Sharon Nijhawan

Sharon heads the People Practice at Viscadia India, where he leads the firm’s people strategy across talent acquisition, performance management, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. He partners closely with the leadership team to build a high-performance, people-first organization anchored in clarity, capability, and culture, and with a strong focus on designing scalable HR systems that align talent with business outcomes. With over two decades of experience in human resources, Sharon has built and scaled people practices across diverse organizational contexts, aligning talent strategy closely with business outcomes. At Viscadia, he is driving a transformation of the employee experience—streamlining performance frameworks, strengthening leadership capability, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous growth.

“The true impact of HR lies in creating environments where individuals and teams can consistently do their best work. For me, this means building systems, culture, and leadership capability that not only drive performance today, but also prepare the organization for what’s next.”

Background

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked across diverse industries and organizational contexts, leading initiatives in talent acquisition, talent management, leadership development, and culture transformation. I’ve played an instrumental role in building competency frameworks, streamlining performance processes, and driving organization-wide change initiatives, particularly in environments requiring scale, agility, and integration, and I received multiple related accolades at EXL, where I spent a major part of my professional life. Having worked closely with senior leadership and CXO-level executives over the last decade and a half, I’ve developed the capability to view the organization through both a macro and a micro lens, enabling me to devise people strategies that directly impact business outcomes.