Sainath Nagarajan

Sainath Nagarajan helps mid-market organizations drive growth and competitive advantage through practical transformation – seamlessly bringing together business model, digital, and organizational dimensions.

He is the Co-Founder and Managing Principal of HumanSense Labs (www.humansense.ai) – The Digital Mindset™ Company – where novel purpose-built psychometric models and toolkits combine the power of strategy + psychology to solve critical business and growth challenges: (www.humansense.ai [4]) – _The Digital Mindset(tm) Company _- which has developed novel purpose-built psychometric models applied bringing together the power of strategy + psychology to solve critical business and growth challenges:

– Business Model Transformation: Next-horizon offerings with new commercial frameworks (incl. digital platform & products,
subscription, SaaS, direct-to-customer) and go-to-market (incl.
partnerships, alliances, ecosystems)

– AI & Digital Transformation: Customer experiences-of-the-future underpinned by enhanced operational agility and restructured legacy costs

– Organization & Workforce Transformation: De-risk strategy execution while improving employee engagement and productivity

Sainath enjoys helping mid-market organizations go full cycle from what’s possible to what’s measurable – shaping, designing, and executing on opportunities. As customer expectations evolve, mid-market organizations navigate seemingly intractable questions – _Where do we start, what do we do, how far do we dive in, when do we wait vs move, what do we build vs buy, etc.. _Sainath augments clients’ teams with independent, objective and transparent insights and hands-on leadership to deliver pragmatic results.

Sainath’s diverse experience spans CXO advisory (Boston Consulting Group, PwC/Strategy&, Accenture Strategy, Razorfish), leading corporate innovation / new ventures (AI-enabled cloud-based upskilling platform, cloud / XaaS), and operating roles (direct report to CIO of global data protection leader that scaled from $1B to $3.2B). He is also very active in public advocacy and serves as a trusted advisor to a US Congressional candidate from the Bay Area.

Sainath has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a Masters in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He looks forward to serving Umbrex clients and community, driven by Andrew Carnegie’s motto “_my heart is in the work”.