To show people what is possible. To bend barriers to help people think of success, leadership differently. To change bias and expectations

-Deepa

Speaking

Deepa is a Senior Executive who specializes in Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. She speaks extensively about race and gender issues and has been featured at national conferences and in publications like Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Huffington Post, and Harvard Business Review. She is currently writing a book, The Firsts, The Fews and the Onlys: Why Women of Color Need to Redefine Power Corporate America being published by Harper Collins in Fall of 2021. She has interviewed over 500 senior WOC leaders and her work and speaking draws on their stories and her own 22 year career as a senior Partner where she advised Tech and Telecom clients and served as a national inclusion leader.

Speaking Inquires

Speaking Topics Include:

  • Changing the Game: Leadership to Meet This Moment
  • The Firsts, Fews & Onlys: Challenges and Opportunities as a WOC at Work
  • From Inclusion Delusion to Genuine Inclusion
  • The Pipeline Fallacy: Women of Color Rising
  • Radical Authenticity: The Corporate Culture of Conformity
  • Bold, New Space and Courageous Dialogue
  • Re-imagining Power, Redefining Success: How to Be Power-Full
  • Courage & Permission to Use Your Voice and Your Power
  • Liberation, Truth & Power
  • Stay Or Go: Why Women of Color Leave Corporate America

In Action

She Summit
Women in Corporate America
Ellevate
Women & Leadership
Army War College
Leadership Panel
Refinery29
Women & Motherhood
So Money
Leadership Paths
Leaders Magazine
Paths to Success
Women Working
Avasara, Giving Back and Teaching Girls
HBR
Woman and Leadership
Consulting Magazine
Women Leaders
"Japan Society
Leadership Styles
Training Magazine
Women Leaders
Huffington Post
Entrepreneurship