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

Clover Hill Communications

I provide clients with writing, editing, and social media copy and marketing expertise in the livestock and association sectors.

I've helped an ag professional association build their social media followings on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Since I started working with them in May 2019, their social media has seen positive growth in numbers of followers and engagements, in addition to improving the quality of their posts.
I'm currently working with an ag professional association to launch their podcast, creating 6 episodes for the initial offering.
I'm writing stories for a variety of ag industry publications, including Cattle Business Weekly, the Texas & Southwest Cattle Raisers Association magazine, Red Angus Magazine, AgDaily, and others.

Freelance Writer

Lessiter Media

I wrote stories and blog posts for No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, Precision Farming Dealer and Farm Equipment magazines. I also captured video and audio interviews for online and digital use on those properties. 

I was responsible for content for Cover Crop Strategies magazine, including online stories, a weekly e-newsletter, a weekly podcast, bi-weekly blog posts, and an annual print publication. I also planned and executed 2 virtual educational events per year featuring 6-12 academic experts and growers who have experience using cover crops. I was responsible for identifying and securing speakers, speaker correspondence, recording promotional podcasts and video interviews with speakers, promotional press releases and content, and recording 1-hour educational sessions with speakers.

I recorded 50+ podcasts, interviewing experts on cover crop production and management.

Associate Editor

Paulsen

I assist agricultural companies and associations with improving their public and media relations and social media efforts, including South Dakota Corn Growers Association, Agtegra, Superior Ag, and more. I also wrote various forms of copy, including press releases, feature stories, blog posts and social media content. I successfully brought on board a new client for a $10,000 project and was able to grow the account to $50,000.

Public Relations Specialist

Demeter Communications

I assisted agricultural companies and organizations such as the American Lamb Board, U.S. Grains Council and Ag Exports Count with project management, copywriting, proofing and social media needs.

Associate (contractor)

I provide clients in the agriculture industry with high quality communications pieces, editing and proofing, marketing strategy, project management services and more.

Owner/Communication Specialist

American Angus Association

I managed the agency relationship between Zoetis Beef Genetics and the Angus Association, including meeting day-to-day client needs, managing all marketing communications projects, and working with the internal Angus team to produce those marketing communications pieces, including banner ads, print ads, events, direct mailers, brochures, sell sheets, brochures, videos, and more.

I provided writing support on a wide variety of projects, including press releases, communications pieces for the Angus Foundation, stories for the Angus Journal, and more. I also manage the Angus Talk radio show, including identifying guests for the show, setting up their interviews and writing scripts for those interviews. I also assist with pre- and post-production for The Angus Report, the Angus Association's TV show on RFD-TV, by helping write scripts, identifying soundbites, and assisting with video clip inventory.

Projects Editor (contractor)

DairyBusiness Communications

I was responsible for identifying, proofreading, and writing editorial content for DairyBusiness/Holstein World magazine.

Managing Editor

I write, edit and manage all content for two monthly print magazines, including photography and selecting cover art.

Editor, DairyBusiness East & DairyBusiness West Magazines

I write, edit and manage all content for this monthly print magazine, including photography and cover art.

Editor, DairyBusiness East Magazine

I compiled, wrote and edited all content for DairyBusiness Weekly magazine, including photography and selecting cover photos.  I also posted all daily news on our website and managed the company's social media platforms, including two Facebook pages, a Twitter feed and an Instagram account.  I also successfully led a redesign of DairyBusiness.com.

Digital Editor

MorganMyers

I served clients by writing and editing various types of communication pieces, including press releases, feature stories, marketing materials and more.  Supervised internship program, including promotion, interviewing candidates, interview logistics and serving as intern's manager during internship.

Public Relations Associate

University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Services

I managed 4-H programs on the Warren Air Force Base and assisted with 4-H programming in Laramie County, including putting on workshops and camps, working with program volunteers and more.

Military 4-H Educator

Dairy Farmers of America

I wrote and edited a wide variety of marketing materials, including talking points, press releases, internal documents, etc.

Corporate Communications Intern

Writer, PR Pro, Social Media Manager, Marketing Communications Specialist, & Podcast Creator for the Agriculture Industry

I love sharing information with agricultural producers in a way that they can take and utilize in their operations. I've had vast experience with writing in a variety of forms, including blogs, feature stories, web copy, social media content, marketing materials, email copy and more. 

I have managed social media pages and content creation for multiple clients across the agriculture industry. I am a tough editor and proofreader. 

I have also produced podcasts and educational webinars on topics such as cover crops, beef production and agricultural engineering. If it's an agriculture industry topic, I've written about it--from livestock and cover crops to orchards and carbon sequestration. 

My Clifton Strengths Finder top 5 are Input, Achiever, Discipline, Learner, Consistency. 

I'm a farm girl at heart--I grew up on a dairy farm in Missouri and also showed beef cattle in 4-H and FFA. I have a degree in Ag Journalism and a minor in Animal Science from the University of Missouri. I also am a graduate of Class IX of the South Dakota Ag & Rural Leadership program (SDARL).

My husband and I have a small hobby farm in rural eastern South Dakota, and are the proud parents of three beautiful little girls.

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