Gitanjali Saksena

Gitanjali Saksena

Director, LagomWorks

India

Gitanjali (likes to be called Gita) has been in the Research and Consulting field for the last 24 years. She is currently on a journey of ‘Aiding Transformation’ at an organization and individual level.

Gita is certified in Advanced Design Thinking from Stanford University, and Data Science and ML from IIT, Delhi.

She has expertise in helping large organizations in the area of Innovation, Transformation and Culture, and emerging businesses in their scale up journey. Gita has been actively pursuing an integrated strategy of leveraging design thinking principles + technology + analytics, and combining them with time tested approaches to create relevant, scalable working models for her clients.

Gita is Director at LagomWorks (https://lagomworks.com), which is an inter-disciplinary research and design studio, working with its clients to design and drive initiatives of impact. She has led Strategy, Digital, Process and Social innovation interventions for her clients.

Her most recent organizational stint was as Principal Consultant at the Gallup Organization. She has worked with industry leaders across segments like NGOs, Manufacturing, Telecom, IT/ITES, Hospitality etc. in India, Europe and Asia. In her role as Principal Consultant, she worked closely with senior leaders across organizations to help them with employee engagement strategies, developing a holistic, integrated perspective about managing customer-employee interactions effectively and team building interventions for leadership teams.

She is an ICF certified Gallup Strengths Performance Coach, with a firm belief that individual, team and organization success requires focus on individual talents, not weaknesses. She completed her ‘Coaching for Transformation’ (ICF approve ACTP Coach Training – 140 hours) from Leadership That Works, an organization headquartered out of USA. She has worked actively in the area of leadership competency building and facilitating personal success through the coaching process, partnering with more than 150 global leaders from organizations like Facebook, Deloitte, Paladion, Baxter, Microsoft, Cognizant, Standard Chartered, Hero Motors etc. She is also certified in pscyhometric assessments like Extended DISC, PDA and IBM Leadership Preference and Behavioural Assessments. She has recently co-authored the book ‘Alchemy of Coaching: Maximize Self & Team Performance as First Time Managers.’

She is Co-founder, WomenLead India, working actively in the area of creating gender neutral, equal opportunity workplaces and helping women mitigate the impact of unconscious biases in their journey towards senior leadership positions. Gita is a CII certified ‘Sustainability Assessor’ and part of an NGO operating in the health sector.

Gita has actively partnered with prominent Industry Associations in India like CII, Assocham, TiE, Women Economic Forum both as Knowledge Partner as well as a Speaker. She has been visiting faculty to TISS, XUB, TAPMI, IIT Kanpur, IMT Ghaziabad, IBS and IILM. She has done her Post Graduation in Business Economics from Delhi University.