With great insight into how organizations can cultivate essential leadership behaviors and better retain their key talent, Sumit Sethi partners with CEOs, CHROs and CTOs to address their most pressing leadership dilemmas. Sumit has assessed more than 1,500 emerging and executive leaders over the last two decades, supporting them in building intentional development plans and coaching emerging leaders to prepare for executive leadership roles. He has worked extensively in the industrial and financial sector in the broader talent advisory area of organization effectiveness, HR capability and career pathing.
As a member of our Leadership Advisory Services, Sumit’s areas of expertise include executive assessments and coaching, success planning, designing leadership development journeys, facilitating leadership programs for executive teams and emerging leaders, and top team effectiveness.
Assessment and coaching of emerging and contender leaders
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Sumit joined the firm via Kincentric, a Spencer Stuart company. He has partnered for over a decade with one of India’s leading engineering and construction companies to develop over 300 emerging senior leaders across diversified businesses.
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He has led the succession planning agenda for several Indian clients in the financial services industry spanning insurance, AMCs, public and private sector banks and NBFCs, identifying critical roles and success profiles in order to earmark top-tier talent and create personalized development roadmaps.
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Sumit has long consulted clients in broader advisory work, with a particular focus on institutionalization of scalable assessment and development solutions and assessment analytics across the APAC market.
As a speaker, Sumit has hosted several discussions on talent and leadership challenges and opportunities across India and Sri Lanka. He has a Bachelors in Mathematics from Hindu College, Delhi University and a Masters in Human Resources from SIBM-Pune, India. He is a certified practitioner of various psychometric instruments including Hogan, ADEPT-15 and SOVA, and an executive coach with an ICF certification from the Brain-Based Coaching program.