Driving Organisational Effectiveness Through Employee Experience
A 2-Day Learning Programme by Dept of Design, IIT Hyderabad
Aug 8-9, 2026 at IIT Hyderabad Campus
Organisations today succeed or fail on how work is experienced. This 2-day residential retreat at IIT Hyderabad equips leaders with a proven Employee Experience framework – moving from diagnosis to design to a 30-day pilot – built on a learning-by-doing philosophy.
Every session applies real tools to real organisational challenges in the room. Participants leave not with notes and slides, but with a completed diagnosis of their own organisation, a set of redesign ideas grounded in evidence, and a pilot plan they can start on Monday.
Programme outline subject to minor revisions before the programme begins.
Programme Structure
Subject to minor revisions
Who is it for
• Senior and mid-level leaders driving performance and transformation
• HR, OD, L&D, and Change professionals shaping people strategy
• Workplace strategy and transformation consultants
• Corporate real estate and facilities leaders
• Faculty and postgraduate students in management and HR
• Professionals transitioning into strategic leadership or advisory roles
takeaways
• A completed diagnosis of your organisation with a costed friction – the business case built in the room
• Designing Employee Experiences
• A 30-Day Pilot Blueprint, ready to run on return
• Translating insight into structured, practical action
• Cross-functional relationships with peers from 15+ organisations across diverse sectors
• Completion Certificate from IIT Hyderabad
immersive experience
The is built on a learning-by-doing philosophy. Every session applies a structured tool or canvas to real organisational situations brought by participants – not case studies, not hypotheticals.
The two days follow a deliberate arc: Day 1 builds the diagnostic lens – participants see their organisation as a system of interfaces, name what is breaking, and attach a rupee cost to it. Day 2 moves into design and commitment – participants build a redesign intervention, run it through a structured pilot framework, and leave with a plan that can be executed the following week.
Faculty
The ‘Learn by Doing’ sessions will be jointly facilitated by Asst Professor Srikar AVR and Parthajeet Sarma.
Srikar AVR is an Architect and Industrial Designer, and an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, where he completed his post-graduation in Product Design. He also holds a Master’s in Strategic Design and Innovation from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Srikar has led global consulting assignments with iconic furniture brands such as Herman Miller and Steelcase. With over 20 years of industry experience, he has served as a design leader at Kohler, DuPont, Godrej, and Nokia, working across R&D, design and innovation, advanced materials, sustainability, analytics, and workplace strategy. His teams have won multiple national and international accolades for design work that delivered measurable business impact.
Driven by a passion for research and teaching, Srikar has travelled widely and served as visiting faculty at leading design and architecture institutes in India and abroad. He was nominated as India’s Design Ambassador for Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden), representing Godrej’s healthcare design innovations. He is also a member of CoA, WDO, IADRA, and CII.
Parthajeet is a workplace experience designer, following a data driven approach around persuasive characteristics of virtual and physical workplaces. A Chevening scholar (Oxford University), Parthajeet is a pioneer in Workplace Management in India, having worked with corporate clients around Workplace Strategy and Change Management for several years.
Parthajeet puts empathy at the centre of everything he does, ensuring workplace solutions are not only aligned with the leadership’s vision, but are based on a deep understanding of the feelings and aspirations of the organisation’s employees. He has over 3 decades of professional experience.
Over the course of more than 500 consulting assignments, he has worked with a variety of organisations including Actis, Amnesty International, Reinsurance Group of America, Metlife, AIG and the Henry Ford Foundation.