Neel focuses on HR and talent strategy and on productivity. Passionate about the power of people, he specializes in advising clients on how HR and talent can create maximum value for their organizations. He regularly helps industry leaders and global organizations to improve their HR operations, talent-management capabilities, and efficiency, along with their broader business-support structures and processes. Neel also helps organizations maximize performance by establishing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
A seasoned adviser on mergers and acquisitions, Neel has led the HR planning and integration process for major transactions in the consumer-packaged-goods, pharmaceutical, healthcare, industrials, and financial-services industries.
Recent examples of his client work include the following:
- advising a global consumer-packaged-goods company on how to boost productivity—the result was an operating-model shift to shared services and a 25 percent increase in productivity
- helping a leading retailer create a global talent strategy
- supporting a pharmacy-benefits-management company in an end-to-end HR transformation, including the design of a new HR operating model featuring shared services, followed by the detailed design and implementation of the new shared services organization and its processes
- leading a productivity transformation for a global beverage company, including restructuring HR operations across more than 50 countries and rethinking sourcing strategy to increase productivity by over 30 percent
Neel also understands the dynamics and restrictions under which public-sector organizations operate. Examples of his work in this space include managing McKinsey’s role in a public–private effort to develop job creation policies at the federal level and helping a large public-sector agency design and implement an integrated workforce strategy.