Moving forward with engaging and engrossing digital business editions, CIOLook Magazine is pleased to feature Bala V Sathyanarayanan, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Greif.
Mr Bala is an exemplary leader for people-based leadership best practice of integrating people’s plans for excellence with human capital plans and industrial sustainability packaging target goals. His leadership exemplifies a best practice of people-based leadership through putting in place a workplace inclusive culture and empowering workers to do it as a means of innovating. Bala engages employees to carry out concerted action and unity of purpose through his skills in resolving complicated workforce problems. His is an adaptive style of leadership for talent and participation development, wherein the employees are aligned to the business needs and are able to react to them.
He prepares the company’s talent to be nimble and future-ready through a series of targeted interventions. Bala gives very strong priority to accelerating digitalization and fluency in data. That includes using HR tech platforms and analytics to enhance decision-making and work productivity. Innovation in AI and automation is used to provide cost benefits, enhanced user experience, and enhance data integrity.
He best employs platforms and tools like Workday, hire platforms, and Greif University in order to enable HR efficiency through automation and integration of systems. Bala allows for flexible workforce planning to empower and monitor hybrid work habits, exposing flexibility and organizational collaboration and culture balancing. HR practitioners leveraging Bala are well qualified to oversee culture transformation and deployment. They are innovation and change leaders to guide the company into transformation as a result of business change, geopolitics tensions, and technology revolutions. Bala empowers HR with global awareness and alignment of diversity and inclusion strategy. That is, creating global skill setup and empowering leaders to build capabilities to create inclusive and diverse workplace environments. Bala tasks them with re-launching the best employee experience. These encompass enhancing staff satisfaction and motivation in several ways and utilizing technology to enable digitalizing the efficiency and effectiveness of HR services.
By an equally balanced combination of these styles, Bala makes it possible to create an efficient, responsive, and inclusive HR culture to fuel Greif’s strategic needs and long-term prosperity.
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