by Sachin Murdeshwar

Mumbai : Jombay’sannual “Leading from Behind” summit on January 30,2019 at The Lalit, Mumbai set the tone for the HR fraternity and leadership in top Indian companies of the year. The Summit was glorified with the presence of eclectic and quintessential thought leaders, innovators, corporate leaders, and HR leaders.

The event witnessed fireside panel discussions with speakers and leading figures such as Ms. Tara Kaushal, Mr. Abhilash Tomy, Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal, Mr. Rizwan Tayabali, Mr. Anuj Gosalia, Mr. Harssh Poddar, Mr. Mukund Rajan, Dr. Binish Desai, Dr. Sanjay Podder, Ms. Ashwini Deshpande, Mr. Uday Deshpande, Ms. Mini Menon, Ms. Kalyani Khona, Ms. Nirali Kartik, Major D.P. Singh, and Dr. Jagannath Dixit.

Each speaker shared their own unique experiences and journeys with the gathering and a rapid fireside discussion on leadership themes namely Leadership Has Gender, Because Every Brand Has a Story, Being Human in a Digital World, The Art of Being Independently Together, Difficult Roads Lead to Beautiful Destinations, From Ashes of Conflict Emerge Ideas, and Excuses Don’t Get Results took place during the conclave with Leadership is a Journey and Leading from Behind as the master themes.

In association with BSI (British Standards Institue) as the audit partners, Best 50 Companies were Awarded with the PCI (People Capital Index Awards). To make sure that BSI was able to gather unbiased data, they drove the anonymous PCI survey on social media (Facebook, Linked In, Twitter & on Job Portals). Post that, companies that had more than 30 mid-managers vouching for them were shortlisted.

Following this, BSI conducted an audit – that led to the Top 50 PCI Winners!

PCI (People Capital Index) Winners
Aditya Birla capital	Bajaj Finance Limited	GE South Asia
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.	Hero Motocorp Ltd	IndiGo
CEAT Limited	Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd	ITC Limited
Future Group	K Raheja Corp	Sapient Consulting
Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceutical Ltd.	WNS (Holdings) Limited	HCL Technologies Limited
Capgemini	HDFC Bank Limited	Reliance Industries
Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd.	Titan Company Limited	Godrej Consumer products
HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited	LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited)	American Express
Novartis India Limited	Mahindra And Mahindra Limited	Indian Oil
Sanofi India Limited	RBS Services India Pvt. Ltd.	Marico
The RBL Bank Limited	Vodafone Idea Limited	Pepsico
Edelweiss Broking Limited	Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd.	Genpact
Future Generali India Insurance Company (Life & General Insurance)	Bharti Airtel Limited	Infosys
MakeMyTrip Limited	Bank Of Baroda	Mercedez R&D
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd	CGI	Philips Lighting
KPMG	Wipro Limited	The Indian Hotels Company Limited
Nestle Ltd	Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd.

 

The enthusiasm of the crowd was at peak during the HR 40under40 Awards where top 40 HR’s in India were felicitated

HR 40 Under 40 Winners
Nikita Vasant Raut	Divya Amarnath	Mythili Sarathy	Anil Kumar Santhapuri
Charusmitha Rao	Prashant V Naidu	Yamini Koganti	Boreddy Sanghamitra
Anurag Anand	Preethi Anand	Saurabh Nigam	Jonathan Dsouza
Ratheesh Krishnan N D	Sanoj Kumar	Neha Gupta	Rishu Raheja
Shruti Jaiswal	Niyati Goel	Nivedita Deshpande	Sourya Sidhhartha Dash
Rakesh Prasad	Aanchal Bhugra Kothari	Nidhi Kalra	Sachin Agrawal
Gunjan Malviya	Atma Godara	Yash Wagh	Lochan Narayanan
Timcy Thomas	Perineeta Malhotra	Saniya Malim	Omar Bali
Abhishek Khandelwal	Rajlakshmi Saikia	Sharmilaa Rajesh Kannan	Diljot Kaur
Prianka Sharma	Neha Saxena Shenoy	Rashmi Sharma	Anuj Mishra

 

CEO & Co – founder of Jombay, Mr. Mohit Gundecha expressing his gratitude said, “We at Jombay are delighted and humbled to have put together the Leading From Behind summit for the entire HR and corporate fraternity of Indian enterprise. We are thankful to everyone who has joined us at the summit and for the constant support received to identify future leaders.”

He added, “After a successful summit this year, we will be back with a new set of eclectic speakers and promise to deliver one of the most insightful and interactive leadership Summit next year. “

 

Chief Mentor, Jombay & Co- Curator of the Leading From Behind Summit, Ms. Roma Balwani said, “What is heartening to note is that Jombay has created an aspirational industry benchmark by instituting both the PCI list and HR 40under40 awards.

 

The applicants moved to 1600 from 600 last years. We will continue to engage with the 100 leaders, with the Think Tank that will enrich the journey to 2020”, she added.

 

The Leading From Behind summit was a starry affair and the event ended on a cheerful note with happy faces congratulating each other. The diverse panel discussion had key take away for everyone present at the summit.