Gautam is Product Evangelist and India Marketing Lead at BraveNewTalent. He specializes in the areas of HR, Organization Development and how businesses can leverage Social Media for Organizational Learning and Employee Engagement.
Earlier he was a Consultant with Social Business firm 2020 Social where he led the Talent practice, advising companies can build talent pipelines and internal employee engagement and development using emergent tools.
Gautam has worked as a HR Generalist and a Learning and Development Executive in firms like Deloitte, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Satyam Computer Services. He’s done his MBA from XLRI in 1999.
Gautam loves teaching and mentoring young HR professionals and has been a visiting faculty at an Indian B School also.He also manages a HR community of 1400 professionals at www.humanresourcespeople.com
One of India’s earliest bloggers (since 2002) – he’s blogged about HR, Work, Career issues regularly. Gautam has given talks on Social Media at Conferences andOrganizations. He’s frequently quoted in the Indian press as an authority on business blogging and HR / career issues. He was named as one of the top 25 HR Digital Influencers of 2010, No. 2 in the list of top 25 Influencers in Talent Managementby HRExaminer.com, Top 25 influencers in Enterprise Social Mediaand has been featured as one of the 100 Influencers in HR.
Some achievements :
• Published an article on “Leadership Development” in the February 2006 issue of “Effective Executive” published by the ICFAI University Press.
• Published an article on “Talent Acquisition using the internet” in the February 2006 issue of “Consultants News” in the US.
• His blog http://www.gautamblogs.comhas won the following recognitions:
o Ranked amongst the top 75 Business Blogs of 2009 by Businesspundit.com
o In the top 50 HR Blogs to watch in 2009 by EvanCarmichael.com
o Top 100 most useful blogs for Women Business People
o In the top 25 in the list of Career 100 blogs compiled by RiseSmart,
o One the top 25 HR Blogs compiled by HRWorld in 2007
o Listed on the top HR, Career as well as Indian sites on Alltop.com
o Ranked amongst the top 3 Indian Blogs in the publicly voted Indiblogges contest in 2004
• Article in the HRD Newsletter on Virtual Communities, 2000.
• A Case Study analysis in the HR magazine “Human Capital”, January 2006.
• Published HR related articles online at HR.com and Cybermediadice.com
• The blog has also been featured in the book Business Blogs: A Practical Guide written by ex-Accenture, USA KM Practice Leader, William Ives and Amanda Watlington
• Won the 3rdprize in the Young HR Managers Conference for a paper written on 'The HR and IT partnership at Satyam' as part of the National HRD Network's Conference in New Delhi, 1999.
• Case Study Analysis for BusinessWorld magazine on marketing through blogging, March 2007.
