Govindarajan Dattatreyan Sharma

A Post Graduate in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, he is a Senior HR professional with over 38 years’ experience across industry verticals. He has held senior positions and led the HR function in various corporates such as BGR Energy Systems, Larsen & Toubro, Vedanta (Sterlite) Group, SRA Systems, E.I.D. Parry and SPIC. At present he is Principal Consultant, Beeline HR Advisory, his own HR & Management Consulting Firm, advising major organizations, Institutions and individuals on managing growth and helping them realize their potential. Mr. Sharma is a well-respected HR veteran, with rich experience in the complete spectrum of the human resources functions across varied business segments. He has had exposure to multi-national mergers and acquisitions, cross-cultural change management, large scale integration facilitation skills and the like. He has designed and successfully implemented management and leadership development initiatives across the enterprise, and is well-versed in strategically aligning HR with Business. Mr. Sharma also plays an active role in Education/Academia and Training, and is associated as Advisor, Adjunct Faculty, Visiting Faculty, and Mentor with prestigious B-Schools and leading Business houses. He is a much sought-after trainer, speaker, rapporteur, facilitator and moderator in professional, social and cultural circles. Mr. Sharma has won many Awards and Distinctions. He was the Best Outgoing Student of the 1979 batch of M.A (PM & IR) at TISS and a Gold Medalist. His other Awards include Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange Fellowship in 1985; Fellowship of AOTS in 1996; Leadership Excellence Award from ITM University in 2006; Lifetime Achievement Awards by HR Sangam in 2016 and HR Caucus in 2018. His other interests include singing, modelling, photography, writing, motor sports rally and travel. He has conducted over 100 music shows for corporate, cultural and social events, and has also been featured in many advertisements of leading brands, TV talk shows and Radio programs. His interviews and writings have been published in leading English and vernacular newspapers & periodicals.