Kalaiselvan Govindaraj

Kalai is an ICF Certified Executive Coach and Change Management Specialist holding Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. 

A seasoned Corporate Professional with 34 years of experience in Oil & Gas Industry in key leadership roles that include Internal Coaching, ERP implementation, ERP Process Management & Governance, Organizational restructuring and Project Execution.  

As a Certified Change Management Consultant, Kalai facilitates organizational change in strategic initiatives like ERP implementation, organizational restructuring and new business initiatives. Over the last 2 decades, Kalai has handled whole spectrum of change in ERP implementation projects at Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, Kochi Refineries Ltd, Numaligarh Refinery Ltd, Gujarat Gas, National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd, Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Corporation Ltd, Tata Steel, Tata Motor Finance Ltd, Maxis in Kuala Lumpur and Thai Beverages in Bangkok. These change interventions have led to smooth transition to the new IT landscape achieving faster user adoption and value discovery. 

Kalai has 14 years of experience in end-to-end ERP project implementation and its sustenance journey in BPCL, a Fortune 500 Oil & Gas Company in India. As Chief General Manager (ERP Competency Centre), he was responsible for Organization-wide Business Process Management & continuous Process improvements, supporting 7,000 strong end user community in BPCL. Kalai played key role in setting up of the ERP Centre of Excellence, Process Forums and SAP Authorized Training Centre at BPCL.  

As Project Manager, Kalai led successful Go-Live of ERP at Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd in 56 days, setting a new bench mark in ERP project implementation. As member Steering Committee at Sabarmati Gas Ltd. Ahmadabad, he guided the Management Team in completing the ERP project in a challenging timeline of 4 months. 

As Head of Internal Coaching in BPCL, Kalai had facilitated 500+ strategic interventions and visionary programs which resulted in improved business performance and organizational agility to respond to change. Over the years, Kalai has been coaching many Business Leaders and Managers to help raise their self-awareness, improve self-confidence, unleash potential and advance in their leadership effectiveness. As a Coach, Kalai has also been grooming young talent and new entrants to the organization enabling them to discover their own potential and work on a self-created plan to leverage its power. 

Kalai facilitates wide-range of corporate programs and public seminars on HR Analytics, Behavioural based Safety, Leadership, Business Strategy, Business Planning, Workplace Coaching, Campus to Corporate, Emotional Intelligence, Personal Well-being, Shared Visioning, Organizational Culture & Values, Teaming and Collaboration to enable individuals and teams to stay relevant and be competitive with changing times. 

Kalai is a visiting faculty at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai.

Change Management Lead, HPCL, Mumbai – Sep 2021 till date

As Change Management Lead from Accenture, Kalai is currently facilitating Organizational Change Management in the SAP S/4HANA project implementation at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Mumbai with an objective to align leadership, create organizational ownership, facilitate smooth transition from legacy, faster user adoption and business value discovery. 

Senior Advisor, SAP India – May 2019 till May 2020

Kalai facilitated change and value discovery in SAP S/4 HANA projects in various companies cutting across industries. His prime focus of change enablement was on change acceleration, faster user acceptance, smoother transition to the new IT landscape and driving value DNA in the organization through leadership enrolment, stakeholder engagement and mobilization of organizational commitment.     

Principal, School of Sales & Marketing, Blue Star – May 2017 to April 2019

Kalai held the position of Principal for School of Sales & Marketing in Blue Star during the period May 2017 to April 2019. In this role, he led the initiative of setting up of e-learning platform for building functional and technical competencies of Sales Executives, HR Professionals and Dealer Executives at Blue Star numbering around 6000 spread across the country. The project has yielded enormous value by facilitating any-time, any-where learning for employees of Blue Star with substantial savings in cost, time and effort.         

Chief General Manager (Internal Coaching), BPCL - June 2012 to May 2016

Kalai has facilitated 400 + coaching and strategic interventions in BPCL with an objective of 

• building high performing teams capable of delivering outstanding business results on a sustained basis
• building organizational agility to respond to change
• creating deep organizational alignment by building strong corporate culture and values
• building strong customer focused culture in the organization and channel partner network
• developing the coaching skills of Functional Managers 

The pull based strategic interventions facilitated by Kalai have created deep impact in terms of better business results, change-ready organization, empowering and enabling work environment and a strong customer centric culture. 

General Manager (ERP Competency Centre), BPCL - April 2012 to June 2012

As General Manager (ERP Competency Centre), BPCL, Kalai handled the following key responsibilities. 

• Organization-wide Business Process Management & continuous Business Process improvements. 
• Supporting 7,000 strong ERP end user communities in their day to day process and transactional issues
• Engaging and enrolling top/senior management in new technology adoption and roll out of strategic IT initiatives. 
• Facilitating business benefit realization from new ERP/IT initiatives and process improvements.
• Providing support for ERP projects in BPCL Joint venture companies.

DGM (ERP Competency Centre), BPCL - July 2007 to March 2012 

Kalai led his HR team and implemented “SAP Performance Management System” in 4 months’ time for 4,300 officers of BPCL through sustained organizational engagement and communication. Kalai also facilitated roll out of SAP Travel Management system and various ESS/MSS initiatives in a challenging timeline on pan India basis. He supported Finance team in new GL migration in June 2010 - a challenging project with huge volume of data.   

As DGM (ERP Competency Centre), Kalai handled the following major responsibilities. 

• HR and Finance process management
• ERP training for end users on pan India basis and induction program for new officers. 
• Training and certification of Location Anchors who are the extended arm of ERP competency centre for first-hand support to location users.
• Continuous knowledge up gradation and up-skilling of 120 ERP core team members. 
• Generating revenue from authorized BPCL SAP Training centre at Mumbai and through SAP Consulting/Training in India and abroad.

B.E (Civil Engineering)

M.E (Public Health Engineering)