Anitta and Jai reflect on their time together at TikTok during one of the largest and fastest scale-ups in tech history.

Jai Arya, renowned People and Culture Leader in APAC and former HRBP Leader at TikTok, brings over 20 years of experience building high-performing teams and inclusive cultures.

In this episode, he and Anitta go behind the scenes on what it took to build and sustain an organisation at breakneck speed, the leadership decisions that shaped the culture, and how they navigated the TikTok ban in India.

The conversation covers what hypergrowth and adversity demands of leaders, how to maintain team effectiveness when the ground is constantly shifting, and the lessons that only come from being in the thick of it.

A grounded, honest conversation for leaders who have been through change at scale, or know they will be.

In this episode of Human at Work, host Anitta Krishan is joined by Shweta Shukla, founder of The CultureGram and one of the most respected people leaders.

Shweta brings a rare combination of cultural rigour and operational depth, built across three of the world's most defining companies. She was part of the early team at Meta Asia, helping shape the people function before it became the global giant it is today. She then joined Netflix as VP Talent APAC during an era when the culture wasn't just famous, it was felt. The principles were lived in every conversation. Shweta also served as the Chief People Officer, at Lenskart guiding one of India's most ambitious consumer companies through a critical growth moment.

Shweta's work has consistently centred on one question: what does it actually take to build culture that outlasts the people who built it.

Together, Shweta and Anitta explore what the people function gets right, what it consistently gets wrong, and why the most important culture work is rarely the most visible. The conversation is a masterclass in what principled, rigorous people leadership looks like at scale.

This episode is essential listening for any leader who believes culture is not a communication exercise but the operating system of a great organisation.

In this episode of Human at Work, host Anitta Krishan is joined by Lewis Garrad, Organisational Psychologist and Partner at Mercer. Lewis brings a rare combination of scientific rigour and real-world transformation experience, working at the intersection of psychology, leadership, and organisational change across complex global systems.

Lewis has spent his career helping organisations navigate large-scale transformation, leadership development, and capability building, with a deep focus on how human behaviour, culture, and systems design shape performance in the age of AI. His work centres on future skills, leadership capability, and designing organisations that are fit for a world of constant disruption.

Together, Lewis and Anitta explore the future of work through a human-centred lens, focusing on AI future skills, evolving leadership capabilities, and organisational transformation. The conversation reframes AI not as a technical challenge but as a human one, grounded in mindset, culture, ethics, and leadership maturity.

This episode offers a powerful perspective on what it truly takes to build organisations where people and technology can evolve together without losing what makes work human.

In this first episode of Human at Work, host Anitta Krishan sits down with Vanessa Monsequeira, a seasoned VP People and AI transformation leader. Vanessa has led people, culture, and organisational transformation across high-growth, global companies, formerly serving as VP of People at Gorilla and Head of People Solutions Design at Miro, where she helped scale teams through rapid growth, complexity, and change. Her career spans building people infrastructure from the ground up, shaping employee experience, and designing culture with intention.

Vanessa brings a uniquely human lens to leadership, blending lived experience in scaling people systems with a deep commitment to psychological safety, meaningful connection, and reimagining how organisations treat their most important asset: human beings.

Together, Vanessa and Anitta explore leadership as a deeply human practice rooted in empathy, trust, and intentional culture-building. Drawing from real-world experience in hypergrowth environments, Vanessa unpacks why leadership demands vulnerability as much as strategy, how psychological safety fuels high-performing teams, and what it truly means to create workplaces where people can do their best work.

Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting to lead others, this episode offers a powerful reframing of leadership as a practice of presence, courage, and humanity.

Leadership isn’t about perfection; it’s about showing up as a human first, and a leader second.