About

Mandeep Singh Kalra is a seasoned executive coach and organization development consultant with over 21 years of relevant experience. He specializes in conducting pre-hiring cultural fitment assessments, identifying leadership potential, and creating talent pipelines for startups and established organizations. As the Leadership Coach at Creatnet Learning and Leadership, Mandeep works closely with startup founders and HR leaders to address growth and scale-up related challenges. He facilitates the alignment and integration of people, processes, vision, strategy, leadership, and culture towards common business goals. His expertise lies in organization development consulting, strategic HR consulting, executive and CEO coaching, and managerial and leadership development. He also provides conflict management and alignment workshops among co-founders and leadership teams. Mandeep has a prior corporate experience of 12 years, where he worked in IT product development at Tata-Honeywell, IBM, and Wipro, and later in project management, delivery, hiring, training, and development at Fidelity Business Services and Royal Bank of Scotland. He has a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Alliance University. Mandeep conducts assessments cum interviews to assess potential hires for attitude, coachability, learnability, taking ownership, integrity, self-awareness, leadership, and alignment with organization culture. He also helps founders do the right hiring, minimize risks, and reduce time for coaching the candidates once they are onboarded. For entrepreneurs and internal teams, Mandeep's assessments are suited for identifying leadership potential, creating talent pipelines, career and succession planning, and role fitment. Depending on the stage of a startup, he designs a unique intervention along with founders to baseline and assess organization strengths, blind spots, and its current leadership potential. This is followed by training the senior management, HR, and hiring managers on doing the right hiring and conducting leadership development programs.