Senior HR leader with 20+ years of total professional experience, including 15+ years in HR leadership, spanning banking, financial services, and institutional development across Pakistan and internationally. Proven track record leading full-scale HR and organizational transformation — talent management, learning & development, DEI, HR systems automation, and change management — for large, complex organizations.

Recipient of the Asian Development Bank Gender Champion Award (2023), recognized for building an award-winning DEI function from the ground up, including policy design, strategy, and implementation that exceeded State Bank of Pakistan Banking on Equality targets. Delivered a consulting engagement with IFC (World Bank Group) on HR and learning & development initiatives, bringing direct exposure to development-sector advisory work.

Career-long specialist in institutional capacity building: recruited by the Chief Executive of the Institute of Bankers Pakistan (now NIBAF Pakistan) to lead a change management initiative spanning 18 locations nationwide; built the Instructional Design and Learning Technology functions from scratch at HBL (Habib Bank Limited); led Learning, OD, DEI & HR Projects at HABIBMETRO Bank for 6,000+ staff across 200+ cities, including LMS implementation and establishment of two regional learning centers; and most recently served as Head of HR - HBZS at Habib Bank AG Zurich, managing HR business partnering, workforce planning, and stakeholder engagement across UAE, Pakistan, Kenya, South Africa, UK, Switzerland, and Canada.

Currently transitioning senior HR leadership expertise into fractional and advisory consulting, with a specific focus on the convergence of People, AI, and Technology — bringing a rare combination of a BS (Computer Science) background (University of Karachi), an MBA in Finance (IBA Karachi), and two decades of hands-on institutional HR transformation. Areas of expertise include HR business partnering, workforce and HC budgeting, HRIS automation, DEI strategy, learning system design, and organizational change management, applied through both traditional consulting and emerging AI-enabled HR advisory models.

Certifications:
Certified Professional in Talent Development (ATD), HCM & Data Analytics, DEI Certified Professional.