Kulpreett Singh Sawhney

Strategic and transformative leadership role on the regional people leadership team, shaping and executing the end-to-end talent agenda across one of IHG’s most diverse regions.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements

Talent & Succession Management

· Architected and executed an integrated Talent & Succession framework, ensuring leadership bench strength for corporate and hotel leaders.

· Partnered with senior executives to embed future-ready workforce planning and drive proactive succession planning for mission-critical roles, ensuring organizational resilience.

· Established a data-led talent review cycle that strengthens leadership readiness and aligns with enterprise growth ambitions.

Leadership & Capability Development

· Designed and deployed leadership development journeys tailored for next-generation leaders and successors, embedding future skills, inclusive leadership, and an enterprise mindset.

· Partnered with Global COEs to launch capability acceleration programs across IMEA, building a culture of continuous learning and adaptability.

Employee Value Proposition & Inclusion:

• Activated the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) as a differentiator for both attraction and retention, integrating it into engagement, communications, and career journeys.

• Spearheaded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies, embedding inclusion into succession pipelines, leadership hiring, and engagement initiatives.

Strategic Analytics & Business Impact:

• Established a Talent Analytics framework that integrates performance, potential, engagement, mobility, and retention data, enabling predictive insights and board-level decision-making.

• Delivered actionable analytics that directly influenced leadership investment, succession risk mitigation, and workforce strategy.

Performance & Engagement:

• Elevated performance management into a growth-driven system, balancing accountability with development.

• Co-created employee engagement and well-being strategies, strengthening retention, and driving a high-performance, inclusive culture.

Signature Impact: Bridging strategy and execution, I have embedded a future-fit talent ecosystem across IMEA—strengthening succession pipelines, accelerating leadership readiness, and harnessing analytics to translate talent into measurable business impact.

A strategic and transformation role that drives and shapes the region’s Talent strategy including addressing key Talent practices, the role is part of the people leadership team

Responsibilities

· Talent Consulting: Partner with Business and Other HR functions to lead the design of Solutions around performance improvement, organizational development, and change management introducing various frames and assessments

· Talent Development: Lead the strategy for early career, Mid- Management, and Senior Management development defining frameworks that enable the business strategy.Introduce Talent Assessment (tools, practices, policies, frameworks). Building a Curriculum of Business and Professional Skills for different career stages

· Talent Management: Lead performance management, Talent Reviews, and succession planning to build a high-performing organization Culture. Create a psychologically safe environment with a focus on the employee’s physical, mental & social Health.

· Talent Integration – Leading programs and Initiatives to integrate talent with the role & organization

· Talent Analytics – Led the creation of dashboards that provide insights into the impact of learning on strategic goals

Key Achievements

· Lead HR Transformation Projects across the Globe - new Performance Management Tool & Process, Employee Value Proposition & its activation; Launched the Agile global Succession Planning Model

· SHRM second runner-up Award 2021 for Developing leaders of tomorrow

· Launched the Mental well-being ambassadors’ program; designed & deployed the design for psychological workspace

A strategic and transformation role that is a member of the HR Leadership Team as well as the Common Functions (CF) Leadership. Providing HR Leadership and support to Leaders and Teams across different countries within Southeast Asia, Oceania, and India. Leading a team of People Business Partners spread across different countries in the region

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement globally benchmarked HR processes seamlessly
• Recommend and Implement Organization Interventions with a focus on Organizational Development & design
• Lead the change management initiatives of the businesses by supporting senior leaders in organizational transformation by designing and implementing the change strategy for the vital initiatives.
• Promote HR best practices and motivate Business Managers & Unit Heads to build and sustain a high-performance culture across the organization.
• Recommend appropriate Group policies on HR, communicate approved policies across the global organization and ensure compliance of same.
• Analyze industry trends, conduct surveys as required (like Employee Engagement Surveys, Productivity, etc.) and recommend a timely corrective action plan to Unit Management.
• Do timely Reviews and recommend corrective measures required on Compensation, Manpower Planning, Talent Acquisition, Talent Retention, Talent Management &Talent Development.

Key Achievements

• Designed & executed the Framework for Critical roles and process of identifying and shortlisting the top 25 critical roles within the Market Area and working alongside with Leaders to prepare the succession bench
• Enabled leaders with various tools like people change tool kit, and retention box during the organization restructure and business transformation
• Worked with Global teams to Launch the Evolved Performance Management & Talent Management Processes

• Held Various Roles within HR during my Tenue and supported Different Business Lines as a Talent Managemen& Development Lead, Leading manay Talent HR and Talent Transformational Programs