Pradeep specializes in enhancing organizational and leadership effectiveness with a strong business orientation. His expertise includes identifying and building organizational capabilities, supportive structures, and systems for optimal performance, implementing people strategies for business success, and developing leadership talent through coaching.
Pradeep has accumulated over 31 years of rich corporate experience both in India and overseas. He has held diverse roles, including managing an organization as a CEO and leading the human resources function for many years. His experience spans various domains, such as defining business strategies, enhancing profitability in the consulting sector, shaping organizational structures, driving the human resource and people agenda in IT and financial services sectors, assessing and developing leadership talent, executive coaching, and facilitating organizational visioning and reengineering HR processes.
Pradeep has worked in both the Middle East and the United States during his career, contributing to his global perspective and insights.
His last corporate assignment was as CEO of Mercer India Pvt. Ltd., a part of the largest global HR Consulting firm. From 2000 to 2007, he led the Human Resource function for Citigroup’s various businesses in South Asia, covering banking, consumer finance, BPO, KPO, brokerage, and technology infrastructure across ten different legal entities.
Pradeep is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He completed his post-graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. He also holds the distinction of being a Master Certified Coach, certified by the International Coach Federation of the US. Additionally, he completed an Executive Management Program at Kellogg’s.