About Me

Kanchan Chanana
Welcome.

I’m an observer, curious and a striving human who’s actively broken given norms, rules, excuses for the past two decades to unlock the other side of being.

The top line: I am a first generation professional in STEM and Management. I have over 13 years of work experience in consulting and global corporate roles. During this time, I worked with many CXOs on complex business problems in Operations and Product Development. Over this period, I developed abilities around focused problem solving, critical thinking, program structuring and governance.

Throughout my career, I had the opportunity to understand how authority, resources, and decision-making come together to drive impact.

The bottom line: I realized that we are sum of our actions (& decisions). Often, we lead ourselves with borrowed actions. There is no growth other than surpassing all kinds of (psychological) conditioning and to lead with right action for impact. The only way to measure ‘self’ and ‘others’ equally is on ACTION.

Rest all is ‘nice to have’.

I do NOT believe in any ‘givens’. I will always utilize honest enquiry to build an understanding by facing facts (what is and what is not) in the given context. I try to be grateful and my motto right now is ‘courage over convenience’.

I am single, I have lived in India, US and currently living in Switzerland.

I aspire to dedicate all my limited resources (knowledge, competencies, experience) towards ethical and positive impact businesses.

My Journey
1986

Born and expelled from family because born as a girl child

1990

First time living with both parents

2004

Transition from 1 in 50 girls to 1-50 boys at Mechanical Engineering

2005

Father passed away. Started working to fund studies

2008

Left family environment,
fallen in love (or wait, attachment!)

2009

First-time to a foreign land for a business conference. World is the place!

2011

Back to student life!!!
SP Jain (Mumbai) & Michigan State (Lansing)

2012

Visited Giza pyramids, what a wonder to the world (yes, before I visited Taj Mahal)

2013

Joined PRTM (PwC, US), got L1 visa

2014

Broke-up a 6 years long relationship with my then boyfriend

2016

Moved to Strategy&

2017

First-ever solo, non-work trip, 5 countries, 31st Dec night in Paris.
Too romantic & fancy!!!

2019

Became a resident of Switzerland. La nouvelle vie – le pays, la langue, le paysage, l’environment, la cuisine. Tous 🙂

2022

Featured on Humans of Bombay

2023

Transitioning from corporate…
Authoring [soon to be launched]

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