Dr. Saundarya Rajesh

Dr Saundarya Rajesh, an award-winning social entrepreneur, is the Founder-President of the Avtar Group – a leading workplace-culture consulting firm in India. An expert in women’s careers, she is the architect behind many transformative concepts, including flexi-work, second careers for women, and career intentionality – a unique career success tool for women. Avtar has provided Intentional Career Pathing Training to 200,000+ women, helping them strategically advance in their careers. Through MyAvtar.com, India’s first diversity job portal, ~1,00,000 women have secured fulfilling jobs.

She’s a sought-after speaker who has demystified workplace-culture dynamics to a wide range of audiences including policymakers, CEOs and HR leaders, through her keynote speeches across various platforms such as TedX, the International Conference on Future of Women in Sri Lanka, Target Elevate, the World AI Conference in Dubai, the TOP women conference in South Africa, and many more.

She’s also a best-selling author of two books published by Penguin – ‘The 99 Day Diversity Challenge’ is a first-of-its-kind DEI guide for organizations and ‘Conversations with the Career Doctor’ is a practical handbook for women to win professionally.

For her pioneering work, Dr Saundarya has received the UN Women Transforming India award, the British Chevening Changemaker award and the President of India’s 100 Women Achiever award among many others.