Sandhya Krishnan Jathar

Seasoned human resources leader with 25 years experience in organisational design & culture. Award winning artist & philanthropist

Sandhya is a seasoned HR organization development professional with over decades of experience across the Banking and ITES sector. At IKS Health, she focuses on making training and quality a strategic advantage to achieve superior outcomes and rigor.

She has versatile experience in HR across learning, training, building and sustaining organizational culture and engagement. She has in-depth expertise in leadership development, talent management and assessment center.

She has been instrumental in setting up the diversity and inclusion programs and interventions across the organizations she has been associated with.

In her previous assignment, she was heading the learning, leadership and talent development for DBS Bank India entities across India and the in-house technology development center at Hyderabad DBS Asia Hub2 (DAH2).

She has also been part of Bank of America as lead leadership development & talent management partner, responsible for the bank and the global delivery centers for Bank of America in India.

She was instrumental in setting-up the assessment centers and the talent watch programs in her role as lead of organization effectiveness at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Sandhya started her career as a management trainee with Hindustan Times Ltd.

Sandhya is an MBA-HR from Pune University and is a Graduate from Ruia College Mumbai with a Major in Physics and Electronics. She is also a certified Master Practitioner in various psychometric tools including MBTI, Hogan, FIRO-B, SII , Predictive Index and EQ. She also holds Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

She lives in Mumbai and is married to Rajesh who runs his Digital Branding solutions company. She loves reading and running the Half-Marathon. She is an accomplished artist specializing in landscape oil painting with a dedicated website “paintforacause” where her paintings are auctioned for charitable causes.

An award-winning artist with several group exhibitions in India as well as International showing. Her art also prophecies equity and inclusion of women and global climate control measures She is also associated with National Association for the Blind, All India Chess Federation for the Blind and Teach India..

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