India’s next HR leaders are here. People Matters in association with DDI crowned this year’s emerging HR leaders who are going to be the change—agents in the fraternity in future. ‘Are You In The List 2015’ saw some of the best of the young HR minds battling it out in an intense qualifying application process with a series of assessments by the DDI, to finally emerge as winners. In their 4th year running, 7,500 young HR managers across the country have participated in this award process since its inception.
Ester Martinez, the Editor-in-Chief of People Matters said, "This evening is an evening of appreciation, recognition and celebration to the future of HR – represented today our award winners, our Are you in the List alumni, our jury members, our partners and all of you senior leaders in the HR community and influencers of the direction and impact that this function has in today’s business context. Our belief is that awarding the next generation of HR leaders is a way to raise the game for the entire function. And if we raise the game for HR, we raise the game for our companies and we raise the game for the entire country."
The Keynote speaker, Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation (India), said, "About forty years ago, people were not even considered to be an asset by organizations. They were clubbed with capital and machinery and it was referred to as Industrial Revolution. But things are definitely changing right now. People consideration is certainly on the rise."
Tje 16 future HR leaders are –JAY THAKKAR, Head - Compensation & Benefits and HR Operations, Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited, NEHA SHARMA, Senior Employee Relations Manager, ICICI Bank, AMIT PAPNEJA Manager-Field Readiness, Asian Paints Ltd., AVIJIT SHASTRI Divisional Manager - Channel HR, TATA Motors, NIRANJANA HARIKUMAR Lead- Learning and Organizational Development, Piramal Group, AANCHAL BHUGRA KOTHARI Senior HR Business Partner, Reliance Industries Ltd., SOUMITRA ACHARYA, Head HR Analytics, Mahindra & Mahindra, KUMAR ABHIMANYU Participant - Career Acceleration Program, Reliance Industries Ltd, ALI IMRAN SYEDGlobal Learning & Organization Development Manager, Avery Dennison,BENJAMIN RAJKUMAR Manager - Leadership Development, Titan Company Ltd, RICHA SINGH Senior HR Officer, HPCL, VARUN TANDONAssociate Consultant, Salto Dee Fe Consulting, BHRIGU JOSHI Head - Talent Management & Development, MakeMyTrip.com, SHAILY RAMPAL MISRA Associate General Manager, HCL Technologies Ltd., ABHINAV IYER Senior Manager, Wipro, and NEHA SAXENA Senior HR Business Partner, Adobe.
Are You In The List Award is a platform for HR managers in the age group of 26-35 years, with minimum work experience of 3 years in the capacity of HR. Tacy Byham, CEO at DDI Inc said, The support we saw this evening show that ‘Are You In The List Award’ is a must for all HR community in India. All the participants went through many tests, assessments and interviews and the result of this activity we see great talent, we see invaluable assets in organisations. DDI is so proud to support this initiative.” The 8-month long process of selection saw about 2,200 applications from India across HR verticals. The 11-member Jury had a tough time in selecting the best from the crème de la crème.
The Jury include - P. Dwarakanath Head, Group Human Capital at Max India, Dr. Aquil Busrai Chief Executive Officer at Aquil Busrai Consulting,Anuranjita Kumar Managing Director and CHRO at Citi South Asia, S. Varadarajan (Raja) CHRO & Head of Corporate Affairs at Tata SIA Airlines, Jacob Jacob Chief People Officer at Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd., Gajendra Chandel Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) of Tata Motors, Rajesh Rai Chief People Officer at Eicher Motors, L Prabhakar, Vice President - Human Resources (Agri-business Division) at ITC Limited, Meenal Jadhav Director - Talent Management & Organizational Development of Schneider Electric India, Yuvaraj Srivastava CHRO of MakeMyTrip.com, Kamlesh Dangi Group Chief People Officer at Religare.
"The essence is to measure the traits of successful CEOs and ensure that we build internal talent to head Companies from all functions which of course includes HR too.This Are You In The List Award process is a rigorous and a holistic approach in all respects. Certainly the ingredients to make it to the list are measured well," said Jacob Jacob, Chief People Officer at Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. "This year, I found that the participants were more sensitive through the balance between business and people. I also found through most of my engagements with the participants had fairly higher degree of focus on ethics," said L Prabhakar, Vice President-HR (Agri-business division) at ITC Ltd. The B-School Partner for the event is Jaipuria Institute of Management, the Gamification Partner is KNOLSKAPE, Background Verification Partner is AMS Inform; Associate Partner is VIDEO RECRUIT, and the Gifting Partner is BookMyShow.com
About People Matters
People Matters is India’s leading media platform on leadership, talent management, and organizational development. People Matters has a portfolio of channels, including a monthly print magazine, an active online community and offline events. Content is structured to provide accessible & practical information to help companies implement people practices and initiative successfully. It focuses on the delivery of content by engaging with domain experts in India Inc. which sets the tone for future management debate and discussion, and inspires business leaders. People Matters is a platform where business leaders share their experiences, best practices and ideas which budding leaders and entrepreneurs can apply in their own careers and companies.
About DDI
Since 1970, Development Dimensions International (DDI) has been helping hundreds of corporations around the world close the gap between where their business needs to go and the talent they must have to take them there in good times and tough times. DDI’s experience and expertise in talent management is unparalleled. Using DDI's world-class learning systems, organizations are developing more than 250,000 better leaders each year. More than 3,200 high-quality hiring decisions are made every hour and 20,000,000+ candidates have been successfully screened using DDI's behavioral interviewing, testing and assessment systems. Major corporations make crucial promotion and placement decisions for more than 3,000 senior executives each year using DDI's assessment process–in Singapore, Beijing, London, Mumbai, New York and hundreds of other locations around the world.
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