Her Story
About Abhi
Abhi Dhital is a strategic marketing and program management professional with a business background. She is currently pursuing an MBA in Marketing and Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, where she also serves as a Graduate Assistant working on recruiting profiles and mentoring. Prior to this, she worked full-time for four years at the largest e-commerce company in Nepal, earning a double promotion as the youngest manager in the company and receiving the Member of the Quarter award. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Nepal and recently became a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She is a member of Supply Chain Management associations and the American Marketing Association. Her professional experience also includes mentoring young professionals and consulting for startups over six years. She attributes her success to her core values of empathy, gratitude, and resilience, along with the support of her community.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Abhi
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would attribute everything to my values because it helps me be focused on what story rather than being carried away with the narrative. Second would be just my people. People who lift me, people who give me wings to do everything that I want to do, just being there to support no matter what. These would be my anchors. My values are empathy, gratitude, resilience.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Someone told me that it seems like you really really like to make people happy but it's not always important for you to do that, just make yourself happy. It requires a lot of awareness and introspection which might be very uncomfortable and very unsettling but it takes you where you want to go.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Just sit down with yourself and try to take a step back from where you are and define to yourself what you want to do. And then just chase it no matter what. I really believe in this concept of neuroplasticity so you really can become whoever you want to be, and I would say just fake it till you become it not just till you make it just till you become it. Just follow your story, just be true to yourself and you do you.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Navigating supply chain and marketing in an era with fluid AI where people are looking for AI skills but do not exactly know what they're looking for. It's kind of tricky in terms of how people position themselves and navigate their paths into the industry. The biggest opportunity is that literally everything is an opportunity and the world is my oyster, especially coming from Nepal to the U.S.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Empathy, gratitude, resilience. These values help me focus on the story rather than being carried away with the narrative set out in the world.
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