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Sampurna Maitra
Sr Principal, Advisory
Sampurna is an organizational psychologist with 10+ years of experience in HR. At Gartner, she advises senior HR leaders on leadership and inclusion. Her unique perspective is informed by having worked in both talent management practitioner and consulting roles in the UK and India. She has worked as a thought and implementation partner to HR and business leaders across staffing, professional services, FMCG, tech, energy, legal, publishing, asset management and aerospace industries.
Sampurna has experience of using an evidence-based and inclusive lens to build and deliver talent and performance interventions, HR transformations, assessments and learning and development programs across all levels of the organization. Furthermore, she is a BPS qualified Occupational Test User with extensive experience using psychometrics for leadership development and assessment.
She is passionate about helping leaders navigate the practical journey towards a more just, inclusive and equitable future of work for their people.
Previous experience
After completing my Masters in Organizational Psychology in the UK, I set up the expanding HR function and provided generalist HR support during a 400% growth in employee numbers during my 2 years at IIIM Ltd. in Kolkata, India. I then returned to the UK and spent almost 5 years leading the global performance and talent CoE at AMS during which time it grew from 3000 to 10000 employees. I then worked with the boutique leadership development and assessment consultancy Kiddy & Partners for a year before joining Gartner.
Professional background
AMS, Manager - Talent Development , 5 years
IIIM Ltd., Assistant Manager - HR , 2 years
Kiddy & Partners, Senior Consultant, 1 years
Areas of coverage
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Leader and Manager Effectiveness
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Inclusion
Education
1. M.S. Organizational Psychology, University of Leeds
2. B.A. Psychology, University of Mumbai
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
HIPO and successor identification, leadership development best practice, building and measuring leadership bench strength
Talent assessment and leadership assessment strategy, assessment governance frameworks
Developing an inclusion strategy, measuring its impact, managing risks and enabling leadership accountability
Embedding diversity, equity and inclusion across the talent management cycle (including recruitment, succession management, training, development, communications)
DEI operating model, employee resource groups and DEI Executive Councils