Ranga Jayaraman He/Him

Ranga's current passion is to empower neurodivergent individuals with the desire and ability to contribute to find meaningful, rewarding, and sustained employment and to help organizations in their journey to embrace neurodiversity inclusion in their workplaces.

In a past life, Ranga was an accomplished Senior Executive of digital transformation, with expertise in providing innovative and cost effective solutions and services to enable and support business strategy and growth in the Higher Education and Information Technology industry. Ranga's focus in Stanford was to transform higher education through innovative application of information technology together with instructional design, online educational assets, design thinking for process redesign, and an increasing focus on improving user experience and data driven business decisions, guided by a comprehensive business and technology architecture.

Proven ability to build global teams focused on committed delivery, responsiveness, world class service, partnership with business functions, and seamless collaborations with external product/service providers. Demonstrated success directing development of organizations during periods of tremendous change and growth and mentoring and growing leadership talents within the organization. Deep understanding of organizational change management issues impacting major transformation initiatives; courage and strong facilitation skills to bring together business functions to resolve the issues.

Strong management skills and principle centered leadership style, with ability to inspire and motivate professionals and to influence senior leaders. Excellent communicator and negotiator, with emphasis on building mutually beneficial partnerships. Proven ability to work effectively across diverse cultures around the globe. Breadth of accomplishments and experience beyond IT in general procurement, process excellence, logistics, and applied research.