Atanu has experience of 18 yrs in HR. He has a passion for Organizational Development and Change Management and a large part of his professional career has been devoted in pursuing this passion. Atanu has ability to strategize, lead and implement initiatives in a dynamic, matrixed fast changing environment. Atanu has a flair for proactively identifying and solving tenacious & complex problems – maximizing productivity, informed decision making and implementation of systems.Atanu has been Head - HR at Ashland India group companies, this involved deploying whole lot of organizational changes and development across the country in a highly matrixed organization for different line of businesses. Atanu brought in a performance management culture within the organization. Prior to joining Ashland, Atanu worked with Xerox as GM – HR heading their HR pan India operations across all regions. He conceptualized & implemented the HR strategy for Xerox India. He also designed & implemented the Talent Management Strategy. He was instrumental in initiating and implementing whole lot of change management initiatives within the organization because of which he was awarded the all round best performer award from Xerox worldwide. During this tenure with different organizations he touched upon all gamut of HR and IR across sectors and businesses very extensively which helped him in developing strong business acumen..Specialties: OD & Change Management, Creating and delivering HR Strategy to meet business needs, World class HR best practices, Aligning & Managing change of Org Strategy & Structure to meet Business Goals, Employee Engagement & Talent Management, Policy Formulation & Implementation, M&A, Goal Setting, Performance Management, Balanced Score Card, Leadership Development, Career Planning, C& B design & implementation, Competency Mapping, Development Centers, Competency linked HR practices