Deepika Nath

CAREER HISTORY:

Deepika Nath is the Managing Director and founder of Indica Consulting where her focus is on bridging strategy and organizational and leadership development to bring about growth and lasting transformation. She is a trusted advisor and leadership coach to senior executives and women leaders who are seeking to define an authentic and effective leadership style.

She has 15 years of strategy and organizational consulting. Her clients rank amongst the leaders in the healthcare industry including Fortune 100 pharmaceutical organizations, biotechnology companies and pre-eminent academic and community healthcare organizations in the US and Canada. The early part of her consulting career was spent with leading consulting organizations including the Boston Consulting Group and Ernst & Young’s healthcare practice (now part of Accenture).

Prior to embarking on a consulting career, she was an Associate Professor (tenure granted 1994) at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto. She earned her B.A. with Honors from St. Stephen's College (Delhi University) in Mathematics. She has her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) and PhD in Management, from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and her MA in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP:

Her current interests focus on leadership issues including intuitive and authentic leadership and mentoring, and women’s career development. She has written articles on coaching women leaders to develop their voice and leadership. Her research on gender issues in management has been published in Women in Management Review.

Her thought leadership work on the Canadian biotechnology industry (Canadian Biotech ’97: Coming of Age, Ernst & Young Thought Leadership Series) has been quoted extensively in media including the Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Medical Post, CBC Business World and others. Her research on healthcare strategy has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare, American Hospital Association Report, Hospital PR and Marketing News, and others.

Her research on health care has been published in leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Hospital Marketing, and Advances in Non Profit Marketing.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Dr. Nath is a mentor with YearUp (www.yearup.org), a non-profit that provides urban young adults with technical and professional skills, and with Menttium’s Virtual 100 (www.menttium.com) mentoring program.