People & Culture related Consulting for organisations.
Coaching: Work to help clients especially top performers across mindset, career and leadership verticals based on need. Enable them to harness their potential by providing the right tools & techniques and support them as a performance coach.

Mindset, Career & Leadership Coach for High Performing Executives

Traders Central

Traders Central is a fast growing remote-first Fin-tech startup based in Canada. 
Key responsibilities include developing best in class people processes across talent attraction, development  & employee engagement including coaching employees and managers and employee engagement surveys for identifying action areas for improvement regularly.

People and Culture Consultant

Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships is a global leading Edtech startup connecting companies and interns around the world through remote internships. Virtual Internships was featured on BBC and won Top 100 Euro Edtech Start-up. We partner with universities and foundations that are doing their best to help their students to enhance global employability.

Company Placement Manager

Eurofins

Key responsibilities: Overseeing overall HR function for the India & Middle East region including recruitment, compensation & benefits, organisation policies in line with local laws, optimize organisation design and building a performance driven culture.

Director HR-India & Middle East

Godrej Consumer Products Limited

As Business HR led people agenda for India Marketing and Global functions : Global Design,Innovation,Exports, Communication Design &  Research & Development (R&D).

Responsibilities included providing overall leadership, coaching and guidance by partnering in areas of  talent acquisition, engagement, career development, succession planning, retention, training, leadership development, compensation, and benefits. Coaching business leaders and functional heads on people management, motivating and engaging teams.

Key projects : Streamline and revamp talent acquisition practices for the partnering functions and strategies for attracting and hiring niche skills including launching campus program for Graduate trainees, Marketing & Quality organisation restructuring ; design & roll out of functional competencies for Marketing organisation & career development plan/ programs ; developed technical career path and competency framework for R&D.

Senior HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner for Global Exports, SAARC countries & Centre of Expertise for Management Trainee Program and Great place to Work Practices & Audit. Responsibilities included Internal Employee Engagement surveys and external Best Employer Surveys (Aon Hewitt Best Employer, Great Place to Work survey) across India & SAARC supported by team of 3 team members. Led HR for SAARC countries and led setting up practices for Hiring, resourcing, organisation development and optimize structure based on business priorities and plans.
Achievements: 
SAARC employee engagement score moved from 50% in 2014 to 91% score in 2016
Developed innovative and insight led practices for Campus program (NPS of 81%) a
GCPL featured in Aon Best Employer Study as one of the best employers in the country

Deputy General Manager-HR

Colgate Palmolive

Key Projects: Led Pan Asia Talent Development projects including conceptualisation, design and implementation of Asia Early in Career Leadership Program Design ; Roll out of EVP survey and  facilitate EVP development for Asia subsidiaries ; Developed scope and draft design for Asia Learning Academy.

Assistant Manager- Human Resources

Led Sales HR for West India, responsible for end to end HR processes for Sales team. Key responsibilities included: Talent Acquisition, Manpower planning, On boarding for faster productivity & designing HR policies & processes for the Sales Team

Key projects: Development Sales Graduate program for effective onboarding of sales interns. Design & implementation of Sales training program for merchandisers.

Sales HR Manager-West India

Led Training & Development (Functional & behavioural), Employee Relations & Engagement, Performance Management & Change Management for the Factory consisting of 350 associates (Blue & White collared employees)

Key project:· Launched and Implemented Revised Performance Management System for Associates by applying Change Management Principles·

Area Leader-Training & Development

One year rotation program across Sales, Operations, Sales HR, Manufacturing and Corporate HR.

Achievements
Won YCMAD Award (Chairman’s You Can Make a Difference Award) twice in the first year which is the highest award at country level

Business Leadership Associate (Human Resources)

Ashlesha is a People & Culture specialist as well as a  mindset, career & leadership coach based in Vienna, Austria. A Psychology enthusiast, she has more than 12 yrs of corporate experience at various levels in the field of Human Resources. She has experience working in large multinational organisations and startups across geographies in Asia & Europe. Passionate Human Resource professional with 12+ years of overall HR experience & 8+ years of experience in multinational FMCG organisations such as Colgate- Palmolive & Godrej Consumer Products limited across countries leading teams in person & virtually. Adept in strategy and implementation of best practices across people processes as an HR business partner. Skilled in employee engagement, performance management, recruitment, compensation & benefit, succession planning processes in line with organisation objectives. 
She thrives in co-creating, driving and delivering the talent agenda in complete sync with the business needs and reality.

She holds  Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences & a Post Graduate diploma in General Management from University of California, USA (UCLA) where she studied with some of the best minds in the continent.

Ashlesha Jain

Wales College Secondary School

As a High School English and ESL Teacher, I assist high school students with their studies and support them in understanding the Ontario curriculum through a variety of interactive class activities.   I also use a variety of assessments to monitor their progress: assessments FOR learning, assessments AS learning, and assessments OF learning.  To provide a clear picture on student progress, I gather evidence using the triangulation method of observations, conversations, and student products.  On the administrative side of the job, I create a variety of documents: course syllabi; lesson and unit plans; rubrics; assessments; and final exams.  Ultimately, my goal is to help international students learn English as a Second Language and adjust to life in Canada, as well as help them develop the necessary learning skills and work habits to succeed beyond school environments.

Courses Taught/Currently Teaching/Future Courses:
- Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OLC4O)-- May 2024, February 2025
- English Literacy Development, Level 2 (ELDBO)-- May 2024
- English as a Second Language, Level 1 (ESLAO)-- July 2024
- English as a Second Language, Level 2 (ESLBO)-- July 2024, August 2025
- English as a Second Language, Level 3 (ESLCO)-- January 2025
- English as a Second Language, Level 4 (ESLDO)-- July 2024, August 2025, September 2025
- English as a Second Language, Level 5 (ESLEO)-- August 2024, September 2025
- Grade 12 University English (ENG4U)-- August 2024, August 2025
- The World of Fashion (HNB4M)-- September 2024
- English Literacy Development, Level 3 (ELDCO)-- September 2024
- Launching and Leading A Business (BEP2O)-- September 2024
- Presentation and Speaking Skills (EPS3O)-- December 2024
- Career Studies (GLC2O)-- January 2025
- Civics and Citizenship (CHV2O)-- March 2025
- Food and Culture (HFC3M)-- September 2025

High School English and ESL Teacher

University of Toronto Scarborough

I worked  as a Research Study Assistant at the University of Toronto Scarborough's Department of Language Studies, under Dr. Rena Helms-Park's supervision.  I transformed 220-240 item Peabody Picture vocabulary tasks into 4 electronic versions for online use with elementary school French Immersion students on Zoom.  I edited and proofread 7-10 test materials and articles for coherence and structure for publication purposes.  I also co-created recruitment and informed consent materials to educate students and parents about the study.

Research Study Assistant

Phoenix Academy of the Arts

As an ESL Teaching Assistant for the Phoenix Academy of the Arts, I created and facilitated lesson plans for beginner and advanced level English second language learners (4-8/class, and 1 advanced ESL student).  The point of these lessons was to help these students practice their speaking, pronunciation, reading, and writing skills.  Furthermore, a needs-based approach was used, such that the content and the lessons were created to fit with the students' needs.   Ultimately, the goal was to help these students gain confidence in speaking the English language, and we achieved this with a 100% approval rate and comfort level from the students.  This position also required a great deal of collaboration with the staff and other teaching assistants, when it came to planning the lessons, and discussing different approaches for how to best facilitate the class.  Various teaching strategies were translated into actions as well, such as speaking at a suitable pace and volume, using visual aids, encouragement, and ongoing practice to help the students understand the content to the best of their ability.  These lessons primarily focused on verbal and conversational English, while integrating lessons on grammar and vocabulary.

Specifically, there were two types of classes: ESL Teaching, and Spoken English Practice.  For ESL Teaching (2-hour long class), a specific curriculum had to be followed, such that the emphasis was placed on daily English conversation, while still focusing on English grammar and vocabulary.  A multitude of media were used, such as: videos; discussion questions; focused listening and reading; etc.  The Spoken English Practice (1-hour class) sessions were free conversation opportunities, in which the teaching assistant came up with 3-5 topics for discussion, encouraging the students to share their opinions.  Therefore, students had 9 hours of weekly practice.

Nature of tasks: lesson planning and facilitation; video transcribing; proofreading and editing

ESL Teaching Assistant

Passionate about Linguistics, Languages, and Teaching | Experience in Speech Therapy, Research, Teaching, and Tutoring | Currently a Teacher's Assistant/Supply Teacher at Wales College Secondary School

Welcome to my profile!  I am a passionate Secondary School English and ESL Teacher who loves to make a difference in the lives of my students.  Allow me to share my story:

I graduated from the University of Toronto Scarborough with a Specialist Degree in Psycholinguistics, and a Minor in Psychology.  During my time at UTSC, I have volunteered as a student ambassador, peer helper for two Introductory Linguistics courses, class note taker for four courses, and bible study facilitator.  Not only did I contribute to my school community, but I also gained a number of skills, which are: oral and written communication; problem-solving; and time management.  I have also acquired these skills in my studies, and they definitely paid off and prepared me for the workforce, thereby contributing to my success.

On a personal basis, I volunteer as an Office Assistant at St. Maria Goretti Parish, and used to volunteer as a Community Aphasia Program Volunteer at the Aphasia Institute.  Although these involve the same skills previously mentioned, a new skill that I acquired in these two positions is providing exceptional high quality customer service.  These give me an opportunity to meet new people, get to know them, and be helpful to them.  My volunteer experience at the Aphasia Institute involved helping clients overcome language difficulties brought on by stroke, and helped me gain a deeper appreciation for the field of Speech-Language Pathology.

For my previous work experiences, I was an ESL Teaching Assistant for the Phoenix Academy of the Arts and a Research Study Assistant at UTSC's Department of Language Studies.  Now, I am embracing my new-found calling of teaching and helping students with their English skills.  Everyday is a learning experience, and I constantly look for opportunities for advancement to improve and do better each day.

In my spare time, you can find me listening to some great tunes, cooking up a storm, reading about current events, and watching Italian shows.

Like what you see?  If you do, I invite you to connect with me on here.  I look forward to learning more about you and being a valuable resource for you.

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