Gurprriet Siingh

Current

Senior Vice President at Welspun Group

Past

Head - Organization Development and Learning at RPG Group
Senior Consultant at Erehwon Innovation Consulting
Senior Manager OD at Convergys

Country Head at Manford Allianz
Regional Head at Manford Allianz
Sole Proprietor - Franchisee at Aptech Computer Education

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Education

Kanpur University
Air Force Bal Bharati
National Institute of Information Technology

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Gurprriet Siingh’s Summary

Didn't get into Med school, so took up a graduate degree in Commerce. Failed accounting twice before clearing it with distinction. Never picked up the degree, had such a bad time with college, decided to not study further.

Got admission to a university in the US for a bachelors in computing, was denied a visa

Joined a computer course in India, somehow got lucky and ended up writing the first book in the world on the Visual programming features of Foxpro 2.0. It's quite obsolete now, and even I don't have a copy!

Finished the book and launched business at age 22, almost ran it into the ground 2 times during 8 years. Learned most of my lessons through those experiences. First-hand insights into Leadership, Managing business and Organization Change.

Got tired of boring routine, once business was set, so sold it and got into OD Consulting. Started at the bottom. Setup operations from scratch in Bangalore and Bombay, built order books, delivered results and became Country Head for the business.

Realized I hadn't experienced the corporate world, decided on a 2 year stint. Quit, gave my first ever job interview got into Convergys Corp. had a fantastic learning exposure to world-class OD technology. Did well, surprised myself! Didn't think I would survive and do well in the Corporate world.

Got back to Consulting with Erehwon Innovation Consulting, within a few months I realized that my motivations had changed. My girls were growing up, needed me.

So decided to get back to the corporate world and joined the RPG Group. Headed the Organization Development and Learning function for the group and did some very interesting and path-breaking work.

One fine day, Welspun reached out to me, and asked me to come on board. They have huge growth ambitions and wanted me to help build the organization. Couldn't resist the challenge and opportunity!

Gurprriet Siingh’s Specialties:

Leading Innovation, Leading organization change, Business Development, Managing Client Relationships, Launching, setting up and running a consulting operation, Organization Diagnosis, Organization Development, Leadership development, Executive Coaching

Gurprriet Siingh’s Experience

Senior Vice President

Welspun Group

(Public Company; Textiles industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

I head Organization Capability and Innovation for the Welspun Group. Have a mandate to build capability to enable the organization to make a fourfold jump in turnover over the next 5 years.

Will primarily drive Talent and Capability building. As well as Change and Innovation in select group companies.
Head - Organization Development and Learning

RPG Group

(Automotive industry)

November 2006 — September 2009 (2 years 11 months)

I head Organization Development and Learning for the RPG Group which comprises Ceat Tyres, Spencers Retail, Zensar IT, KEC Power Transmission, Saregama Music, CESC amongst others.

My primary role is to identify, design and lead strategic interventions at the CXO level. The focus is primarily on transformation and capability building.

As owner of the Learning portfolio I am also responsible for bringing a consistency and relevance to the learning inputs provided across the group.

Achievements so far:

Successfully managing Organization Culture Change initiatives in 2 of the largest group companies
As the RPG Group gears up to grow from $3 billion to $ 10 billion in size, have co-created an Organization Capability plan and am working on actioning it in the areas of Leadership, Culture, Managerial Skills
Designed and deployed the RPG Corporate University
Putting in place processes to build Managerial and Leadership Bandwidth
Senior Consultant

Erehwon Innovation Consulting

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

August 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 4 months)

My role involved:
• Designing and deploying interventions in the areas of Innovation and Leadership
• Client Relationships/Account Management
• Identifying and acquiring business

Achievements:
• Lead facilitator on Innovation journeys for an IT company and an infrastructure company
• Partnered the Leadership development initiative at Erehwon for one of India’s largest Cellular Services provider

http://www.erehwonconsulting.com
Senior Manager OD

Convergys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)

My role is to drive and implement the OD programs and services at the India Operations of the Information Management Group of Convergys. This facility in Hyderabad is the only IMG facility in India.

Programs and services included Performance Management, Talent Management(for fast track employees), 360 degree feedback, Organization-wide Goal setting exercises, LEadership and Coaching/Mentoring, Variety of Training and Development needs

Achievements:

Transferred OD systems and processes from the parent company to India ops
Successfully launched the Performance Management System, which included training on both attitude and skills
Implemented an intervention that increased collaboration and work effectiveness across Indian and American work teams by 46%
Was Gobal lead for Business Consulting skills for all territories except North America
Brought the Manager and Leaders development programs to India
Country Head

Manford Allianz

(Management Consulting industry)

May 2003 — September 2003 (5 months)

My role:
Bus. Dev
Client Relationship
Management of the 3 offices in Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore
Organization Development interventions for Top and Senior Management
I also played a role in strategic discussions and direction of the company
Exposure to multi-cultural teams while working with multi-nationals and also when i worked with UNDP, Uzbekistan. I handled the entire project from discovery to execution and post-workshop client relationship. The program was rated as exceeded expectations by the client.
Some of my consulting assignments:
An IT Company that tripled it's turnover within a quarter of my working with them
A Pharma company's SBU grew at 35%+ while it's industry segment grew at 7%
A diversified manufacturing group initiated it's journey to grow from 1000 crores to 5000 crores and is today at 10,000 crores
A retail company, recharted it's strategy, identified funding models and moved to aggressive growth in 6 months
Regional Head

Manford Allianz

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Setup and Established Bangalore operations from scratch. INcluded recruiting and mentoring a team. Business Development and design and implementation of interventions. Client relationship and branch operations.
Sole Proprietor - Franchisee

Aptech Computer Education

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

October 1991 — January 2000 (8 years 4 months)

Gurprriet Siingh’s Education

Kanpur University

B.Com , Commerce , 1988 — 1991

I got into computers at the age of 18 and didn't focus much on formal college education, preferring instead to pursue my studies in computers.

I hold several diplomas in computer programming. And other certificate programs in Direct Marketing, ISO 9000 standards, Behavioural Studies etc.
Air Force Bal Bharati

1983 — 1986
National Institute of Information Technology