For nearly three decades, Sonali Roychowdhury has shaped the people agenda at the intersection of business transformation, multicultural leadership, and enterprise scale. Today, as Chief Human Resources Officer – AMEA at Kellanova, she leads one of the most complex and diverse regions globally, spanning Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and emerging markets—where culture, capability, and change converge every day.
Across 28 years of global HR leadership, Sonali’s career reflects a rare blend of strategic depth, operational rigor, and human-centered leadership, built across food, beauty, health, supply chain, and large-scale M&A environments.
Building Global Capability from the Ground Up
Sonali’s professional journey began with Procter & Gamble, where she spent over two decades in progressively senior HR leadership roles across India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the broader IMEA region pasted. From early HR generalist roles to becoming CHRO for the Indian Subcontinent and IMEA Distributor Operations, she played a central role in shaping leadership pipelines, workforce strategy, and organisational effectiveness in some of P&G’s most strategically critical markets.
Her experience in regional M&A integration, notably during the Gillette acquisition, strengthened her expertise in organisation design, change leadership, and talent integration—capabilities that would later define her leadership across global enterprises.
Scaling Leadership Across Supply Chains and Regions
In subsequent years, Sonali took on senior HR leadership roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Australia, leading people strategy for large, complex supply chain and labour relations environments at scale pasted. Her work consistently focused on aligning people strategy with business resilience, especially in highly regulated, operationally intensive contexts.
Her transition into regional Vice President HR roles underscored her ability to balance industrial relations, leadership development, and transformation agendas, while operating across cultures, governance models, and economic realities.
Leading AMEA at Kellanova: Strategy, Scale, and Stewardship
Following the transformation of Kellogg Company into Kellanova, Sonali was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer – AMEA, based in Singapore pasted. In this role, she leads the end-to-end people and organisation agenda across one of the company’s most diverse regions, encompassing emerging markets, mature economies, and fast-growth businesses.
Her mandate includes C-suite succession, leadership capability, culture integration, and organisational design, while enabling business agility in a post-merger global enterprise. Her leadership style reflects clarity, inclusion, and an unwavering commitment to building future-ready talent ecosystems.
Leadership Philosophy: Culture, Coaching, and Change
A strong advocate of coaching and sponsorship, Sonali is deeply committed to enabling the next generation of leaders—particularly women navigating global careers. Her own lived experience as a senior female executive across continents informs her belief that sustainable performance is built through trust, inclusion, and capability, not hierarchy.
Her continuous investment in learning—most recently through the Cornell ILR School’s CHRO (Top Seat) Program—reinforces her commitment to governance, executive compensation, and board-level leadership readiness.
A Legacy of Impact
Across nearly three decades, Sonali Roychowdhury has consistently demonstrated that HR is not a support function, but a strategic force multiplier. Her work stands as a blueprint for global HR leadership—where complexity is met with clarity, and transformation is anchored in people.
As organisations navigate volatility, diversity, and rapid change, leaders like Sonali remind us that the future of work is built by those who understand both systems and souls.
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