Pragya Pandey
Pragya Pragati is a Senior Strategist at SYPartners in New York, where she has spent the past three years partnering with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and select government organizations to lead complex transformation efforts. Her work centers on transformation strategy with a growing focus on AI-driven change, helping executive teams define the “big bets” that will shape their future. She facilitates C-suite alignment on vision and strategy, and translates that direction into organizational design, operating models, and innovation systems that enable execution at scale. Her approach blends facilitation with rigorous strategic analysis, often through leadership workshops, vision-setting engagements, and large-scale innovation summits.
Prior to SYPartners, Pragya held strategy roles at Accenture and Capgemini Invent, where she led and contributed to enterprise-wide digital and organizational transformation programs. One of her most notable achievements was a 9-month digital transformation engagement with a major insurance client, where she served as project lead for an initiative to evolve the organization into an omni-channel business. She worked closely with executive leadership to reimagine the operating model around customer experience, ultimately helping design and prototype a lean, autonomous, cross-functional structure. This model became the foundation for a new digital services unit that contributed to a 400% increase in online transactions and significantly reshaped how the organization went to market.
Beyond the measurable business outcomes, Pragya’s work is grounded in a deep interest in human and organizational transformation. She has consistently focused on how strategy becomes real through shifts in leadership behavior, team dynamics, and culture. Whether in consulting engagements or academic and teaching roles, she is motivated by the impact of helping leaders and organizations think and act differently in the face of change. She is currently pursuing doctoral research focused on value creation and global citizenship in education, and continues to explore how organizations can lead with clarity, adapt with intention, and design systems that are both effective and meaningfully human-centered.
• New York University - BA, Economics
• Parsons School of Design - The New School - MFA, Transdisciplinary Design
• Enthusiastic member of the Conscious Capitalism New York chapter
• Actively engaged Buddhist and member of a Buddhist nonprofit organization
• Donations to Planned Parenthood for abortion access funding
• Especially in places that don't have access
• Donations to Human Rights Watch
• Donations to children's cancer associations
• SAHR
• MIDDYFUND
What do you attribute your success to?
I think being humble and curious and persistent. Asking hard questions even if I don't have the answer to them, and even if it's the unpopular thing to do, but, like, going after the things that I'm truly curious about. Building relationships, and I think using those relationships.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say that you'll definitely be underestimated, but don't allow that to change your own view of yourself. I think you'll get a lot of feedback, but ultimately, like, you're in the driver's seat of your own career, and that you're infinitely capable. Yeah, I really feel that, like, young women will take their job and their responsibilities so seriously that they will allow other people's perspective of them to cloud their own perspective and their own vision of themselves. That would be my advice to my younger self.