Ajinkya Bhasme

Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of Zealopia, revolutionizing mental health accessibility.
  • Developed AI-driven gamified psychological profiling.
  • Bestselling author in the psychological horror genre.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and SaaS expert with a focus on mental health solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyPsychologyProblem SolvingEmployee ExperienceLearning And DevelopmentPeople AnalyticsProject ManagementCulture MeasurementModelling And SimulationEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

Pattern RecognitionBusiness AnalysisCoaching & MentoringOrganizational PsychologyDesign ThinkingCoachingData AnalysisStrategic PlanningCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Project PlanningPerformance ManagementHuman Resources (HR)Big DataMachine LearningData Visualization

About

As the Founder and CEO of Zealopia, I am dedicated to revolutionizing mental health accessibility and affordability, leveraging over 7 years of experience in creating innovative, tech-driven solutions. Zealopia connects individuals to emotionally compatible mental health professionals and experts over chats. The platform emphasizes alternate therapies to break stigma and make mental health care engaging and approachable. With a foundation in problem-solving and mentoring, I focus on designing hyper-contextualized support systems that address diverse personal challenges, such as stress, impostor syndrome, and family dynamics. My commitment lies in empowering individuals and fostering a less lonely world, one interaction at a time.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Zealopia

Founder and CEO

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · India

  • Founded Zealopia, a platform connecting users to emotionally compatible therapists
  • Developed a unique model for gamified psychological profiling using AI and biometrics and a proprietary match-making algorithm to match users with compatible professionals
  • Collaborated with mental health professionals to lead groups focused on various personal issues.
  • Championed fun mental health solutions, breaking the stigma around therapy and promoting accessibility.
Pattern RecognitionProblem SolvingBusiness AnalysisCoaching & MentoringPsychologyOrganizational Psychology+3

Swiss re

2 roles

Vice President of Strategic People Planning

Feb 2023Apr 2023 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for handling the Job Family Catalogue to make Job Families leaner, simpler and relevant to industrial standards for good compensation benchmarking and rewards benchmarking
Problem SolvingCoaching & MentoringCoaching

Vice President of People and Culture Development

Feb 2022Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Acting as the subject matter expert for the Employee Experience project.
  • Engaging with stakeholders to better understand business priorities
  • Overseeing, designing, and reviewing employee survey questions
  • Strategizing employee experience across Swiss-Re to arrive at key moments that matter in employee life cycle
  • Supporting business units and regions to measure, analyze and improve engagement of employees so as to meet necessary targets
  • Part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bangalore initiative focused towards LGBTQIA employees for an equitable future at SwissRe from the capacity of communications
Pattern RecognitionProblem SolvingCoaching & MentoringDesign ThinkingCoachingEmployee Experience

Upl

4 roles

Senior Manager- Merger and Acquisition Culture

Jun 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Company culture specialist during M&A. Working closely with global leaders to measure, define and implement culture. Aligning HR strategies using descriptive and predictive HR analytics.
  • Project lead for creation, development and deployment of 2 global culture measurement surveys spanning 3000 employees among 10000 employees to assess the people sentiment during the merger.
  • Also aided in resolving any loggerheads in systems and processes and policy creations using the survey outcome to deploy targeted interventions.
  • Used natural language processing and sentiment analysis to analyze comments and decipher crucial information
Pattern RecognitionCoachingCulture Measurement

Senior Manager Learning and Development

May 2018Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Managed content and training. Automated nomination and feedback process. Introduced design thinking and applications.
  • Digital Learning Solution- Introduced digital learning for 7700 employees for the first time and drove the adoption rate of the platform to 89.5%
  • Digital learning ROI- Strategized the roll out of the learning analytics leading a team of 18 people globally to deliver an ROI of $21 by using Chebyshev’s Equation
  • Stewardship- Collaborated with the Director of UPL to prepare a compelling business case for product stewardship program across Europe and North America to boost 50% sales
  • Remote Selling- Deployed a global customized program for 9 regions to sell effectively during the pandemic, curated with the support of 50+ sales experts
  • Dashboard- Created a live dashboard for Global Head and CHRO to keep a track of all trainings periodically that resulted to impact to salary hours by 29%
  • Mentored geographically dispersed, culturally diverse team of 15 people and partnered with HRBPs to deliver programs with $13 ROI for 6000+ global employees
Pattern RecognitionProblem SolvingCoaching & MentoringCoachingLearning and Development

Senior Manager- Global People Analytics

May 2018Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Responsible for spearheading people analytics in UPL with high business impact projects.
  • Network Mapping- Created a spiderweb map of 200 global leaders to deliver key insights on the interaction points between leadership hence determining silos
  • Decision Making Matrix- Analyzed the life cycle of decision making through propensity score matching for 4 major types to secure a global governance model to facilitate agile and lean practices
  • Work from Home Analysis (Productivity Matrix)- Engineered 7 key variables of determining indirect work productivity by synthesizing data of transactional exchanges before and during the pandemic for 300 global managers to arrive at 3 impacting parameters using longitudinal analysis
  • ROI of Trainings- Calculated the ROI and cost benefit ratio for trainings using Kirk Patrick Model and increased the Human Capital Development score by 85%
  • Merger Culture Analysis- Devised 12 constructs to measure culture of the organization during the merger, based on migrant country culture academic research papers
  • Delegation of Authority- Studied the whole organization structure of 10000+ employees using multi-level modelling to understand centralization and decentralization requirements for agile company
  • Data Driven Action- Successfully drove 5 global projects to create people strategy and deploy data-based actions utilizing modern SAAS/cloud apps like PowerBI, Microsoft Analysis, SAP/Success Factors, Snowflake, Tableau and more
Pattern RecognitionProblem SolvingCoaching & MentoringPeople Analytics

Project Manager

Aug 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Project Manager for Modelling and Simulation, responsible for timely execution of new products and to increase the throughput and efficiency of existing products.
  • It involved strategizing and planning engineering inputs in advance, checking engineering datasheets, third party collaborations, cost cutting and developing predictive mathematical models to optimize plant operating conditions.
  • The team comprised of on-site engineers and modelling experts. The role catered to the global projects team to solve complicated problems and support engineering and production teams across all geographies. The role demanded interactions with multiple cross functional and cross geographical teams and bridging gaps in understanding. It also included data mining and data analysis to improve efficiency of existing systems.
Pattern RecognitionProblem SolvingCoaching & MentoringCoachingProject Management

Bookboon – the world’s most used corporate learning solution

Author of Diversity and Inclusivity at Workplace

Mar 2019Aug 2019 · 5 mos

  • Diversity and inclusivity are important for any business, not just to increase the efficacy but also to build a global brand and increase the customer base. The book helps corporate to know their diversity quotient.
  • The book uses concepts of psychology from B.F. Skinner to Wundt to Gestalt to create a steady behavioural change in workplace environment. It also quantifies behaviour into scores of diversity to track it continuously till improvement is made.
  • The book offers activities of team building, tolerance and awareness about diverse groups that usually face discrimination such as gender minority, race/caste/religion minority, sexual orientation minority, age minority, physical ability minority.

As death stared back

Author

Jan 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Globally revered book that became an overnight bestseller in India psychological horror genre. Based on 2 years of research on a rare mental health disorder following the story of a family, this book aims to educate and create awareness about horrors of neglected mental health.
  • "Chilling, intelligent and sheds light on dark topics..."-Yahoo
  • "...Outshone 'The Shining' n many places..."- Business World

Dr. reddy's laboratories

3 roles

Entrepreneur at Project Ignite

Feb 2016Feb 2017 · 1 yr

  • Entrepreneurial initiative to transcend the healthcare scene and make health more manageable.
  • Created complete business model, marketing strategy, and P&L sheets to pitch before investors.
  • Projected real statistics to extrapolate ROIs and break even.
  • Prepared launch strategy to validate hypotheses in incubation stage.
Pattern RecognitionEntrepreneurship

Assistant Manager

Dec 2013Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Key member of the Modelling and Simulations team in the organisation. Was Responsible for the scale-up of complex molecules. Identified modelling feasibility during product development and calculated risk factors at nascent stage. Developed time dependent dynamic and unsteady state models to predict operating parameters at larger scale. Organised meetings and knowledge sharing sessions to accelerate technical understanding and delivered products better and faster.
  • Reduced 12% experimentation and hence cost.
  • Applied first time right scale up policy in 15% products in FY 16-17
  • Solved the most challenging R&D problems before product deadlines to ensure seamless delivery
  • Developed predictive models for unit operations like Spray Drying, Homogenization, Lyophilization, Filtration etc. to support scaleup of operating parameters
Pattern RecognitionModelling and Simulation

Engineering Scientist

Aug 2013Aug 2017 · 4 yrs

Pattern RecognitionModelling and Simulation

When the devil whispers

Author

May 2014Oct 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • 'When the Devil whispers' is a crime thriller novel based on a true Indian story.
  • The story of how a tolerant country like India sentenced 2 women to death for the very first time. How a criminal psychology tells a tale of the grimmest chapters from the Indian judicial system and how it comes to life with a fresh perspective. It took me 4 years of rigorous research to write the book and do justice to the victims and their families. The book is available on Amazon for purchase.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Chemical Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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