ABOUT THE FIRM
Set up as a niche talent, leadership and career advisory firm, we have expanded our services to cater to most client segments viz. individuals, teams, large organizations, and start-ups alike. And so, the services range from setting up entire HR processes, with outsourced management of HR, to focusing on niche domains such as Performance management process with goal setting; competency frameworks for leadership, technical and functional competencies, strategic hiring, and conducting sentiment analysis for employee engagement
The mainstay of our services are in the Strategic Talent Management domain. viz.
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1) Talent Management function set up; outsourced management of annual talent cycle
2) Competency frameworks - for leadership/technical/functional competencies
3) Competency based assessments : with design and deployment guidance, including design of assessment / development centres with tools
4) Career Coaching - Our clients range from experienced students of higher education, mid career professionals, return-to-work professionals, nearing superannuation leaders and senior leaders from armed forces and other services in uniform
5) Managers to Mentors workshops
TYPICAL CLIENT PROFILE
Our client profile ranges from large conglomerates, boutique single business entities, startups, highly experienced executives, academicians and students of higher education, people from the development sector, etc.. Our clients also comprise officers from armed forces, aviation, other post retirement professionals, and return to work men and women professionals Thus the vision of Stratus Talent is to grow as a one-stop service provider which adds value where it matters the most for our clients. We do this via constantly expanding our community of partner consultants, who bring the requisite domain expertise and industry background. As a firm we constantly bring in contemporary practices into the design and delivery of our engagements.
What remains constant is our insight gathering process while scoping client needs, rigour in deployment and the overall experience of deep engagement
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Nalina Suresh
Founder & Managing Partner, Stratus Talent Partners
The founder of Stratus Talent (Nalina) is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur and an HRLP from GE Crotonville. She brings the vast and diverse experience of over 25 years across various formats of organizations, cultures, and contexts. Some of the corporations that she has worked with include Godrej, GE, Domino’s Pizza, Mahindra, PwC, and has also worked with boutique firms such as Grow Talent. Her vast and diverse consulting career spans the domains of Organization Change and Transformation, Career Transition and Coaching, Technical and Leadership Competency design and development, Executive hiring for C level and board positions; Succession Planning design and deployment, etc. She has also been on the advisory boards of non-profits.
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In addition to her own advisory practice, Ms. Suresh is also an empanelled partner with KornFerry and EY to offer strategic talent services to their clients.. After having lived and worked across the country, Nalina and her family are now based in Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Nalina is an ICF credentialed coach and is also trained on the Right Management methodology of Career Transition. Other niche processes and methodologies and tools that she practices uses for client delivery are Whole System Change based on the Beckhard-Harris Change Model; Future Search methodology, LSIP ( Large Scale Interactive Process) based on the methodology of Dannemiller Tyson Associates’ “DVF Model of Change”. She uses a diverse range of psychometric and potential assessment tools in her interventions for potential assessment.
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Till date, the founder of Stratus Talent has assessed/ coached / mentored over a 1000 people for various contexts; be it for leadership appointments, internal performance review and development, exit interviews, mentoring students of higher education, return-to-work professionals, experienced job-seekers etc.
