Vinita Bali is a global business leader with extensive experience in successfully leading large Companies both in India and overseas. She has worked with eminent multinationals like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC in a variety of marketing and general management roles in the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Latin America and the USA, in addition to Britannia Industries Ltd., in India.
Vinita started her career as a Management Trainee with Voltas Ltd (A Tata Company), in 1977 after completing her MBA. In 1980, she joined Cadbury India as Brand Manager and rose rapidly to become the youngest General Manager of the Company. She also worked with Cadbury’s in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa and served on the Boards of Cadbury Nigeria and Cadbury South Africa as Sales and Marketing Director. She is credited with leading the transformation of the business through an unrelenting focus on the consumer. She headed the Sales & Marketing function in South Africa in 1993-94 during the period of the most profound transition in the country.
Vinita was the guest speaker at the first edition of Leadership Lessons on August 5, 2016. The theme was Leadership and Responsibility...
The “Global Nutrition Report 2016” once again demonstrates India’s slow overall progress in addressing chronic malnutrition, manifest in stunting (low weight for age), wasting (low weight for height), micronutrient deficiencies and over-weight...
A country with strong aspirations to lead global economic growth cannot possibly achieve and sustain that if it loses 2-3% of its GDP to lower productivity, which is the long-term fallout of malnutrition...
India must convert its young population to a competitive advantage, and nutrition and health are fundamental to that outcome
Poor nutrition is poor economics
A country with strong aspirations to lead economic growth cannot possible achieve and sustain that if it loses 2-3% of its GDP to lower productivity, which is the long-term fall out of malnutrition
Transforming India is a long and arduous journey so we have to prioritize initiatives and actions that will have a multi-faceted impact
The problem that most companies run into whilst chasing innovation, is that they fail to renovate
Innovation is anything that is capable of bringing “new value” to an enterprise or organization – it could be a new product, a new process or a new business model
Leadership is a verb – it is about action, it is about accountability for those actions and ownership of results
Character and authenticity are core to a leader
Any debate only about gender is myopic. Unless the conversation moves from gender to competence, we cannot achieve equity