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For India's GCC leaders
Decisions get made in HQ. Leadership gets built in India.
One real decision. Peers who've made it. Off the record.
Seven functional forums
Seven tables. One for your seat.
- People
- Technology
- Finance
- Operations
- Product
- Governance
- Strategy
Take the Floor
Your perspective, on the record.
Ask the Expert, a Leadership Roundtable or a Leader Spotlight. Hosted, recorded and shared, so your view keeps working after the call.
Live on Google Meet
Weekday evenings. Forty-five minutes. One decision.
Join from your desk or your home. Chatham House by default: the lesson travels, the name never does.
Bengaluru · Hyderabad · Pune · Chennai · Gurugram · Mumbai
2,117 GCCs. 2.36 million professionals. One room for the leaders who run them.
Nasscom-Zinnov India GCC Landscape FY26, as reported by Business Today.
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A bounded HR decision review for India GCCs: who proposes, who decides, who acts and who signs.
2,117GCCs in India, FY26
2.36 millionGCC professionals, FY26
$98.4 billionGCC revenue, FY26
One room for the leaders who run them.Source: Nasscom-Zinnov India GCC Landscape FY26, as reported by Business Today.
How it works1 
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Three steps. No networking theatre.
12Join your forum
One of seven functional forums, with leaders facing the same calls in their own centres.
3Bring one decision
A 45-minute session under Chatham House. You leave with a decision, not a deck.
Step 3, up close · The Decision Room
STEP 1 OF 5
Headquarters approves the move.
Strategy, budget and a deadline, signed in another time zone.
STEP 2 OF 5
Budget, roles, start date. Done.
Every box on the plan gets a tick. The work begins in India.
STEP 3 OF 5
Then the decision lands on your desk.
The capability moves. So do the calls nobody wrote down.
STEP 4 OF 5
And nobody owns it yet.
Who proposes, who decides, who acts, who signs. Four blanks, one leader.
STEP 5 OF 5
That's the call you bring to the room.
Peers who have made it before. Forty-five minutes. You leave with a decision.
Apply to join, free Free core membership. No cold outreach, ever.
Seven forums
Pull up a chair.
Each forum is a table of leaders who run the same function inside India's GCCs. Tap a seat to see the kind of question it is built around.
Rules of the room
Illustrative · Adobe StockSame table. Same rules.
Chatham House by default
What is said stays unattributed. The lesson travels, the name never does.
Reviewed, not purchased
Core membership is free. Every place is reviewed. Nobody buys a seat.
No one sells in the room
Including us. Sessions are for peers, not pitches. No cold outreach.
Take the Floor
Three ways to be heard.
Every session is hosted and recorded, so your perspective keeps working after the call ends.
IllustrativeOne leader, one subject
Ask the Expert
You and a host. Members' real questions, shared in advance.
IllustrativeThree to five leaders
Leadership Roundtable
One topic, a small table. Seats close when it is full.
IllustrativeYour journey, your words
Leader Spotlight
A hosted fireside on your story and the decisions that shaped it.
IllustrativeWeekday evenings, IST
Live on Google Meet
Join from your desk or your home. 30 to 45 minutes.
IllustrativeAfter the session
Recorded and shared
Your perspective keeps working long after the call.
IllustrativeFree for approved leaders
Request your session
Pick a format. The host shapes it with you.
The leaders’ newsroom
Follow your seat, your industry, your city.
IllustrativeCEO, CHRO, CFO, CTO, CIO, CMO, COO
The decisions each seat owns, with stories, videos and the matching forum.
IllustrativeGCC, BFSI, technology, SaaS and more
How leadership questions change from one industry to the next.
IllustrativeBengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai
Where India’s capability centres are built, and the leaders who run them.
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A bounded HR decision review for India GCCs. One people decision, mapped: who proposes, who decides, who acts and who signs. Scope and availability are confirmed before any engagement.
Illustrative · Adobe Stock
Why HCI Talks exists
“The leaders running India's GCCs carry decisions headquarters can't see. They deserve a room of peers who can.”Bhaskar Anand · Founder, HCI Talks and Talpro · 15+ years in HR technology and leadership hiring
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