Dr. Himank Priyadarshi
Ph.D., Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai · Post-Doctoral, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Boston — Industrial & Organizational Psychology
CEO of Performance Dimensions Global (PDG), Chicago — a Human Resource and Organization Development global consultant serving Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, Retail, Financial, and Healthcare industries worldwide.
Three decades of people-science depth
HR & Organizational Effectiveness Consulting Areas
Organizational Diagnostics, Analysis, Report Creation, Key Recommendations, and Action Plans
Organization Design & Organizational Structure: Organizational Strategy, Operating Model
Skills-Based Organization (SBO), Skills Architecture and Governance Framework
HR Transformation Projects
Job and Tasks Analysis, Role Profiles, Creation of Success Profiles
Techno-Functional, Leadership and Digital Competency Models
Talent Review Process, Performance & Potential Evaluation, Talent Calibration, 9-Box Grid Creation
Design and Implementation of Assessment/Development Center (ADC), Simulation-based and 360 Assessment, CPI
Performance Management: Goal Setting, KRAs/KPAs, Performance Execution, Quarterly Review & Feedback
Succession Planning: Critical & Feeder Positions, Succession Readiness, Bench Strength
Workforce for Future & Organization Effectiveness Interventions
Employee Engagement Surveys, Organizational Culture Assessment, Employee Life-cycle Surveys
People Analytics Projects
Bringing Generative & Agentic AI into HR practice
AI Across the Employee Lifecycle
Workforce planning & strategy, attraction & recruitment, onboarding, retention & development, performance & rewards, Prompt Design fundamentals, the BRIEF Framework, ChatGPT for Excel, and AI strategy, roadmap & governance.
Generative & Agentic AI Training
Training leaders on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Notebook, and Julius AI — the PRAR Loop (Perceive–Reason–Act–Reflect), task decomposition, agentic workflow design, skills mapping, scenario modeling, and co-strategizing with AI.
Impact at global scale
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Designed and implemented Integrated Talent Management, Organizational Design, and OD processes in global companies ranging from $500M to $105B in size and 8,000 to 375,000 employees.
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Created Competency Models (techno-functional and behavioral/leadership) for 500+ roles — including BARS, predictive models for superior performance, competency-based HR processes, success profiles, and digital capability models.
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Led Leadership Assessment & Development and Learning & Development for top leadership teams at large global corporations.
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Mentored and guided leadership teams and HR Business Partners to implement Competency-Based HR Process for business growth, sustainability, and productivity.
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Established the People Analytics function in a $100B+ company.
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Global experience working with culturally diverse teams across North America, South America, India, Europe, and Australia.
Selected research, publications & assessment tools
Synthesizing Data Analytics and Design Thinking to Improve Employee Engagement
Gartner, Talent Analytics Quarterly (Washington DC)
August 2019Competency Based Human Resource Management System
National HRD Network & Centre of HRD, XLRI Newsletter
September 1999'Star Is Born: Recognize Him'
The Economic Times, India
September 1998Future-Ready Work Characteristics Model (FRWCM): An integrated, diagnostic and operating framework for designing and evaluating work systems in the AI-augmented enterprise
Work Mutation Theory (WMT): A New Paradigm for Understanding AI-Driven Discontinuities in Workforce Strategy and Work Design
Organizational Psychology through the lens of Quantum Mechanics in the era of AI
Also credited with the design and construction of Managerial/Leadership Competencies Assessment Tools (CAT) — the Managerial Competency Assessment Inventory (MCAI), Decision Style Inventory, and Networking Style Inventory — and an approach paper on the Individual and Organizational Assessment Centre (IOAC) at the Academy of HRD, Hyderabad. Paper on ‘Psychological Attributes of Entrepreneurship’ accepted for the Seventh Annual ENDEC World Conference on Globalization and Entrepreneurship, Singapore, 2000.
Guest Lectures & Executive Development
Guest lectures and Executive Development Programs on Human Resource Management topics at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, Nirma Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), North Carolina, USA.
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