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Heena Naithani

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India18 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling organizations for growth and resilience.
  • Proven track record in leadership development and talent management.
  • Strong focus on building inclusive leadership pipelines.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with extensive experience in B2B and B2C environments.

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MISRetailPersonnel ManagementCRMCollege RecruitingHuman ResourcesPerformance ManagementTalent ManagementTalent AcquisitionManagementRecruitingEmployee EngagementLeadershipJob DescriptionsDeferred Compensation

About

I scale, transform, and rewire organisations to stay deeply human. With 19 years of experience across telecom, digital, B2B, and global financial services. I partner with CEOs and leadership teams to build organisations that are fit for scale, resilient through change, and grounded in strong leadership and culture. My career spans large MNC environments like Citi and high-growth businesses at Airtel, where I have led enterprise people agendas across leadership transitions, insourcing at scale, organisation restructuring and operating-model redesign. I work at the intersection of business strategy, talent, and culture - ensuring people decisions translate into productivity, engagement, and sustained growth. I am known for : - staying close to both leaders and the front line with focus on business growth - balance boardroom thinking with on-ground execution and driving change in ambiguity - simplifying complexity, identifying the core challenge & drive sustainable solutions - strengthening leadership effectiveness and building teams - building leaders with coaching and mentoring I care deeply about building internal mobility, clear career architectures, and inclusive leadership pipelines, especially at mid and senior levels. At heart, I lead through trust, clarity, and honest conversations and believing, organisations perform best when leaders are settled, teams are confident, and people feel enabled to do their best work. I remain a lifelong learner - curious, reflective, and constantly sharpening my perspective as the world of work continues to evolve.

Experience

18 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Airtel

3 roles

SVP & Head of HR - Digital & Consumer Business

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

SVP & Head of HR - Airtel Business & Customer Experience

Promoted

Jun 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Vice President & Head of HR - Airtel Business

Jun 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Citi india

5 roles

Vice President Human Resources

Promoted

Oct 2017Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Business supported - Consumer Operations, Commercial Banking and Institutional Clients Group.
  • ‣ HR partnership to drive business objectives, support seamless employee life cycle process, talent
  • development and build a performance-driven culture
  • ‣ Employee life cycle process standardization and efficiency initiatives
  • ‣ Drive interventions to build a client centric culture
  • ‣ Organization design and structuring

AVP | HR Business Partner (ICG Ops)

Mar 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • HR Lead for TTS and SFS Ops business-
  • ‣ Design HR solutions that align with company's strategic goals
  • ‣ Design and delivery of strategic HR projects
  • ‣ Drive key HR initiatives for around 600 employees including Employee engagement, change management initiatives, talent development, performance management, employee relations, compensation & other HR support necessary to meet business specific HR goals

Short-term Assignment | Citibank Bahrain

Promoted

Oct 2014Feb 2015 · 4 mos

  • ‣ Set up CitiPhone business in Bahrain (organization structure, manpower planning, sourcing and selection plan, employee value proposition, training framework)
  • ‣ Launch of ‘Live well’ initiative - promoting a culture of healthcare & wellness for employee wellbeing
  • ‣ Training Needs Identification and Career Path framework for Consumer Business, Bahrain

AVP | HR Business Patner (CitiPhone North)

Feb 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • ‣ Responsible for managing end-to-endHR activities for CitiPhone North
  • ‣ Partner with business to develop and drive the People strategy
  • ‣ Work closely with HR COEs including Talent Acquisition, Talent & Organization Development and Compensation & Benefits to deliver the people strategy for Citi Operations &Technology (O&T) India

Manager - Talent Management & Development

Sep 2010Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsible for Talent Management & Organization Development for South Asia Operations & Technology (2500 employees)
  • ‣ Talent Review process and Development plan
  • ‣ End to end Performance Management process
  • ‣ Design and implement the campus hires engagement and other development programs.
  • ‣ Drive the training and Development agenda
  • ‣ Design and implementation of organization-wide initiatives to create retention and development plans for key talent

Essar

2 roles

Manager - Global Talent Acquisition

Sep 2009Sep 2010 · 1 yr

  • Part of the Corporate HR team and responsible for Talent Acquisition across senior and middle levels for Telecom, Realty and Projects business of the Essar Group. The role involved working closely with the senior management of the business for leadership hiring.

Deputy Manager - Human Resources

Jun 2007Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Essar telecom included businesses like Telecom retail, Telecom Infrastucture and Mobile Telephony business in Africa. Responsible for end-to-end employee life cycle for Essar Teleholdings, actively involved in HR set-up for YU Telecom in Africa and new initiatives for Essar Telecom businesses like retail and infrastucture.
  • Key projects-
  • (i) HR Audit across Essar Telecom business
  • (ii) HR / Senior Leadership Communication Plan
  • (iii) HR Dashboard and MIS
  • (iv) Job Classification & Job Description across Essar Telecom business
  • Key Achievements-
  • Actively involved in the complete HR setup of the green field telecom project in Africa. (Processes and policies alignment for the project, compensation philosophy, organisation chart, manpower planning, recruitment of leadership position)

Ibm

Summer Intern

Apr 2006Jun 2006 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked with the diversity team to plan and launch IBM Dependent Care Initiative:
  • Project deliverables included need analysis of the project (Quantitative analysis of internal survey);Benchmark study of the design of Child Day Care set- up provided by other companies with costing-benefit analysis; Design Project plan and communication plan

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

MBA — HR

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Miranda House

Economics Hons — Economics

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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