Bhavana BP
Leadership Communication Strategist | AI & Organizational Change | Culture, Belonging & Humane Leadership | TEDx Speaker | Author
Bengaluru
16+ years of work experience
Nov 20196 yrs 10 mosPresent
Greater Bengaluru Area
Helping Leaders and Organizations Communicate Change in a Multigenerational Workplace.
Vision: INSPIRE. INFLUENCE. IMPACT.
Mission: CONNECT. COLLABORATE. CREATE.
Humane Leadership · Communication Coaching & Consulting · DEIB · Keynote Speaking · Book Publishing
1. For Individual Leaders - You’re navigating a transition — a new role, a new team, a career pivot, or simply the quiet feeling that how you’re communicating isn’t landing the way you intend.
1:1 coaching built around your specific context, your goals, and your growth edge.
2. For Organizations - Your teams are diverse, your change agenda is full, and the communication gaps are showing up in engagement scores, retention numbers and hallway conversations.
Consulting, workshops and speaking engagements designed around your culture and your challenges.
3. For Aspiring Authors - You have a book inside you - a story, a framework, a body of knowledge that deserves to be published.
End-to-end book writing support from someone who has done it five times.
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Jan 20242 yrs 3 mosMar 2026
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
For a group of about 3000 girls who study in various streams such as BCom, BBA, BCA, BSc, BA, BVoc, MCom and MSc, I train them for campus placement. As the Training and Placement Officer, I create a platform for 800+ final year students so that they are empowered.
I am also the Start-up Activity Coordinator for IIC under the aegis of AICTE
1. Developing Placement Strategies: Devise and implement effective strategies to enhance placement opportunities for students within relevant industries and sectors.
2. Industry Liaison: Build and maintain strong relationships with various companies, organizations, and industry professionals to facilitate learning opportunities, and campus placements.
3. Training Programs: Conduct and facilitate training programs, workshops, and seminars aimed at enhancing students' employability skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, leadership, resume building, group discussions, mock interviews and more.
4. Placement Drives: Plan and execute placement drives on-campus, inviting recruiters from diverse industries to interview and hire students for internship cum placements and full-time positions.
5. Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate records of student placements, student database, including placement statistics etc. for internal assessment and reporting purposes.
6. Collaboration with Faculty: Collaborate with faculty members to integrate career-related skills and experiences into the placement curriculum, ensuring students are adequately prepared to be a part of the workforce.
Apr 20238 mosNov 2023
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Assistance Professor in the MBA Department at CMRIT University. Where, apart from teaching HR subjects to both first and second year students, I:
1. Enable my students to gain in-depth knowledge on subjects related to Human Resources, leadership and gain a global perspective
2. Bridge the gap between Campus & Corporate through role plays, presentations, case studies, real life examples, workshops, talks and more.
3. Guide them on project work and internship
4. Empower my students to become better people who lead through values and ethics
5. As the Faculty Placement coordinator I have helped increase placement from 5% to 23% with a mean salary for the batch as 7Lpa
6. Alumni connect activities by facilitating talks
7. Head the HR club and overall club activities
8. Facilitating expert talks by industry veterans in each domain area
9. Research papers, guiding students to write papers, patent (pursuing)
10. Business consulting to MNCs and by conducting FDP, STTP as resource person as well.
11. Other University prescribed activities
Aug 20229 mosApr 2023
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Market Medium is an incentives and channel sales management organization that has dedicated itself to Supply Chain & Logistics of retail and consumer goods industry mainly in the US.
Their products that have various modules within them has made the life of manufacturers and distributors easy and comfortable.
Broadly, my purview of work encompasses:
1. Facilitate smooth workflow between development team(backend, integration, UI & solution architect), testers/QA team, DevOps, leadership and business stakeholders for upgrades, customize product enhancements and implementation of requirements to modules of the product
2. Hold regular interaction with 8 clients
3. Review and maintain documents on SharePoint for project delivery
4. Create & review plans, change requests & drive the project to completion for a global retail consumer goods distributor
5. Create, support and document decisions & actions based on them
6. Flag RAID log, weekly status reports and steer calls with stakeholders
7. Work closely with the founding leaders on prioritizing and enabling progress
8. Strategize and implement a wellness program for the org for holistic wellbeing of employees
9. Track and monitor high priority open tickets and enhancements for clients
10. Manage sprints on Jira.
Sep 20161 y 4 moJan 2018
Bangalore
PMO for Global E2E Delivery of Excellence team.
1. Manage various internal initiatives & communications program for FY18 Global Tech Delivery for Accenture Technology Leadership.
2. Establish standards, procedures and processes for reporting within Global E2E Delivery team.
3. Developing presentations for senior leadership.
4. Make internal communications the effective vehicle for critical leadership communication and business initiatives.
5. Research and analyse new tools and technologies for internal communication through Accenture Broadcast platform.
6. Responsible for global internal communications strategy to build a strong connect across EALA, APAC, LatAm and NA.
7. Collaborate with communication specialists across geographies on Org wide strategy and campaigns.
8. Developed content & drove a week long Global campaign, 'Ask Me Anything' for employee engagement by Leadership, single handedly.
9. Derive data for reports from various stakeholder teams across different places in India (IDC) and Philippines (PDC) for Senior leadership at UK.
Delivery PMO for a Global Business Transformation Program at HSBC Bank as an Associate Project Manager.
Roles & responsibilities in the Change Management Program which was Robotics Process Automation - Blue Prism:
1) Effectively address and track Risks and Issues for 11 Business Services on Clarity tool.
2) Facilitate and chair calls with various stakeholders to monitor and track program RAID.
3) Developx, maintain, re-structure and streamlining reports and dashboards on SharePoint.
4) Access and permission Management to files and folders for the client as well as Accenture on SharePoint.
5) Manage project plans and weekly status reports for all business services as well as for the program on Clarity and Open Work Bench.
6) Manage on-boarding* and post on-boarding** processes for 100+ Accenture folks on the program at the bank both in India (3 locations) and China.
7) Effective compliance to prescribed Business Transformation Framework standards & templates and participation in audits.
8) Effective stakeholder management - Communication and co-ordination with all stakeholders for smooth running of the project.
9) Preparation of bi-weekly status reports, weekly dashboard, spotlight reports, Project Steer Co doc in a timely manner.
10) Attend & contribute to the daily status calls for more clarity on the progress of the Program.
* & ** - ID creations & deactivations, facilitate approvals, premise accesses, liaising with IT, HR, MCM, ISR, RC, BGC teams, liaising between client and Accenture for emails for reporting purposes within CDP guidelines.
Aug 20151 y 1 moSep 2016
Bangalore
Cloud Engineering (CloudOps) – Sr. Associate PMO
Steer Project activities with the leadership team as well as various BUs within the organization such as Finance, HR, Procurement, Admin and Technical heads to liaise for better synergy in achieving goals and objectives, having regular and timely interaction with the CTO and other senior leadership of the company on various reports, presentations & updates.
Operations & Project Management:
1. Contract Streamlining & Management – Collaborate with Finance team, Technical team, Production Engineering team and Project owners for Revenue forecast, contract renewal & invoicing. Proposed an uniform template for all contracts.
2. Timesheet management – Collect & interpret data and provide insights on Capacity planning.
3. Leave management – Consolidate, analyze and regulate resource availability.
4. Learning & Training development & management – identified skill gap, vendor management, negotiation & enabled Leadership training for the Team.
5. Develop, maintain & popularize specific HR policies and templates for the BU.
6. Recruitment – SPOC for team on end-to-end resource planning, recruitment, on-boarding and employee engagement.
7. Knowledge management - Develop content, modify, review and maintain knowledge base in repositories.
8. Organized Cloud Day event for the entire Org of 2000+ folks to create a brand for CloudOps team and in turn create an awareness on Cloud services.
9. Headed a team of 2 in Support function to implement improvements.
10. Learning Management System - Led & mentored a team of 1 tech writer & 5 WordPress developers in setting up LMS for the BU.
11. Prepare reports, dashboards and data presentations.
12. Stakeholder management and liaising between teams & departments.
13. Handled Customer Advocacy (Advisory) as needed, liaising between our vertical, the production team & clients.
Jul 20087 y 1 moAug 2015
Bangalore
Enterprise Business Reports [Apr 2013 – Aug 2015] – Sr. Software Engineer
Incident management, Problem management, Configuration management, Change management, Release management, Service-level management, Availability management, Capacity management & financial management.
Process & Project Management:
1. Produce status reports & dashboards.
2. Reorganized and maintained Quality Management System (QMS).
3. Developed Process Improvement techniques and assisted SEPG team in implementing them.
4. Led & mentored a team of 4 in formulation of Disaster Recovery Plans and communicated the same to all stakeholders.
5. Executed manual testing, creation of test cases and test plans for 2 applications as a lone tester.
Bhavana’s AI Stack
Education
Post Graduate Diploma, Human Resources Management
Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies- Pune
20102 yrs2012
BE, Industrial Engineering & Management
Visvesvaraya Technological University
20044 yrs2008
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