Team Leader
Sandhya Karpe
Senior Director
+1.215.898.5628
e-mail: karpe@wharton.upenn.edu
Sandhya Karpe leads a team that partners with organizations in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare management, and insurance sectors around the world to design and deliver high-impact executive education programs. In addition, the team has special expertise in working in emerging markets.
Sandhya has an academic and professional background in organizational behavior, learning and development, consulting, and human resources management. She has extensive international experience, having lived, worked, and traveled extensively in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Current Team Projects
Sandhya and her team recently worked with::
- A fortune 100 health insurer for leadership development to targeted high potentials, both strengthening current middle management and fostering a pipeline of talent for the senior levels. Through a nomination process, these executives are chosen for a development program with a strong action-learning component. The program combines action learning with content on leadership, strategy execution, finance, critical thinking, and building scenarios to measure the organization's future preparedness. Real organizational projects are presented at the program conclusion to senior leadership.
- A large subsidiary of a top five global pharmaceutical company, to craft and refine their overarching strategic direction. Over an intensive four days, the company's president and top 70 senior leaders worked intimately with Wharton faculty to craft the strategy and assign action steps for execution, given the current global environment and what was anticipated in the near future.
- A nationally ranked health system to assist their top 135 executives — mostly physicians — increase their ability to speak the language of the C-Suite and to enhance dialogue and discussion with senior leadership and with one another. The executives attended four modules over a four-month period, during which they were able to apply between sessions what they had learned while at Wharton. Also paramount to the effort was development of the executives as a cohort, with a shared language, set of experiences, and network of relationships that lasted beyond the program.