About

Marlene Sequeira is a highly versatile and innovative HR leader with over 18 years of experience in recruitment, leadership hiring, organizational development, talent management, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has worked closely with senior leadership teams to provide strategic direction around organization formation, talent building, and scaling of business units. Marlene is accustomed to working with different cultures and managing global teams across geographies like Asia, Europe, and the US. She is credible, persuasive, and influential at all levels. Marlene has built strategies to support employee engagement and has led organization-wide initiatives to attract and retain talent by shaping strategies to hire the right talent and driving performance management. She has successfully implemented strategies to create and maintain a high potential employee pipeline through assessment and development centers. Marlene's expertise lies in building and scaling people systems like Peoplesoft and Success Factors. Currently, Marlene is the founder of talent weavers hr consulting, where she leverages her 16 years of HR experience of building highly successful companies like TESCO and Flipkart. Her everyday work is to motivate her young team and push them to use their skills to bridge the gap between supply and demand for great talent. Marlene consults with established tech companies and upcoming start-ups, helping them imbibe into their DNA HR practices that will last changing times. She is also venturing into bringing international companies into Bangalore and collaborating in helping them build their setup, enabling their HR operations, and transforming them (BOT - Build Operate Transform). Marlene's past companies include Arvind Internet, where she was the Head of Human Resources, and Flipkart, where she was the Senior Manager HR Business Partnering - Tech. At Flipkart, Marlene led the Seller and Accounting platform, Discovery and Search, Catalog Management systems, and managed the entire unit of Mobile, Website, Discovery and Search, Transact and Checkout. She was responsible for leadership coaching and development, analyzing various data trends to create programs aimed at increasing employee retention and development, coaching managers on employee performance management issues, conducting employee investigations for complaints, assisting managers in recruitment, analyzing compensation data, conducting training sessions for all levels of managers on HR-related skills, mentoring, training, and coaching HR reps on various responsibilities, and conceptualization and delivery of specialized projects around rewards, recognition, talent development, and other interventions. Marlene holds a BE in Computer Science from RV College of Engineering and an MBA in Human Resource/Marketing from ICFAI Business School. Her tech