Aditi Sharma - Building Inclusive Enterprise Design Teams

Jun 6, 2022

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Aditi Sharma openly discusses being woman of colour in banking, how she’s building a diverse and inclusive design culture, and why she’s used design to dismantle injustices.

Highlights include:

⭐ Do you carry the weight of patriarchally imposed stigma on your shoulders?
⭐ Was it personally risky to help bring female condoms to women in India?
⭐ Is it fair to characterise the banking industry as a boys’ club?
⭐ Why isn’t design seen as the most important or credible voice in the room?
⭐ What do aspiring design leaders need to know about design leadership?

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Who is Aditi Sharma?

Aditi is an Executive Director of Digital Experience Design at JP Morgan Chase, a leading global financial services firm, where she is championing user-centred design and innovation in payment operations and is working to increase inclusivity, sustainability, and business growth.

Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, Aditi was a Design Director at Accenture Interactive in New York, where she established customer-centric design programmes for clients such as Walmart, Dupont and Cargill.

A lecturer at the Pratt Institute since 2018, recognised in 2020 by Authority Magazine as an inspirational woman in STEM, and honoured by the Government of India in 2021 with the prestigious ‘Dr. Sarojini Award’, Aditi is certainly someone to watch in design.

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Find Aditi here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-sharma9/

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