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Erica Dhawan
US

CEO, Cotential
and author

Biography

Erica Dhawan is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that helps organizations accelerate the connectedness of their people, customers, clients and other stakeholders to prepare for the workplace of tomorrow. As one of today’s most provocative business thinkers on the future of work, Erica advises business leaders and companies to lead markets through innovations that matter, create increasing value for customers and clients, deliver sustainable results and ensure future global competitiveness.

Erica Dhawan is the co­author of the bestselling book: "Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence" rated #1 on What Corporate America is Reading. An in­demand speaker, Erica has spoken, worldwide, to organizations and enterprises that range from the World Economic Forum at Davos to U.S. and global Fortune 500 companies. Her clients range from Deloitte, Fidelity Investments, Credit Suisse, and Pepsico. Her writings have appeared in dozens of publications, including Fast Company, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. In 2015, Erica was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 RADAR award, for the management thinker around the world most likely to shape the future of business, management and strategy and was named one of Levo 100’s Transformers alongside Chelsea Clinton and Alexis Ohanian. She serves as a board member to Deloitte’s Inclusion External Advisory Council and Lufthansa Innovation Hub.

Erica also serves as a member of the Aspen Institute Socrates Society, World Economic Forum Global Shapers, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. She previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital and served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. She has an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, MBA from MIT Sloan, and BS at the Wharton School.

Current Advisory Board Positions:
Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Deloitte’s Inclusion External Advisory Council