Aarti (Marwaha) Upadhyay

As an HR professional with approx 2 decades of diversified experience in managing teams & driving strategic initiatives; what's made me successful is by achieving commercial outcome through effective HR strategy & credibility building. As a strategic advisor to business, I have developed a broad spectrum of organization skills & competencies in HR & Leadership Development. More specifically, I am responsible for defining strategic human capital agenda, Talent management, Leadership level hiring, Communication of HR strategies, Diversity program, Implementation of complex & large- system changes, Leadership and Organization developments. Over a last decade, I have witnessed HR emerge from being a mere support function to becoming a HR "strategic partner" in successful organization. This was basis the mindset of being agile; resilient, biased for action & people first strategy. I have had the opportunity to work with some of the stalwarts of the industry, and during my stint with them, partnered with Business in strengthening organization effectiveness by being a strategic partner, an employee sponsor & a change mentor. My strengths include the skill of influencing business leaders to achieve Organization synergy and Business Partnering through coaching and mentoring interventions and a proven ability to meet aggressive business timelines by being an effective communicator. With 2 decades of the career span, I have demonstrated a strong knowledge & function expertise transforming and achieving business focused commitments across diversified industries & cultures such as Retail, NBFC, Steel & Power & Tele-communications. Specialties: HR Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement, Business Partnering, Diversity & Inclusion, Post merger Integration, Leadership Development & Change, Institutionalizing Rewards programs & HR Compliances.