Priya Patil

I set out to fix a spreadsheet. It spiraled.

Fourteen years ago, my job was to keep an HR system running quietly in the background. Somewhere along the way — Capita, then General Mills, then KPMG India, now Accenture — that turned into leading the change management side of some of the largest ERP transformations a company can attempt: full Workday HCM migrations spanning five continents and eighteen countries, LMS platforms serving thousands of learners, and at least one AI knowledge platform that had to make sense of 900+ HR policies without losing anyone in translation.

My actual title is Change Management & ERP Transformation Manager. My honest job description: I'm the person who makes sure that when a company rips out its entire HR backbone and puts in a new one, the humans on the other end don't quietly revert to Excel the moment nobody's watching. Change impact assessments, stakeholder maps, communication plans, adoption strategy, hyper-care support — the unglamorous work that quietly decides whether a transformation actually transforms anything.

I hold an MBA in HR from Welingkar Institute, a certification in change management for projects (PMI, via LinkedIn Learning), and a healthy, well-earned suspicion of any project plan that skips the change impact assessment.

Four things I am good at

The non-work parts

I've clocked solo trips across sixteen countries and counting. I keep a running mental playlist of classical Hindi and Marathi music. And I spend a fair amount of time mentoring the next generation of change and HR professionals — mostly by telling them that resistance to change is not a personal attack, it's just Tuesday.

Journeys in progress