Area of Expertise: OB, HR & Strategy
Prateek Roy Chowdhury is an accomplished HR leader with 13+ years of experience spanning recruitment, organizational learning and development, talent strategy, leadership development, and transformational HR. He currently leads B-School campus hiring for Accenture in India, advising business leaders on critical talent decisions and building strategic university relationships with premier business and specialized institutions.
His experience encompasses the complete strategic HR value chain—from recruitment and onboarding to competency development, performance management, workforce planning, and leadership development. He has worked across roles as a recruitment strategist, learning partner, instructional designer, training manager, Agile Coach, professional coach, and HR transformation leader, giving him a holistic perspective on people and business challenges.
Area of Expertise: OB, HR & Strategy
Areas of Expertise
- Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Strategy
- Campus Recruitment & University Relations
- Learning & Organizational Development
- Leadership Development & Executive Coaching
- Competency Mapping & Career Management
- Performance Management & Workforce Planning
- Employee Value Proposition & Employer Branding
- HR Analytics, Gamification & Digital HR
- Change Management & HR Transformation
Career & Academic Highlights
- Currently serves as Recruitment Lead – Strategy & Consulting and Corporate Functions at Accenture, driving campus strategy across Strategy & Consulting, Operations, Technology Consulting, HR, and Finance in India.
- Advises Accenture businesses on critical talent decisions and targeted hiring strategies, with extensive recruitment from premier institutions including ISB, IIMs, and IITs.
- Conceptualized and implemented national-level initiatives such as the Accenture Business Innovation Challenge, Ace IT Up, HR Live Project Championship, and HR Analytics workshops, engaging more than 15,000 students.
- Built strategic academic partnerships, including the Accenture Business Analyst Career Program, benefiting five colleges and 200+ students.
- Previously served as Lead – People Strategy at Arrows Group Global, driving people strategy, EVP, learning and development, performance coaching, Agile implementation, and organizational transformation.
- At HCL Technologies, held leadership roles across HR Strategic Initiatives, Global HR Career Network, B-School Academy, and Talent Acquisition, contributing to global HR transformation and talent strategy.
- Led strategic HR initiatives including employee experience, predictive attrition analytics, social HR, gamification, EVP, competency-based deployment, and digital onboarding.
- Designed competency frameworks and recruitment certification programs at HCL, certifying 148 sourcers, 90 processors, 48 lead managers, and 30 Recruitment Leads.
- Transformed talent acquisition processes through recruitment analytics, workforce planning, process redesign, and implementation of an enterprise-wide Recruitment Management System, helping reduce recruitment turnaround time.
- Co-created the Harvard-published case study “A $150 million value creation by HCL Talent Acquisition Group” in collaboration with IIM Indore and contributed to another Harvard Business Review case study with Singapore University.
- Recognized as the unanimous winner of Best Innovation in People Engagement at the AIMA Innovation Practitioner’s Summit for gamification of the onboarding process.
- Published author with Penguin Random House India, writing on purpose, meaning, entrepreneurship, and the power of storytelling.
- Holds a Master of Human Resource Management from IIT Kharagpur and is a Certified ScrumMaster®.