Biography
Dr. Nandani Lynton focuses on how to best develop effective leadership in global organizations. In her business consulting with Fortune 500 multinationals and governmental organizations around the world, she works on building cultural agility for competitive advantage. Nandani Lynton's perspectives on global leadership developed through decades of working with Fortune 500 multinationals and governmental organizations in India, the US, Singapore, Germany, China, South Africa and 39 further countries. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University.
As professor at CEIBS - China Europe International Business School - Nandani Lynton leads executive programmes with industry and government. Her research focuses on comparative Chinese and Western leadership, how to use diversity to raise top executive team performance, and on the values of the upcoming generation of leaders - Generation Y in China, Europe, South Africa and Chile. Until mid-2008, Nandani Lynton worked for Thunderbird School of Global Management as Vice-President of Corporate Learning Asia and Clinical Professor of Global Business. Previously she ran the award-winning organizational consulting firm Lynton John & Associates Ltd.
Nandani Lynton's work in the public sector includes designing and implementing projects on raising the effectiveness of diverse teams, the integration of immigrants from Eastern Europe to Germany, and including views of impacted citizens in policy change for German federal ministries and the European Commission, research institutes, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and multi-lateral funding agencies including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
She is a member of the Council of Senior Advisors of the FrED Forum, a Thought Leader for Criticaleye: the Network of Leaders, and advisor to Uplift-Aufwind, a social development NGO focused on Central Asia.
In the private sector, Nandani Lynton's projects include: working with a South African bank on their strategic approach to dynamic markets; assisting a German-based retail group use cultural leverage in its international markets; advising US and European financial institutions with large Chinese investments and goals of multiple joint ventures; and raising the global mindset of executives in an European hi-tech conglomerate. She works with country managers and senior corporate executives. She also spent ten years leading projects for organizational design, restructuring and integration.
Nandani Lynton's counterparts for such projects are multinational and joint venture companies across the range of industries: automotive, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, resources, retail, financial services, media and energy. She regularly leads executive programmes around the world for CEIBS, Duke Corporate Education, Aden Executives, and the University of Melbourne.
Her publications include articles on European companies' challenges in China (Zeitschrift für Politische Beratung 2009), on the dilemmas facing Chinese Executives (ZHarvard Business Review 12/05), on what differentiates highly effective expatriates in China (ZOrganizational Dynamics 5/06) and a column on Asia for Bloomberg Businessweek. A frequent public speaker, her engagements have included World Economic Forum China Business Summits.