Nidhi Verma

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Nidhi Verma, Chief People & ESG Officer

Nidhi Verma has spent eight years at Crawford & Company leading a variety of portfolios, including Learning & Leadership Development, Talent Management and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) where she sets the strategic direction and delivers on people priorities. She has extensive experience on a wide spectrum of people and organizational effectiveness areas, including people strategy, executive coaching, mentoring, high performance workforce, employee engagement and culture re-vitalization. Her extensive experience in the talent space, coupled with passion for creating inclusive work cultures, has enabled her to design and deploy global talent programs with an intentional DEI focus. She has worked in multiple geographies globally such as the United States, United Kingdom and Asia, which has strengthened her cross-cultural astuteness.


Nidhi has published several articles in leading business/HR/talent journals and co-edited a book, "Workforce Wake-up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You?” Her recent recognitions include the “2020 Elite Women in Insurance,” as well the “Hot 100 2021,” both by Insurance Business America.


Prior to joining Crawford, Nidhi has worked both as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, as well as an internal talent practitioner with organizations like Arthur Andersen, Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt) and LexisNexis. Nidhi has two master’s degrees: a Master of Human Resource Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a Master of Adult Learning & Leadership from Columbia University, NY.