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Director
Kotter, Massachusetts, United States
With a doctorate in Sport & Performance Psychology and over a decade of consulting experience, Dr. Vanessa Akhtar has built her career on optimizing human performance. She has worked with organizations around the globe, spanning a variety of industries – including oil & energy, healthcare, education, pharmaceuticals, non-profits, consumer products, manufacturing, advertising and philanthropic foundations. Previously, she taught at Boston University and worked with teams, coaches and athletes – ranging from youth through to professional and Olympic-level – to help individuals reach the top of their game.
She has written on the topics of leadership and change for outlets such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan, Forbes, Huffington Post, OilMan Magazine, IndustryWeek, Chief Executive Magazine, Training Magazine and others; and provided commentary to a number of media outlets on the topics of employee engagement, supply chain transformation and digital transformation. She is the co-author of the book Change: How Organizations Create Hard-to-Imagine Results Despite Uncertain and Volatile Times (Wiley) with Dr. John Kotter and Gaurav Gupta.
As a Director at Kotter, Vanessa has two main areas of focus. She works on the firm’s most complex engagements, walking alongside clients in their transformation efforts. Additionally, she collaborates with Dr. John Kotter and a core team to drive Research + Development efforts. She is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive – through the use of research-backed, human-centric approaches.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
9:00am – 3:30pm
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
10:50am – 11:20am