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    <div class="idline">Abhishek Badiyala &middot; Gurugram, India</div>
    <h1>HR leadership for companies that are scaling.<span class="blue">Grounded in years of transformation and scaling.</span></h1>
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      <span>I help founders build the people function their growth depends on.</span>
      <span>Senior HR leadership, without the full-time CHRO cost.</span>
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    <h2>Fifteen years of building the people side of business.</h2>
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        <p>I have spent my career in human resources, across big-four consulting and high-growth technology companies, leading teams that span multiple countries.</p>
        <p>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.</p>
        <p>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.</p>
        <p>My approach is first principles. A new market or a new kind of problem is not a barrier: learn the specifics, process them honestly, and build the plan that fits.</p>
        <p><a href="/more-about-me.html" style="display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;color:var(--ink);font-weight:600;border-bottom:2px solid var(--blue);padding-bottom:3px;">More about me &#8599;</a></p>
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          <div><dt>Experience</dt><dd>15+ years in HR leadership</dd></div>
          <div><dt>Education</dt><dd>XLRI Jamshedpur</dd></div>
          <div><dt>Scope</dt><dd>Multi-country team leadership</dd></div>
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    <h2>What I can take off your plate.</h2>
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        <div><h3><a href="services/fractional-chro.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">Fractional CHRO</a><span class="tag">FLAGSHIP</span></h3>
        <p>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.</p></div>
        <a class="arrow" href="services/fractional-chro.html" style="text-decoration:none;">&#8599;</a>
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        <span class="n">02</span>
        <div><h3><a href="services/hr-transformation.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">HR consulting &amp; transformation</a></h3>
        <p>Focused projects: redesigning how HR works, fixing what is broken, and modernising processes that have stopped serving the business.</p></div>
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        <div><h3><a href="services/org-design.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">Org design &amp; scaling</a></h3>
        <p>Roles, spans, levels, and the operating rhythm that keeps a growing company coherent through its next stage.</p></div>
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        <div><h3><a href="services/employee-relations.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">Employee relations</a></h3>
        <p>Calm, experienced handling of the sensitive stuff: grievances, exits, policy, and the conversations that decide whether people trust the company.</p></div>
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        <p>Pay structures, bands, and benefits that are fair internally, competitive externally, and honest about what the company can afford.</p></div>
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        <div><h3><a href="services/people-analytics.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">People analytics</a></h3>
        <p>Using data to answer the questions leadership actually asks: attrition, performance, hiring quality, and where to place the next bet.</p></div>
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        <div><h3><a href="services/reduction-in-force.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit;">Reduction in force</a></h3>
        <p>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.</p></div>
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    <h2>Startups and mid-size companies are my sweet spot.</h2>
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        <p class="who-intro">Under 1,000 people and growing fast is exactly where I do my best work, including teams spread across countries and time zones. India is my home market and still my sweet spot, with working expertise across the US, EU, UKI, and LATAM.</p>
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          <li>Founders making their first senior people hire, or realising they need one</li>
          <li>Leadership teams scaling across countries and time zones</li>
          <li>Companies between funding stages that need HR to grow up fast</li>
          <li>Established mid-size firms modernising a legacy people function</li>
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        <p style="margin-top:22px;">Wherever the team sits, the approach is the same: start from first principles, learn the local specifics fast, and build the plan. People problems everywhere are solved with the same toolkit.</p>
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    <div class="sect-label">04 / Writing</div>
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      <p class="big">A few recent articles. Quite a lot from the yesteryears.</p>
      <div><p>Essays on work, sport, technology, and the things I could not stop thinking about. The Jabberwocky archive and my latest LinkedIn writing now live in one place.</p><a class="writing-link" href="/blog/">Read my writing &#8599;</a></div>
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    <h2>Let&rsquo;s work together.</h2>
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Consulting projects, fractional CHRO engagements, or a people problem you are not sure how to frame yet. I would like to hear about it.
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