Nitya Shekar

Nitya is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with expertise in adult learning, organizational development, and HR initiatives. Her industry experience includes 15 years of building and leading teams at high-growth startups (AppNexus, Better, Collibra), big tech (Meta), and quantitative trading (Jane Street).

As an advisor, Nitya is passionate about fostering agile, values-driven, people-first cultures that scale. As a leadership development and team effectiveness facilitator, her style balances challenge with psychological safety, collaboration with reflection, objectivity with empathy, and expansion with actionability — plus, the transformative power of play!

Nitya has been a host of the Leadership Arts Review podcast and an Advisory Board Member at BossmakeHer. Her insights have been featured on the BlissFULL Life, Performance Shift, Empjoyment, and Actuarial Journey podcasts.

She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Rice University, and accreditations in Leadership Circle Profile, Hogan Assessments, Insights Discovery, DiSC, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Situational Leadership II.

Nitya is based in New York City. She enjoys traveling the world, watching great TV, and eating delicious food. She has performed improv with Magnet Theater and concerts with Berkshire Choral International. Ask her anything!