Chitra Nayak, Board Director, Infosys; Executive Advisor, BCG; Cofounder, Neythri

Chitra Nayak, Board Director, Infosys; Executive Advisor, BCG; Cofounder, Neythri

  • Chitra is a board director of Infosys and several other listed companies.
  • She’s an executive advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.

Podcast

Overview

In this episode of The Brand Called You, board director and global leader Chitra Nayak shares hard-earned lessons from engineering to the boardroom—on building trust, practicing radical candor, navigating organizational politics, scaling customer-centric growth at Salesforce, and governing AI and ESG in a rapidly changing world.

00:34- About Chitra Nayak

  • Chitra is a board director of Infosys and several other listed companies.
  • She’s an executive advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.
  • She is the co-founder of Neythri.org, which supports South Asian professional women. 

05:04- What leadership principles fueled Salesforce’s explosive growth?

  • Relentless focus on customer success as the core purpose and definition of company impact.
  • Clear alignment through V2MOM (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Metrics) across every level of the organization.
  • Agility and accountability by continuously updating goals and responding rapidly in a fast-changing environment.

16:52- What excites you most about AI’s impact on go-to-market strategy?

  • End-to-end go-to-market impact through proven ROI, improving prospect targeting, customer experience, and sales productivity.
  • Greater speed, accuracy, and personalization by making relevant data available at the right time and reducing manual, repetitive work.
  • Human-in-the-loop AI to manage risk, bias, and drift—balancing automation with oversight based on complexity and context.

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Learn more about Chitra Nayak: LinkedIn

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  • Chitra is a board director of Infosys and several other listed companies.
  • She’s an executive advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.
  • She is the co-founder of Neythri.org, which supports South Asian professional women. 

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