Smriti Ahuja is Chief People Officer at Times Internet.

Smriti has over three decades of experience encompassing performance management, leadership development, coaching & talent acquisition. Her previous roles include Global head of Organization Effectiveness at Cognizant, Global Head of Leadership development at Genpact and the founding CPO for EXL Services. She is an award-winning learning designer and an Executive Coach for the CXO suite. She has been a champion for Diversity & Inclusion throughout her career and has designed and facilitated first of its kind Diversity workshops with leading universities of India. She led diversity for the 200K employees of Cognizant India, steering them to Industry recognition and awards

A true people’s person, Smriti is regularly invited to talk at national forums on a wide range of topics including HR Transformation, Effective Leadership, Diversity, Motivation & Purpose of ‘Being’.