Mahesh Sheshadri

I’m Mahesh Sheshadri - Co-Founder at HumanAlpha.

Engineer by training. Strategist by experience. Coach by calling.

I help scaling-stage companies grow through People. Process. Culture. Technology.

Across DRDO, Quark, Bosch, and Finastra, I learned this the hard way:

Transformation doesn’t start with tools. It starts with leaders, systems, and habits.

At HumanAlpha, we partner with founders and CXOs as your Fractional CHRO & Strategic HR Advisor to convert chaos into execution-ready people systems.

Who we work with:

→ Founder-led startups & MSMEs
→ $5M+ revenue, 30–2000 employees
→ Growth-focused, culture-first leaders
→ Teams struggling with people, performance, and leadership pipeline

What we solve:

→ No senior HR leadership, scattered systems, firefighting founders
→ High attrition, weak culture, leadership burnout
→ Gaps in rewards, performance, learning, and succession

How we help:

1/. Strategic HR Advisory — systems that scale (OKRs, capability maps, org design)

2/. Fractional CHRO — senior HR leadership without full-time cost (full-stack PeopleOps)

3/. Leadership Development — coaching, programs & pipelines that build leaders at every level

4/. Holistic Transformation — values, culture, process, tech aligned to revenue


Why us:

1. Execution-ready frameworks (not decks).

2. 55+ years combined leadership across 75+ brands, multiple regions.

3. Cross-functional depth: Strategy, Ops, Tech, HR, Analytics.

4. Outcomes in 6 months: Revenue +15–30% | Productivity +20–35% | Engagement +15–25% | Voluntary Attrition –20–40% | OpEx –10–25%.

Books & POV

Co-author: In Love with Growth, Leading with a Swag, The 55 Frameworks Book.

My approach blends systems thinking with coaching- strategy to execution.

If you’re ready to scale without breaking culture, let’s talk.

📩 mahesh.sheshadri@human-alpha.com | 🌐 human-alpha.com

Co-Founder & Director

HumanAlpha Strategic Solutions is a Strategic HR Advisory & Consulting Firm.

We engage with Businesses to Build their HR Strategy and Implement HR Practices.

This includes:
Goal setting (OKR, Balanced Scorecard, KPIs)
HRIS Implementation & HR Automation
HR Practices & Policies: PMS, C&B, R&R, Learning Strategy, Employee Handbook
Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH)
Employee Engagement
Cultural Transformation
Outsourced CHRO Services

We also add value through:

Executive Search :Hiring for Management Positions to C-Level. 

Business HR Certifications: We are also empowering the Future of HR through Business HR Certifications from the HumanAlpha Learning Academy. This is an off-shoot of our 140+ years of Business HR Leadership Experience

Leadership Development Programs: We work with Businesses in Building Leadership Capabilities. We have identified Core Leadership Competencies as part of HumanAlpha's Unique Leadership Competency Framework. We customize and facilitate in these Programs through Highly Experiential methodologies that includes Workshops, Virtual Simulations, Coaching and On the Job Projects

Established in 2019, HumanAlpha is an award winning HR Consulting firm. We have been recognized among the 10 Most Promising HCM Consultants and Among the 100 Most Admired Brands 2020

Every CEO eventually learns this-
The most expensive mistakes don’t happen in finance.

They happen in HR.

When HR goes wrong, it doesn’t just cost money.

It costs momentum.
It costs trust.
It costs culture - quietly, then suddenly.

You’ll see it in ways no P&L will capture 👇

- High performers disengaging silently.
- Culture slides from ownership to obligation.
- Leadership bandwidth drained by people issues.
- Attrition that doesn’t just lose talent - it takes your IP with it.
- Projects delayed because teams don’t trust each other.

I’ve seen this pattern across 75+ organizations.

When people systems are broken - performance systems follow.

And when culture erodes, no amount of strategy can save execution.

The irony?

Leaders often discover this after they’ve already spent crores fixing symptoms, not systems.

A broken HR isn’t a “people problem.”

It’s a business problem disguised as empathy.

CEOs, before the next financial review, ask yourself:

Do your people systems protect your balance sheet 
or quietly drain it?

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