Rhea Duttagupta
The founder and managing director of Corporate DNA Consulting in London, Rhea is a lead practioner in Talent, Leadership and High Performance Teams. With over a decade of management consulting experience, Rhea is an ex Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers where she started her career 12 years ago. Rhea has a consistent track record of working with management boards, senior management, CEOs, HRDs and high potential teams.
From facilitating board consensus on a talent management strategy with a global financial services company in UK, to assisting the world renowned Dubai Holding group with its structure and values, developing succession planning in a leading oil and gas company, leadership development for the CEO of Pfizer Hellas, and assisting the Leadership Team of an international real estate company with top team alignment, Rhea is known for her trusted advisor status with clients.
A regular commentator, author and speaker on leadership and talent management, Rhea has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and The Conference Board. (HTUhttp://www.corporatednaconsulting.co.uk/dna_publications.htmlUTH) She is a member of The Conference Board’s Global Advisory Committee on Talent Management.
Rhea has an MBA, a masters in Software Engineering and an Honours in English Literature. She is also an executive coach accredited by Middlesex University, ICF & EMCC and trained in a number of psychometrics. She has worked closely with INSEAD and Cranfield business schools on people projects.
Presently, she is working on a book on cross cultural leadership in which she gleans personal insights from 15 cross-cultural unconventional leaders across industries and geographies. Rhea credits her cross cultural experience and clients across the world - UK, US, Europe Middle East, East Asia, Japan, and India for her personal and professional successes.
Involved in a number of voluntary and charitable causes, Rhea was listed as one of 100 inspirational women by the ASHA foundation and featured by the International Women of Excellence in 2005. Her company is also a corporate sponsor of ActionAid the international charity on three projects covering healthcare for women in Cambodia, deprived children in southern Afghanistan and education for children in a notorious slum area in Brazil.
Rhea lives in London with her husband John, a British-Greek Chartered Accountant and OD consultant. At home, piano and painting are her pursuits.
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