Shalini Unnikrishnan
Social Impact Strategist | Designing Solutions for Systemic Change
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Shalini Unnikrishnan is a globally recognized expert in leveraging business for social impact. As a Partner at Boston Consulting Group, she leads the firm's Social Impact practice, guiding Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits to address complex societal challenges.
Shalini's work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and The New York Times. She brings a data-driven, design-thinking approach to developing innovative solutions that create sustainable positive change.
Shalini's compelling keynotes inspire leaders to harness the power of business as a force for good.
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We need to turn our response to crisis inside out
During the peak of the Ebola crisis, the recovery process in Africa was not going according to plan. Failure after sobering failure forced health consultant Shalini Unnikrishnan to recognize that they had approached the crisis from the wrong direction. In this impassioned talk, she urges the response to the next pandemic to be centered on the people it impacts rather than the virus that spreads the disease. She advocates for a new approach that will infuse scientific procedures with the emotion, tradition and belief that are inextricably intertwined when crises are both global and local at once.
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