About Lakshmi Sharma

Lakshmi Sharma is a seasoned industry executive with 25+ years of experience in innovating, creating, and growing products and services for businesses and consumers, along with advising and coaching other entrepreneurs and professionals to do the same. She has a track record of being a growth specialist who has conceptualized, launched and grown products in US-based and international startups, medium size and large size companies (including Fastly, Google, Cisco, Target), with revenues growing from 0 to multi-hundred million dollars while always keeping a tight control on the Bottom line to maintain optimal margins and drive overall profitability.

She is an expert in corporate strategy, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, negotiation and critical conversations that are essential to the business and its growth. She is an expert in Organizational behavior and structures, and is recognized as a great people leader who builds and leads teams with passion and a sharp eye to map the right talent to right opportunities.

She is a board member of non-profit organizations, advisory board member of a startup and has enabled people from all backgrounds and identities to find the right opportunities and grow in their careers through sponsorship, coaching, and mentoring. She is a continuous learner and her life goal is to give back by coaching, educating, and mentoring people. She has been coaching professionals, founders and entrepreneurs for 10+ years now and that has led to successful outcomes for those she helped, including pivotal career transformations, investments in startups, successful acquisitions, and substantial revenue growth for companies.