Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Toronto-based Healthcare startup: hired executive leadership team, built employee engagement & employee handbook
• Toronto-based Media startup: hired 50% of organization, developed quarterly HR strategy, performance mgmt., coaching, onboarding program, competency matrix, employee engagement (survey, retention), mission and vision
• Toronto-based Gaming startup: revamped recruitment, operations, and employee branding
• Toronto-based FinTech startup: developed recruitment, talent attraction and assessment process, onboarding.
• International D2C startup – Celebrity founder with 70m Instagram followers: hired five-team marketing team, employee engagement (survey, retention), developed OKRs
• International education school: advised DSB International School on HR policies and operations system, coached senior leader, and presented on organizational health and strategy.
• APAC Ed-tech: Harappa Education Instructor for “Reading Deeply” on the world of information, and “Navigating Workplaces,” understanding complex environments when it comes to power, politics and conflict at work.
• US: coached ten people on career transition, interview prep, storytelling, career development.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore & Beijing

• As part of the leadership team, I lead HR for the Times Group-backed MX Player, a streaming video platform with over 500 million downloads, 175m MAUs, and 400 employees across four locations.
• https://www.mxplayer.in/
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en_IN

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Leadership: lead HR, Operations & Admin departments, & support six service lines; directly report to the CEO and two other partners.
• Organizational Development: led strategic planning, organization restructure, and re-designed performance management system for company. Developed KRAs/KPIs, new org. chart and job descriptions to align with business strategy.
• Talent Acquisition: in one year, hired 65% of current staff. 34% of staff hires have come from my direct networks or initiative, including 50% of one business service line. Built relationships with college campuses & external vendors.
• Learning & Development: led training sessions in project management, communication and client management. Developed multi-pronged onboarding process on company culture, admin and domain knowledge requirements.
• External Consulting: consult weekly with an international school's leadership. My performance led to a community presentation on Organizational Health.
• Employee Branding: developed collaterals for college placement process along with our Careers section of website.
• Operations: developed HR policies and processes; streamlined service line operations through process flows.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Leadership: led Dalberg Asia’s Human Capital and Communications team, with offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore and Hong Kong.
• Strategy: produced a HR strategic plan to partners on recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance management.
• Talent Acquisition: Managed and developed all aspects of recruitment from campus relations, to processing and screening, to developing materials.
• Learning & Development: facilitated workshops for employee training on internal benchmark testing.
• Strategic Partnership: built relationships with New York University (Wagner) and Columbia University (SIPA) for partner level engagements on thought leadership.
• Communications: Built comms. platform including recruitment promotions (social media, LinkedIn, videos); industry panel discussions (ICC Chicago, Consulting Clubs), wrote articles, developed media database and conference tracker.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Work in innovation, nuclear power, and insurance industries with diverse roles in talent management.
• Projects include project manager in development of on-boarding process (learning & development), communications lead in HR tech adoption (change management and communications), PM in business process map definitions, deliver and facilitate programs (employee engagement) and reporting.
• Key activities: Communications: developed plan, stakeholder management, guides (fact sheets, Q&As), executive briefings (key messages, speaking notes). Training: training and curriculum support (course descriptions, job aids, train-the-trainer strategy and learning sessions). Project Management: supported project life cycle (project plan, readiness assessments, issue logs, deliverables, lessons learned) and gantt chart development, streamline workflow processes, developing process maps and learning needs analysis.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Toronto / Mumbai

• · Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Research Associate: Led projects by reading papers from academic journals, and synthesizing key insights. Presented on the link between change management and emotions: “How to Motivate People in Changing Times? Look beyond Carrots and Sticks.”
• · TNS Canada, Project Director (Market Research): Responsible for research design, data tabulation, project management and
• research on employee engagement, including international airlines and pharmaceuticals.
• · In research career, have presented at seven conferences, including prestigious American Sociological Association.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Toronto

• Was recruited as a CBC media personality and journalist for the 2010 World Cup. Prepared
• extensive analysis while appearing on national news television about upcoming sports games.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Was invited by the Liberal Arts & Professional Studies' Department of Social Sciences to guest lecture in late 2010.
• Success led to being re-invited over several semesters for “Childhood and Society" where I focused on youth culture.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Ontario’s New Teacher of the Year 2010, Finalist
• Recognizing widespread student disengagement, founded a school-wide intramural program featuring
• over 60% of the school’s students.
• With just three experience soccer players, led Girls’ Soccer team to Regional Championship and undefeated record, the first in over a decade for the school. Also coached Boys Soccer and Basketball team.