Competent, Inspirational, and passionate entrepreneur… If anything which has made Varun a dynamic sales expert & strategic leader in constant changing times are these soul elements of his leadership landscape.

Over the years he has achieved both top and bottom line profitability by engaging and delivering technology solutions to customers.

The professional trajectory of his deep rooted career span of 22+ years at diverse leadership roles has played a significant role in growth of companies and startups including Pine Labs, Kwench Global Technologies, Vodafone, HP , Human Dynamics , Airtel and his own start-up Samaritan.

His academic qualifications with extensive management study includes a double MBA degree, one from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) at the University of Delhi with a skilled specialization in Strategy and Leadership, and a second with a specialization in Hardcore Sales from the Institute of Management Studies (IMS), along with Business Management graduation.

He is currently pursuing PhD in international marketing at IIT Delhi. He likes socializing and networking with individuals outside of work.

Amin stands at the forefront of the fast-changing Organization Development & Human Resources development sector, known for his tireless work ethic and hands-on approach to organization and people development, whilst putting digital and systemic thinking as key must-have competencies for successful HR and organizational leadership in today’s hyperconnected complex world. Amin currently works as Director of Human Resources at the Egyptian Banking Institute (the training arm of the Central Bank of Egypt), bringing up more than 17 years of experience in the Higher Education and Pharmaceutical industries with both regional and global experiences as he was appointed the Regional HR Manager for the Middle East and North Africa for an international pharmaceutical company, whilst being assigned a global project to implement a modern and agile performance management system across overseas sales offices. Amin’s regional role for the past 4 years followed more than 11 years of leading the organization development and people L&D departments at MSA University as Senior Manager for People & Organisation Development. He is fortunate to lead several organization-wide transformational projects, in addition to leading the university corporate business services division and establishing the Organization development function bottom up.

Amin is a strong advocate of strength-based practices besides fostering autonomy, agile coaching and collaborative intelligence as key drivers of organizational growth and strong enablers of human performance, and wellbeing. As an HR professional, Amin insists on ensuring well-educated practices have been put to the test, making learning & development for himself and his colleagues a priority that pushes their limits and helps them always stay away from their comfort zone, bolstered by a strong education journey from studying pharmacy as his bachelor degree before nurturing his passion in HR through studying the HR Management Post-graduate diploma then the Executive Management diploma at the American University in Cairo, whilst being a certified international professional manager from the American Certification Institute, USA, and reaching the final stage of his Master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Liverpool John Moores, the UK with an intentional focus on Organisational and Positive psychology.

Amin is a frequent speaker, moderator and facilitator in global HR & Leadership conferences:

• 2016: Scientific conference “The role of media in promoting the culture of peace”, published a scientific research paper “A peace Value-based Educational Training Program for talk-show hosts”
• 2017: The International Organization Development & Leadership Conference, presenting a revolutionized model for managing people and organizational performance.
• 2017: The Entrepreneurship Hub: Keynote speech, Leadership from within.
• 2020 and 2021: Talent Acquisition Gathering Middle East by the Recruitment Events Co. UK.: Keynote speech: Let’s Flip the Pyramid series.
• 2020: Featured guest “Inspiration-North podcast, Newcastle, UK”: Driven by the idea of making change.
• 2020 and 2021: Lunch & Learn series of virtual workshops by the Recruitment events Co. UK.: Reinventing Organizations/ Reinventing Performance Management practices.
• 2021: The HR Congress, Techfest HR summit: From Talentship to Intrapreneurship.
• 2022: EBI 10^th annual conference: Moderator of an HR panel of international experts (USA, UK, and Egypt): Unlocking the full potential of the workforce.

Find Amin online:

• How positive psychology applications can revamp today’s workplace, and enhance employee experience, engagement & wellbeing: gy/qlx61g
• Understanding the impact of organizational identification on enhancing employee engagement and promoting organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB): gy/hzrikr
• Understanding how Job crafting can enhance Employee Engagement in Light of The Self-Determination Theory & The Job Characteristics Model of Job design: gy/nvil4l
• Unblocking the full potential of the workforce: gy/d1gwkh
• Inspiration North podcast, Newcastle, UK: gy/higl7c

Manoj is an ex-entrepreneur and a seasoned sales leader with over 13 years of expertise in setting up and scaling new businesses via processes & product incubation. Skilled in Enterprise Sales, cross-functional program management, building & maintaining strategic relationships, finding new product use-cases, and maximizing revenue.

As Area Vice President, Steve is responsible for Cornerstone’s Middle East business, ensuring organisations are successfully navigating HR digital transformation and providing their people with the right development and growth opportunities. Steve has been working in technology for twenty five years most of which in people technology and his extensive people experience ensures his team can bring organisations the technology, content, expertise, and specialised focus to help them realise the potential of their people.

Sriram Rajan is a passionate Talent OD Leader With 20 years of experience across industries and geographies, he has lead teams in organizations like Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank HP In his current role with Novartis, he heads the Novartis Learning Institute for India

From managing scales for organizations with an employee base of 35 000 people, to impacting critical business metrics around people engagement, Sriram has a wealth of experience across all critical functions of the HR/ Human Capital Engine

A Performance Leadership Coach, Sriram was felicitated as the MEA HR Professional of the Year in Nov 2017 His work around C Suite leadership and culture development won the Top award across the MEA region in 2017 A Key Note speaker at regional and global forums, some of his other recognitions include work he’s done around digitizing establishing innovative people development practices

An avid traveler and photographer, Sriram studied in Delhi He then spent a significant amount of time in Bangalore before moving to Dubai where he spent 7 years He is currently based out of Hyderabad

Haithem A Albalawi has been with Aramco for 20 years and over the past six years, Haithem has directed the HR Systems Support Department, Workforce Planning and Analytics Division, and the Compensation Division. Haithem is currently participating with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in fields related to the future of jobs and organizational readiness.
Haithem obtained both his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an Executive MBA from King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).

Agnes is a COO at VG Consulting, and oversees a wide range of services including human resource management, strategy formulation and management, performance management, and organizational design services.

Agnes is an HR advisor and helped multiple entities in the region to develop their HR policies, procedures, processes, manuals, employees handbook, job descriptions, competency framework, performance management systems, organization structures, etc.

In addition, Agnes provides accredited training courses on Human resource management topics in addition to strategy and performance management topics. Agnes has recently trained a large number of public sector employees in Saudi Arabia assisting in one of Vision 2030 initiatives.

Agnes is a Senior Certified Professional from the Society for Human Resources Management – (SHRM-SCP certification), and a Certified Senior Professional Human Resources international™ (SPHRi™) from the HR Certification Institute. As well, Agnes hold a Certificate in Key Performance Indicators Professional (KPIP) – and Certificate in Balanced Scorecard Master Professional (BSMP) – from Balanced Scorecard Institute and George Washington University.

At SHRM India, Nishith leads a growing advisory practice focussed on enabling clients realize business goals though better alignment of people practices. He is focused on achieving business growth through effective execution of client consulting mandates for the whole practice in domains such as Vision & Values cascade, Organization Structuring, Performance Management System & other HR process design. In his stint in a corporate role, Nishith has worked with the Bharti group- as a part of the Organization Design and Talent Management team. Here – he worked on projects such as shared service design and implementation, manpower planning, and organization structure design and evaluation. Prior to working with SHRM, Nishith was with the HR consulting teams of PwC, ECS, and Aon Hewitt. Nishith holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development (MHROD), presently MBA-HRD, from Dept. of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and is a certified practitioner of BIOSS tools and methodologies for organization design and leadership capability assessment.

A Strategy Consultant-turned-Digital Entrepreneur-turned-Growth leader, Mrigank is a core member of HCM business, leading growth & expansion in India & Middle East.

An MBA from INSEAD, Mrigank is a builder at heart. A serial entrepreneur, he has channelled his energies towards building companies — the latest being acquired and part of the PeopleStrong product suite.

With extensive experience from starting a new venture as well as executing for growth in larger businesses, Mrigank’s background in Startups, Sales & Operations, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy drives him in building processes and teams to support agile growth.