Chitra Anand

Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario

Innovation Speaker
Award Winning Communications & Marketing Executive

Chitra Anand Expertise Artificial Intelligence (AI), Change Management, Communication, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Health & Wellness, Business Technology and Intrapreneurship.

Chitra Anand

About Chitra Anand

Dr. Chitra Anand is an award-winning communications and marketing executive with over two decades of leadership in the tech sector, including senior roles at Microsoft Canada, TELUS, and Open Text. A recognized expert in intrapreneurship, Dr. Chitra Anand empowers organizations to drive innovation from within and has delivered keynotes at major global events. Currently Managing Director at Clariti Strategic Advisors™, she focuses on ESG and impact-driven investment in the tech and healthcare sectors. Named a Globe and Mail “Change Maker,”. Dr. Chitra Anand is also the author of The Greenhouse Approach, a key text for the Forbes MBA program.

Chitra Anand Videos

May 29, 2024

Dr. Chitra Anand: the Trust Trifecta

Chitra Anand Interviews & Podcasts

340: Intrapreneurship in Large Complex Organizations, with Dr. Chitra

DR. CHITRA ANAND BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Chitra Anand is an award-winning communications & marketing executive. With over 20 years in the technology industry, she has spent time as the Chief Brand and Communications Officer for Microsoft Canada, Director of Marketing at TELUS Corporation and Director of Operations at Open Text.

Projects she guided at Microsoft and TELUS have been awarded IABC-Gold Quill Awards, Canadian Public Relations Society Awards of Excellence, the Corporate IT Hero award by the Information Technology Association of Canada and the Business for the Arts Awards.

Currently, Dr. Anand is a Managing Director with Clariti Strategic Advisors™, a boutique Investment Bank. Her focus is on advisory mandates which have relevance in the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Social Impact arenas, with particular emphasis on the Technology and Healthcare verticals.

Dr. Chitra Anand is at the forefront of an important new movement in the workplace: intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurs are the people within your organization who possess an entrepreneurial spirit, driving innovation, creative thinking, and new ideas.

Dr. Chitra Anand has keynoted several events, AGM’s and conferences where her talks reveal how her talks reveal how to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship within organizations, how to stay on the cutting edge of market trends, technology, and consumer behaviour.

Her writing has been featured in the Globe and Mail and the Huffington Post and teaches several courses at Humber and Sheridan College. The book, The Green House Approach, How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations which is now available on Amazon is written by Dr Chitra Anand. This book is now a main source of reading for the Forbes School of Business MBA program.

In 2022, Dr. Chitra Anand was named a Change Maker by the Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading National Newspaper, highlighting 50 prominent leaders who are bold and innovative, based on their ideas, accomplishments and impact.

Dr. Chitra Anand has been named as a “bridge builder” for women in tech by the A-list; a yearly publication that features 50 prominent Indo-Canadians who through various career and community efforts have helped foster relations between Canada and India. Anand has an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management and completed her Doctorate at Bradford University in the UK.

Chitra Anand Topic Presentations

Chitra Anand Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

The Trust Trifecta : Humanity, Reciprocity, Practice

Intrapreneurship & Innovation : Developing a New Environment

What is Mentaltoughness and How Do We Harness This as a Superpower?

Greenhouse Thinking: How Intrapreneurs are Changing the Face of Innovation

Women in Tech : Trends, Realities, Misconceptions, and How to Lead

Deliberate: How to Foster the Power of Experimentation and Innovation within Your Company.

The Future of Marketing: Trends, Technology, and Consumer Behaviour.

Chitra Anand Books & Articles

The Greenhouse Approach: Cultivating Intrapreneurship in Companies and Organizations
The Greenhouse Approach: Cultivating

The Greenhouse Approach and thinking is a mindset shift; a shift to how we approach our thinking within environments challenging current...

Key Takeaways from the 2017 Forbes Women Summit in New York
Key Takeaways from the 2017 Forbes Women Summit

For the past five years, Forbes has hosted an invitation-only conference in New York, drawing women from diverse backgrounds and...

Chitra Anand Speaking Testimonials

"Chitra Anand addresses the biggest challenge to creativity and innovation; the internal resistance to change and the stubborn or fearful reluctance to consider a new idea or a new process or an entirely new way of doing business. This book should be required reading for all corporate managers."

Dr. Paula Zobisch

PROGRAM CHAIR, BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FORBES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

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