Abhishek Badiyala · Gurugram, India

HR leadership for companies that are scaling.Grounded in years of transformation and scaling.

I help founders build the people function their growth depends on. Senior HR leadership, without the full-time CHRO cost.

01 / About

Fifteen years of building the people side of business.

I have spent my career in human resources, across big-four consulting and high-growth technology companies, leading teams that span multiple countries.

My work sits where people meet business strategy: building HR functions from the ground up, steering organisations through transformation, and helping leaders make sharper people decisions with data.

My grounding in people analytics goes back to my foundational years at Deloitte, where data-driven HR work was the day job. I now bring that experience to companies that need a senior HR hand, on a flexible, fractional basis.

Experience
15+ years in HR leadership
Education
XLRI Jamshedpur
Scope
Multi-country team leadership
Abhishek Badiyala
02 / Services

What I can take off your plate.

01

Fractional CHROFLAGSHIP

Senior HR leadership on a part-time basis. I own the people agenda, sit with your leadership team, and build a function that outlasts the engagement.

02

HR consulting & transformation

Focused projects: redesigning how HR works, fixing what is broken, and modernising processes that have stopped serving the business.

03

Org design & scaling

Roles, spans, levels, and the operating rhythm that keeps a growing company coherent through its next stage.

04

Employee relations

Calm, experienced handling of the sensitive stuff: grievances, exits, policy, and the conversations that decide whether people trust the company.

05

Compensation & benefits

Pay structures, bands, and benefits that are fair internally, competitive externally, and honest about what the company can afford.

06

People analytics

Using data to answer the questions leadership actually asks: attrition, performance, hiring quality, and where to place the next bet.

07

Reduction in force

Workforce transitions planned and run with care. Support through RIF planning and execution that is humane, lawful, and honest with the people leaving and the people staying.

03 / Who I help

Startups and mid-size companies are my sweet spot.

Abhishek Badiyala

Under 1,000 people and growing fast is exactly where I do my best work, including teams spread across countries and time zones.

  • Founders making their first senior people hire, or realising they need one
  • Leadership teams scaling across countries and time zones
  • Companies between funding stages that need HR to grow up fast
  • Established mid-size firms modernising a legacy people function
04 / Contact

Let’s work together.

Consulting projects, fractional CHRO engagements, or a people problem you are not sure how to frame yet. I would like to hear about it.