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Career Strategist and Founder of Supercharge. You have different choices for a bio below, depending on how much time you have and how deep you want to go!

Short Bio

Sonal Bahl is a Career Strategist, Podcaster and Founder of Supercharge, a Career Advisory firm with clients on all habitable continents. A former HR Director, she has served over two decades in HR leadership roles in leading firms like GE, PricewaterhouseCoopers and others Asia, South America and Europe. Sonal has an MBA from INSEAD, (ranked number 2 globally by FT) and has been selected as a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2024.

Medium Bio

Sonal Bahl is an experienced HR Director and a Career Strategist, living in Belgium. Originally from India, she has also lived and worked in India, Uruguay, Chile, France. With nearly 2 decades in HR in large companies like GE and PWC to family owned enterprises and startups, Sonal has screened over 250,000 resumes and conducted over 5000 interviews on 3 continents, helping senior management to recruit, build and evolve highly talented teams.

As a Career Strategist, Sonal helps people by offering authentic advice on how they can have a career they actually love. She will give you that extra edge you need to land that career defining role, get promoted & improve your happiness at work. She is also the creator and host of How I Got Hired, a top rated career podcast in multiple countries. Sonal has an MBA from INSEAD, ranked number 2 globally by FT), and has recently been recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice 2024. She speaks English, Hindi, Spanish and French fluently.

Long Bio

Recognised as one of the leading Career Coaches in the world, Sonal traded in a successful corporate career working as an HR Leader with Fortune 100 companies like GE, PwC and European firms like KPN, to set up her own entrepreneurial venture. Based in Belgium, her firm, SuperCharge, works with senior to mid-level executives across the world helping them land their dream jobs, get promoted, negotiate better pay, manage career transitions and return to work after career breaks.

As a Career Strategist, Sonal strongly believes that a fulfilling career is a birthright, and not a privilege for the lucky few who have access to prestigious education, capital, and networks. While working one-on-one with clients who can afford coaching, on the other front Sonal has been on a mission to democratise access to high value career advice. She executes on this mission with designing affordable digital courses, with her YouTube Channel (which has 150,000 followers and was awarded a silver play button by Youtube) and a podcast called ‘How I Got Hired’. The podcast is rated as one of the Top 25 career podcasts in 50 countries, to which listeners from 3,100 cities globally and 132 countries tune in weekly to hear career advice from ordinary people who have had extraordinary career success.

Through her coaching, courses and content, Sonal helps people by offering authentic advice on how they can have a career they actually love. Even if they just got laid off. Even if they took years off work to care for a family member. Even if they are underpaid and overworked. The ultimate mission is creating an impact, so people have a richer, happier and more purposeful life.

Sonal has an MBA from INSEAD, currently ranked number one program in Europe and top 2 globally. She was chosen INSEADER of the Month in August 2022, an honour to be chosen out of 65,000 alumni globally. Sonal has recently been recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice 2024. Having worked in Latin America, Asia and Europe, Sonal speaks English, Hindi, Spanish and French fluently.

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All my links

Website: https://www.superchargeyourself.com/

How I Got Hired Podcast: https://howigothired.buzzsprout.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supercharge_yourself/

For any query, you can reach me:

Email: [email protected]