Chitra Anand

Former Head of Communications at Microsoft, Professor & Author of "The Green House Approach, How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations"

Toronto, Canada
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Ethics & Integrity, Influential Women, Innovation, Inspirational, Technology, Women in Business
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Chitra Anand Biography

Dr. Chitra Anand is an award-winning communications and marketing executive with extensive experience in the technology sector. She has held significant roles such as the Head of Communications for Microsoft Canada, Director of Marketing at TELUS Corporation, and Director of Operations at Open Text. Throughout her career, Anand's leadership has been instrumental in earning her projects accolades like IABC Gold Quill Awards, Canadian Public Relations Society Awards of Excellence, and the Corporate IT Hero award from the Information Technology Association of Canada.

Anand is a leading advocate for intrapreneurship—a movement that champions entrepreneurial spirit within established organizations. She has extensively researched and spoken on fostering innovation and creative thinking in corporate settings. Her insights delve into adapting to market disruptions, maintaining competitiveness, and reimagining operations to cultivate groundswell innovative thinking. Anand’s keynote speaker program, "GreenHouse Thinking: How to Cultivate Groundswell Innovative Thinking from Within," addresses these themes directly.

In addition to her corporate roles, Anand is an accomplished author, educator, and speaker. She wrote "The Greenhouse Approach: How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations," a piece that explores breakthrough innovation within companies and is a required read in the Forbes School of Business MBA program. Anand has also served as a professor, teaching courses at Humber and Sheridan College, and her writings have been featured in The Globe and Mail and HuffPost. Recently, she was named a “Changemaker” by The Globe and Mail for her bold leadership and innovative approaches in business. Currently, Anand is a Managing Director with Clariti Strategic Advisors™, focusing on environmental, social, governance (ESG), and social impact, particularly in the technology and healthcare sectors.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 12/16/2024.

Chitra Anand Speaking Topics

  • The Trust Trifecta: Humanity. Reciprocity. Trust.

    Over the past several decades, we have become a more untrustworthy society. This has been an upward trend, however 2020 has accelerated this with a set of implications that has exposed a set of flaws. This includes flaws in institutions, businesses, governments, and media. It has left many of us in an existential crisis. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, we are in a “cycle of distrust.” This is a result of an epidemic of misinformation which has led to a wider spread of mistrust amongst societal institutions and leaders around the world. Distrust is now a default emotion.

    Businesses have an opportunity to step up and intervene in a new kind of leadership, where trust is at the core. The fact of the matter is business partners who trust each other spend less time and energy focused on self-preservation. When trust is present both sides achieve better economic outcomes. Dr. Anand has hypothesized and tested a trust trifecta: HUMANITY. RECIPROCITY. PRACTICE. During this session — which provides an immersive intersection of music and content — she will share insights into the impact of the intersection of these notions that, when met in this specific order, we can all benefit from the outcomes.

  • Greenhouse Thinking | An Art of Creating New Possibilities

    Greenhouse Thinking is about challenging the ideas that have created the world we live in by exploring the realm of possibility in developing alternatives. Dr. Anand’s research has shown how many of the problems we face are systemic. She believes that the changes we need to make to solve these problems are actually quite simple and pragmatic.

    While we know that innovation is the key to value creation, many organizations get stuck in the process of actually getting there. They become complacent, which increases the risk of becoming irrelevant. The Greenhouse mindset shift that Dr. Anand shares in this presentation will offer audiences the following learning objectives:

    • A framework for healthy dissent and debate that can help boost true innovation amongst team members
    • How to leverage the power of first principles thinking in order to uncover fundamental truths that will set you on the path of innovative thinking
    • How leaders can apply the guiding principles of Greenhouse Thinking within their organization to drive a new paradigm of thinking
    • Methods for unlearning learned behaviours, why and how we can challenge our current thinking

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Chitra Anand is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Trust Trifecta: Humanity. Reciprocity. Trust., Greenhouse Thinking | An Art of Creating New Possibilities and Women in Leadership. The estimated speaking fee range to book Chitra Anand for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Chitra Anand generally travels from Toronto, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kathleen Hogan, Heather E. McGowan, Cynthia Marshall, Tiffani Bova and Dona Sarkar. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Chitra Anand for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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