Deepa trained as an economist and spent more than two decades at Deloitte, rising to senior partner. Today she studies and writes about how ambition and power move through modern workplaces under pressure and uncertainty. She identifies the patterns and forces that shape how leaders think, decide, and advance. Her research draws on interviews with thousands of leaders and her work as founder of the re.write, an unconventional think tank advancing a new story of work. She is the author of The First, The Few, The Only.

Deepa is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and a TED speaker, addressing audiences around the world on ambition, power, and the changing systems of work.