Anupa Naik, MEd is a veteran learning, enablement, and performance professional with a unique and atypical career background. She has worked for more than two decades in a variety of leadership and strategy roles in a wide range of industries in Fortune 500 and global companies. This experience provides a substantial frame of reference for creating learning context, storytelling, and adapting strategy. Originally from Chicago, she earned a Master’s degree in Adult Education. She then lived and worked in New York City where she worked for large global financial, consumer products, technology, and infrastructure companies.

Anupa is currently a Board member of ATD Los Angeles, and previously served on the Board of ASTD New York. She operates SmartWork! Inc., a boutique consulting firm utilizing her unique experience as an internal leader and an external consultant to specialize in the strategy and design of performance initiatives.