Your Leadership & Transformation Consultant.
Mandeep Maitra is an award-winning Global HR Leader and Leadership & Transformation Coach. Her work experience of three decades spans Paris, London, Singapore & Mumbai.
Mandeep has been credited with being the HR architect of HDFC Bank, India’s number 1 Bank. During her tenure, Mandeep took the Bank from less than 1500 people to over 80000 in the Bank and its affiliate companies. In the BFSI space, she is hugely regarded for her understanding of banking and has many firsts to her credit. She started the trend of hiring from Tier 2 /3 cities, introduced HRIS way ahead of other banks, created strategies to help build talent pipelines from within at a time when pay & benefits were not competitive. Worked hard to drive results and change for better productivity and meritocracy. Experienced in managing people and culture issues in two mergers, one of which is considered the largest in the Financial Industry, she thrives in managing scale, complexity and change. She also set the CSR function in the Bank, focusing on education, skilling, livelihood creation and women empowerment.
Post HDFC Bank, she moved overseas. In her six-year stint in Singapore, she worked with Dr Lynda Gratton, Prof. of Management Practice at London Business School London. She spearheaded the Future of Work research in Asia Pacific as part of Dr Gratton’s Hots Spots Movement. Mandeep worked with the Ministry of Manpower and other blue-chip organisations on Productivity, Innovation, Collaboration and Stakeholder Management. Later in Paris, Mandeep worked with Dr Julia Cooke of the Academy of Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship, UK. She was involved in facilitating design thinking workshops, mentoring start-ups and coaching women entrepreneurs. She moved back to Mumbai from Paris, France, in 2019.
Her newest venture is as CEO of M-Suite Leadership Consulting LLP where she is combining her experience of being a global citizen, her passion for the future of work, and experience of having trained three generations of business leaders to address leadership challenges and concerns post-pandemic.
Mandeep has also launched an online FB community for empowering women called WiP (Women in Power). This community is aimed at enriching the perspective of working women regarding managing themselves at work and home and creating a psychologically safe and judgement-free platform to voice their opinions, thoughts and ideas.
Mandeep also mentors a start-up in Education and Employability (Expressions) whilst continuing to advise companies in the BFSI space on leadership and transformation issues. She is on the boards of Suryoday Small Finance Bank, Expressions Learning Resources Put Limited and The HR Fund (supports the technology start-ups focused on a new world of work).