Boosting retailer profitability through strategic AI integration | Championing Educators in AI-driven pedagogy | Unleashing ChatGPT's potential for personal development

Leading India's AI Business Transformation Journey
Co-founder of T2ai Consultancy
Recently honoured with the 'Rising Star in Generative AI' award by the Times of India.

Our Expertise:
We Train, Consult, and Build AI Solutions Tailored to Businesses Across Domains
Specialised AI Training Programs empowering professionals and students
Strategic AI Consulting for Accelerated Business Growth
Custom-Built AI Solutions for Enterprises & SMEs

Notable Clients:

Industry Leaders: ITC, SKF, SIS, and more
Numerous Growth-Focused SMEs & Innovative Startups
Proven Track Record of Operational Excellence and Impactful Results

My Journey:
From scaling AM Mobile into India's largest Nokia retail chain to pioneering AI-driven business transformation, my entrepreneurial experience uniquely positions me to understand business needs deeply. This experience, coupled with advanced expertise in Generative AI, enables practical, impactful, and scalable AI solutions across diverse industries.

Impact Beyond Business:

Conducted extensive Generative AI workshops across India
Trained thousands of professionals and students
Built an innovative ecosystem, enhancing our consulting capabilities
Committed to remaining at the forefront of AI advancements

Our Focus:

Boosting revenue growth with AI-powered sales strategies

Revolutionizing marketing with precise, data-driven insights

Delivering scalable and sustainable AI-driven business solutions

Achieving measurable ROI through strategic technology adoption

In an era where AI adoption defines competitive advantage, let’s unlock your organization's full potential through strategic AI implementation.

Ready to transform your business with AI?
Let’s connect.

Ajay Laddha

Head of People & Culture, Operations & Sustainability

Formlabs

Core areas of focus:
- Built out and leading the HR & Recruiting team responsible for EMEA and APAC in talent strategy, leadership development, workplace experience, site and HR operations (8 person team)
- Direct support of EMEA Leadership Team (~10 people) & region through critical organizational changes
- Oversight of EMEA HQ site operations
- Finalized build out of 3 subsidiaries in UK, South Korea and France
- Launched first EMEA Employer Branding effort including employee value proposition for use in recruiting
- Fiscal management 
- Bridging the international Formlabs organizations and US company headquarters in all practices and cultural approaches

Head of People Team EMEA & APAC

Novartis

People & Organization (HR) Disruptor/Executive Director in the  X Team, a micro team of hand-selected big thinkers charged with rapid-cycle ideation, applied innovation and experimentation to disrupt, accelerate and transform the NVS Global Business Services functions with moonshot projects (10,000 employees, 7 core G&A functions)

Disruptor, X Team

Led HR role supporting restructure of early research and early development organizations; rebuild of CNIBR leadership team; early COVID pandemic site response planning and fully virtual working practices creation.

Head, People & Organization CNIBR

HRD Role supporting Translational Medicine and Global Discovery Chemistry organizations. Core areas of focus: talent management & high potential programming, succession, capability building, workforce planning, leadership coaching, project management.

Director, People & Organization

Microsoft

Post-Ciao divestiture, integrated into German HR team as Sr. HR Manager supporting various segments: Advertising & Online, Premier Field Engineering, Global Business Support (GBS), Consumer Channels Group (CCG), Marketing & Operations. Lead core HR program delivery for client groups, including: global talent & performance management, Employee Relations, high potential programming, workforce planning, org design and development, leadership coaching.

Sr. HR Manager/Business Partner

Offered relocation from Redmond to Munich, Germany to be HR Team Lead for Ciao!, an acquisition of an online comparison shopping platform localized for seven Western European markets. Owned all aspects of people agenda planning and implementation, as well as Ciao to MS process mapping and integration; managed local & virtual HR team; oversaw acquisition to divestiture life cycle, and managed transfer of talent to both new purchaser and internally to MS GmbH; collaborated intensively with local Works Council/Betriebsrat on organizational and talent topics.

HR Team Lead, Ciao! Acquisition

HR line BP roles supporting Virtual Earth business & engineering teams (400 employees) that eventually consolidated with MSN Engineering (750+ employees) across Redmond, Boulder (CO), London (UK), Graz (Austria). Owned HR agenda development with business, and led program implementation for talent, rewards, performance management; drove integration for 3 key acquisitions; collaborated on talent programming; leadership coaching and workforce planning.

Human Resources Business Partner/Sr. HRBP

amazon.com

Partnered directly with front-end business and engineering groups to drive efficient structure and use of resources, enable innovation, and meet company and divisional goals - joined as the 4th product line, Consumer Electronics, was being built and staffed. Consulted and advised the business on strategic organization issues, drove talent management, Employee Relations, built and delivered HR programs aligned with business goals including performance management and compensation review. Drove integration on two key acquisitions in Retail, as well as change projects across EMEA and Japan subsidiaries. 

Collaborated with business leadership to build pilot program testing the first 3rd party platform sales model; recruited first class of MBA students to seed amazon's first Inside Sales team

Senior HR Generalist

Senior Leader working and learning in global settings within fast-paced, humanist mission-driven companies, and exploring the outer limits of the HR universe at the intersection of value, practice and technology. Energized by doing good work for the world, integrity, risk-taking and audacious ideas. Constantly curious & ebullient optimist.

In previous roles, a strategic partner to organization leadership teams in creating people agendas that drive both business impact and employee development and delight. Adaptive and creative thinker, highly collaborative and self-driven. Open to travel, commuting, relocation; US national working in Europe & Asia since 2010.

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