Tapan Arora — CEO
Tapan Arora is a Strategic HR Leader and former Major from the Indian Army with over 20 years of leadership experience spanning the military and corporate sectors including healthcare, telecommunications, IT, and retail. He has held senior HR leadership roles with organisations such as Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. and Vijaya Diagnostic Centre, where he led enterprise HR strategy, talent management, and learning and organisation development initiatives. His work has focused on aligning people strategy with business priorities, strengthening leadership pipelines, institutionalising performance management frameworks, and building performance-driven cultures across multi-location operations. Tapan brings deep expertise in enterprise HR strategy, talent architecture, leadership and managerial capability development, succession planning, organisation design, culture transformation, and change management. Over the years, he has designed and facilitated leadership and managerial development interventions that build capability at senior leadership, middle management, and emerging leader levels. As an HR mentor, leadership coach, and facilitator, he works with CXOs, HR leaders, and talent teams to strengthen strategic HR capability, enhance HR business partnering effectiveness, and build scalable learning and organisation development frameworks that deliver measurable business impact. His approach integrates business understanding, behavioural science, and coaching to enable sustainable organisational performance. He is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and NLP Master Practitioner, and holds professional certifications in HR and business management from XLRI Jamshedpur and IIM Indore. He is also the author of 'Happy Managing! – The Ctrl+Alt+Del Mindset to Manage Oneself & Team', a book focused on personal effectiveness and team performance. Outside work, he is a marathon runner and a strong advocate of well-being, believing that sustained high performance is built on discipline, resilience, and continuous learning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Strategic HR Leader with expertise in Talent Management and Organizational Development across various industries.
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 21 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Hr Strategy
- Leadership Development
- Talent Management
- Employee Engagement
- Talent Acquisition
- Performance Management
- Change Management
- Operations Management
Career Highlights
- Over 20 years of leadership experience across sectors
- Expert in aligning HR strategy with business goals
- ICF Associate Certified Coach and NLP Master Practitioner
Work Experience
Freelance
HR Leader & OD Consultant | Talent Partner | Leadership Coach | Facilitator (2 yrs 8 mos)
Apollo Hospitals
Head - Human Resources : TeleHealth (4 yrs 2 mos)
Vijaya Diagnostic Centre
General Manager - Human Resources (9 mos)
American Tower (erstwhile ‘Idea Cellular Infrastructure Services Ltd’)
Circle HR - BP Lead for MPCG/AP & Telangana (2 yrs 10 mos)
Viom Networks
Circle HR Head - Mumbai & Rest of Maharashtra (1 yr 8 mos)
Bharti Infratel Limited
Manager - HR & Admin/Operations, MPCG (2 yrs 8 mos)
Indian Army
Major (6 yrs 5 mos)
Education
PGCHRM at XLRI Jamshedpur
Certificate at Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Certification course at Military college of Telecommunication Engineering
B.E. at Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya