Head of Human Resources Indian SubContinent, Philips
Vishpala leads Human Resources for Phillips across the Indian subcontinent. Prior to Philips, Vishpala was leading Human Resouces for Uber across the Asia Pacific mega-region (includes N.Asia, Japan, Philippines, Australia-New Zealand, and India S.Asia).
Vishpala has also led Human Resources for American Express in India across P&L, Servicing and Capability LOB’s comprising a diverse workforce of 12000+ employees, the second-largest market by headcount for Amex globally. As a member of the American Express India Leadership Team (ILT), she ensured that Human Capital was a key driver in enabling business success.
She was with Amex for 12 years and has partnered with business leaders to drive the India Business transformation which was featured as a best practice by the Asia HR Executive Board. She along with her team enabled American Express to be a great place to work (Featured as India’s 2nd Best companies to work in 2016 & 2017 by GPTW & Economic Times).
Her experience includes driving change, managing a digital workforce, leadership enablement, employee brand communication, organization effectiveness, and leading innovative programs on preventive healthcare, first of its kind D&I initiative in collaboration with four large multinationals (Reach Out).
Vishpala plays an active role as a Board member of National HR Development Network 2016-2019 and has led their Young Minds Advisory Board. She is an avid proponent to the cause of developing women and has been honored with “HR Influencer 2019” by Jombay, “Women Super Achiever Award” at World HRD Congress in 2016 and has been recognized as “LinkedIn Power Profile in HR” for 2018.
Vishpala has experience across HR COE roles as well as HR consulting experience with Hewitt Associates.