Executive summary / Personal profile
Siddharth Iyer
Chief Human Resources Officer India · Global perspective
Building the leadership, culture and capability to thrive.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversation01 / Leadership approach
People strategy must explain how the organisation will build the capability its ambitions require. I connect succession, organisation design and everyday leadership practice, with attention to fairness, privacy and the experience of employees.
02 / Areas of responsibility
- Leadership succession
- Organisation design
- People strategy
- Culture transformation
- Senior roles filled internally
- 85%
- Through a rebuilt succession pipeline
- Engagement improvement
- +31 pts
- During a three-year transformation
- Colleagues served
- 52,000
- In 30 countries
- Women in leadership
- 40%
- Up from 18% in five years
Evidence from practice
- Leadership succession
- Succession discussions relied too heavily on individual nominations.
- Culture transformation
- A major change programme needed different behaviours across functions.
- Workforce strategy
- The business strategy was evolving faster than its workforce planning.