Shikha Ashwani

About Shikha Ashwani

People don\'t transform organisations. The right conditions do — and building those conditions is what I do.Over 15 years, I have worked at the intersection of Talent Management, Change Management, Rewards, Organisation Effectiveness, and Employee Experience — helping organisations navigate complexity, build capability, and create cultures where people actually perform. My work spans consulting roles across Aon Hewitt, KPMG, SHL, and Dentsu Merkle, giving me both the rigour of structured advisory work and the depth of having owned outcomes across the full people agenda.I am PROSCI-certified in Change Management and a Certified Behavioural Assessor with SHL. My work has spanned leadership development, digital and cultural transformation, compensation benchmarking and structuring, listening strategies, and organisation effectiveness— across industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and energy to technology and professional services.What I bring isn\'t just expertise — it\'s the ability to translate people strategy into business outcomes, and to do it across complex, matrixed environments at scale.If you are building or scaling an HR function that needs to move beyond transactional and into truly strategic — let\'s talk

Experience

1. Global Head People Advisory

   Merkle

   Apr 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Leading enterprise-scale people advisory across APAC, ANZ, and Middle East — partnering with CHROs and senior HR leadership to design and embed talent, listening, and workforce effectiveness strategies for large, complex organisations.Key contributions:• Architected integrated talent management and workforce listening ecosystems impacting cumulative employees across energy, telecom, retail, and real estate sectors• Designed action planning and governance frameworks that connected leadership behaviour change to measurable retention and workforce performance outcomes• Generated ~$300K in advisory revenue and influenced $500K+ broader people advisory portfolio• Partnered with CXOs to translate people data into structured talent interventions — including capability diagnostics, succession mapping, and leadership effectiveness programmes• Built and led a 5-member advisory team across hiring, capability development, and performance coaching

Education

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Master's degree, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  2011 — 2013

• S.D Public School

  Class X and XII

  2004 — 2006

• Delhi University

  B.A (Hons.) Applied Psychology, Psychology

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Analysis
• Employee Benefits
• Performance Management
• Recruiting
• Long-Term Incentives
• Benchmarking
• Human Resources
• Talent Acquisition
• Executive Pay
• Analytics
• Consulting
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Business Analysis
• HR Consulting
• Employee Engagement
• Visio
• Incentives
• Analytical Skills
• Deferred Compensation
• Compensation & Benefit
• Compensation & Benefits
• Compensation Structures
• Team Management