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Ms. Smita (Psychologist)
Proprietor

Smita comes with around two decades of experience in Human Resource Consulting, across multiple business verticals. She has been a Visionary behind company operations and strategies with a proven track record.

Currently, she is the Proprietor of Astute Venture which is a Talent management and Learning transfer organization and has a reputation as one of the best organization development reformers in Mumbai. She is also the co-founder of NGO BAUDS. Apart from these, she also heads the Learning and Development Vertical for Avalamb Services Pvt Ltd.

She has been associated with strategizing the HR gamut to yield the optimum result, provides end-to-end solution to her clients, helping them with finding the suitable manpower, conduct and implement HR interventions to manage talent, leveraging the specificities to provide solutions that are integrated, theoretically robust and meaningfully practical. In addition to training and consulting, she has aided in the implementation of the Company's Learning development strategy. The nucleus of her expertise lies in conducting leadership interventions anchored on psychometric instruments and driving the training with the inputs of the report. A facilitator, with a diversified background in training, she has mastered optimizing training in a multicultural setting by providing a framework that inspires skill development in learners of all ages and backgrounds. She takes an interventionist approach that appropriates the intrinsic variations in culture, strategy, people dynamics, and leadership— driving every training experience solely on the basis of emergent objectives. She has extensive knowledge and expertise in behavioral and development programs ranging from Transformational Leadership to Emotional Intelligence.

As a Consultant, she specializes in :

  • Change Management
  • Cross-Cultural Team Building
  • Multi-Rater Feedback
  • Leadership interventions
  • Decision Making
  • Impactful Communication and Presentation
  • And Many more…

Organizational Development Initiatives :

  • Organizational Culture Survey
  • Employee Engagement Survey
  • 360 Degree Feedback, Instructor-led Modules creation
  • Train the Trainer kit creation
  • Organization Competency Framework development
  • Developing Role activities
  • Driving Talent Assessment Process
  • e-Modules development
  • Writing L&D Manuals

Professional Certifications :

  • Psychological Counselor (NHCA Singapore)
  • Accredited International Coach EQi 2.0 & EQi 360 (Multi-Health Systems, London)
  • Master Behavioral & Leadership trainer (**IBTA-U.S certifying body for Business professionals, Florida)
  • Master soft skills trainer (NEXT certification, India)
  • Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

Honour :

  • Image transformation for Expats at Paul N Academy (Bangkok)
  • Guest speaker at Amity University, Noida
  • Guest Speaker at IIM Trichy
  • Guest Faculty at IIM Kozhikode
  • Awarded as the Indian Iconic Firm of the Year

Milestones Achieved :

  • Recognized for combating the Attrition rate from 75%-58% through Organization Behavior intervention
  • Recognized for Implementing LMPS successfully
  • Patented Psychometry Instrument (Change Readiness) used by reputed college
  • Created the entire VMV for a reputed bank and Cascaded it top down
  • Transformed the Organizational Culture from Dominant to Collaborative for a reputed Lubricant Company
  • Leadership consulting and coaching based on psychometry interventions in a group of Leaders (officers in Forces)