DR. VIKAS RAI BHATNAGAR

• Converging rich management practitioners' leadership experience across industry and impactful research outputs to improve bottom-line performance and employee well-being
• Build leadership pipeline for enabling exponential business growth
• Assessed organizational culture, strategized, and executed interventions for improving organizational culture
• Helped clients develop vision, mission, and values and innovatively deployed them in organizational processes
• Carried out innovative organizational study and strengthened organizational effectiveness by humanistically right sizing organization
• Redesigned organizational and people processes for improved business outcomes and employee engagement.

· Conceptualized and executed strategy for doctoral studies resulting in 5 talented scholars joining in year 2022 and 13 in year 2023.

· AACSB International published three thought-leadership articles on course design and around employee engagement, developing conscious leaders and applying Dharma for leading firms.

· From 2021, presented new and novel research at Academy of Management (USA), including new Theory of Profitable Humanization.

· Designed, gained collaboration, and executed first remarkably successful International Research Conference in 2022. Eighty-two scholars submitted full papers and forty-two were selected to present.

· Carried out Faculty Enrichment Programs for senior officers of College of Defense Management.

· Engaged by MDI Gurgaon as external expert for carrying out consulting project

• Conceptualized and executed organization and people strategies that resulted in improving business performance and employee engagement.
• Humanistically right sized company of Bayer BioScience by developing and executing innovative strategy. Entailed study and robust zero-based design of each function, employee retention strategy and launch of phased voluntary retirement scheme.
• As CHRO, redesigned organizational processes in Spark Minda Group to make time available for strategic initiatives and led effective initiative for creating leadership pipeline. IIM-Ahmedabad invited for sharing practice and resulted in two additional publications by Springer (Germany) and management journal.
• As CHRO Shree Cement, designed and executed Happiness Management System. Case study published in Organizational Behavior Book by Stephen Robbins.
• Carried out turn around of Industrial Relations in GE Lighting by conceptualizing strategy anchored on high ethical grounds and mindfully devising mix of 'hard' (process driven) and 'soft' (leveraging culture) options.
• Took elective on my core research and practice on Positive Psychology in Organizations in IIM-Indore. Also serviced as a visiting faculty with BIMTECH, SOIL, and LBSIM.