Runa Maitra is Founder & Director of People Talent International, a consortium of business consultants from various domains. She has two decades plus HR and OD experience in Fintech, IT/ITES, Professional Services, manufacturing and retail sectors in India, the US and the UK.

Maitra is a Fellow and holds a PhD from Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad. She is trained in Gemba Kaizen, Prince2, NLP, Thomas profiling and various corporate training modules.

She is part of the core committee of NHRDN and Delhi NCR Chapter and leads the Social Media and Communication initiative for the HR community.

Runa Maitra is the recipient of several awards and honours including, the ‘101 Women Social Media Influencer in the year 2015 and 2016’, the ‘ Top 100 Innovation HR Leaders’ by World HRD Congress in 2017 and 2018, the ‘Top 30 HR influencer in 2018’ by SHRM India and ‘Top 50 HR Influencers in 2019’ by SHRM APAC and MENA.