Veena Satish

At Walmart, I specialize in implementing a transformational talent agenda, which includes engaging, developing and retaining the very best talent, providing proactive and strategic guidance support for organizational planning and development initiatives at scale. One of the core aspects of my role involves aligning the human resources agenda to support key business strategies and initiatives, while identifying gaps and driving action plans to close them. In this capacity, I’ve played a pivotal role in advising and influencing all levels of the company on performance management, and, organizational development and effectiveness. Over the past 4 years, I’ve established a track record of effectively leading and coaching teams, building partnerships and resolving mission-critical challenges. Some of the work I’m most proud of includes re-engineering the span of control, rewards & recognition and internal job rotation framework across the organization, streamlining the organizational pyramid to boost managerial effectiveness and driving process efficiency through next-generation digitization projects. I’m also heavily invested in the Walmart diversity and inclusion ethos, and have collaborated, planned and led diversity initiatives like the Women’s Resource Council and the Grace Hopper Conference.

At Bloom, I was the galvanizing force behind the transformation of HR from an operational function to a strategic business partnering function. By setting up and driving effective people practices for country-wide hiring, motivation, reward systems, and retention, I developed change programs that work to build employee engagement in India. Besides regular compensation reporting and analysis for senior group leaders, my role included Talent acquisition, local implementation and automation of global processes such as talent acquisition and management, onboarding and exit, talent rewards, learning and development, and HR operations.

As a strategic business partner with senior business leaders at Cisco, I was directly responsible for aligning HR strategy with successful business results. This translated into leading performance, development and career processes to ensure that employee capabilities and skills were on par with organizational goals. Along the way, some of my most memorable achievements include STIR & STEEP - a unique program to build technology leadership in India - and a series of employee retention solutions that factored in employee and management feedback platforms.

At Kodiak, as a senior HR manager, I worked to transform legacy HR practices and develop KPI and analytics-based strategies for leadership development, talent recruitment, retention, reward systems, and succession management. Working at Kodiak was a tremendous learning experience for me and helped me bridge the gap between simply fulfilling HR functions to actualizing business goals with robust HR support.