Advancing Gender Equality in the Workplace: What Works

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• Gayatri Shenai, McKinsey, Partner, New York, NY

  Gayatri is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s New York Office and a leader in our Pharmaceutical and Medical Products practice. Gayatri focuses on bringing digital and technology strategy and solutions to help companies fundamentally transform their operational performance and improve their competitive position. She has deep expertise helping healthcare and financial-services companies harness the power of technology to improve their business operations and competitive position. She serves a wide variety of organizations in developing, launching, and executing transformative change at the intersection of strategy, digital, and operations. Gayatri is also a passionate champion of women apprenticeship, mentorship and sponsorship initiatives and is a co-founder of the “Women In Technology & Operations” conference, which each year brings together about a hundred of the most influential female chief technology and operations executives in North America to network and invest in professional and personal development. Gayatri is also closely involved in McKinsey’s decade long research on women’s advancement and shares findings around all over North America. For example, she has moderated panels on this topic with the Clinton Foundation, United Nations and Empowerment 2020 in San Francisco, among others. She has consistently been voted one of the most outstanding mentors in the office. Prior to joining McKinsey, Gayatri worked for 6 years as an IT consultant in Tata Consultancy Services, Asia’s largest IT consulting company. Gayatri has an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she was a Forte Fellow.

• Andrea Yandreski, CPA, McKinsey & Company, Partner, Toronto, ON

  Andrea Yandreski is a Partner with McKinsey’s RTS group in Toronto, Canada. Her practice focuses on achieving rapid, dramatic performance improvement through comprehensive transformation programs with companies seeking to go from good to great. She has considerable experience working alongside C-suite executives in interim leadership roles to achieve financial and operational excellence. Ms. Yandreski is active in women’s leadership development at McKinsey, with her clients and in the turnaround profession. She is a leader of McKinsey’s Women’s Initiative in North America and collaborated on a recent publication, The Power of Parity: Advancing Women’s Equality in Canada. This report sizes the economic potential of greater gender equality, maps existing gender gaps at the national, provincial, territorial, and city levels, and analyzes results from a new workplace survey of Canadian companies. It is one of the most comprehensive reports of its kind published to date. She is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant), Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professional, and Licensed Insolvency Trustee. She serves on the Board of Directors for several professional and not-for-profit organizations and is a frequent speaker at conferences and industry events.

  Gayatri is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s New York Office and a leader in our Pharmaceutical and Medical Products practice. Gayatri focuses on bringing digital and technology strategy and solutions to help companies fundamentally transform their operational performance and improve their competitive position. She has deep expertise helping healthcare and financial-services companies harness the power of technology to improve their business operations and competitive position. She serves a wide variety of organizations in developing, launching, and executing transformative change at the intersection of strategy, digital, and operations. Gayatri is also a passionate champion of women apprenticeship, mentorship and sponsorship initiatives and is a co-founder of the “Women In Technology & Operations” conference, which each year brings together about a hundred of the most influential female chief technology and operations executives in North America to network and invest in professional and personal development. Gayatri is also closely involved in McKinsey’s decade long research on women’s advancement and shares findings around all over North America. For example, she has moderated panels on this topic with the Clinton Foundation, United Nations and Empowerment 2020 in San Francisco, among others. She has consistently been voted one of the most outstanding mentors in the office. Prior to joining McKinsey, Gayatri worked for 6 years as an IT consultant in Tata Consultancy Services, Asia’s largest IT consulting company. Gayatri has an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she was a Forte Fellow.

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