Aswathy Palakkal

➤Collaborating on People Agenda: Working with business leaders to design a people agenda that addresses India’s market needs, aligning with the company’s strategic goals, and ensuring synergy with the HR Business ➤Partnering team. Worked on Global People Strategy as part of the Global HR Leadership team. ➤Leading Organizational Transformation: Managing large-scale transformations, including key personnel and leadership transitions in EMEA and India, and implementing change management strategies to maintain stability and minimize operational disruptions. ➤Driving Succession Planning: Overseeing succession planning for L1 and L2 roles across Indian business units, ensuring a ready pipeline of future leaders and coordinating quarterly talent reviews with Global Leadership. ➤Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Leading DEI initiatives across India, securing leadership support, collaborating with external partners, and implementing best practices to create a more inclusive workplace. ➤Benchmarking Compensation and Benefits: Conducting market benchmarking for compensation and benefits, collaborating with stakeholders to implement findings, and enhancing the company’s competitive employee value proposition. ➤Leadership Coaching and Development: Offering coaching to functional leaders on people strategies, leadership development, and policy interpretation, building leadership capabilities to drive high-performance outcomes. ➤Contributing to the Global Innovation Team: Led India Innovation and represented India in the Global Innovation Forum. ➤Worked with the India Leadership team to foster idea generation and cross-departmental collaboration, helping to build a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

➤Instilling Core Values: Developed and led value workshops, embedding core organizational values into daily operations and ensuring alignment across teams, which strengthened a unified, cohesive culture throughout the organization. ➤Shaping Strategic Direction: Partnered as a founding team member to define and translate strategic objectives into actionable goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders to drive continuous improvement and deliver measurable impact. ➤Elevating Onboarding Experience: Revamped onboarding by designing targeted leadership programs, significantly improving new hire satisfaction and engagement and achieving a high Net Promoter Score (NPS) among new employees. ➤Cultivating High-Performance Culture: Introduced quarterly performance reviews and bi-annual growth opportunities, fostering an agile, feedback-driven culture that emphasized continuous development, recognition, and employee growth

➤Entrepreneurial Leadership Founded an HR advisory firm serving over 50+ clients in IT, e-commerce, manufacturing, specializing in progressive HR solutions for startups ➤Strategic HR Advisory and Team Building: Developed client specific HR Strategies and solutions to support clients’ growth goals. ➤Built and led an HR team focused on collaboration, continuous learning to execute HR delivery at Client organizations. ➤Partnered with Industry Experts to design scalable solutions across Employee Talent Lifecycle in addressing clients' evolving talent needs. ➤Focused on Culture Building through data-driven insights and competency-based growth to improve employee morale leading to higher engagement and retention.

➤Employee Lifecycle & Onboarding: Managed the employee life cycle from onboarding to exit, including conducting new hire orientations, exit interviews, and final settlements. ➤Performance Management & Engagement: Supported annual appraisals and mid-year discussions, prepared insights from pulse surveys, and collaborated on action plans with business leaders ➤Data-Driven HR Insights: Developed HR dashboards, Employee Heat Maps, and stay interviews; enhanced benefits specially on Medical Insurance and Creche facility for employees. ➤Customized Talent Solutions: Partnered with COEs to deliver tailored talent solutions New Orientation Program, Mentorship Program, Competency ➤Mapping and Hiring. Launched Microsoft’s first Internship Program