XLRI scholar bags ‘Leading Minds in HR Award’ at PeopleFirst HR Excellence Awards-2022

Girijesh Srivastava, an Executive Fellow Programme in Management (EFPM) scholar in Organizational Behaviour at XLRI Jamshedpur has been felicitated with the ‘Leading Minds in HR Award’ at the PeopleFirst HR Excellence Awards 2022.

This award recognizes HR Leaders and Consultants based anywhere in the world, who are recognized as thought leaders not just within their organization but across the HR community and business world. It celebrates the achievements of people that have made monumental contributions to both, the HR and business fraternity.

This award is for people who have set challenging benchmarks for others in the HR fraternity to follow.

Girijesh is an award-winning HR leader with 15 years of global and cross-cultural experience in enhancing people and organizational performance, thereby, impacting the business outcome.

He specializes in Digital HR, learning, employer branding and employee engagement. He has partnered with businesses to institutionalize over  40 new products, processes and programs across the employee life cycle playing diverse roles of Business Partner, Process Owner, Program Manager and Product Manager.

Interventions designed by him are used by Fortune 500 companies across the globe.

Earlier, Girijesh has been conferred Economic Time and TA Pai Young HR Leader Award, Apex India HR Leader Award, CEO’s Award for Excellence, Outstanding Learning Leader Award, and Best Employee Engagement Team of the Year Award.

On the thought leadership front, he is a researcher, author and speaker at management institutions such as IIM Lucknow, SP Jain, and ITM among others. His original research in HR and intersectional areas has been accepted, presented and published at various national and international conferences.

Beyond professional life, he is a lyricist and musician with four songs to his credit which are available on over 200 digital music platforms. He has recited sitar at Bharat Parv and has made appearances on Bloomberg UTV, Doordarshan and Akashvani.