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Rajeswari Ramanan
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| Title: |
Regional Human Resources Director APAC and Middle East |
| Industry: |
Utilities |
| Type of Organization: |
Engineering Consulting Service |
| Major Product/Service: |
Energy infrastructure and management services |
| Expertise: |
Ms. Ramanan is a highly accomplished Senior Executive with an 18-year track record of excellence in aligning staff performance with broad-scale corporate goals. She has demonstrated a total mastery of managing the intricate link between the HR processes, human capital needs and central business strategy. Ms. Ramanan draws on her deep HR knowledge to spearhead powerful recruitment, performance management, talent development and organizational enhancement strategies. With her extensive international business experience, she coordinated major staff relocations, lived in 3 different nations and continuously advanced a global platform over the past 15 years. She is currently responsible for learning and development, recruiting, retention, career planning, diversity, inclusion and executive development. |
| Geographic Area of Distribution: |
International |
| Affiliations: |
Society for Human Resource Management; Human Resources Planning Society; Human Capital Institute; Life Member, National Institute of Personnel Management, India; Human Resources Professionals Association, Canada; National Association for Professional Women; American Society for Training and Development |
| University/Degree: |
M.B.A., Human Resources, National Institute of Human Resource Development, India, 1997 |
| Born: |
June 28, 1963, Chennai, India |
| Hobbies/Sports: |
Cooking, travel, yoga |
| Spouse: |
Ramadurai |
| Married: |
January 31 |
| Children: |
Tejas, Tushita |
| Work History: |
Prior to her current role, Ms. Ramanan served as a Senior Director - Talent Management, Diversity and Inclusion for a Spanish Power Major Iberdrola USA. She previously worked for High Potential Development in Lafarge from a global perspective since 2010. From 2005 to 2007 she was a Manager with Organizational Development, Lafarge Canada Inc. also serving as a Manager of Learning and Development with Lafarge from April through December of 2003. From 1999 to 2003, Ms. Ramanan served as a Principal Consultant and Head of training and Organizational Development with Mafoi Management Consultants. Prior to that she was a Senior Consultant of Marketing and Econometric Services with METRIC from 1998 to 1999 concurrently serving as a Consultant with 5M Consultants. From 1991 to 1997 Ms. Ramanan was a Consultant-HRD with Peninsula Polymers. She originally served as an Chief of Operations with Ejji Group of Companies from 1981 to 1985. |
| Honors & Awards: |
Work Place Diversity Award, Lafarge North America; Outstanding Contribution to Global HR, APAC HRM Congress, 2010; Outstanding Contributor to the Talent Pipeline in Lafarge Globally, 2008 |
| Published Works: |
Editorial Advisory Board, HR Reporter - Professional HR Magazine, Canada; Speaks frequently at forums like the Federated Press, Conference Board of Canada, CSTD and World HRD Congress and Marcus Evans HR Summit; Published papers on Competency Mapping, Cultural Integration during M&A process and How Aerodynamic is Your Assessment Center |
| Career Accomplishments: |
Ms. Ramanan in housed the talent acquisition function and developed a 3 year strategic diversity and inclusion for Iberdrola to meet its sustainability in the US. She designed and developed a global approach to identify and assess high potential talent in order to build the talent pipeline for the top 25 and top 150 leadership positions in Lafarge. She also designed and implemented an accelerated development program as a result of identifying key talent gap in the North American operations for highly technical talent in the manufacturing function, an award winning project which had implications across the globe for Lafarge. Ms. Ramanan established a new Technical Project Division which saved over $1.2 billion for Lafarge North American green and brown field projects. She also designed and implemented a scientific recruitment process and methodology that involved a complex change management approach in a leading manufacturing major that was transitioning from a privately owned organization to a professionally managed corporation. |
