The Where You Work Matters List: How Top Employers Like P&G Are Redefining Job Quality

Bala is responsible for developing and leading P&G’s people and organization strategy. This includes attracting and developing the best talent and building a culture that drives innovation and productivity to support P&G’s business strategy and people across 70+ countries.

The HR organization, under Bala’s leadership, is focused on delivering value creation through organization design and culture, developing talent as a competitive advantage and delivering a superior employee experience. We are working to deliver a truly superior employee experience — just as we strive to provide a superior consumer experience with our brands. This includes a commitment to improving the wellbeing of our people by providing tools and resources to help them be at their best in the areas of physical, financial, mental and work-life wellbeing.

Bala believes strongly in employee development, a unique point of difference for P&G: We attract great and principled people for a career, give them early and increasing responsibility, inspire managers to be coaches and include everyone.

Bala joined P&G as a management trainee in Human Resources in Mumbai, India. He went on to work in several of P&G’s business units — including Global Beauty and Grooming — and has held positions of increasing responsibility at the country, region and global levels, while living and working across North America, Europe and Asia.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a veteran journalist and author, is a managing director at the emes project llc, which works closely with the Schultz Family Foundation to incubate and support innovative initiatives to create greater opportunity, accessible to all.

Rajiv was a senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post, where he worked for two decades. During his newspaper career, he reported from more than three dozen countries and was bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia. He also served as the Post’s national editor and as an assistant managing editor. In 2014, he and Howard Schultz wrote the bestselling book For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism and Sacrifice. He joined Starbucks in 2015 as senior vice president for public affairs and executive producer of the company’s social impact media initiatives.

He also is the author of two other bestselling books: Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan and Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2007 by The New York Times and inspired the movie Green Zone.

He has twice served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

He is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of Stanford University.

Matt Sigelman is President of the Burning Glass Institute. He has dedicated his career to unlocking new avenues for mobility, opportunity, and equity through skills.

Matt and his team created the field of real-time labor market data, a breakthrough innovation that has transformed the way that policy makers, researchers, employers, education institutions, and workers understand, plan for, and connect with the world of work. By mining billions of job openings and career histories, Matt led the company that has become Lightcast to become a leading authority on the global market for talent, harnessing advanced AI and natural language processing to render data that provide unprecedented granularity on the changing landscape of opportunity for workers.

By tracking demand for tens of thousands of skills across over 30 countries, Matt’s work has cracked the genetic code of an increasingly dynamic market, with deep insights that not only chart how work is being redefined but also identify the skills that bridge the gap between people and opportunity. This intelligence is critical in protecting the workforce from obsolescence and in highlighting routes to social mobility even amidst the threat of massive automation-driven displacement.

Matt has served as a Visiting Fellow and now Senior Advisor at The Harvard Project on the Workforce. Before launching the Burning Glass Institute, Matt served as CEO, and then Chairman, of Lightcast for over twenty years. Previously, Matt worked at McKinsey & Company and at Capital One. He is also Founder of the Main Line Classical Academy, an elementary school bringing the classical liberal arts curriculum and rigorous study in math and science to the kindergarten level on up and dedicated to the idea that children are never too young to learn great things.

He writes widely on the job market and is consulted frequently by public officials and the global media. Matt holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard.