Pooja Makasana (🌈she/her/hers)

Head of Talent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Diversity & Inclusion initiatives.
  • Proven track record in employee engagement strategies.
  • Strong background in talent management and development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Human Resources professional specializing in Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementEmployee EngagementDiversity & InclusionOrganization EffectivenessLearning & DevelopmentHuman Resources Management

Other Skills

Behavioral InterventionsChange ManagementCulture ChangeEmployee ExperienceLeadership DevelopmentLearning Process ManagementManagementOrganizational EffectivenessStakeholder CollaborationStrategic HRTeam ManagementTraining & Development

About

Human Resource professional leading company-wide initiatives in areas of Diversity & Inclusion, Organization Culture, Change Management, Employee Recognition, Employee wellbeing,OD & Talent Management. Deeply passionate & curious about Human Behaviour and Employee Engagement.

Experience

Sun pharma

2 roles

HR Business Partner - Corporate functions & Head - DEI

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Head - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Schindler india

Talent Management, Leadership Development & Employee Experience

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • This role was responsible for leading the talent and employee experience transformation agenda as Schindler India started a journey of creating a Bigger, Fitter, Faster and Safer organization (by 2025).
  • Revamped talent management framework for India operations to bring more objectivity to the process through streamlining talent segmentation, development, and engagement of leadership pipeline
  • Managed end to end participation for ‘Great Place to Work’ assessment. Designed pulse surveys, campaigns, and contests to reach out to the last mile employees with positive reinforcement resulting into a steep move in scores
  • Introduced a globally emerging tool ‘Organization Network Survey’ to deep dive into social capital of the organization to draw strategies of work and Engagement
Talent ManagementLeadership DevelopmentEmployee ExperienceEmployee EngagementChange Management

Hindalco industries limited

3 roles

D&I & Organization Effectiveness

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • This role involved developing goals, strategies & performance measures for making Hindalco an inclusive workplace, create a common language and understanding of inclusion & create innovative solutions to lead Diversity at Business level.
  • Organization Effectiveness
  • This part of my role helped improve employee commitment and supported business transformation, assisted employees learn new behaviors for keeping the business competitive.
Diversity & InclusionOrganization EffectivenessEmployee Engagement

Learning & Development

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

  • CoE L&D role for Behavioral interventions reaching to 4000 management grade employees
  • Analyzing & interpreting TNI at organization level and designed customized learning intervention basis ABG Competency framework to drive business priorities with department and function leads
  • Collaborating with various stakeholders to calendarize & execute flagship learning interventions for different segments of employees
  • Introducing contemporary learning practices like Logo serious play, theatre workshops, World Café etc.
  • During these 2 years learning was rated one of the highly effective functions within HR in HR stakeholder survey. Few of the top league Flagship programs launched by me during these times were – Spectrum (managing teams effectively), Developing Business Managers (Financial Acumen), Let’s be Influential (Communicate to influence & engage), Quantum Leap (developing self & Team) etc.
Learning & DevelopmentBehavioral InterventionsStakeholder Collaboration

Human Resources Generalist

Jun 2011 – Jun 2016 · 5 yrs

  • ï‚§ Established contemporary process of GETs familiarization & set extensive training and review processes
  • ï‚§ Revamped lateral hire induction process and ensured 100% closure on 30-60-90 days’ feedback
  • ï‚§ Managed end-to-end Learning process from training need identification to measuring learning effectiveness. Vibes score for L&D at Dahej moved to 72% in 2016 against 51% in 2012.
  • ï‚§ Led Talent Management implementation and review process, managed & tracked DACs & IDP sessions for Talent pool employees
  • ï‚§ Established Manthan Group, a set of employees with similar interests which used to meet and deliberate on travel, values, philanthropy, hobbies, education, justice etc.
  • ï‚§ Partnered with many community relationships projects in the areas of Health, Education and Employment with Corporate social responsibility teams
Human Resources ManagementLearning Process ManagementTalent Management

Integra india group company ltd.

HR Executive - Trainee

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 · 9 mos

Education

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara

Masters — Human Resource

Jul 2008 – Jan 2010

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