#141: Sonam Lama on leadership lessons, essential risk management skills, employee engagement, and HR innovation

Sonam Lama is the Associate Director- Middle East at Cars24, which we all may know for their online used car marketplace. Since 2017, she has built a strong team at Cars24 by improving and scaling recruitment practices.

Before her current role, Sonam served as the Manager of Recruitment at an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company, Zomato.

In this episode of The Shape of Work podcast, Sonam shares plenty of expertise.

We discuss with her:

• Her two most important and useful leadership lessons
• Essential risk management skills that every manager should have
• Developing and sustaining employee engagement
• Aligning individual goals to organizational goals
• AI and automation in HR: Impact, adoption and future workforce

Follow Sonam on LinkedIn

Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast host: Ravi Alluri

About Springworks:
Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation that is building tools and products to simplify recruitment, on-boarding, employee engagement and retention.

The product stack from Springworks includes:
SpringVerify — B2B verification platform
EngageWith — employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company culture
Trivia — a suite of real-time, fun and interactive games platform for remote/hybrid team-building
SpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, and
SpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system

Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.

‍