Anjani Bhargava, Senior Partner at Evolution, enables business results through leadership, transforming operators into culture-building leaders of today. She works in partnership with organizations who believe culture should be one of their greatest unfair customer advantages. She partners with CEOs, CHROs and leadership teams of start-up, high-growth, Fortune 500, and not-for-profit companies at critical junctions establishing the next chapter of growth, transformation, or turnaround.
The core of her work centers around two things – culture and coaching - helping organizations build the right culture for their stage of growth, and enabling leaders and leadership teams to be stewards of the culture through their behaviors. Building highly self-aware authentic leaders, who are the beacon of who others want to follow is her gold standard. Anjani is known for enabling transformational change in leaders by coaching across three planes – the work leaders do (strategy and tactics), how they do it with others (leadership), and how they show up as an authentic human (deep personal mindsets). These modes of coaching are in service of helping leaders optimize the full impact of their role – driving performance and accountability, leading their talent and building the right culture.
What get’s Anjani noticed is the quality of the questions she asks, her intuitive ability to see patterns and derive meaningful insights, and her deep accountability to people that quickly builds trust. With this, she’s able to bring practical suggestions and get to the heart of changing mindsets and behaviors. She ties everything back to “What is the outcome we are trying to achieve?” which quickly gets at root cause and impact performance levers. Her clients say working with her is like having a squeaky clean mirror who is in service of you and your business at all times. Her genius is her ability to blend her strategic business powerhouse and organizational development skills with the deep human work of leadership. Given her background as an organizational psychologist and her broad experience as a Fortune 100 leader, founder, investor and board member, she understands the complexities leaders face from every angle, across the lifecycle of a business from inception to growth to resurgence.
Anjani has over 20 years in the industry, as an operator and a consultant. Her clients include large and public organizations such as IBM, Xerox, Biogen, AMD, and Cedars-Sinai, High-Growth companies such as Slack, Radiology Partners, IRI, Capsilon, and AVIA, and a multitude of VC and PE-backed startups. She regularly works with Private Equity and Venture firms, and their portfolio. She has operated in key leadership roles for Motorola, Pepsi, and Lenovo; most recently she served as the Chief HR Officer for Topco, and the Chief Talent and Organization Development Officer for Abundant Venture Partners. She is an active investor and sits on boards of early stage companies.
