Dr Mandeep Maitra is an award-winning Global HR Leader and Leadership & Transformation Coach. Her work experience of over three decades spans Paris, London, Singapore & Mumbai.

Mandeep has been credited with being the HR architect of HDFC Bank, India’s #1 Bank. During her tenure, Mandeep took the Bank from less than 1500 people to over 80,000 in the Bank and its affiliate companies. In the BFSI space she has been a trend setter, with many firsts to her credit – innovative HR Practices in Strategic Leadership, Talent Management, Performance Management & Rewards, Championing the cause of women at work, much to the delight of employees & investors alike!

Experienced in managing people and culture issues in two mergers, one of which is considered the largest in the Financial Industry, she thrives in managing scale, complexity and change. She also set the CSR function in the Bank, focusing on education, skilling, livelihood creation and women empowerment.

Post HDFC Bank, she moved overseas. In her six-year stint in Singapore, she worked with Dr Lynda Gratton, Prof. of Management Practice at London Business School London. She spearheaded the Future of Work research in Asia Pacific as part of Dr Gratton’s Hots Spots Movement. Mandeep worked with the Ministry of Manpower and other blue-chip organisations on Productivity, Innovation, Collaboration and Stakeholder Management. Later in Paris, Mandeep worked with Dr Julia Cooke of the Academy of Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship, UK. She was involved in facilitating design thinking workshops, mentoring start-ups and coaching women entrepreneurs. She moved back to Mumbai from Paris, France, in 2019.

Her newest venture is as CEO of M-Suite Leadership Consulting LLP (Website is www.mandeepmaitra.com) where she is combining her experience of being a global citizen, her passion for the future of work, and experience of having trained three generations of business leaders to address leadership challenges and concerns arising out of digital transformations post-pandemic.

Mandeep has launched an online community for empowering women called Women in Power (WiP) in 2021. It’s a closed group of around 400 women. Some of these women are employed in traditional Corporate roles and others are self-employed / entrepreneurs who are trailblazers in their own right and have unconventional careers. Her aim has been to enrich perspective of women regarding managing self at work and home, managing relationships and navigating life whilst aiming for peace and fulfilment. Members are able to celebrate stories, share, support, seek guidance and, more importantly, collaborate.