Nithya Vaduganathan

Nithya Vaduganathan is a leader in Boston Consulting Group’s Health Care, People & Organization, and Public Sector practices.

She has supported the entire education value chain, including early education, K-12, higher education, and edtech. She has worked with higher education institutions on growth strategy, operating model and organizational redesign and financial transformation. She has led several years of work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on developing models for student success interventions including advising and digital learning, and has helped publishers and ed tech firms understand key market trends and reimagine their operating models in the face of digital disruption. Her early education and K-12 experience includes strategic planning and organizational redesign in districts including New Orleans (post-Katrina), Dallas, Atlanta, Memphis City-Shelby County, and Cleveland.

Nithya leads the talent and skills work for BCG in North America, helping executives rethink how they attract and retain talent. She has partnered with Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work project to complete an in-depth investigation of skilled freelancers, and co-authored Rethinking the On-Demand Workforce, which was published in the Harvard Business Review. In December 2022, she gave a TED talk, “Five hiring tips that every company and job seeker should know.” She is an alumni fellow with BCG’s Henderson Institute, where she worked on creating talent advantage.

Nithya is also the firm's global people and organization leader for Health Care Practice. She has supported biopharma, medtech, and provider clients on a range of organizational topics including redesign of the HR function, supporting the value capture of investments in AI and generating AI (process and role redesign, upskilling, change management), and recruiting and retaining digital and data and analytics talent.