutes. He advises some start-ups and sits on the HR Advisory Board of the Reserve Bank of India and has been on the Board of companies in the Tata/ Cipla Group.

He can be reached at prabir@prabirjha.com .

Geetanjali is a highly qualified and very successful Human Resource professional with a ring side view to the people problems at workplace. She has faced these struggles herself and only found true. This CHRO turned author’s last book Buddha At Work has answers to these questions we all struggle with at some point, and more. In these modern and troubled times, Geetanjali has been able to synthesize in her work and in her approach, the much-needed element of ancient wisdom, of spirituality with success. It is based on the best of techniques Buddha propounded 2700 years ago, for a transformation in everyday life, surprisingly even more valid in the 21st century than when Buddha walked the Earth. The book is touching lives across 4 continents, in 8 countries currently and with the Vietnamese edition planned for 2022, the count will go up to 9 countries and the 4 languages.

She shares methods, rituals and techniques that can help any professional at any stage of their career identify and develop their true north, deal with ease with all manner of colleagues, and succeed professionally.These techniques and exercises have been validated almost entirely by modern psychology and neurology. Geetanjali has created bite sized rituals and lovingly culled out the essence of the Buddha’s hallmark Loving-Kindness meditation (Pali karuna-mitta). Her work is now global with the West appreciating the authentic modern voice to the Buddha's teachings.

Geetanjali is the Stress Guru on Audible’s Just Chill! which explores facets of stress, anxiety and hacks to reduce both in varied professions. Her guests on the show include the iconic Lucky Ali; Corporate Mentor Vineet Nayar (former CEO of HCL Technologies); Padmashri Dr Bibek Debroy who is currently serving as the Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; globally renowned comic PAPA CJ, Major DP Singh who is a Kargil War Hero and India’s first blade runner; Kathak exponent Padmashri Dr Shovana Narayan and Magsaysay Award Receipient Dr Rajendra Singh.

Eika's business experience over two decades spans Private Banking, General Management and Entrepreneurship. Post her MBA, she started her professional life as a Banker with over 12 years of core operating experience in various Business Leadership roles with Standard Chartered Bank, ABM Amro (now RBS), Citi & Kotak. She then gained entrepreneurial 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 Development Corporation) - India's leading Skills, Talent and Leadership Development organisations. She now serves as an Independent Director on the Board of the Company.

Eika's living is deeply immersed in her age-old Indian wisdom, and she regularly draws upon her Indian blood memory for her unique pedagogy. She is the founder-curator for Aakhyaan since 2014, India's first ever Annual Mythology festival, a knowledge platform that she has conceptualised with the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai - integrating the corporate 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 of gatherings with experts, practitioners, believers and seekers across the East and the West.

In his role of Executive Director & COO at RvaluE Group, he has been part of setting up/ growing 15+ India & Global Shared Service Centers, and 100+ Transformational engagements enabling RvaluE Team to deliver business impact of over US$400mn to clients. He got exposure to service domestic and international clients during his stints at Espire, CBoP, American Express, RvaluE and has worked across the geographies providing transformational leadership - India, Asia Pacific, Japan, North America, Middle East, UK and Europe.

Rakesh spots Industry Trends and has led customized Business Transformation initiatives such as Sourcing Model Strategy, Benchmarking, Location Strategy, Offshoring, RFP & Deal Management, Business Process Redesign, Vision planning for Globalizing Shared Services, identifying process consolidation opportunities for over 5000+ FTEs, preparing Business Case, leading process migration/people transition cutting across F&A, HR, Supply Chain & Procurement, Customer Life Cycle, and IT functions both in Manufacturing & Services domains.

Rakesh co-founded Shared Services Forum (SSF) in 2011 as an industry platform to create and disseminate knowledge for excellence in BPM for the ecosystem in Global India, authored several pioneering research reports and books like Co-Authored first-of-its-kind book on BPM ‘BPM in Global India – The Inflection Point for Competitive Advantage’.

Rakesh is well-recognized in the industry and felicitated / honored by leading media houses in their magazine of Industry repute as 'Young Entrepreneur with difference! 'Pioneer', 'Thought Leader/ Gurus' of Business Process Space - Identified as one of the top 30 Influential Young Entrepreneurs of 2016 by the Insight Success magazine and featured on the cover story, and recently honored India’s Greatest Leaders 2017-18 - Pride of the Nation’, by AsiaOne Magazine & URS Media - Process Reviewers PricewaterhouseCoopers PL”. He was one of the youngest to be invited as member of Management Council of Delhi Management Association!

As part of his social responsibilities, Rakesh mentors young leaders from leading Management Institutes, devotes time/energy to social projects along with like-minded people, think beyond the present, for creating Think Tanks for 2030 and make India a better place to live in the global village!

Prior to DXC, at Deloitte US Offices of India Arun led the HR function across multiple business lines, served as the Chief Learning Officer and was instrumental in the smooth execution of key leadership development initiatives. He has also served with companies like Satyam Computers Limited, and AppLabs Technologies in the past.

Among leadership and talent enhancement circles, Arun contributes as a speaker at industry events, think-tank sessions, publications, dailies and HR forums as well. He is regularly involved in mentorship programs, providing enrichment to aspiring and mid-management individuals interested in making a career in Human Resources.

He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur (India) and is also an alumnus of University of Delhi (India).

When time permits, Arun pushes himself to be closer to nature through treks, safari trips and holidays in the mountains. He is an avid reader of books around strategy and organizational excellence and admires the industry vision and direction of Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media).

- The second in Consulting, platform selling, driving revenue & client success with Arrows (UK, NL), KPISOFT (Asia, EMEA) and Accenture (India) Consulting.

- The third theme in driving digital strategies for Accenture as CIO and other technology led transformations. In my current assignment I have primary accountability to design & deploy enterprise talent solutions for the UAE government (63 departments, 90,000 people)

Beyond work, Naveen is an author, public speaker and an activist for girl child education where he runs an NGO sponsoring and mentoring 150 girls on a 6-year scholarship.

Mukta is passionate about D&I and has spearheaded critical initiatives across organizations. She launched 'Women in Retail' program to promote gender diversity across stores in Walmart India, and also led ‘Reach Out’ - a development initiative for senior women leaders at Amex in partnership with Pepsico, PwC, Microsoft, Tata Group and RB. She has also been instrumental in the launch of Pride Chapter at AmEx.

In his previous stint, he was associated with the Future Group as the Chief People & Transformation Officer and prior to that, Animesh has worked with IDFC Group for almost a decade. As a member of the Executive Committee at IDFC Group, he was responsible for leading the Human Resources; Marketing; Corporate Communication and was the CEO of IDFC Foundation, driving corporate responsibility and community engagement for the Group. In his earlier stints he has worked in RBS; Standard Chartered, Thomas Cook and Marico.

Animesh has served on Boards and has worked closely with non-profit organisations helping them enhance internal capacity to increase their social impact. His interests include leading organization transformations in both, the for-profit and not for profit/social sector, improving diversity & inclusion in organizations and coaching senior leaders.

He is widely recognised as an expert on clearances for Greenfield & Brownfield Projects and has tremendous exposure in legal/tribunals & in the project monitoring group of the Cabinet Secretariat as well as of various Ministries.

After holding forte in HR, CSR, Compliance & Environmental Responsibility in the Steel Industry, he took on the mantle of Corporate Affairs and has since then made cutting-edge contribution with respect to Policy Advocacy for the growth of the Steel, Power, Mining and Non-Ferrous Industry. He symbolizes the best in Human Resource Management, Public Relations, Govt. Affairs, Strategic Planning, Industrial Relations and Corporate/Regulatory Affairs. Due to his vast wealth of knowledge & networking acumen, Dr Verma is affiliated with several social, technical and business organizations. His professional conduct, value-based life philosophy and affable nature has won him immense goodwill and numerous well- wishers. His excellent public relation & networking skills with various Embassies/High Commissions/Diplomatic Community has earned him the position of Director Economic Affairs on various Business/Friendship Forums such as- India-Russia, India -Bhutan, India-Bulgaria, India-China etc. He has also served as a member on key Central Government Committees such as:

• Member TAC (Telephone Advisory Committee) Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India.
• Member, ZRUCC-SER, Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India
• Member of Steel Consumer’s Council, Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India
• Member of Sectional Committee on Copper in BIS, Govt. of India
• And various Committees of FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM, FIMI, PHD and SIDM

Dr Verma is a Ph.D (Economics), MBA, PG Diploma in PM&IR, Journalism & HRD, Dip-T&D and LLB. He has also completed various certifications to keep himself updated with the latest knowledge:

• Certified Human Resource Director (CHRD) by Talent Management Academy, Germany
• Certified Corporate Directorship by International Institute of Directors, London
• Certified Trainer by ISTD
• Accredited Management Teacher by AIMA
• Certified in Consulting Skill by Consultancy Development Centre, Institute of DSIR
• Certified Security Practitioner (CSP) & Certified Disaster Management (CDM), BCP Professional by International Institute of Security & Safety Management
• Certificate in Strategy- Finance and Marketing by ASTD, USA
• Certificate in Mastering Corporate Social Responsibility by CII

Dr Verma has been conferred with various prestigious awards like Excellence Award at London Parliament, Global Citizen Award for excellence in Diplomatic Community Networking, Hindalco and ABMCPL Pride Awards, Sharam & Corporate Ratna Award, Excellence in Thought Leadership Award, Nominee for Chairman Award for Exception Contributor @ 2019, Excellence in Policy Advocacy, International Excellence Award 2020 for Policy Advocacy & Diplomatic Relations in Madrid-Spain, Philip Kotler Award - India Achiever Corporate Affairs Specialist, Dr Kalam Memorial Ignited mind Award for Innovative & Exemplary work in Corporate Excellence and Bharat Gaurav Samman for Diplomatic Relations & Though Leadership in Dubai, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Gaurav Award for Excellence in Diplomatic Networking & Leadership 2021, Mumbai, APN News , Swadesh Business Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award 2021- Policy Advocacy for Metal Industry Silver Jubilee Award for Excellence in Policy Advocacy for Non – Ferrous Industry to name a few.

She has been Training and certifying Trainers for many workshops. As per the global requirements, she also conducts structured follow up calls and wrap up sessions as required by the Clients. She ensures that her delivery reflects the needs of various clients as per their business requirements. She also conducts workshops on Energy for Performance, another global program from USA. She is an Executive Coach and provides coaching to several people across functions.

Rachna has an extensive experience in designing and conducting global and domestic Training Programs on multiple Leadership Skills (including Managerial Effectiveness, Effective Appraisals, Situational Leadership, Communication Skills, Business Writing, Collaborating & Influencing, Team Building, Change Management ), Selling Skills & Field Coaching Skills. She is a certified MBTI trainer. She has been focused in identifying training/development needs and customizing training programs based on the needs like employee satisfaction actions and learning tracks. She is also certified in Infomapping methodology.

Having started her career in Sales with Colgate Palmolive, Rachna gained in-depth experience in Sales & Sales Training. She then joined Samsung Electronics Ltd. as Manager Training and later moved to American Express (I) Ltd. as Training Leader. She is now working with large organizations and MNCs in IT/ BPO services, BFSI, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and other domains. She has enabled several organizations’ effectiveness and culture building initiatives.

Sanjay is a Chartered Accountant by qualification. During the initial 10+ years of his corporate career, he worked within the core Finance & Accounting functions in domestic companies such as Living Media and Indian Oil Corporation. He moved to American Express FRC where he first migrated and then serviced several groups of international financial services covering card and travel business.

Sanjay joined EXL Service Holdings, a New York based services company. His excellent operational insights and structured approach to find practical and innovative solutions made him the part of initial core team at EXL. As Operations Lead, he was instrumental in growing the BPO Business and Operations across multiple verticals, leading several business process initiatives, and developing frameworks connecting operational service delivery to business KPIs of clients. Having led large teams and given his focus on people and performance, Sanjay moved to become the Global HR Head for EXL (25000+ people), reporting to the CEO as well as the Compensation Committee of the Board. As the HR head, he played a key role in strategy development to achieve business goals.

Currently Sanjay divides his time between SSF activities and consulting for large corporates. He is also a passionate teacher of the English language and coaches the underprivileged children, youth and young adults.

She is invited as a regular speaker by CII, ACCA, AMCHAM, NASSCOM. She is the Chief People & Organization Officer for Trilegal a Tier 1 law firm in India.

She holds a Post Graduate degree in Science and a Diploma in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management. In 2018 she was awarded the Asia HRD Award in Vietnam for her contributions towards Organization Effectiveness.

She enjoys the outdoors and along with a passion for travelling finds time for music, yoga and reading.

Rahul is an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and successfully completed Disruptive Strategy with Clay Christensen from Harvard Business School Online.

As a continuous improvement enthusiast, she has led design & execution of enterprise-wide, large scale capability development programs to build a culture of operational excellence across 100,000 employees and 5000 top leaders of Genpact and its multiple clients globally.

In her current role, Shalu is leading a Genpact wide talent supply chain transformation program that will accelerate revenue realization, tremendously reduce cost of fulfilment and significantly reimagine employee experience.

Konika has over 20 years of accomplished experience in the field of Talent Acquisition across all levels in different sectors. She is recognized in India as a strong leader in the search and has received multiple recognitions including the Exception Women Leader from the Women’s Economic Forum in 2018 and HerRising Award in 2019 for Women in HR.

Prior to joining KF she has had extensive experience with leading Organizations like ICICI Prudential, American Express, GE and Bharti Airtel Ltd in the domains of Talent Acquisition, Sales , Generalist and HR Transformation roles. She has received various awards for her exemplary work in the organizations that she has been associated with in her prior stints. Some of them being Gold award with Airtel, Platinum Award with American Express, Various awards at Genpact and the Top Notchers award in ICICI Prudential.

Konika is a Postgraduate in Management from TVU (London) and also holds a Certification in Strategic Human Resource Management from IIM Ahmedabad

Over the last 13 years, Anand has been a serial entrepreneur, starting as a co-founder for Intrust Global in Business Services space, Chairman of Suprawin Technologies and then co-promoted Pegasus Oil & Gas Services. Intrust Global was recognized as one of the 10 fastest growing LPO companies by the Black Book of Outsourcing. He has worked on significant strategic initiatives with large global organizations like Solvay Business Services in Europe, and many others in UK, USA and Asia Pacific.

Anand was earlier instrumental in setting up the first-ever Global In-house Captive (GIC) Financial Center of American Express in India in mid-90s as Shared Services for F & A and Operations processes. He handled multi billion dollars’ business transactions, pioneered transitions of finance and operations processes, led multiple global projects like Y2K and BPR, bringing huge cost saves and value to various stakeholders and was deputed to UK on a global assignment. He also received the Chairman Award for Quality six times.

In his current role with the RvaluE Group, Anand brings proven strategic execution capabilities, stakeholder collaboration and people management skills and focus on coaching and mentoring leaders. While detail oriented, he has an excellent strategic oversight and has a keen mind that breaks down complex issues into manageable chunks. He brings insight, global experience, expertise and a sense of humour to engagement, enabling him to collaborate well with clients, associates and colleagues.