Sivakumar B
Senior HR Leader, Sundaram Finance
Seasoned HR leader with 22+ years of experience across financial services, hospitality, healthcare, and IT-enabled services. I’ve successfully led HR transformation across diverse industries, built high-performance cultures, and aligned people strategy with business objectives.
My leadership journey spans renowned organizations such as FEDBANK Financial Services, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fund Services, TCS eServe, and the Taj Group of Hotels. My core expertise lies in strategic HR leadership, talent management, performance systems, compensation structuring, and policy design.
As an entrepreneur, I founded Lynkstr, a recruitment and talent solutions company that blends AI and human expertise to solve modern hiring challenges. We focus on quality submissions, niche talent sourcing, and leveraging intelligent screening tools to redefine hiring experiences for companies and candidates alike.
To further deepen my capabilities in strategic HR, I recently completed the CHRO program from IIM Lucknow, reinforcing my ability to drive people-centric growth in a rapidly changing business landscape.
Whether driving transformation, building systems from scratch, or enabling teams to thrive—I lead with process thinking, empathy, and purpose.
11:30am - 12:15pm
Friday 13th March
Panel Discussion 1
Designing Compassionate Performance Systems in High-Pressure Organizations (Application layer focus)
- How the performance system can decouple ‘failure of outcome’ from ‘failure of personhood’
- Assign ‘Weightage’ to peer coaching, culture-building, and knowledge sharing so they are seen as work rather than distractions from work
- The Manager-as-Enablement-Lead vs. Manager-as-Judge