Disrupt status quo thinking. Dr. Chitra Anand brings executive-level insights to drive internal innovation and organizational reinvention.
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I'm thrilled to have experienced this unique approach and a powerful message on trust - such a relevant topic - at the #WNORTH Conference. This keynote is absolutely beyond expectations. Applause for Dr. Chitra Anand and M.Michele.
Mariana Freitas
Founder/CEO Sirius App
Book an award-winning former Microsoft exec who empowers organizations to ignite innovation from within. Dr. Chitra Anand transforms teams with actionable strategies in intrapreneurship, culture, and future-focused leadership.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Chitra Anand is a globally recognized expert on intrapreneurship, the art of driving innovation from within an organization. With over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at tech giants like Microsoft Canada, TELUS, and OpenText, Dr. Anand brings powerful, real-world insights into how companies can unlock untapped potential by cultivating entrepreneurial thinking internally.
As a thought leader in the fields of innovation, communications, and corporate strategy, Dr. Anand has developed a unique approach to helping businesses transform their culture and mindset to remain agile and competitive in an ever-evolving market. Her keynotes provide organizations with actionable tools to activate internal changemakers, break down silos, and embed innovation into the company’s DNA.
Dr. Anand is the author of The Green House Approach: How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations, a foundational text in the Forbes School of Business MBA curriculum. She has been named a Change Maker by The Globe and Mail and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail for her expertise.
If you're looking to inspire forward-thinking leadership and meaningful transformation within your teams, book Dr. Chitra Anand for your event. Her keynotes are the catalyst for organizations ready to redefine their future through intrapreneurship and innovation.
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I'm thrilled to have experienced this unique approach and a powerful message on trust - such a relevant topic - at the #WNORTH Conference. This keynote is absolutely beyond expectations. Applause for Dr. Chitra Anand and M.Michele.
Mariana Freitas Founder/CEO Sirius App
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Thank you Dr. Chitra Anand ...for enlightening us with all your positive and eloquent contributions! The core of trust is on how well we trust ourselves. That has to be the beginning for building a solid foundation for healthy prosperous relationships!
Trusted Advisor, CXO and VIP clients
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She completely enthralled the audience with her enthusiasm, her confidence, her unique presenting style including a musical backbeat, her humour, and her engagement. Chitra’s message of intrapreneurship truly resonated with the room as they learned how to encourage and get the most out of their colleagues and themselves. Our challenge as organizers is to find presenters who can appeal to a wide variety of attendees and Chitra certainly filled the bill, giving everyone some food for thought to take back with them to their communities and organizations.
Marketing & Communications, Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce
5 of 5
We loved your energy, ability to inspire and motivate the crowd while setting the tone for the second day of the summit, and found your topics engaging and insightful. There were so many nuggets of knowledge to be taken away from your speech and I am certain that each attendee walked away with something.
2019 Innovation Summit Chairs, Cenovus Energy
5 of 5
The positive reaction was overwhelming. Chitra’s experience and research were presented in the best possible way to open our eyes on what it will take in the coming years to be successful both as an organization and as an individual. An absolute must-see presentation!
CEO, MTY Group
5 of 5
Chitra is a dynamic and passionate speaker who helped us think about our industry in a different kind of way. After her talk, she conducted a workshop where we had an opportunity to apply some of the key insights from the morning; it was very engaging and very useful.
Random House of Canada
5 of 5
Chitra Anand was a dynamic and impactful keynote speaker. The combination of her expertise in intrapreneurship, her enthusiasm, and her engaging presentation was a perfect finale for our audience.
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
Keynote by Chitra Anand:
With marketplaces being disrupted at a rate like never before, companies need to re-think how they operate. To succeed, modern businesses need to foster the creativity of their team by providing an environment that promotes constant innovation.
In this talk, Dr. Anand explores how Intrapreneurship can be used as a gateway for organizations to achieve sustainable innovation. She will show audiences how to harnesses the entrepreneurial drive within an existing organization to foster new ideas, creative thinking which will provide companies the problem-solving mindset to succeed in an ever-changing world.
With over 20 years spent in the technology sector working for some industry-leading organizations including Open Text, TELUS, and Microsoft, Chitra has led disruptive projects and initiatives which have created new ways for organizations to operate and think about the way in which they do business. Her book The Greenhouse Approach (a mandatory read for the Forbes School of Business MBA Program) shows organizations how to reimagine current norms and structures and develop a culture of innovation.
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