Ira Gupta

Ira leads an HR Advisory practice focused on leadership coaching, organisation transformation, talent and succession, and culture. She also advises organisations on the integration of AI/tech and talent imperatives. She is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey and an Independent Director on company boards. Current and past Boards include Eicher, SRF Ltd, Max Estates, Razorpay, Amagi Media, Kama and Manya/The Princeton Review. Ira brings 29 years of experience as an HR leader and coach. She has most recently been CHRO for Microsoft India and South Asia, where she led an HR organisation that spanned product engineering, development centres, services delivery, consulting, research labs, and sales and marketing. She has coached and partnered with business leaders and spearheaded people plans that resulted in deep cultural and organisation transformation across 24000 employees. Prior to 12 years with Microsoft, she was an HR leader at GlaxoSmithKline, where, over the course of 15 years, she worked across HR, sales and marketing in leadership roles as well as the leadership team for the India sub-continent. She is an Advisory Board member for NGOs as well as educational institutions including XLRI Jamshedpur and an ICF certified coach.