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So let's tell you why the theme The Resourceful HR. Smaller budgets, frozen headcount, and a workforce quietly rewriting the rules (hello, job hugging and quiet cracking) mean HR is doing more with less, every single day.
Add AI moving faster than any policy can keep up with, and there's no manual for any of this.
So we built the next best thing: a full day with the leaders who make it work anyway. That's The Resourceful HR, and it's what Playbook 8.0 is all about.
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📋 The agenda for August 12
🙎♂️11:30 AM - Workshop | Employer Branding: You Can't Brand Your Way to a 4.1
Because a rating isn't a strategy. This session unpacks what employer branding actually means once you strip away the awards and the review-site scores.
Led by Kartik Mandaville, who also joins the Udai Pareek session as moderator. He's the founder of Springworks and creator of The Shape of Work community.
🫂12:00 PM - Panel Discussion | Gone Underground: What Job Hugging, Task Masking, and Quiet Cracking Are Telling Leaders
The behaviors nobody named until now. This panel moves past the buzzwords to what these signals actually mean for trust, workload, and leadership.
With Surabhi Sanchita, CHRO at Stanza Living, named as one of this year's Top 50 HR Leaders to Follow, and Sirshendu Mookherjee, Group CHRO at Narayana Health, with prior senior roles across Tata, Nokia, and Danaher.
📚1:00 PM - Udai Pareek Session | Role Efficacy in the Founder's Shadow
Making a role genuinely yours when someone else always has the final word. Grounded in Dr. Udai Pareek's decades-old Role Efficacy framework, applied to real founder and promoter dynamics.
With Dr. GP Rao, Founder of GPR HR Consulting LLP, bringing four decades across SAIL, JK Group, Birlas, and Reliance, and Dr. Keith C. D'Souza, IIM Ahmedabad Fellow and XLRI alumnus with senior HR roles at Pfizer, Wockhardt, and DHL. Moderated by Kartik Mandaville.
🤼♀️2:30 PM - Live Debate | Should Employees Have the Right to Say 'No' to AI at Work?
No neat consensus, just a real argument over where AI adoption ends and consent should begin.
With Neetu Singh, CHRO & India Site Leader at Naviga, backed by two decades scaling HR at global tech and media companies, and Rohit Hasteer, CHRO at REA India (Housing.com), with over two decades building scalable HR ecosystems, including formative stints at MakeMyTrip and UTi Worldwide.
📌3:00 PM - Panel Discussion | The Case For (and Against) Splitting HR Into Specialist Verticals
Two philosophies, no easy winner. Specialist depth versus generalist speed, discussed by people who've built both models.
With Rahul Maitra, Head HR (India & Developing Markets) at Amneal Pharmaceuticals and a board-level Independent Director, who's rebuilt people functions at Tata Motors, Merck, and Ambuja Cement, and Latha Iyer, CHRO at Zaggle, who led the company through its IPO while tripling headcount.
✨4:00 PM - Masterclass | From Creating Systems to Designing a Context, Unlocking Discretionary Performance
Moving from systems that control behavior to contexts that unlock it.
Led by Dr. S. Naga Siddharth, GHRLE, shaped by work across NHRD and even a stretch with the Bengaluru Traffic Police.
📈4:30 PM - Keynote | Every Candidate Has AI. Now What?
What hiring looks like when every resume is ChatGPT-polished, and how to screen for it.
Led by Rohit Venugopal, Co-founder of Goodfit, who's built HR tech products used by over 10,000 businesses, including Opfin (acquired by Razorpay).
🤯5:00 PM - Masterclass | Claude Cowork for HR
The day's longest session, and probably the most useful one Monday morning.
Led by Abhash Kumar, drawing on his marketing leadership at Springworks and experience simplifying processes for HR professionals.
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🎁 Perks don't stop at the sessions
🏆 Leaderboard: engage through the day (polls, Q&A, chat) and climb the leaderboard. Top scorers walk away with TSOW swag store credits.
🎉 Lucky draws: multiple through the day, each with free takeaways up for grabs, Goodfit credits included.
🎓 Certificate of participation for every attendee.
📚 Free takeaway resources and toolkits.
📊 First look at the HR in India 2026 report, before it's public anywhere else.
Certificates, leaderboard credits, lucky draws, free resources, and a report built from your peers' answers. HR Playbook 8.0, August 12.
📅 The Details
Wednesday, August 12 | 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM IST | Virtual on Airmeet
See you there,
The Shape of Work Team 🧠
