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

Ken Smith

Canon Business Process Services

We help people learn and grow in their career at Canon Business Process Services and keep them safe while doing it!

Training & Development

- Responsible for strategic planning and implementing learning and performance solutions for line of business, including site and corporate/regional employees.  Create and manage training budget, negotiate contracts, and manage service level agreements with vendors and contractors.

- Implemented CBPS' Learning Academy.  The Learning Academy features over two thousand courses and training programs.  Since inception in 2017, increased online learning from 5% per year to over 77%  per year in 2022.  Over 93% of training, online and/or virtual training, is accessed via the Learning Academy at Canon.  Resulted in substantial reduction in T&E costs.  

- Led development of Advanced Services Sales Curriculum to increase sales in our Document Management, Digital Transformation, Warehouse & Distribution, and Workplace Experience Services.

- Created leadership and transitional programs for all levels of organization to increase bench strength and internal promotions.  Over 60% of all participants have been promoted to the next level of their career.

- Implement Talent Management process to identify, develop, and leverage talent to grow the business.

- Redesigned Performance Management process to align with business metrics and core competencies of the organization. 

Safety

- Led creation of CBPS' Corporate Safety Governance System including: (1) Corporate Safety Policy & Procedures; (2) Customized Site Safety Playbook; (3) Training & Education; and, (4) Analytics and Measurement.  

- Reduced Worker Compensation Total Paid over $300k from prior year, and reduced Worker Compensation Reserves from prior year over $400k. TRIR rate is 70% below industry average, and EMR is .63 for current policy year, decrease of over 20% from prior year.

Senior Director, Training & Development | Safety

Allied Building Products Corp.

- Senior Manager of Employee Development responsible for design, development and implementation of training, performance management and talent management programs.

- Implemented online Employee Development University powered by Cornerstone to support people development strategy.  Recognized a 20 percent bottom-line savings over 3 years through reduction in travel and the ability to deliver virtual and on-demand classes.  Reduced costs for deployment and tracking of safety compliance training.

- Created Road to Success Outside Sales Program that helped increase new customer sales $16,000,000 and increased average account size from $22,000 - $33,000.

- Improved overall customer experience 27% by implementing mystery shopper initiative and training program for inside sales.

- Developed Career Development Program for high potential individual contributors that resulted in 80% of participants being promoted to new positions.

- Created Sales Management program to identify, develop and leverage sales talent to grow the business by implementing a program that focused on: (1) Identification and Selection; (2) Accelerated Orientation and On-boarding Program; (3) Driving Performance and Results; (4) Developing People; (5) Recognizing Success.

- Created National Conference in partnership with Jeffrey Gitomer national sales author, professional speaker, and business trainer, who writes and lectures internationally on sales, customer loyalty, and personal development.  Focus of the program was to enhance customer service, increase existing business relationships and acquire new business relationships.

- Redesigned Performance Management.  Increased completion rate of annual performance management review process from 66% to 95.8% during initial rollout of new process.  Implemented Talent Management process and leveraged SuccessFactors to identify employee potential in nine-box grid.

Senior Manager, Employee Development

MetLife

Developed Sales Management Development Program for new/existing sales managers focusing on recruiting, selecting, training and supervising new field service representatives (insurance agents) to increase retention and sales performance.

Director, Sales Management Development

UBS Financial Services

Managed and coached team of ten instructional designers and documentation specialists responsible for creating and maintaining training and business development programs utilizing a blended learning approach and success factor models for the following roles: Financial Advisors; Branch Managers; Operations and Administration Managers; and Client Service Associates.

Manager Learning Design and Publishing Services

Automatic Data Processing

Managed a team of Instructional Designers responsible for the development and implementation of associate and client training to support pilot of ADP's first Major Accounts Internet Payroll product. Training consisted of web-based training modules and virtual classroom training.

Project Manager

Prudential Securities Incorporated, New York, NY

Designed and developed business development programs that were a core component of Prudential Securities Financial Advisor Curriculum to increase sales performance by identifying new market opportunities and expanding existing client relationships.

Associate Vice President, Instructional Design Specialist

Analyzed, designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated training materials that ensured mastery of performance objectives for associates and customers.

Program Designer

Senior Director @ Canon | Training & Development | Safety

At the core of any successful organization lies its people. 

No matter how advanced your business is, without the right talent and leadership, growth is impossible. 

That's where I come in.

My passion lies in nurturing individuals at every level of the organization, building internal bench strength, and empowering people to learn, grow, and be safe while doing it.

Help them win, and they will help you win too.

It is a win-win situation for all!

My approach drives employee engagement, and improves performance, productivity, and ultimately, profitability.

What more can you ask for, then someone that prioritizes safety and a supportive learning environment for every employee.

At the end of the day, it always has been, and will always be about our people.

NOTE:  Views expressed in my posts or comments are my own, and not those of Canon Business Process Services, or of any person or organization affiliated or doing business with Canon Business Process Services.

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