Suman Thareja is a Partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader of the organization’s agile work. She specializes in digital talent strategies and helps established companies across multiple industries build and scale new businesses by putting the right people at the heart of the organization to create thriving, world-class digital teams. For the past two decades she has enjoyed building high-performing teams and shifting organizations to an agile operating model. She has extensive experience leading teams for large enterprises, working with leaders to develop their people strategy, guiding at-scale transformations, and leading end-to-end digitization initiatives. Her expertise in developing digital teams allows her to effectively advise clients on digital / agile implementations and develop a holistic digital talent strategy for recruiting, hiring, and retaining talent.
In addition to her client work, she is a thought leader on women in digital, bringing the passion she has for growing new talent to speaking engagements at events like Women Who Code in New York City, the Digital Women conference in Bogota, Colombia, and Women in Tech event by McKinsey Digital in New York. She holds a BS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.