Shailu Shelat

HR leader for Global Finance, Global Risk & Compliance and Global Internal Audit, partnering with CFO, CRO, Chief Auditor and senior business leaders.

HR leader for Global Marketing, Global Legal Affairs and Global Corporate Affairs, partnering with the Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President and senior business leaders.

HR leader for Retirement Income Solutions business and Global Finance functions. Partnering with CAO, CFO, Executive Vice President and senior business leaders. Develop and drive people & culture strategy globally in a heavily matrix environment across 30 countries. Used the agile framework, built organization, workforce, and talent strategy that resulted in business readiness for the new regulatory environment. Selected as a member of the core cross functional enterprise team that formulated employee experience, culture, and communication strategies for future work. Fostered a culture of learning, inclusion and experimentation resulting in continuous YoY improvement in engagement scores.

HR leader for Group Benefits business segments - National Accounts and Regional Markets. Partnering with the EVP & GM and senior leadership team. Drive business growth by realizing people strategy – operating model, leadership development and readiness, talent mobility and stretch opportunities. Lead a cross functional team to create new sales compensation governance framework and resulted in attracting top talent and improved ability to manage risk.

HR leader for Group Voluntary Benefits business and small market segment, driving people and talent strategy that aligns with business initiative. Created and implemented of a small business operating model aligned with industry/market segmentation. Deployed best in class change management, communications and transition approach.

Provide HR leadership for global professional services and Product Engineering. Lead organization transformation delivering an organization structure that enables greater focus on service delivery, revenue generation and operational excellence, placing account managers and sales engineers in proximity with customers. Created talent best practices for the organization. Created and deployed customized tools for leadership development and talent assessment, resulting in succession planning, high potential employee development plans and internal bench strength.

Provide HR leadership for North America Sales (including system engineering) and distribution and global sales operations. Designed an HR strategy that included a strategic diversity initiative - created a Women’s Leader Network, obtained C level executive alignment, engaged women leaders across Avaya, and orchestrated networking forum for increased engagement. Lead the successful cultural integration and full employee experience for Nortel acquisition for the US Sales employees - On boarding, manager assimilation and retention programs.

HR partner for Construction Technologies business and Latin America sales region, including for a company owned distributorship with 31 stores in North America. Program Manager for the Sales Leadership development program. Created a global compensation structure for Construction Technologies business. • Launched a global compensation planning system, introducing a unified compensation philosophy and performance-driven reward process.

Recruited for highly selective leadership development program that provided accelerated development experiences preparing for future HR leadership roles – examples of impact include - developed “recruitment in a box’ tool kit for managers, editor-in-chief for the monthly newsletter, developed a performance management process, and a member of HR core team that successfully negotiated a 4-year labor contract with USWA.

HR Generalist responsibilities for 100M turnkey project engineering company including marketing and sales. Lead recruiting engineering talent, created a new performance management system, established career paths, and created a compensation framework.