Organiser

Shalini is the current Board Chair and was also a pastpresident of the Out in Business Club as an LBS MBA2022 graduate. After leaving LBS, she joined American Express where she iscurrently a Senior Manager in the Colleague Experience Group.

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Shalini Chudasama is passionate about the capacity for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to help individuals thrive. She is a life-long student of DEI in both personal and professional spheres. Shalini has led Bain & Company’s gender parity center of excellence driving DEI efforts, managing internal gender parity assessments, and researching global best practices. In this role, she developed and launched a talent strategy and blueprint for women’s retention across six continents and spearheaded two global conferences on gender parity. She has since broadened her focus to include racial equity efforts as well as community-building among LGBTQ+ individuals and allies. Shalini approaches DEI challenges by pairing her subject-matter expertise with management consulting experience to help create organizational change grounded in data and empathy. She has trained as a DEI facilitator and given talks, served as a panelist, and held workshops at universities, corporate events, and community organizations around the world.

Shalini earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, and also studied at Copenhagen Business School and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She earned her MBA from London Business School focused on organizational behavior, change management, and talent strategy, and is now working for American Express in a people operations role.