Meena is an international HR professional with over 20 years experience having worked for a number ofmultinational financial services organisations – Barclays, UBS and Standard Chartered. Operating at the C-suite level for over a decade. She is a truly global executive with experience across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Holding several significant CHRO positions, most recently overseeing the people transformation of a c.30,000 strong shared service centre across 18 locations and 4 countries.
She has deep specialist experience in Employee Relations and culture change – protecting organisations from all types of employee related risk by strengthening organisation culture. For Standard Chartered this included the management of over 30 unions, instilling a strong whistleblowing culture and setting out the Groups’ overall organisational justice framework.
She has also served as a board member in the past with City HR – an HR trade organisation as their international lead. During her 5-year tenure, she was one of only a handful of HR professionals invited by the Lord Mayor of London to participate in an initiative dedicated to restore ‘trust’ levels in Financial Services. She currently serves as an Advisor to Human Resources Online – a magazine dedicated to the needs of the Asian HR community.
She is passionate about HR disruption and am often sought to write, speak and comment upon next-gen HR. Her articles have recently been published in SightsIn Plus, Human Resources Online and Human Capital Online.