Shirin Kabara

About Shirin Kabara

Passionate about bridging human and business potential, I bring 23+ years in Leadership Development, L&D, Culture, Change Management, and OD. At Infosys, I help build human skills through strategic co-creation, enabling talent to adopt change in global markets.Certified in Prosci® Change Management, Enterprise Change Management (ECM), Culture COA (Berlitz®), NeuroLeadership(CFN), The Power of Habit, and COPC® High-Performance Management.Fluency in Talent Management practices:• Leadership Development & Executive Coaching• Culture & Change Management • Organization Development & Succession Management• L&D Strategy & Sales Enablement• Talent Assessments & Value-Creation Workshops• Systems Thinking• AI Roles & AI Talent Management ecosystem As a facilitator, I’ve trained professionals globally and co-created award-winning interventions in skill-based assessments, authentic leadership, succession readiness, culture integration, AI & digital transformation, and future leader development.Additional certifications include: DDI, Situational Leadership II, BELBIN, TKI®, DiSC, EI, NLP, Design Thinking, British Council Communications Coach and Mercer IPE.

Experience

1. Head Learning & Development and Culture

   Infosys BPM

   Oct 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

   Leadership Development & Learning Strategy: Design and deploy global leadership learning strategy for Infosys BPMTalent Management & Succession: Lead Talent Assessment CoE, succession management, executive coaching, and talent reviews; build leadership readiness, future leader pipelines, and succession planning.Change & Culture Transformation: Lead large-scale change management, culture integration for rebadge/M&A, and organization-wide interventions.Capability Building: Reskill leaders on AI, techno-domain and digital transformation; enhance operations and leadership capabilities across global centers.AI Learning Academy: Build AI role based skills and an AI-First Mindset across personas; drive adoption of AI in business to unlock productivity and innovation.Business Enablement: Drive sales enablement initiatives; facilitate leadership and value-creation workshops to strengthen business impact.Collaboration & Consulting: Partner with clients, stakeholders, universities, and global learning partners; provide consulting on HRD, talent, and leadership development.Learning Operations & Governance: Oversee workforce management, forecasting, training budgets, content design, and branding (internal & external).Explore our globally benchmarked practices in HRD, Talent, and Leadership Development under the Honors & Awards tab.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Business Entrepreneurship Environment & Organizational Behavior

  2000 — 2003

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Strategic Leadership Development Program

• SHRM

  Certification in Organizational Development and Learning & Development

  2017 — 2018

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Management
• Soft Skills
• Screening
• Business Process Improvement
• Human Resources
• Instructional Design
• Coaching
• Team Management
• Vendor Management
• Outsourcing
• Employee Relations
• Strategy
• Performance Appraisal
• Mis
• Employee Engagement
• Talent Management
• Leadership
• E-Learning
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Bpo
• Training Delivery
• HR Consulting
• Training Needs Analysis
• Change Management
• Training
• Project Management
• Talent Acquisition
• Recruiting
• Business Process Outsourcing (Bpo)
• Performance Management
• Crm
• Employee Training