Dr. Saagarika Ghoshal is an International Speaker, Diversity expert and a practitioner with over 30 years of rich experience at high growth, multicultural local and global companies, across a spectrum of industry sectors that include Telecom, Financial services, Aviation, Media & Entertainment and Retail.

She is known for leading transformation and Innovative people practices and her expertise lies in helping organizations foster a culture of Diversity & Inclusion, leading Due Diligences for M&As, Integration and JVs, Organization Development, building Management Teams, Employer Brand and Corporate Governance for Boards. She has been covered by Business Today as one of the Next 30 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business and the 50 Most Influential HR Leaders in Asia.

She has Board affiliations with various companies and other than being the Leader for the People function, she has led various International and National Business Mergers and acquisitions and ensured smooth people transitions.

During her tenure with Metro Cash and Carry (German MNC), she has also pivoted the HORECA Business - the strategies adopted under her tutelage and her emphasis on excellence in implementation of out of the box glocal ideas, have increased both the scale and the profitability of the HORECA business manifold.

She is a prolific Author and prominent speaker at industry forums, several marquee organizations and educational institutions. Her talks specifically focus on Organization Culture - The invisible driver of profit, Key value drivers of building sustainable and successful businesses - Strategic implementation of people Culture as an architect of business success and creator of shareholder value, to name a few.

A Certified Independent Director and an alumnus of Stanford, NMIMS and Banasthali Vidhyapith, she is invited to write as well as share her learnings at national and international academic institutions and professional forums like UNDP, NHRDN, SHRM, ASTD, World HR Congress. She has led the research consortium with Banasthali Vidhyapith on Leading and Building a Culture of innovation, Indian Values and Ethos in Modern day Management. She firmly believes on the importance of culture building in an organization and offers suggestions on how business heads can create an engaging and productive culture in order to drive stakeholder value.