gagan adlakha

Gagan, Senior Partner at Vyaktitva is an HR professional with experience in almost all areas of HR in people centred organizations. An XLRI 1990 alumnus, Gagan joined NIIT in its high growth and global expansion phase in the core HR team. During the decade of the IT boom, Gagan handled a variety of HR roles covering the complete gamut of HR functions at regional, business and corporate levels for 10 years.  Having done his rounds in the HR function, Gagan’s itch to understand the “other side of the business world”  led the leadership team in NIIT to offer him a role in 'NIIT Ventures' which spearheaded NIIT's inorganic growth initiatives. Scanning and evaluating business plans and prospective investee companies provided him a perfect platform to understand the business big picture, financials and business levers. Gagan later helped launch and run a business unit providing recruitment and training solutions to BPO and service industry.

Gagan turned entrepreneur in 2004 and joined Vyaktitva as a partner with the desire to help enhance people performance across organisations. Gagan has been working on various Organizational Design, Learning & Development and coaching assignments focused on individual and organizational performance. He has designed and delivered solutions for premier organizations in the country including PepsiCo, Amex, Airtel, Genpact, Hewitt, Whirlpool, Accenture, GE, ITC and IBM. Gagan’s experience entails:

Organization Development:
  • Diagnosing organization needs in the area of people and organization design; creating and implementing solutions to address these needs :
  • Visioning and agenda/goal setting
  • Identifying enabling values and implementing culture establishing journeys
  • Designing and implementing relevant people processes and systems
  • Creating and establishing relevant structures and roles
  • People – identifying, assessing, attracting, skilling and energising
  • Training and Development – Identifying Training Needs; Designed, Managed and Delivered Training programs in various areas including Instructional Design, Vision and values, leadership and managerial skills, soft skills, teaming and outbound.
  • Certified on MBTI, Facet5, 360 Tools

Areas of Specialisation
  • Training – identifying needs, design and delivery
  • Strategic consulting, Transformational and change interventions
  • Organisational Development– diagnosis and implementation
  • Coaching for CXOs, entrepreneurs, leadership role holders & identified ‘hi-pot’s
  • Instructional Design
  • Leadership development
  • Visioning, strategy facilitation, and goal setting

Coaching Experience
  • Executive Coaching of CXOs and leadership role holders
  • Coaching of high potential talent
  • Coaching leaders in HR roles

Other Interests
  • Sports specifically cricket, golf and squash
  • Travelling, Reading, Music, Movies and technology
  • Yoga, meditation and spiritualism




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