A point of view
Your next hires won't all be people. Lead them as if they were.
AI agents are joining teams. The craft of building great teams already knows how to make them work.
- Hire for a roleGive each agent one clear job and a name, not a vague mandate.
- Onboard with contextShare how the team works, what good looks like, and who to ask.
- Delegate authority, not accessDecide what it may do alone and what it must ask about first.
- Review the workGive feedback, keep what works, and change what doesn't.
- Grow the team deliberatelyAdd the next agent when the last one has earned its place.
Career
Scaling companies through growth.
- KongChief People Officer, 2024 to nowLeads Kong's global people strategy, recruiting, and the programmes that help people grow.
- ConfluentChief People OfficerScaled the company's talent strategy after its IPO.
- RingCentralChief People Officer
- RELX GroupChief People OfficerA FTSE 15 data and analytics company.
- EricssonVice President, PeopleFor the media business.
Education
XLRI Jamshedpur
MBA in Human Resources. Valedictorian two years running, and winner of the Citibank Leadership Award.
JMI, New Delhi
BS in Electronics and Communications, summa cum laude. An engineer by training.
Advising
Canvas Space
Adviser to a start-up that helps creators earn from their work.
Previously
Advisory board member at CanGrade, a recruiting analytics start-up from Harvard, and at Rubia, a non-profit supporting Afghan women.