Harjeet Khanduja

Senior Vice President Human Resources at Reliance Jio | Author | Speaker | Influencer | Inventor | Professor of Practice | Building Products and People

Maharashtra, India

About

Harjeet is an International Author, Speaker, Poet, Inventor, Influencer, Professor of Practice and an HR Leader. He is also known as RK Laxman of Business. Harjeet has set multiple green field projects and has handled HR for large multinational organizations in various geographies including India, US & Canada. Harjeet’s experience spans a range of industry sectors that include Automotive, Pharma, IT-ITES, Telecom, and Retail. He has worked with Business Houses like Tata, Reliance and Piramal. Harjeet has built more than 30+ enterprise products in HR technology space and has 4 published patents. He is currently working as Senior Vice President HR at Jio. Harjeet is a Thomson Medalist from IIT Roorkee and has completed his management education from INSEAD. Harjeet is a certified practitioner of SAP HCM, 6 Sigma, Design Thinking, Predictive Index, Tata Business Excellence Model, ISO 9000, HIPAA, Value Engineering, Kaizen and 5S. He has been conferred with HR Leadership Award, Pride of Nation Award, HR personality of the year, LinkedIn power profile, Global Learning Award, Global Digital Ambassador, Top 100 HR Minds, Top 100 Global Thought Leaders, SHRM Top 50 HR Social Media Influencers, ET Top 20 HR Influencers and Top 50 HR Tech Leaders. Harjeet has been featured in a book "Heroes amongst us" by Dr. Amit Nagpal. Harjeet has been a Guest Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and NMIMS, Board Member of Federation of World Academics, Member of CII HR & IR Committee, Member IIRF Quality Assurance committee, co-chair of Nasscom D&I committee, Rotary club and SAP HCM. Harjeet has been associated with various NGOs like Council of Technical Scholars, Anuthi (NGO focused on education of disabled). Harjeet has authored 7 business books including How Leaders Decide; Leaders Decisions Biases, Nothing About Business, The storytelling Leader and HR Mastermind. All his books have been Amazon best sellers. Apart from that, Harjeet has been published in books like Chicken Soup for an IITan Soul, Touched by Poetry. He has been published in leading magazines including People Matters, Business Manager, Insights plus, HR.com, Human Factor, The Indian economist, Human Capital, IT Next. He also wrote columns like "The H in HR" and “Alag Hai” in leading HR Magazines. Harjeet is an International Hindi Poet and writes satirical poems on social issues and features in SAB TV and Shemaroo TV Harjeet is a TEDx speaker and speaks on variety of topics including HR, Leadership, Technology, Decision making and Entrepreneurship.

Experience

  • Senior Vice President Human Resources at Jio
    Dec 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible for Human Resources for Business and Enterprise functions

  • Chief Human Resources Officer at Anthelio Healthcare Solutions
    May 2009 - Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Prepare and enable organization for projected growth agenda. Manage entire gamut of HR for the organization.

  • Vice President Human Resources at Reliance Retail
    Apr 2006 - Apr 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for setting up Retail Business being part of the HR Core team

  • Deputy General Manager - Human Resources at Nicholas Piramal India Limited
    Aug 2004 - Apr 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Responsible for integration of HR policies, processes and systems of all acquired companies

  • Deputy Manager Human Resources at Tata Motors Limited
    Jul 1996 - Jul 2004 · 8 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for HR for Tata Motors Lucknow. Post that joined Corporate HR team at Mumbai