Alok Kumar Email and Phone Number

I coach, counsel, and consult founders, CXOs and people leaders on all aspects of people management, leadership, culture, and organizational effectiveness.I perform the role of interim/consulting HR Head.

February Sunday helps start-ups and mid-size organizations with managing their people, and the leadership challenges they face as they grow. # We work as a sounding board, advisor, and counsel to the leadership team # Guide, develop, and help to build the 2nd line of leadership # Help building consistent systems and processes across the organization # Partner in their growth scaling-up journeyWe have successfully built three SaaS products in HR/Recruitment domain:1. The Resume Reader (www.theresumereader.com): The Resume Reader helps organizations, large or small, to make use of the internal resume database. It helps to centrally Store, Search, Sort, Filter, Classify resume automatically and instantly, along with allowing organizations to build and maintain the relationship with candidates effectively, thus resulting in faster and cost-effective closures of job openings2. CherriPicking PERFECT (PERsonality Fitment & Comprehension Tool) (www.cherripicking.com): helps companies hire right-fit candidates using computational psychology. It scientifically predicts the culture fit of a candidate with an organization, leading to reduced attrition, reduced disruption risk, and higher return on hiring investment3. CherriPicking RAMP (Recruitment Augmentation & Management Platform): RAMP helps organizations with automating and efficiently managing the recruitment process and recruitment lifecycle and keep track of the progress in real-time.Exited and became part of The Media Ant through acquihire.

Recorded 9 podcast episodes of entrepreneurs and senior leaders talking about people strategies and challenges forscaling up startups and SMBs. Podcast covers topics like hiring, building and developing team,leadership, and culture. Guests included founders/CEOs and senior leaders.Listen to the podcast here: https://anchor.fm/februarysunday

• Consulting and guiding leadership team constituting VP and Directors and other people managers across various geographies (NA, LA, EMEA & APAC) on key talent management and employee engagement matters and HR processes• Supporting organizational talent reviews and managing and supporting performance management process and facilitating calibration meetings• Managing and implementing global and local HR processes and policies and managing the employee life cycle of diverse and highly experienced global IT team• Drive employee engagement initiatives and supporting execution of Credo action plans• Overhauled and created & implemented a comprehensive and time bound new joinee orientation program• Defined and documented critical organizational capabilities and listed key training requirements needed for meeting business objectives

"Purpose" is a Behavioral Training & HR Consulting initiative.We operate in both B2C and B2B domain for behavioral training services and we specialize in providing HR Consulting services to start-ups and SMBs.Some of our HR Consulting services includes:• Setting up the HR department• Building HR systems and infrastructure• Creating HR policies, systems and processes• Creating induction plan and running the sameSome of our Behavioral Training programs includes:• Personal development • Communication Skills • Public Speaking • Team Management

• Part of Core Team, a core committee of founders and functional heads responsible for driving company’s operations, strategies and policies and managing the day to day operations of the organization• Headed the HR function of this 250+ person successful and innovative start-up that had offices across 7 locations and was accountable for leading and creating HR infrastructure• Worked with the young and energetic leadership team and counseled and coached them on good organization management practices, on leadership, people management and facilitating organization and culture change• Designed employee engagement model and rewards & recognition framework

• Led and managed a government funded program in 3 cities (Gurgaon, Manesar and Faridabad) with 4 worker facilitation centers and a team of 50 people• Led the registration of construction sector workers under Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (HBOCWWB) and provide them with ID cards and ensure government schemes under the program reaches the registered workers and help provide social security, run crèche for worker's children, provide healthcare services, skill and safety trainings etc• Manage and work with various stakeholders comprising government official including senior IAS officers from labour department (labour commissioner, additional labour commissioner, deputy directors) and appraise them with the program status, seeking approvals, and execute work as agreed• Conducted various technical and managerial trainings for the team to help them perform their job better

• Part of Management Committee (ManComm), the core team of CEO and the Board of Directors, responsible for driving company’s operations, strategies and policies and managing the day to day operations of the organization• Led the HR function and created HR infrastructure to support the rapid growth of the organization and saw the organization grow from 30 employees to 600 employees spread across 50 locations and revenue grow from 5 Crores (USD 1MM) to 25 Crores (USD 5MM) per annum• Grew the HR function from 1 member unit to 3 member team• Worked with the CEO for developing and institutionalizing Kestone’s core values• Led the assimilation of Kestone into Career Launcher post acquisition• Ran several non-HR programs like project managing the development of an event micro-site, managing a retail sales program of 20 sales personnel spread across the country, represent as Management Representative for ISO implementation