Headline

Strategic L&D Leader & Consultant | Executive Development • Organizational Effectiveness • AI-Enabled Learning | Transforming Enterprise Capability across India, APAC & Global Markets

About

​I am a strategic Learning & Development and Organizational Development Leader with 18+ years of experience driving enterprise capability, scaling leadership academies, and aligning learning investments directly with business ROI across India, APAC, Europe, and the Middle East. ​Throughout my career, I have specialized in bridging the gap between high-level business goals and practical human performance. My focus centers on designing modern, data-informed, and AI-enabled learning ecosystems that accelerate employee time-to-productivity, build high-potential talent pipelines, and foster sustainable organizational culture. ​KEY BUSINESS IMPACT & OUTCOMES ​28% Improvement in time-to-productivity across cross-functional teams. ​40% Reduction in new-hire ramp-up time through optimized onboarding and capability frameworks. ​27% Increase in internal mobility and 35% increase in early manager promotion rates. ​Global Scale: Built and led a global L&D Centre of Excellence across 7 countries and established a 1,200+ employee capability academy from the ground up. ​CORE EXPERTISE & CAPABILITIES ​Strategic L&D & OD: Enterprise Capability Strategy, Organizational Effectiveness, Succession Planning & HiPo Development ​Leadership & Talent Transformation: Executive Coaching, Leadership Academies, Culture Transformation & DEI ​Modern Learning Architecture: AI-Enabled Learning, Instructional Design, Learning Experience Platforms & L&D Analytics ​Governance & ROI: Learning Metrics, Senior Stakeholder Advisory, Executive Alignment & Cost Optimization ​TECH & PLATFORM PROFICIENCY ​Power BI | Tableau | LMS/HRIS Platforms | Generative AI Tools & Workflows ​CURRENT FOCUS & CONSULTING ​Currently providing independent L&D consulting to organizations looking to transform their leadership development, culture, and workforce capabilities into measurable business growth.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

github copilot

notebooklm

openai

Work experience

Partner & Independent Consultant at Text And Clicks Learning Solutions, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, ➤ Capability Transformation: Delivered independent L&D consulting across leadership development, communication skills, and culture transformation, translating business priorities into scalable capability-building solutions. ➤ Leadership & Advisory: Led cross-cultural leadership programmes across APAC and advised HRBPs and CHROs on L&D governance, learning technology, and ROI frameworks to strengthen organizational capability. ➤ AI-Enabled Efficiency: Leveraged Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and NotebookLM to streamline learning-content development, reducing selected learning-design cycles by 40–60%.

Head - Solutions, Content, Delivery and Customer Success at Regenesys Corporate Education, Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Remote, ➤ Global COE Transformation: Built and led a global Centre of Excellence across 7 countries, standardizing learning governance, programme architecture, delivery, and leadership-readiness frameworks for 5,000+ learners. ➤ Productivity & Analytics: Delivered a 28% reduction in time-to-productivity through AI-enabled personalized learning journeys and developed Power BI dashboards to track learner engagement, workforce readiness, effectiveness, and ROI. ➤ Leadership & Succession: Co-created leadership academies and succession pipelines with C-suite stakeholders while leading end-to-end learning delivery and serving as Faculty for Leadership, Strategy & Organizational Behaviour at Regenesys Business School.

Country Lead- content, design & Delivery at TimesPro, Jul 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ➤ Leadership Development: Directed leadership development programmes for 100+ mid-to-senior leaders, achieving a 93% participant impact score through structured learning interventions. ➤ Capability Strategy: Developed a multi-year learning roadmap aligned with capability KPIs and business priorities, strengthening talent-development readiness at national scale. ➤ Learning & Commercial Leadership: Implemented Kirkpatrick-aligned evaluation frameworks while leading content and delivery teams, managing budgets, Salesforce-based training tracking, consulting, and strategic academic partnerships.

Head Of Training (Sales and Operations) at Rupeek, Feb 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, ➤ Capability Academy: Spearheaded the domain-specific Gold Academy, onboarding 1,200+ employees through a greenfield capability framework covering functional, technical, compliance, and role-based learning. ➤ Ramp-Up Improvement: Reduced new-hire ramp-up time by 40% through structured learning pathways, role-based development, and targeted capability-building interventions. ➤ Compliance & Performance: Established competency frameworks aligned with business performance metrics and achieved 92% completion of mandatory RBI-aligned certifications through structured governance and vendor partnerships.

Senior Manager - Talent Transformation at Landmark Group, Feb 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore, ➤ Strategic Capability: Orchestrated a 5-year learning roadmap integrating digital, behavioural, and leadership capabilities with Lifestyle business growth priorities. ➤ Leadership Development: Championed immersive leadership programmes for 100+ mid-to-senior leaders, achieving 93% learner satisfaction and strengthening leadership readiness. ➤ L&D Governance: Managed learning vendors, budgets, and statutory training compliance while aligning talent-development investments with enterprise transformation priorities.

Manager- learning & Development at The Himalaya Drug Company, Oct 2014 - Feb 2019 · 4 y 4 mo, Bangalore, Karnataka

Assistant manager- academy at Tesco HSC, Oct 2006 - Aug 2014 · 7 y 10 mo, Bangalore, Karnataka

Senior lecturer at Mount Carmel College, Palace Rd, Bengaluru, Jun 2000 - Jan 2006 · 5 y 7 mo, Bangalore, Karnataka

Education

Fellowship in Strategic HRM, HR, Middle Earth Academy

MMM, Marketing, Pondicherry University