People & Culture related Consulting for organisations.
Coaching: Work to help clients especially top performers across mindset, career and leadership verticals based on need. Enable them to harness their potential by providing the right tools & techniques and support them as a performance coach.

Mindset, Career & Leadership Coach for High Performing Executives

Traders Central

Traders Central is a fast growing remote-first Fin-tech startup based in Canada. 
Key responsibilities include developing best in class people processes across talent attraction, development  & employee engagement including coaching employees and managers and employee engagement surveys for identifying action areas for improvement regularly.

People and Culture Consultant

Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships is a global leading Edtech startup connecting companies and interns around the world through remote internships. Virtual Internships was featured on BBC and won Top 100 Euro Edtech Start-up. We partner with universities and foundations that are doing their best to help their students to enhance global employability.

Company Placement Manager

Eurofins

Key responsibilities: Overseeing overall HR function for the India & Middle East region including recruitment, compensation & benefits, organisation policies in line with local laws, optimize organisation design and building a performance driven culture.

Director HR-India & Middle East

Godrej Consumer Products Limited

As Business HR led people agenda for India Marketing and Global functions : Global Design,Innovation,Exports, Communication Design &  Research & Development (R&D).

Responsibilities included providing overall leadership, coaching and guidance by partnering in areas of  talent acquisition, engagement, career development, succession planning, retention, training, leadership development, compensation, and benefits. Coaching business leaders and functional heads on people management, motivating and engaging teams.

Key projects : Streamline and revamp talent acquisition practices for the partnering functions and strategies for attracting and hiring niche skills including launching campus program for Graduate trainees, Marketing & Quality organisation restructuring ; design & roll out of functional competencies for Marketing organisation & career development plan/ programs ; developed technical career path and competency framework for R&D.

Senior HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner for Global Exports, SAARC countries & Centre of Expertise for Management Trainee Program and Great place to Work Practices & Audit. Responsibilities included Internal Employee Engagement surveys and external Best Employer Surveys (Aon Hewitt Best Employer, Great Place to Work survey) across India & SAARC supported by team of 3 team members. Led HR for SAARC countries and led setting up practices for Hiring, resourcing, organisation development and optimize structure based on business priorities and plans.
Achievements: 
SAARC employee engagement score moved from 50% in 2014 to 91% score in 2016
Developed innovative and insight led practices for Campus program (NPS of 81%) a
GCPL featured in Aon Best Employer Study as one of the best employers in the country

Deputy General Manager-HR

Colgate Palmolive

Key Projects: Led Pan Asia Talent Development projects including conceptualisation, design and implementation of Asia Early in Career Leadership Program Design ; Roll out of EVP survey and  facilitate EVP development for Asia subsidiaries ; Developed scope and draft design for Asia Learning Academy.

Assistant Manager- Human Resources

Led Sales HR for West India, responsible for end to end HR processes for Sales team. Key responsibilities included: Talent Acquisition, Manpower planning, On boarding for faster productivity & designing HR policies & processes for the Sales Team

Key projects: Development Sales Graduate program for effective onboarding of sales interns. Design & implementation of Sales training program for merchandisers.

Sales HR Manager-West India

Led Training & Development (Functional & behavioural), Employee Relations & Engagement, Performance Management & Change Management for the Factory consisting of 350 associates (Blue & White collared employees)

Key project:· Launched and Implemented Revised Performance Management System for Associates by applying Change Management Principles·

Area Leader-Training & Development

One year rotation program across Sales, Operations, Sales HR, Manufacturing and Corporate HR.

Achievements
Won YCMAD Award (Chairman’s You Can Make a Difference Award) twice in the first year which is the highest award at country level

Business Leadership Associate (Human Resources)

Ashlesha is a People & Culture specialist as well as a  mindset, career & leadership coach based in Vienna, Austria. A Psychology enthusiast, she has more than 12 yrs of corporate experience at various levels in the field of Human Resources. She has experience working in large multinational organisations and startups across geographies in Asia & Europe. Passionate Human Resource professional with 12+ years of overall HR experience & 8+ years of experience in multinational FMCG organisations such as Colgate- Palmolive & Godrej Consumer Products limited across countries leading teams in person & virtually. Adept in strategy and implementation of best practices across people processes as an HR business partner. Skilled in employee engagement, performance management, recruitment, compensation & benefit, succession planning processes in line with organisation objectives. 
She thrives in co-creating, driving and delivering the talent agenda in complete sync with the business needs and reality.

She holds  Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences & a Post Graduate diploma in General Management from University of California, USA (UCLA) where she studied with some of the best minds in the continent.

Ashlesha Jain

City of Toronto

Use my experience as an Aquatic Program Assistant in a way that would allow me to work with classes in an instructor role rather than an assistant instructor role.

Over 300 hours of instructing experience, included in more than 3500 hours of work experience in aquatic environments

Levels Taught (in entirety): Guardian Swim 1, Preschool Swim 2-3, Ultra Swim 1-5 and 7-8, Adult Swim 1-2, Ultra Youth Swim 2

Notable Pools: Agincourt Recreation Centre, Antibes Community Centre, Centennial Recreation Centre, Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, Cummer Park Community Centre, Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Trinity Community Recreation Centre, Ethennonnhawahstihnen Community Recreation Centre

Swim Instructor

Supervising a pool deck (in headguard and regular lifeguard positions) and ensuring all patrons are compliant with City of Toronto policies and Ontario Health Regulation #565

Over 2000 hours of lifeguarding experience, included in more than 3500 hours of work experience in aquatic environments

Notable Pools: Agincourt Recreation Centre, McGregor Park Outdoor Pool, Maryvale Outdoor Pool, Centennial Recreation Centre, Birchmount Community Centre, Knob Hill Outdoor Pool, Trinity Community Recreation Centre, Ethennonnhawahstihnen Community Recreation Centre, Cummer Park Community Centre, Lawrence Heights Outdoor Pool, Scadding Court Community Centre

Lifeguard

Assisting Instructional classes taught in water

Nearly 800 hours of experience in aquatic environments, included in more than 3500 hours of work experience

Levels of expertise: Guardian Swim 1-3, Preschool Swim 1-4, Ultra Swim 1-9, Adult Swim 1 and 2, Ultra Youth Swim 1

Notable Pools: Agincourt Recreation Centre, Centennial Recreation Centre, Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute, Birchmount Community Centre, Ethennonnhawahstihnen Community Recreation Centre, Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, Leaside Memorial Gardens

Aquatic Program Assistant

Coco Group of Companies

Work completed with parental supervision. Current tasks completed with my dad as follows:
- Entering and verifying recoverables and hard and group costs for megaprojects
- Reconciling company credit cards and sorting expenses by type and associating company

Accounts Payable Specialist

Glendon Campus of York University | Campus Glendon de l’Université York

Assisted with the project "The Capitalist Entitlement that is Agriculture for Bayer AG", focusing on Chemistry and Capitalism, which was presented at the International Conference on the History of Chemistry in Valencia, Spain in June 2025.

Research Assistant to Professor Betsey Price

Glendon College Student Union

- Sign off and approve reimbursement forms for Council members
- Approve budgets for all portfolios
- Sign and issue cheques to members and suppliers
- Advise Council of any issues associated with finances
- Strive to meet payment deadlines
- Complete various tasks associated with accounting such as bank reconciliation
- Finalized and prepared documents for auditing

Chief Financial Officer

Peace by PEACE

- Run and coordinate workshops on budgeting
- Process reimbursement requests
- Ensure financial accountability and company viability alongside the Treasurer
- Acted in a fundraising role on top of finance

Director of Finance (York University, Glendon Chapter)

Emploi et Développement social Canada (EDSC) / Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Worked in the CPP and OAS section (Government Pensions), translating and editing training documents to comply with the government's accessibility mandates

Student Intern

Buda Juice Canada

All work completed with parental supervision and gained specialization in corporate finance. Tasks varied from invoicing to taking inventory.

Data Entry Specialist

Glendon College Undergrad, Former Exchange Student at Université de Lausanne, #ActuallyAutistic

I am currently a mathematics major at York University's Glendon Campus with a minor in French Studies. Also a First Aid Practitioner since 2015, a practicing Lifeguard since Feb 2020, and a practicing Swim Instructor since Dec 2024.

My interests are aviation and finance, with a strong love for accounting. Targeting an MF or flight school after undergrad!

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