✦About · Founder & Principal Consultant

An HR operator who learned to build.

Rushabh Mota spent the better part of a decade inside HR at Cipla, Gap Inc. and Schindler India before founding Talent Edge Consulting in 2024 — boutique depth, hands-on delivery, and a founder who still builds the agents himself.

Rushabh Mota
Rushabh Mota, PCCICF Professional Certified Coach

✦The story

Why Talent Edge exists

Rushabh spent the better part of a decade inside the machine before advising on it — running HR shared services and SuccessFactors rollouts at Cipla, partnering with US leadership to design the GCC org at GapTech (Gap Inc.), and leading the full employee lifecycle for 600+ people at Schindler India. That's where our conviction was formed: HR earns its seat when its work shows up on the P&L.

He founded Talent Edge Consulting in February 2024 on a simple bet — that the next generation of HR would be built, not bought. We sit deliberately between Big 4 pricing and freelance work: boutique depth, hands-on delivery, and a founder who still writes the prompts, builds the agents and runs the workshops himself.

Today that means designing agentic HR operating models on Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google Agent Studio, automating performance cycles end-to-end, and upskilling entire HR and business teams on AI — across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and the Netherlands. Every engagement is designed around capability transfer: playbooks, train-the-trainer, and governance that keep working after we've left the room.

The coaching thread runs through all of it. Rushabh is an ICF-PCC certified coach, and we hold a simple view — work ships through people. Systems change fastest when the managers running them grow alongside them.

✦The path to TEC

On your side of the table.

  1. May 2016 – Aug 2018

    Cipla Ltd.

    Manager — Center of Excellence, Sales

    Implemented four SuccessFactors modules across India, the US and South Africa; conceptualized the HR Shared Services model, saving ₹2 Cr a year; led the productivity programme for 9,300+ sales employees, saving ₹13.4 Cr.

  2. Aug 2018 – Jun 2021

    GapTech (Gap Inc. GCC)

    HR Business Partner, Tech & Special Initiatives

    Designed the GCC org structure with US leadership, led India's culture transformation, and built a nine-month leadership programme based on Multipliers.

  3. Jul 2021 – Feb 2024

    Schindler India

    Regional HR Leader (South) & Key Projects Lead

    Led the full employee lifecycle for 600+ employees across South India, drove the gender-diversity agenda, and conceptualized the ASPIRE campus-hiring programme.

  4. Feb 2024 – today

    Talent Edge Consulting

    Founder & Principal Consultant

    An AI-first boutique HR practice, founded in Mumbai — now serving clients across seven-plus geographies.

✦Credentials

Trained for the craft, certified for the coaching.

  • MBA, MDI Gurgaon

    PGP-HRM, 2016, at one of India's premier MBA institutes.

  • ICF-PCC

    Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation.

  • Specialist certifications

    DDI Certified Job Analyst · DISC Certified Trainer.

  • B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical

    Osmania University, 2012.

✦Let's talk

Building the future of HR — one agent at a time.

Start with a conversation

30 minutes: your context, your constraints, and an honest read on whether — and how — we can help. The first conversation is on us.

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