Gayathri Sivaraman

Gayathri Sivaraman, Sr. Consultant
BSc, MBA (HR) - XLRI Jamshedpur

Gayathri Sivaraman is Senior Consultant at Vernalis.

Gayathri has a BSc Physics (Honors) degree from Delhi University and she earned her MBA in Human Resources from XLRI Jamshedpur.

She has been working as Coordinator and Resource Person in the Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Area of the Post Graduate Executive Management Program of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai for the last five years. She has also taught in the Bhavan’s Center for Inter-disciplinary Studies (BCIDS). She has conducted and assisted in several Management Development Programs and has been a facilitator for Personal Growth Labs. She has also written two teaching cases published with international journals.

Gayathri has worked on several assignments as an independent consultant on areas such as human resource plans, assessment centers and competency mapping and climate surveys. Some work done in the past are for Halcrow India for the Marmagao Port Trust, Bank Muscat with Vernalis, Godrej Sara Lee and Ernst & Young.

Her professional consulting experience includes stints with Price Waterhouse and Watson Wyatt where she has been involved in compensation surveys, developing and implementing HR processes, employee opinion surveys and conducting training programs .Her association with Vernalis started with the Development Center for BankMuscat. The processes and professionalism she observed during the course of this assignment left a deep impression on her and this led her to join Vernalis in a quest to apply her academic understanding to client situations.

She is also interested and knowledgeable about Indian classical music, is a singer, has dabbled in theatre and reads widely.