Balakrishna, after serving more than 35 years of meritorious service in the field of HR, IR, Legal & Administrative services has started his own HR & IR Academy together with Management Consultancy Services with effect from 1 February 2020 to cater to the needs of fresh graduates/post graduates/Professionals of any combination/branch who are eager and willing to purse their career in HR, IR, Le
gal & Administration. Balakrishna was formerly heading Human Resources Department at Wipro, a Hydraulics Manufacturing Company based out of Bengaluru. Before joining Wipro, he was the Deputy General Manager-HR for the second term at KDDL at Bangalore. He started his career with Management Consultancy Services in Bengaluru. Balakrishna has handled many roles of HR, IR, Legal & Administrative functions when he served for Ralectronics Ltd, ICL Sugars Ltd, KDDL Ltd, Saint-Gobain and Wipro. Balakrishna brings an extensive HR, IR, Legal & Administrative experience in manufacturing, project and professional service industry. He carries strong conceptual knowledge & has done substantial original work in the areas of human resources, industrial relations, labour laws, negotiation with the union & collective bargaining on various issues, long term wage settlements, grievance handling
& redressal, disciplinary actions, layoff, retrenchment, strike, lockout & closure, employee engagement, talent management , succession planning, drafted many HR & IR policies with procedures, statutory compliance/HR /IR audit, reward & recognition and leadership development etc. In addition to the above live and practical experience in the field of HR, IR, Legal & Administrative, Mr. Balakrishna has conducted several training sessions, programs/workshops on HR, IR, Legal, POSH, COBC, statutory compliance/audit. He was also instrumental in drafting HR, IR & Legal, standing orders, agreements, contracts, long term wage settlements , policies & procedures according to the needs of the industries, he served. Balakrishna is a Bcom., graduate with LLB., PGDPM & IR and has done a Master's Program in Business Administration in Human Resources from prestigious institutions .