Bhakti Vithalani is the founder and CEO of BigSpring, an AI platform that keeps people work-ready in a world where jobs, technology, and expectations change faster than ever. The old model of study, work, retire doesn’t keep up. Check-the-box training doesn’t deliver results. And both leave many behind. BigSpring uses AI to instrument real-world behavior, measure whether people are job-ready instead of test-ready, and align human execution with business results.Global enterprises including Accenture, Google, Pfi zer, SAP, Deloitte, Tata, and HSBC use BigSpring to accelerate new launches, scale sales plays, and capture fi eld intelligence across teams and partners. The World Economic Forum named BigSpring a Technology Pioneer for its impact in reshaping how people and organizations transform at pace with today’s innovation. Bhakti’s conviction comes from two worlds. She grew up in Mumbai, a city of extremes where wealth and scarcity exist side by side, making “What’s the path forward?” a constant, systemic question. Later, as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, she saw how often strategies broke down at execution because conventional models to equip people for the job were manual, ad hoc, and impossible to measure. BigSpring is her answer: an AI platform that closes the loop between business needs, human capability, and measurable results. She began her career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer at Siebel Systems and later joined McKinsey, where she led client engagements for the High Tech and Corporate Finance practices. She studied Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the fi rst Indian women in its program, and earned her MBA from The Wharton School as a Joseph Wharton Fellow. She also serves on the Board of Governors of JA Worldwide, a global NGO nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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