N2Growth, a worldwide chief in govt search and management advisory, introduced the 2025 Leaders40 Top Chief Human Resources Officers (CHRO) Award late on Friday (November 14, 2025).
This yr’s record consists of main CHROs at a number of the world’s largest and most influential corporations, corresponding to Lisa Buckingham (Vialto Partners), Matthew Breitfelder (Apollo Global Management), Robin Leopold (JPMorganChase), Christy Pambianchi (Caterpillar Inc.), Trisha Conley (LyondellBasell), Maral Kazanjian (Moody’s), and Donna Morris (Walmart), it stated.
Reliance is the one Indian agency on the record and Ms. Bindra the primary Indian girl govt of an Indian agency to be featured on the record.
She has been ranked twenty eighth on the record.
“Ira is a worldwide Human Resources and enterprise transformation chief with over twenty years of expertise driving progress, innovation, and organisational excellence throughout Fortune 100 corporations and high-growth enterprises.”
“Her career spans multiple industries, geographies, and business lifecycles, where she has led integrated business, people, and culture strategies that enable high performance and sustainable transformation,” her quotation learn.
As President – People & Talent at Reliance Industries Limited, India’s largest personal enterprise and a Fortune Global 500 (#88) firm with revenues over $119 billion, Ira companions with the Chairman, Executive Committee, and enterprise management to form the corporate’s folks and tradition agenda.
“She is leading enterprise-wide talent and culture transformation for Reliance’s 360,000-strong workforce spanning energy, retail, telecommunications, media, and green technologies,” it added.
Before becoming a member of Reliance, Ms. Bindra held a number of senior world HR management roles at Medtronic, the world’s largest medical machine firm. Previously, she spent 19 years with General Electric, holding numerous HR management roles throughout Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Technology Infrastructure, Corporate and GE Capital in each developed and creating markets.
She holds an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, and a BA (Hons.) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.
First launched on Forbes in 2015 by N2Growth Founder Mike Myatt, the Top CHRO List rapidly grew to become one of the revered and anticipated rankings within the human sources career.
In 2020, N2Growth partnered with the Stanford Graduate School of Business to formalize the record because the Leaders40 Award. Since then, N2Growth has been happy to problem the preeminent trade recognition of the main CHROs globally.
“Over the last decade, we’ve watched the CHRO role transform,” stated Tony Morales, Co-Chairman of N2Growth and head of the Leaders40 Selection Committee. “The CHROs of today are no longer only people leaders, but have become strategic partners to CEOs and boards, driving performance, culture, and transformation at the highest level.”
The Leaders40 Selection Committee evaluates hundreds of nominations, conducts over 100 in-depth interviews, and in the end names the highest 40 CHROs who set the usual of excellence in human capital administration.









