Sneha Mandala
Sneha Mandala helps organizations create effortless, high-performing work cultures that reduce burnout and boost engagement.
Sneha Mandala helps organizations create effortless, high-performing work cultures that reduce burnout and boost engagement.
Sneha Mandala is a leading voice on work culture, employee engagement, and peak performance. As a professional speaker, consultant, and ICF-certified coach (PCC), she helps companies reduce burnout and disengagement, issues costing the U.S. economy $1 trillion annually. With over 1,500 coaching hours and a unique two-step “Effortless Work” framework, Sneha equips leaders with the mindset and strategies to create sustainable, high-performing teams. Featured on major media platforms, she continues to redefine how organizations think about productivity and employee well-being.
Sneha Mandala has built her career around one mission, to make work feel effortless. Her approach bridges science, leadership psychology, and practical business application to combat disengagement and burnout. Through her innovative two-step framework, Sneha helps leaders and teams create flow-driven work environments where performance thrives without the constant struggle of overexertion.
Her framework, which gained widespread recognition through her TED talk, simplifies what many see as an impossible challenge: achieving peak performance while maintaining balance and motivation. Sneha’s philosophy is rooted in the belief that when employees are aligned, supported, and connected to purpose, productivity naturally follows.
As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, Sneha brings both credibility and deep expertise to her coaching. With more than 1,500 hours of experience, she has guided executives, entrepreneurs, and teams across industries to elevate their performance and workplace satisfaction.
Her coaching sessions often focus on understanding the root causes of disengagement, identifying blind spots in leadership behavior, and establishing habits that drive consistent excellence. Participants describe her style as practical, empathetic, and deeply transformative, helping leaders turn insights into measurable outcomes.
Sneha’s impact extends beyond individual coaching. As a sought-after consultant and speaker, she has worked with organizations across the tech and business sectors, helping them reduce turnover and foster strong engagement cultures. Her programs are designed to address real-world issues like miscommunication, burnout, and cross-generational collaboration, challenges that often hinder organizational success.
In her sessions, Sneha breaks down the complexity of modern work culture with clarity and empathy. She offers actionable solutions that resonate with both executives and employees, creating a shared understanding of what sustainable performance looks like in today’s dynamic workplace.
Sneha’s thought leadership has earned her recognition in major outlets including LA Weekly, SHRM, and Fox24 News, where she regularly shares insights on the evolving nature of work and leadership. Her ability to translate complex organizational challenges into clear, human-centered strategies has made her a trusted voice among business and HR leaders.
As one of Vistage’s highly regarded speakers, she has trained and coached leaders across industries, consistently achieving measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and overall performance. Her repeat invitations reflect the tangible impact her sessions have on leadership teams and company culture.
Organizations today face unprecedented challenges in maintaining engagement and well-being while driving high performance. Sneha Mandala brings fresh, research-backed strategies to help leaders navigate these pressures with confidence. Whether delivering a keynote, leading a workshop, or facilitating executive coaching, she empowers audiences with tools that make a lasting difference.
Booking Sneha means giving your team access to proven methods for reducing burnout, fostering trust, and achieving effortless productivity. Her sessions leave participants inspired and equipped to build workplaces that thrive, where success is sustainable, and people truly enjoy what they do.
Keynote by Sneha Mandala:
The Leadership Failure Hiding in Plain Sight
Focus Area: Leadership.
Perfect For: Leadership Retreats and Conferences
The Problem: Individual contributors get promoted without a chance to learn leadership skills, whether fundamental or advanced. The result? A lack of accountability, shattered trust, and inadequate communication on teams, leading to subpar results.
The Solution: I teach what business schools skip: how to lead through internal motivation, not dominance. Your leaders will learn to build real accountability and create teams that perform because they want to, not because they have to.
Keynote by Sneha Mandala:
The Brutal Cost of Broken Recognition in Organizations
Focus Area: Employee Engagement.
Perfect For: Conferences (especially HR) and Organizations with retention issues
The Problem: Your people don't feel valued. High turnover, low morale, failed recognition programs, you've tried the pizza parties and employee-of-the-month plaques, but nothing works. Employees feel invisible, and your engagement scores prove it. When people feel worthless at work, they leave. Or worse, become toxic.
The Solution: I expose why most appreciation programs feel hollow and show you how to build cultures rooted in Authenticity, where every employee feels genuinely valued, psychologically safe, and seen as a human being. Not surface fixes. Real recognition that actually drives retention and results.
Keynote by Sneha Mandala:
The ‘Effortless’ Way to End Burnout for Good
Focus Area: Performance.
Perfect For: All Hands Meetings, Conferences, and Leadership Retreats
The Problem: Everyone's exhausted, but results keep dropping. You've pushed for harder work, longer hours, more effort and all you've gotten is burned-out high performers and declining productivity. The burnout epidemic isn't a people problem. It's a systems problem. You can't sustain performance through sheer force.
The Solution: I teach the burnout cure: Drive + Authenticity = Flow. Stop choosing between pushing for results (burnout) or prioritizing people (mediocrity). I show you how to create both, intrinsic motivation that drives performance AND psychological safety that sustains it. Peak performance that lasts.