Greif’s Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Bala V. Sathyanarayanan, who exhibits visionary leadership through his ability to align human capital programs with industrial packaging excellence and sustainability objectives. The leadership of Bala is people-focused: he creates a work culture where employees are guided and inspired to create. This leadership quality causes a cooperative spirit among the co-workers, common purpose, and addresses a complex set of workforce issues. His leadership style is based on adaptability, participation, and the capacity to build talent by employees to remain sensitive to market demand.
Bala, Greif’s CHRO and Executive Vice President, connects the people strategy of the company to its purpose of being number one in environmental sustainability in the industrial packaging industry by a sequence of necessary initiatives like People First Approach, Build-to-last Strategy, creating Thriving Communities, Delivering Legendary Customer Service, Protecting Our Future, Ensuring Financial Strength, Sustainability and Efficiency, Diversity, Equity and inclusion, and Recognition and engagement.
Bala enhances this by emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts, i.e., Greif’s Diversity & Inclusion Framework, being LEAD (Listen, Engage, Act, and Develop) with the goal of developing a culture of belonging in which all colleagues feel engaged and included. He recommends change management by emphasizing communication and engagement, rendering employees highly well-advised and committed to the transformation initiatives.
Bala promotes compliance through current information on required regulations and policies that are coordinated with host country legislation but facilitate global requirements. He does this by leveraging electronic technologies such as HR technology platforms and analytics for facilitating communications, decision-making improvement, and simplicity in operational excellence. Bala has introduced initiatives like the Global Early Career Program to recruit, develop, and retain future talent, and hence leadership development programs are adequate across geographies and generations. He facilitates cross-geography collaboration and knowledge sharing to drive overall performance in one direction under the “one world, one Greif, one team”.
