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Amrita V. Subramanian
Amrita, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a trailblazer in post-disruptive growth. She is an author, speaker, and advisor with over 24 years of leadership experience. helping senior boards and executive teams navigate turbulent environments. As President of Suvarna, she focuses on post-disruptive growth after crises. Amrita aims to empower a global movement for flourishing amid crises.
Speaking Topics
From Trauma to Triumph
Winning in the New Ways of Working
Winning in the New Ways of Working
Drawing inspiration from her own transformative journey beyond pain, Amrita helps leaders – whether in an organization, communities, or in their own sphere – use strategies to grow through and beyond trauma.
In 2022, Amrita conducted a study on the first-of-its-kind collective trauma for the modern world, COVID-19. Through her extensive research which included interviews with a diverse set of participants spanning 12 countries, Amrita has identified four core strategies that individuals can use to weather the storm when lightning strikes.
Knowing there is no such thing as a trauma-free life, Amrita is now on a mission to share these strategies with individuals and organizations so they can be equipped to understand and bravely take on crisis, capture its learnings, and make the choices necessary to flourish through it.
Winning in the New Ways of Working
Winning in the New Ways of Working
Winning in the New Ways of Working
Tech breakthroughs, demographic shifts, rapid urbanization, global power swings, climate and resource scarcity, the wake of a global pandemic – all of this and more shapes the working world we experience today and influences the trends anticipated for tomorrow.
With so much rapid and constant change, Amrita helps leaders focus on one element that will be an unmovable foundation for success - leadership maturity. Specifically, the ability to make decisions in a rapidly evolving world, while remaining steadfast in one’s commitment to the organization's mission, vision, and values, will be what separates winning leaders and teams apart.
Grounded in data-driven insights about the realities of today and trends of tomorrow, Amrita offers empathy-informed strategies that help leaders effectively anticipate, learn through, and lead through moments of upheaval. As a result, organizations are equipped to leverage these moments to scale to higher levels of functioning without burning out themselves or their teams in the process.