The iRelaunch Virtual Career Fairs: Relaunch your Career in India

Nivedita Joshi Naithani is an accomplished global HR leader with over 25 years of experience in strategizing and implementing global human capital initiatives that impact business results, drive client-centricity, and enhance employee engagement. Recognized by C-suite executives as a courageous advocate and trusted advisor, Nivedita is a preferred partner on talent strategies owing to her unique ability to provide thought leadership to complex talent challenges while ensuring execution excellence.

Nivedita brings a breadth of experience across HR and Diversity & Inclusion programs. In her prior role as Global Lead at Cognizant, a Fortune 200 organization with 300,000 employees, she successfully led global cross-functional teams to design and deploy talent strategies across talent management, performance management, talent acquisition, learning and development, succession planning, strategic workforce planning, and talent transformation. Nivedita conceptualized, designed and launched Cognizant’s flagship Return to Work Program globally. Her deep insights and experience are valuable to firms seeking to establish or further enhance Corporate Returnship Programs globally.

As iRelaunch’s India-based Managing Director, Nivedita advances the global footprint of our pioneering work and thought leadership, working with progressive corporations on advisory services to leverage diverse talent pools.

Nivedita is a University Gold Medalist postgraduate in Human Resource Management from JMI, New Delhi and earned a Bachelors in Sociology with Honors from Miranda House, New Delhi, India.

Deepa Nagarajan is the India Returnship Program Leader at Cognizant, a multi-billion-dollar technology and professional services company with more than 350,000 employees. Deepa drives greater diversity and inclusion at Cognizant by bringing in more diverse & engaged talent pools while providing detailed attention to program strategy and implementation.

Cognizant’s Returnship Program is a 12-week paid experience comprised of training, mentoring, and coaching for experienced professionals who have taken an extended career break and are eager to return to work. Deepa works closely with business unit leaders to set up mechanisms that help scale the program. She advises BU leaders and key players, develops policy and cross-functional process mapping, manages, and tracks program milestones, and drives greater collaboration across functions. She extensively collaborates with many support groups to ensure that we provide a true employee experience for Returnship participants.

Deepa earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Stella Maris College and completed her MBA at the University of Madras. She recently earned a Post Graduation Certificate in Human Resources Management from the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

Deepa has a 23-year-old son who has recently moved to Canada to pursue his post graduate program. Outside of work she loves to draw mandala art and spend time with family and friends. During weekends Deepa also volunteers to be a scribe to help students prepare for annual and revision exams, and she helps the persons with disabilities community with documentation work.

Supriya Sharma is a certified SPHRi certified professional with 18+ years of experience of working in diverse organizational settings which involves HR management in various geographies – India, USA, and Ethiopia.

Supriya has been involved in global role with exposure of leading Human Resources functions from all dimensions, led several challenging assignments as an HR Advisor, involved in being a panelists and representing in various HR forums.

Sarada Vempati leads Technology Infrastructure team at Wells Fargo India & Philippines. Sarada has been with Wells Fargo since 2020 and has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure and application development.

Prior to Wells Fargo, Sarada worked for JPMorgan Chase as the Managing Director supporting multiple areas in Corporate functions including, Compliance, Workforce Technology and Technology Infrastructure. During her last role with the firm, she was globally responsible for the application development and delivery in the privacy, conduct risk, and records retention space. Sarada also has more than 15 years of experience in infrastructure technologies including provisioning, automation, and operational support. Sarada also worked at Charles Schwab and IBM in Austin, Texas Sarada is very passionate about workplace diversity and for the past multiple years has been leading several initiatives to support Gender Diversity and PwD.