Anoushka Gungadin

Anoushka Gungadin's Biography

Anoushka Gungadin is the founder and CEO of GlobalCQ, Non Executive Director of Anglo African Investments, MBA lecturer, international Speaker and Amazon best-selling co-author of the Nurtured Woman series.

Anoushka is the former CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, the world’s leading youth achievement award. She is the outgoing Vice President of the Australia India Business Council in Victoria. Anoushka speaks six languages, has lived and worked across Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia.

She has worked with global brands such as UNESCO, l’Oreal and Gide Loyrette Nouel. For Anoushka, the future is diverse and intersectional. Recognising the economic shift to Asia and Africa , that we live in globalised societies, with increasingly diverse talent and consumer, Anoushka set up GlobalCQ to help leaders build and benefit from cultural intelligence and inclusion to thrive in the modern economy. GlobalCQ has been recognised for its innovative vision and is the winner of the 2018 Westpac 200 Businesses of Tomorrow Award.

Anoushka is currently working on her new book on Cultural Intelligence. Anoushka is a trained Economist, a finance professional in the legal industry, holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and an Associate Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation.

As a Keynote Presenter and Workshop Facilitator, Anoushka’s expertise, authenticity and energy engages your audience. Her focus is on ensuring that each and every one walk away with a new learning, insight or action to implement in their life or work. She spends time understanding who your audience is and designs her presentation to them.

Anoushka tunes in and aligns the delivery of her presentation to the energy in the room. She has direct, strong, credible, smart, and charismatic presence and her presentations are practical, engaging and humorous. Understanding how we learn and engage as adults, Anoushka will take your audience on an experiential journey through her presentations.

*The data on diversity dividend is clear, culturally diverse organisations are 35% more likely to outperform their homogenous peers.

*Teams with at least one member who share a client’s ethnicity are 152% more likely than another team to understand that client.

*At the same time, 70% of International ventures fail due to cultural differences.

*90% of leading executives from 68 countries identified cross cultural leadership as the top management priority for the next century.

*We are living in increasingly diverse societies with new opportunities. There has never been a better or more pressing time for businesses to build and leverage cultural intelligence and inclusion for growth in the modern economy.

Anoushka Gungadin

Speaking Topics Include

Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Tool of the Future

Cultural Intelligence is a business imperative in the modern economy, to increase engagement, performance, market share and bottom-line.

Key Highlights:

• What is cultural intelligence?

• The opportunities of the modern economy

• Benefits of CQ

• The CQ5 framework on how to build CQ in organisations

Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Tool of the Future is perfect for Board Directors, CEOs, CFOs, leadership teams and managers of Strategy, People and/or Culture.

 

Culture and Strategy: Smashing Avocados Together

Low employee engagement, high turnover and increasing mental health issues are challenges that business face today with the added complexities of diversity and globalisation.

Find out how alignment of optimal culture and strategy builds a brand that enhances employee belonging, customer loyalty and business growth.

Key Highlights:

• Understand the relationship between culture and strategy

• Find out if your current culture is accidental or optimal for your business strategy

• Benefits of culture and strategy alignment on organisational performance and well-being

Culture and Strategy: Smashing Avocados Together is perfect for CEOs, leaders and managers of Strategy, People, Culture, Talent, HR, Diversity and Inclusion.

 

3R to Overcome Unconscious Bias: Recognise Reverse Reflect

What is the significance and impact of Unconscious Bias in the workplace? We live in increasingly diverse societies creating ‘super-diversity’ in the workplace including gender, age, nationality. Bias affects how organisations make decisions that impact employee engagement, retention, organisational culture, client experience and brand perception.

This presentation explains the 3R Bias framework:

• Recognise

• Reverse

• Reflect

Bias affects employee engagement and active disengagement costs companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in the U.S. (Gallup). 3R Bias framework helps your audience understand and identify personal & organisational biases, how we relate to differences, how to reverse them and to practice inclusion.

Motivational - If I Can, You Can

This is the story of starting over again and not giving up when you feel you have hit complete rock bottom. It shows that we are more powerful than we believe and if we get out of our own way, half the job is done.

Key highlights:

• Self belief & our DNA

• Change your narrative and change your life

• If I can, you can: step into your power

This presentation will inspire and empower many to step into their power.