Vandana Vaidyanathan

Dr. Vandana Vaidyanathan brings over thirteen years of experience advising boards, CEOs, and executive teams on high-stakes leadership, succession, and governance challenges across the finance, insurance, and technology sectors. She has led data-driven assessments and large- scale realignment initiatives for mid to large-cap companies, drawing on her deep background in industrial and organizational psychology to facilitate alignment when new strategies demand structural change. Her advisory work focuses on translating complex corporate strategies into specific talent and organization actions, such as identifying critical leadership gaps and developing rigorous onboarding plans for CEO successors to ensure seamless execution. Currently at FulcrumQ, Vandana serves as an Associate Partner where she applies her expertise in quantitative diagnostics to run executive leadership and board effectiveness assessments. Her work directly supports the science of Talent to Value by compelling clients to examine the specific context of high-leverage roles to ensure leadership readiness matches enterprise value ambitions.