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

ByteDance

Partnership Execution: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful execution of partnership agreements, including onboarding processes, program implementation, and ongoing operations.

Operation Efficiency: Streamline partnership operations by developing and implementing efficient processes, workflows, and systems. Continuously identify opportunities for improvement.

Partnerships Beneficiary Performance Monitoring: Arrange resources to guide sellers in business strategy on the platform and offer continuous support within specified period. Track and analyze seller performance metrics and develop action plans and recommendations for underperforming sellers to help them improve and grow with the incubation department. Collaborate with internal teams to plan marketing campaigns based on partnership objectives.

Data and Reporting: Collect and analyze data related to partnership performance, providing regular reports and insights to internal and external stakeholders. Work closely with Partnership Associate to redeem and claim revenue from partner towards the end of the specified partnership period.

Problem Resolution: Address operational challenges, troubleshoot issues, and find creative solutions to maintain the integrity of partnerships.

Partnerships Operations Manager

PropertyGuru Group

Milestones:
Sales Growth of 548% across 6 years of employment - Award event
(average 32.8% annual growth rate)

PropertyGuru to go public in year 2021, in merger with SPAC backed by Richard Li and Peter Thiel
(with >80% local market share)

Responsibilities:
- Liaise with clients and internal stakeholders on all matters pertaining to the Asia Property Awards in Malaysia and Mainland China
- Organise and attend all meetings, follow up on action items and update the awards team on judges’ recommendations
- Cocreate presentation deck for sales team and assist in all materials required for awards pitches and entries
- Work closely with the sales team to identify relevant categories for clients, develop convincing propositions, and answer client queries
- Prepare for and assist with the awards nomination and entry process, and ensure all entries are duly processed
- Co-organise activities such as site inspections, media or partner events relating to the Awards programme in each country
- Co-ordinate filming schedules and attend recording sessions (if possible) for judges and winning developers, as required by the business
- Co-organise and co-ordinate all aspects of the annual gala presentation event (Physical or Virtual), assisting with logistics, venue set-up, production schedule/requirements and editing
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of all winner entitlements
- Work closely with external sales and marketing partners to ensure efficient operations and fulfilment of contracted commitments
- Support all tasks related to the Awards Business in Malaysia and China

Asst. Manager - Awards (Malaysia & China)

Responsibilities:
- Maintain and develop existing client accounts 
- Arrange phone meetings with clients on a regular basis 
- Arrange itineraries to travel regularly to designated market for face-to-face meetings with existing and new clients and to attend networking and industry functions
- Maintain and updates case file on clients
- Collaborate with Management and Leadership Teams to find relevant solutions for new and existing developer clients 
- Prepare and deliver multimedia solution proposals
- Negotiate and close deals and handle complaints or objections
- Liaise closely with Awards entry team to manage developer client Awards journey from entry to AMP purchase
- Keep abreast of the latest developments in the real estate industry in local market
- Ensure correct usage of CRM and other applications

Solutions Executive

UNIQLO

Job Roles:
-	2 main areas of expertise – Fashion outlet operation (2 years), and product logistic of global supply chain management (3 years)

-	(Store ops) Responsible for the daily operation of a fashion outlet, include and not limited to: merchandise ordering budget, sales and financial expenses control, store layout creation, employees training and development, employees scheduling arrangement, relationship management with mall and suppliers.

-	(Logistic) Responsible for the logistic of merchandising on a nationwide level, from communicating with global HQ in Japan, keeping track of incoming shipments, deciding launching date of new arrivals, to maintaining healthy stock level of all outlets, arranging inter-store transfer for sales optimization, and finalizing price markdowns for past seasons merchandise.

-	(Logistic) Extensive knowledge on categories include Outerwear, Bottoms, Buttoned shirts, Knitwear, Accessories, and Dresses.

-	(Side project) Sole person in charge of overseeing all four East Malaysia stores opening in terms of product allocation and logistic.

-	(Side project) Standing consultant for internal Merchandising Planning department of ASEAN T-shirt collaboration with The Walt Disney Company (specifically, Marvel and Star Wars)

-	Liaise with global and ASEAN departments such as Admin, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, New Store Development, Stock Loss, and Store Ops to ensure budgeted business operation and seamless integration for maximum sales and profit achievement.

Senior Product Executive

Product Executive

Senior Asst. Store Manager

Asst. Store Manager

Uniqlo Manager Candidate (UMC)

Carlson Marketing

Client was ExxonMobil, who is the largest Oil & Gas company in the world. 

•	Tasked with handling any customer inquiries on loyalty card program. 
•	Analyzed and consulted on the ambiguities of said program and its cohesiveness with newly roll-out programs and features.
•	Handle calls from regions include Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guam, and Saipan.

Customer Service Representative

SRG Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd

Client was Maxis, who is the largest Mobile-Telco company in Malaysia. 

•	Area of focus was Maxis Postpaid inbound line.
•	Tasked with handling all aspects of a customer’s inquiry, which includes Billing, Termination, Technical Difficulties, Payment Processing, as well as other General Inquiries.

Customer Service Executive

16 years of experience at the customer service frontline, 
with a keen sense for trend sensitivity and proven record of day-to-day operation improvement.

I believe there is no such thing as an instinctive "gift" that could outdo accumulated effort.
There is simply no substitute for putting in the work.

Because it is the only thing that works 100% of the time for 100% of the things worth achieving.
In the end - it all boils down to experiences.

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