Tapan Arora

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India21 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key 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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Strategic HR Leader with expertise in Talent Management and Organizational Development across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Hr StrategyLeadership DevelopmentTalent ManagementEmployee EngagementTalent AcquisitionPerformance ManagementChange ManagementOperations Management

Other Skills

Coaching & MentoringHR ConsultingLife CoachingManagement DevelopmentOrganizational DevelopmentHR Business PartneringExecutive CoachingHR TransformationTalent DevelopmentCapability DevelopmentCulture BuilderSuccession PlanningBuilding Organizational CapabilityEmployer BrandingOrganizational Effectiveness

About

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.

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Freelance

HR Leader & OD Consultant | Talent Partner | Leadership Coach | Facilitator

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • As an independent HR Leader, Coach and OD Consultant, I partner with Organizations to strengthen People strategy, Leadership Capability, and Organizational Effectiveness. My work focuses on aligning Talent, Culture, and Performance with Business priorities.
  • I specialize in:
  • HR Strategy & Advisory across Talent Management, Culture, Change, and HR Transformation
  • Organization Development interventions to improve capability, collaboration, and performance
  • Leadership Development & Executive Coaching to enhance clarity, resilience, and behavioural effectiveness
  • Designing and facilitating capability-building initiatives across leadership, communication, and team effectiveness
  • I bring a practical, business-aligned approach grounded in real-world HR leadership experience, Behavioural science, and Coaching — enabling sustainable performance and long-term Organizational growth.
Coaching & MentoringHR ConsultingTalent ManagementLife CoachingManagement DevelopmentLeadership Development+7

Apollo hospitals

Head - Human Resources : TeleHealth

Jun 2019Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Led the HR and Admin function for a diverse and geographically spread workforce across clinical, technology, retail, call center, and support functions.
  • Played a pivotal role in strategic HR partnering, talent acquisition and onboarding, performance management implementation, policy formulation, and HR analytics.
  • Championed initiatives around leadership coaching, change enablement, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ensured compliance, operational efficiency, and continuous engagement across employee lifecycle stages.
Culture BuilderCoaching & MentoringChange ManagementOrganizational DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionHR Strategy+7

Vijaya diagnostic centre

General Manager - Human Resources

Sep 2018Jun 2019 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • ▪ Responsible for Employee relations, Talent management, Employee engagement, Staffing and retention, Rewards and incentives, Performance appraisals, Payroll, Statutory compliances, and other HR Ops activities
  • ▪ As a Culture architect - Coached and mentored team on Organizational values and ethics and focused on effective approaches to build ownership, engagement, culture of safety, quality and discipline
  • ▪ Ensure change management communication aligned with engagement for impact; Effectively managing employee relations, handling disciplinary cases, PoSH cases and grievances
  • ▪ Leading Vendor management pan organization for adequate housekeeping facilities and Security to support functional requirements
Resource ManagementPerformance ManagementHR StrategySuccession PlanningHR Business PartneringEmployee Engagement+6

American tower (erstwhile ‘idea cellular infrastructure services ltd’)

Circle HR - BP Lead for MPCG/AP & Telangana

Nov 2015Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Indore/ Hyderabad

  • ▪ Partnered with key stakeholders and leaders to deliver HR services, improving work relations between fellow employees and management by working closely to build morale and motivation
  • ▪ Responsible for Talent acquisition, Talent Management, HR delivery/Operations and Employee relations; Provide guidance and interpretation on HR policies and standards
  • ▪ As a Capability builder, worked on various MDF interventions, actively conducted and facilitated training interventions as part of Talent Development & Deployment initiatives
  • ▪ Develop and drive HR interventions/initiatives to increase employee satisfaction and engagement
Culture BuilderResource ManagementChange ManagementTalent AcquisitionPerformance ManagementHR Business Partnering+5

Viom networks

Circle HR Head - Mumbai & Rest of Maharashtra

Mar 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • ▪ Deploy and implement HR imperatives & initiatives to enhance service delivery, effective business support and higher employee productivity.
  • ▪ Strong and extensive handling of sourcing, recruitment, and talent strategy to attract, develop and retain right talent, talent management activities, worked on competency framework, potential identifications, and development plans, facilitate succession plans for critical roles
  • ▪ Ensure clarity in roles, KPIs and career path, driven performance management system, ensure quality of performance discussions and conducting qualitative feedback sessions
  • ▪ Ensure end to end execution of HR policies, ensure timely and accurate generation of HRIS, payroll inputs, monthly MIS, Facilitate the HR audit, ensure overall compliance and ensure closure of issues identified
  • ▪ Drive Employee engagement, CSR activities, performance surveys, suggest and implement appropriate
  • interventions and action planning based on survey results and to make the Organization ‘Great Place to Work’
Change ManagementTalent AcquisitionPerformance ManagementCulture ChangeHuman ResourcesEmployee Learning & Development+6

Bharti infratel limited

Manager - HR & Admin/Operations, MPCG

Jun 2011Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Indore / Raipur

  • ▪ Strategically facilitated the Employee Value Proposition (EVP), strengthening of Employer Brand, Acted as a change catalyst, focused on building high performance culture, defined career paths, and accelerated Hi-pots into identified roles.
  • ▪ Manage the complete recruitment cycle, conceptualize on-boarding and induction program for new joiners’, and critical talents, Dip stick and assimilation program
  • ▪ Drive Gallup impact planning sessions and track action planning for enhanced employee satisfaction and to further improve performance, productivity and reduce attrition rate
  • ▪ Complete management of 1000+ outsourced associates, ensuring HRIS payroll accuracy and all statutory compliances, periodic audits, and corrective actions on timely manner
  • ▪ Designed functional R&R, Facilitated the entire performance & competency management process including normalization and appraisals
Culture BuilderCoaching & MentoringChange ManagementTeam ManagementTraining and Development (HR)Talent Acquisition+9

Indian army

Major

Oct 2004Mar 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • Manager - HR, Projects & Operations : Head of functional communicational unit managing over 100 personnel and communication set up at High altitude field location, managing an overall 4000 subscribers with all forms of media integrations. Developed HR grass root programs to link field units with headquarters and extend organizational vision.
  • ▪ Head for over 1000 personnel, Responsible for their induction, training, deployment, knowledge management, performance appraisal, counseling, and grievance redressal
  • ▪ Organized and conducted recruitment of raw inductees into the forces through recruitment drives and training them into professional combatants
  • ▪ Managed stress management, personnel problems & grievances, conflicts and ensuring employee safety, welfare, wellness and health in operational areas and high-altitude field formation
  • ▪ As Training Officer responsible for Planning, Organizing & Conducting Technical courses for more than 3000 soldiers per year in the field of Communication
  • ▪ Conceptualized, designed, and prepared training calendars, e-learning packages and Conducted training for staff on Team building, Leadership, Technical skills, academics, sports, extra-curricular activities
  • ▪ Managed Personnel Management and Administration of over 1000 soldiers and issues related to personnel documentation, discipline, leave, pay & allowances and accommodation
  • ▪ Formulated SOPs and led teams efficiently for disaster management such as avalanche, landslides, and flood relief, Consulting with government & district officials for risk management and aid to civil authorities
RecruitingTraining and Development (HR)Operations ManagementSuccession PlanningSecurity OperationsTelecommunications+5

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

PGCHRM — Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Certificate

Jan 2011Jun 2011

Military college of Telecommunication Engineering

Certification course

Jan 2006Jan 2006

Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

B.E. — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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