Sharmishta S.

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in creating sustainable learning strategies.
  • Proven leadership development excellence across organizations.
  • Cross-cultural expertise with extensive international experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Learning and Development expert with a focus on organizational behavior and training across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Training Needs AnalysisFacilitationTrainingNegotiationTeam BuildingCustomer ServiceCommunicationContent Writing

Other Skills

Situational CoachingBusiness Proposals & PresentationsManagement SkillsNegotiation SkillsCustomer Service & HandlingBusiness Writing SkillsEmail EtiquetteTelephone EtiquetteAccent NeutralizationProofreadingAbstractingScientific WritingCounselingContent DevelopmentAccent Reduction

About

As an L&OD strategist leading development initiatives across four organizations, I specialize in creating sustainable learning strategies that adapt to diverse learning styles, generational dynamics, and cultural contexts. My journey spans two decades, from content writer to trainer, lead facilitator, and now L&OD strategist. This evolution has given me a unique perspective: Successful learning transformation requires both strategic vision and deep human understanding. What I Bring With Me: 1. Leadership Development Excellence: Designing programs that develop authentic leaders across all organizational levels 2. People-Centric Solutions: Learning strategies tailored to individual learning styles, generational preferences, and gender dynamics through my expertise in understanding motivational needs and emotional intelligence 3. Sustainable Impact: Moving beyond one-time training to embedded behavioral change and long-term capability building 4. Cross-Cultural Expertise: Four years in China (2008-2012) working with Hero Mindmine, SISO, and Softtek, plus extensive experience across FMCG, IT, Banking, Pharmaceutical, and NGO sectors Core Competencies: Emotional Intelligence | Adaptability | Training Needs Analysis | ADDIE Model | Negotiation | One-on-One Coaching | Understanding Motivational Needs | Intuitive Decision Making | Facilitation | Interpersonal Interaction | Conflict Management | Attention to Detail | Prudence | Energy My Differentiator: I leverage the universal nature of human aspirations and motivations to create learning solutions that work across industries and geographies. My natural energy and focus on interpersonal interaction ensure that whether I’m facilitating a small or a large group, every learner feels seen and supported. Through strategic negotiation and careful attention to detail, I help my stakeholders achieve measurable learning outcomes. Gallup StrengthsFinder My Top 5 Themes are: Empathy | Connectedness | Communication | Developer | Intellection

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Silverskills private limited

3 roles

Head of Learning and Development

Promoted

Jun 2025Present · 11 mos

Learning Function Lead

Jun 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Corporate Training Lead

Mar 2020Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Coretech systems pvt. ltd.

Senior Consultant- Organization Behaviour

Jul 2012Jan 2020 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • www.coretechsystems.in
  • Overall my profile is divided in three sections, Business Development, Facilitating Workshops and Value-Add to the organization. The work is exciting, incisive and sometimes nerve-wracking but worth all the effort. It provides varied experiences as clients are from different industries, their methodologies, attitude and expectations vary and add helpful challenge. Each project is a new learning opportunity about self as well as others. And I love that.
  • Here, my responsibilities include:
  • Incisive Training Needs Analysis for the client
  • Pre-Workshop Analysis to Customize Learning Solutions
  • Running Focus Groups and Facilitating Workshops
  • Situational Coaching
  • Post Workshop Report Analysis
  • Individual Analysis Basis the Psychometric Tool/s Used
  • Creating Client Base
  • Maintaining Existing Client Base
  • Business Proposals & Presentations
  • Helping clients in formulating and implementing recommendations/solutions
Training Needs AnalysisFacilitationSituational CoachingBusiness Proposals & Presentations

Softtek

In-house Consultant/Trainer

Aug 2011Apr 2012 · 8 mos · Wuxi

  • 1. Training the staff on:
  • Management Skills
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Valuing Diversity
  • Customer Service & Handling
  • Contributing to Team Success
  • Work Standards
  • Managing Conflict
  • Time Management
  • Business Writing Skills
  • 2. Interviewing and evaluating potential job candidates to verify if they have the required language proficiency
  • 3. Designing and updating training modules
  • 4. Performing oral and written evaluation of new employees
Management SkillsNegotiation SkillsCustomer Service & HandlingBusiness Writing SkillsTrainingNegotiation

Sip institute of services outsourcing (siso)

ESL Consultant

Sep 2009Jul 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Suzhou

  • Trained Finance, Software, and BPO Majors on:
  • Business Writing Skills
  • Business English
  • Email Etiquette
  • Team Building
  • Prepared chosen students for provincial level English competition. SISO won the 3rd prize in 2009 and 2nd as well as the 3rd prize in 2010.
Business Writing SkillsEmail EtiquetteTeam BuildingTraining

Hero mindmine (suzhou) limited

BPO Consultant / Lead Trainer

Mar 2008Aug 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos · Suzhou

  • 1. Workshops on:
  • Telephone Etiquette
  • Accent Neutralization
  • Email Etiquette
  • Presentation Skills
  • Customer Service
  • 2. Assessing Candidates
  • 3. Creating Pre/Mid and Final Assessment Tests
  • 4. Maintaining Trainee Performance Record
Telephone EtiquetteAccent NeutralizationCustomer ServiceTraining

Hero mindmine

Training Consultant and Proof Reader- Retail Programs

Apr 2007Mar 2008 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • 1. Conducted training for those aspiring to join the BPO
  • 2. Conducted training for the Hire & Train candidates of the partner clients
  • 3. Was involved in proof reading the content designing for various levels of language training for Call centers
TrainingCommunicationProofreading

Innodata isogen

Content Writer

Aug 2005Jan 2006 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • My responsibilities involved content writing and content evaluation:
  • Content writing for publications on chemistry and mechanical equipment.
  • Creating Abstracts of the articles based on objectives and requirements on the clients.
  • Indexing of articles for clients on different evaluation parameters.
AbstractingContent Writing

Education

Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD)

Diploma — Training and Development

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Delhi University

Master of Arts (MA) — English Literature

Jan 2003Jan 2005

Delhi University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — English Literature

Jan 2000Jan 2003

Kendriya Vidyalaya

10+2 — Commerce

Jan 1992Jan 1999

Guru Harkrishan Public School

Jan 1991Jan 1992

Army Public School

Jan 1985Jan 1990

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