As a Principal Consultant, through Humane HR, I render my Consultancy Services to growing Companies, especially the MSME sector, to guide and participate in their Growth journey.I specialize into doing a dipstick diagnosis of Organisational Health from the Organisation Development perspective. And support end to end HR Interventions in turning around the Organisation, including starting up of their Offices.This includes helping them in Organization restructuring, Manpower Planning, Talent Acquisition, including Leadership hiring, designing HR Policies and Procedures, Compensation and benefits benchmarking, Performance Management, Rewards and recognition, Industrial Relations, Statutory Compliance, Learning and Development, HR Operations

As a Chief Human Resources officer for the KLT Group of Companies, I accepted the onus, to lead the entire gamut of HR initiatives for all the Group of Companies located across India and South Africa.This included setting up 2 Greenfield, automobile chassis manufacturing project in Pretoria, South Africa.

I started this HR consultancy. This Consultancy continues to engage in to niche consultancy areas pertaining to Placements, Learning and development, Talent Grooming and growing, Coaching & Mentoring. Over a period of 1 and half years the Consultancy is growing in terms of it's clientele and assignments. My wife has now taken over this consultancy from me. She is supported by competent HR Resources. I wish them all the best in this endeavour. I have then joined KLT Group of Companies as their Group Chief Human Resources Officer

When I took over the responsibilities as Head HR for South West Asia, I was fortunate to have been entrusted with the Task of setting up a state of the art HR Department. In addition to my regular assignment, my key achievements in this role were as under:1. As part of the Country Management Team, proactively engaged with Top Management as a strong HR support and managed synergies between all Businesses. 2. Developed and aligned HR Excellence plan in response to the Organisation’s challenges and available opportunities3. Remapped the Compensation and Benefits for India & launched the CTC approach of compensation.4. Bench-marked the HR Policies and launched the HR Manual for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.5. Actively managed the Talent Retention through proactive engagement with Global HR Business Partners, Business Managers and High Potential colleagues.6. Tracked & managed the Employee Satisfaction through proactive deliberations and executing actions.7. Launched the HR Manual for all employees.8. Successfully managed the HR integration of an acquired company9. Part of the Editorial Team of "South West Asia News Letter", a monthly in-house magazine for LR South West Asia.

In addition to my role as a HR Business Partner for Corporate Services, my key achievements are:1. Engaged with Senior Department Heads of 12 Corporate Departments of Siemens in Mumbai to address their HR issues including the following:o Hiring the best professional and highly qualified talento Managing the aspirations of High Potential Employees.o Rolling out the rewards and recognition.o Career and Succession Planning.2. Recruited and developed Cadre of Commercial professionals on an All India Basis.3. Managed team Development through Experiential Learning, by way of arranging Outbound Programmes, targeting specific behavioral needs of the Department.

My role over here was that of a Generalist HR looking after the Manpower Planning and Budgeting, Recruitment, Training, Performance Management. I reported to Head HR. My key achievements include:1. Amidst high demand for skilled resources in Construction Industry, ensured meeting 100% recruitment target.2. Designing and deploying the Graduate Engineer Scheme as part of their Cadre development initiative including:o Campus Recruitmento 1 year scheduled training and job rotation3. Authored the HR handbook, containing all the HR policies, for the Company.4. Actively participated in the compensation benchmark exercise to restructure compensation and also facilitated “Fire Walve” strategy to retain talent. 5. Effectively assisted the cross functional team oriented towards various projects execution in Mumbai & Pune using innovation tools.

I was responsible for the HR of the Consumer Products Division, having about 450 employees.My core responsibilities included:1. Streamlining the Recruitment & training of Sales personnel through deployment of Recruitment Manual & training across locations.2. Launching of Achiever’s club, a platform for recognition of High Performing Sales Field Staff.

As a Tata Group Resource and as part of my career progression, I was offered this role to move from Tata Motors, Pune to Tata International Limited, Corporate Office Mumbai. I was mainly responsible for the deployment of Performance Management System, Training needs delivery, Gallup Employee Engagement survey and & Q12 action plan. My key core responsibilities included:1. Developing a structured Annual HR Excellence Plan based on inputs from Employee Engagement Survey, MD’s Balance Score Card, Audit recommendations etc2. Qualified for the External Assessor exam of Tata Business Excellence Model.3. Launched the Training and Development module of RAMCO HRIS system.4. Active participated in Learning and Deployment of Tata Business Excellence Model. 5. Executed Performance Management System for Indian and overseas locations for about 350 employees, encompassing alignment of vision, mission and KRAs based on the Balance Score Card method.6. Revised the HR policies in line with current industry trend and compiled them in the form of Employee Handbook.7. Administered, analysed & deployed action plan for all departments and their head, based on Gallup Employee Engagement Survey findings and Q-12 scores. 8. Devised and administered Questionnaire for Internal Customer Satisfaction Survey and implemented an action plan based on findings of the survey.

I joined Tata Motors (Telco), Pune, as part of the campus selection, as Post Graduate Trainee in HR and grew to the position of Asst. Manager – HR, in a span of 5½ years. My Key achievements include:1. Efficiently coordinated HR related activities for Axles Factory at Pimpri Plant, comprising of over 2,000 employees.2. Managing the Industrial Relations of factory having around 2000 employees3. Engaging with Union Leaders to take their support on Productivity improvement on Shop floor.4. Engaging in timely disciplinary action based on appropriate investigations, conducting domestic enquiries, union liaison, executing punishments through dismissals.5. Involved in change management as a member of the Kaizen team as under:o Undertook Time and Motion study of machines to improve shop floor productivity. This was done as per the guidance of Industrial Engineering Department. We balanced the work load of workmen on the line with a view to facilitate optimum productivity.o Liaised with the union regarding problems faced by the operatives while implementing kaizen exercise, cell layout, multi-machine operations.6. Was responsible for Industrial Relations initiatives for the plant.7. Handled Disciplinary actions, including conducting investigations, Domestic Enquiries, initiating Suspensions, effecting dismissals of defaulter workmen. 8. Was part of the benchmarking team working on pre-wage & bonus settlement. 9. Launched Early Separation Scheme (VRS) for Supervisory staff.10. Actively involved in initiating Self Directed Team (SDT) concept introduced in 1997 Wage Agreement.11. Successfully implemented “Listening Post Concept” an initiative to voice out suggestions / actions in a small group directed towards solving any particular problem faced by employees.

I was reporting to Head of HR. My key responsibility was Wage and Salary administration, Asset procurement and Maintenance, Staffing of Contract employees, Recruitment etc, Govt. Liaison. Some of my key contributions were:1. Streamlining the Asset management process across locations including taking care of Annual Maintenance, liaison with Municipal Authorities.2. Could successfully, liaise with the Government Authorities relating to PF, ESIC, Contract Labour, etc.