Sonal Mattoo

Sonal Mattoo is a lawyer with over 25 years of post-qualification work experience. She holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons) degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her schooling is from The Lawrence School Sanawar.

A lawyer, specializing in compliance relating to workplace harassment and diversity issues. She supports various clients as an independent Ombudsperson, handling employee complaints via the internal dispute redressal mechanism and as an independent IC member for the Prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace issues.

As the Founder Director at “Helping Hands”, Sonal works in the area of issues pertaining to women at the workplace, CSR activities, counselling, preparing policies, supporting the internal redressal system and conducting workshops in these areas.

Sonal helps implement policies relating to prevention of sexual harassment / gender sensitization and other forms of harassment and discrimination at the work place, besides carrying out training and investigation on complaints filed with the organization. (Sexual harassment, fraud, mis-management, tampering of data, financial irregularity, workplace harassment, bullying, etc.)

In her capacity as ombudsperson, Sonal has over the last two decades provided confidential independent support services to a plethora of MNC’s and large domestic corporations. She has proven ability in recognizing Industry sector nuances vis-a-vis employee interactions at various staff and function levels. She also handles the independent ethics function for a few clients.

As an ombudsperson, Sonal’s role includes: Conducting an unbiased Investigation into the claims of the complainant, responding to their queries regarding legal guidelines, help resolve differences between parties wherever applicable, preparing detailed reports on the investigation with findings and suggesting recommendations for resolution of issues.