Neha Gadkari

About Neha Gadkari

I come with over 17 years of experience in Business Consulting across retail, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, healthcare and life sciences industries. I am experienced in developing Leadership / Executive / C-Suite Coalitions, mobilizing Change Champion Networks, Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, Communications, and in supporting initiatives to bring in new Ways of Working, from Modern Workplace to GenAI and AgenticAI contexts.I hold certifications in CCMP (Certified Change Management Professional), and PROSCI certified Change Practitioner.

Experience

1. Consulting Principal

   Cognizant

   Apr 2024 — Present

   Organizational Change Manager for global clients, leading engagements impacting stakeholders ranging from 200 – employees. Formulated agile, waterfall and hybrid change deployment strategies for complex digital programs, and process implementations. Scope included stakeholder management, training, coaching of key pilot participants, and delivery of communications. Successful implementation technologies and contexts include (but are not limited to)- Change Management Office setup, Copilot implementation, SAP ECC integration (M&A Advisory), SAP Ariba, SAP Concur greenfield implementations, SAP FP & A Strategy definition, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process adoption uplift intervention, Adobe Experience Cloud process implementation, Agile methodologies and practices adoption support. • Managed a sales pipeline of 8-10 million USD, to feed into internal resourcing strategy• Led practice development activities to enable, empower and build internal talent and toolkit, including development of a GenAI User Adoption Playbook.• Team management in formal structures, and informally through mentoring and leading initiatives.

Education

• University of Maryland

  MS, Telecommunications

  2007 — 2009

• University of Mumbai

  BE, Electronics and Telecommunications