Nivedita Kannan
Head - People Experience | Emerging Leader 40under40 ETHR World
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Over the past 16 years, I have focused on building and nurturing strong and high performing teams for various businesses. ‘People first’ is a philosophy I am deeply passionate about and that resonates in the work I have done with my teams. I specialise in building equitable and long term processes and guidelines that empower teams to succeed and ensure high engagement levels. Being an HR Advisory leader, I have worked with teams that have grown significantly while operating passionately and being successful. Solving people problems to ensure no business disruption and aiding growth for teams and businesses excites me. I look forward to working with teams that have strong People Leaders.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
HEAD, PEOPLE FUNCTION
MUDREX
2 2022 - Current
- At Mudrex, the role extends to cover all aspects of the employees' career experience aiming at intrinsic and long term growth
- Scaled the Mudrex team 2x during my tenure with crucial business and hiring forecast partnering
- Have designed and curated inclusive and 'people first' policies that ensured business success and highly engaged teams
- Been a strong thought leader and HR advisor to the founding team during my tenure
- Established a strong coaching network internally to provide employees with more face time and hands-on mentoring
- Play a crucial role in attracting and retaining top talent through employer branding initiatives and people connect interventions
- Created cultural benchmarks as the base of how we operated - be it through hiring, recognition, assessing performance or taking tough people decisions
- Have given back to the HR community through thought leadership and strategic advisory pieces on building high performing teams during my tenure here.
SR MGR, TALENT & CULTURE
HUBILO SOFTECH PVT. LTD.
03.2021 - 01.2022
- At Hubilo, I led the HRBP team and was a thought leader and culture ambassador with different heads of functions
- Supported globally distributed teams in the pandemic to ensure compliance and continued business success
- Held the responsibility of policy and guideline establishment in a remote-only set up while being mindful, empathetic yet reasonable and causing no business disruption
- Played the role of HR Advisor to all function heads across the organization
- Worked on setting up the D&I charter, an L&D function and the competitive rewards framework for the organization
- The team raised Series B funding and scaled significantly during my tenure and my team ensured 100% compliance to the people experience standards established.
HR LEAD, PEOPLE OPERATIONS
RECRUITERBOX
7 2016 - 1 2019
- At Recruiterbox, my role entailed culture establishment and building team success on those tenets
- Worked very closely with the CEO to build a lean but strong team that grew intrinsically and helped the product grow significantly
- Played the role of strategic HR advisor to manage change, conflict resolution, culture based growth among other business agenda
- Handled all people operations independently including and not limited to hiring, payroll, employee relations and exit management
- While managing all employee relations in the ELC, I had designed processes and guidelines that worked for the team considering the diversity of skills we had onboard
- Successfully handled change management for the team during acquisition as well
HR LEAD, BANGALORE
DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS, ENDURANCE GROUP
08.2012 - 06.2016
- At Directi, I joined as a Location HR Manager but soon grew to be completely responsible for Bangalore entirely. It was their second biggest facility with a large and distributed team
- The entire ELC from onboarding to exits came under my purview here too. Had the opportunity to design and scale employee experience guidelines and initiatives here as well
- Was also responsible for learning and development and became the L&D Lead across locations. It was during this time that I launched ExpertsSpeak - an in-house powerful medium of knowledge sharing
- Ably partnered with key stakeholders to advise, support and mentor growing Leaders handle policies that were inclusive and people friendly
- It was during my tenure that we unified the distributed offices and moved to one large space and established smooth operational systems to ensure no business disruption and continued success.
SENIOR ANALYST
ACCENTURE
09.2008 - 01.2012
- Was a part of the Core Process Architecture team and worked with my Lead on various aspects of centralized career experiences for the Technology teams of Accenture, India
- Was responsible for establishing and executing strong practices of Employee Engagement, Competitive Rewards & Recognition, Performance Management, Knowledge Sharing initiatives, Grievance Redressal & Career Counseling and Development
Education
PG Certification in Human Capital Mgmt -
BA in Psychology, Sociology & English - undefined
Skills
Employee Experience
Awards
40 under 40 ET HR World Emerging Leaders League awardee, Feb 2024
Publications
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dQypRGaaEE-PdYB3vyz_JN2Ap2_Puyn5yN5-p5cY0tA/edit?usp=sharing
References
- Rena Soans, HR Lead, Newfold Digital, Number available on request
- Anita Menon, Ex-HR Head, Hubilo Softech Pvt. Ltd., Number available on request
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Kannada
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Elementary (A2)
Timeline
SR MGR, TALENT & CULTURE - HUBILO SOFTECH PVT. LTD.
03.2021 - 01.2022
HR LEAD, BANGALORE - DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS, ENDURANCE GROUP
08.2012 - 06.2016
SENIOR ANALYST - ACCENTURE
09.2008 - 01.2012
XLRI - PG Certification in Human Capital Mgmt,
JYOTI NIVAS COLLEGE, BLR - BA in Psychology, Sociology & English,
HEAD, PEOPLE FUNCTION - MUDREX
2 2022 - Current
HR LEAD, PEOPLE OPERATIONS - RECRUITERBOX
7 2016 - 1 2019
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