Amit Shama is the Group Chief Human Resources Officer at Gokaldas Exports. He has more than two and half decades of rich experience across various HR roles of which past more than a decade has been in Leadership positions with top-of-the-line organizations, in a diverse set of industries such as Indian Oil, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, TE Connectivity and Volvo Group.

With a high focus on Business HR, his experience spans on Workforce Strategy, HR Business Partnering, Organization Development, Change Management, Post Merger Integrations, Capability Building, Leadership Development, Employee Relations, Employee Engagement, Inclusion and Diversity at workplace, thus fueling business growth through high-performance Culture. He is a proponent of bringing technology to HR processes while retaining the human connections in the organization.

Amit has received various internal and external recognitions for his work in HR such as “HR Leader of the Year 2023 – Large Scale Organisations” by The Economic Times; India’s Top 23 HR Influencers for 2023 by HR Association of India; Asia’s 100 Power Leaders in HR 2022 by Whitepage International; India’s 50 Best HR Leaders 2021 by Whitepage International; India’s Most Agile HR Leaders 2021 by Sapphire Connect; Top Indian CHROs to follow on LinkedIn 2020; Top Influential Voices Aug 2020 by SpeakIn and many more such recognitions.

He has been Vice President of the National HRD Network, Bangalore Chapter for the year 2019-21 and also a member of CII’s National Committee on Industrial Relations. Amit and has been speaking on HR topics in various external forums and has been sharing his thoughts through various interviews, articles and perspectives published in HR journals and magazines such as People Matters, Business Today, Human Capital, NHRDN Journal, SightsIn Plus, Business Manager, HR Katha, Economic Times, NIPM Journal etc.

Apart from being MBA(HR), he is certified OD Practitioner from ISABS New Delhi and a certified Coach from International Coaching Federation, USA