Shantha Maheswari is the MD leading Products Industry Portfolio. She is an innovation lead, inclusion and diversity lead for Accenture India.

For past 20 years, Shanthahas led, advised and facilitated client transformations in her leadership roles of business portfolio, sales, strategy and delivery across retail, consumer goods, travel, industrial and life sciences industries. She is an active blogger and a thought leader on next generation technologies. She is noted for her skills as a strategic transformation change agent, underpinned by her defining quality of being an 'ambitious adventurer'.

Through Shantha's initiatives, she believes in creating a legacy of business growth sustained by value creation and people leadership. She is passionate on people transformation, nurtures underlying principles of diversity, inclusion and mentorship to evolve them as successful leaders.

Shantha is A Stanford certified, Executive MBA from Symbiosis, Pune and Engineer from PSG College, Coimbatore, she is a recipient of World Women leadership Award for exemplary leadership