Anjali Kumar
Transform legal and business strategy with Anjali Kumar, speaker, social innovation expert. Anjali works with entrepreneurs and C-level executives to develop socially conscious ventures and strategic partnerships, delivering expertise honed at Google, Warby Parker, and Stanford d.school.
New York City, United States
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Anjali serves as an Advisor and Global Ambassador for the Stanford d.school, focused on developing strategic partnerships to amplify the d.school's reach and make design methods and mindsets more accessible. She is also a co-founder of COVID Tech Connect, which sent nearly 20,000 smart devices to hospitals and senior care facilities across the US that allow critically ill patients to connect with their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Previously, Anjali has been the Founding Chief People Officer and General Counsel at Cheddar, the Founding Head of Social Innovation and Founding General Counsel at Warby Parker, Founding General Counsel at Acumen, and Senior Counsel at Google.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
As the adage goes, "empowered women empower women." from the purchasing power women have as consumers to the employment opportunities they offer as business owners, women are an undeniable economic force. Exploring this, Anjali Kumar discusses the questions… How are women building businesses, leading workforces, and reinvesting income and profits as compared to men? How is gender-lens investing helping to drive capital to these females led ventures? How are female-led companies positively impacting the communities they operate within? What can we expect from the next generation of female entrepreneurs?
Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes you on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, an infamous "healer" in Brazil and others, sharing an important lesson: what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us, and our differences are not insurmountable.
Anjali Kumar discusses her experience at Google and misogyny in the tech world in general. She also offers advice to young women hoping to go into those fields.
In November 2017, Anjali Kumar gave a TED talk about her search for God and the meaning of life, and received a standing ovation. Since it went live in January 2018, her talk has been watched by well over 3 million viewers around the world. It has been translated into numerous languages, and rated as beautiful, inspiring, and funny. But the content of that talk is only a small fraction of what Kumar has to say about the value of an open mind, the importance of embracing extreme diversity, and the Eastern concept of anekāntavāda—non-absolutism.
Anjali Kumar works with all stages of businesses, focusing on early stage tech and consumer product companies with a social conscience, in order to transform the norm of how businesses work by helping them do well – and do good.
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