Gaurav Lahiri

GAURAV LAHIRI is Director, Strategic Clients, at Hay Group, London. A mathematics graduate from the Delhi University, he specialized in Human Resources and Business Strategy at the Xaviers Labour Relations Institute in Jamshedpur.

He joied Hay Group in 2000 and works with clients to align their organizations with their strategic agenda—including decoding strategies, designing organization structures, implementing talent management programmes and formulating reward strategies to drive performance and motivation. Gaurav’s specialization is in Organization Effectiveness. He has helped his clients reorganize based on their strategies, re-engineered their processes to help save costs and worked with the executive teams to align their aspirations. He has also helped his clients research and develop competency models for outstanding performance. He managed a seminal global research project on identifying the competencies of an Indian CEO. Gaurav is also an experienced job evaluator and has conducted work measurement studies in several countries in Asia Pacific across various sectors.

Gaurav has authored several papers on Post Merger Integration, Change Management and has won several prizes and awards, including the McKinsey Best Management Paper of the year in 1999.