1. Gallup Strengths: Ideation | Individualization | Strategic | Maximizer |Input
Ruchira’s greatest talent is recognizing talents in others. Placing these talents in teams, roles
and projects to derive maximum value gives her great joy as she knows this will benefit both
organization and individual. She is intuitive in understanding what motivates people and
uses this knowledge to drive performance agendas.
Her vision is to create impacts which have the potential to exponentially grow and create
force multiplier effect into touching many more lives. Transforming leaders from good to
great is what Ruchira wants to be known for.
 Ruchira specialises in Culture Change Management, Leadership Coaching & Capability
Excellence. Her forte is in coaching leaders in start-up environment to thrive and lead. She
has been the head of HR and operations for several product and services start-up firms in
the Hi-Tech IT space. She has worked with start-ups to set up their full scale of operations
and become profitable. Her major skills lie in developing leadership talent pipeline through
coaching, mentoring and building resilient work force. Ruchira has won the 2014 and 2015
STPI award for employing the highest percentage of women workforce in Karnataka for
companies under 1000 employees.
 Coaching style: Ruchira believes the in Carl Rogers school of philosophy of ‘unconditional
positive regard’. This approach allows her to naturally connect with her coachees and clients
and give each story the maximum attention they deserve. She has a natural inclination to see
the goodness and potential in every human being and give in her 100% to the development
of her coachees helping them live their full potential.
She actively practises positive psychology coaching and uses techniques like building
resilience, practising gratitude, mindfulness, active constructive responding and gestalt
therapy. Ruchira is a strong believer of the Emotional Intelligence School of thoughts and
uses constructs of EI to perform experience audits in organisations. Her aim is to build a
resilient work force thru an emotionally intelligent work space.
Areas of specialization: Executive & Leadership coaching, Performance coaching, Values
& Behaviour coaching, Stakeholder coaching, and Team coaching
Designing competency framework, designing leadership development programs, positive
psychology engagement framework, Gen Y engagement framework, leaders as coach; the
force multiplier effect program
Tools and techniques used: Authenticity scale, Transgression Motivation Scale, Leadership
Profile Indicator, Locus of Control, Communication Inventory, Satisfaction with Life Scale,
General Happiness scale, Optimism Inventory, Gratitude survey, Positive Affectivity and

2. Negative Affectivity Scale (PANAS), Fordyce Emotional Questionnaire, Work Life
Questionnaire, PERMA, Rumination: Dealing with Emotions, Perseverance: Value
preference survey and general belief inventory, Transactional style inventory, Role
satisfaction and role efficacy, Visioning effectiveness Scale, Power Enhancer Scale,
Delegation Assessment Questionnaire, Team Effectiveness Scale, Openness and
Perceptiveness Scale, Learning Organisation Profile Survey, Organisation Culture:
OCTAPACE, Organisational Climate: Motivational Analysis of Organisation Climate,
Gallup strengths and VIA character survey
HIGHLIGHTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
 Led the strategic agenda for Exec-Coaching to upscale senior executives. Was
personally responsible for coaching the Sr. VP and AVPs internally within the
organisation
 Led the culture change initiative to institutionalize innovation, creativity and clan
culture using the Cameron and Quinn OCAI model
 Created Millennial Engagement Models & Candidate Experience Zone which resulted in face-
uplift for org and resulted in <50% in infant mortality rate across all levels
 Designed Employee Life cycle program based on strengths philosophy and positive
psychology tenets. This included, induction & orientation program, rewards and
recognition framework, engagement framework, performance management and career
lattice management
 Leadership trainer for senior management and middle management
transformational programs including Leadership Profile Indicator (LPI). Trainer
for Hi-potential and Fast Track career employees
 Grew the human resource capital 20% year on year
 Maintained 50% plus bulge ratio year on year which results in high EBITA of 30%
 2014 & 2015 STPI awards, for employing the highest % of women workforce in
Karnataka for companies under 1000 employees
 Designed ‘Employee Happiness Indicator’ – a predictive tool to manage attrition
 Led the new-gen initiative for ‘Creating an Emotionally Intelligent work place’
 Developed leadership and behavioural competency framework, 360 degree
feedback, IPDs and 3 appraisal systems over 9 years. x
 L&D initiatives to scale leadership capabilities & org maturity, resulting in millions in payroll
savings
 Significantly lower than industry average attrition (<8%) throughout; aggressive culling
of low performance
CAREER HISTORY & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
 Consultant: Riflexions Consulting Pvt Ltd, AliceBlue Commodities Pvt Ltd.
 Digital Harbor, Inc as Head of HR
 Odessa Technologies, Inc as Head of HR
 VMoksha Technologies as HR Executive
 Board of Selection, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
 Visiting Faculty at IBS, Bangalore for Human Resource Management

3. TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
 Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
 Certified Compensation & Benefit Analyst by Carlton Advance Management Institute
 Certified Predictive Index Analyst
 TQue Expert (Emotional Intelligence) by Thomas International
 Certified in designing Millennials Engagement Models
 Ravens Progressive Matrices (IQ testing), Eysenck’s Personality Inventory and Big Five Model &
various other psychometric tool
 Strategic design for Leadership development, Assessment Development Centres
 HiPo & Middle Management training
EDUCATION
 Masters in Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
 Masters in Human Resources and Marketing, Alliance Business Academy
 Bachelor in Psychology
You can reach Ruchira at ruchira.c@gmail.com or visit
https://in.linkedin.com/in/ruchira-chakravarty-ab08ab18 Or
call at 9880220608