A real natural with Arundathi Rao

Host: Chitra Gurjar 4 decades and counting, always energized to do something, work is my DNA From post and telegraph to giving tuitions to creating her own agency to study An advocate for herself, nurturing her desire to serve Turning away “assured” job offers to join Defence Labs as a Scientist at CABS Moved onto a “lesser assurance” to join HP People and culture at the heart of her 3+decade stay at HP Challenging status quo, try and fail, Innovation has to be a part of one’s daily life Stay focused on problems that you are solving and layer tools and technology to solve your problem Focus on incremental delivery of value Holding a people vision through the course of her work Strong belief that “AI will improve the quality of jobs” Learning is a constant - continue to build Apply training and learning programs intentionally Working on a market analysis - next gen quoter Strong belief on impact of AI on Healthcare and Education Believing that coaching is something everyone should learn, enable people as answers lie within each one Working with a non-profit Daksham skills and Dreams Designs Arundathi has been working in technology and leadership related roles for the last 40+ years. She started her career as a Scientist at Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, India. While at DRDO, she was involved in development of Radar transmitter and controller systems. Arundathi joined Hewlett Packard in 1996 and during her 27+ year career in HP and HPE, she has worked in multiple roles across various business units. Under her leadership, HP rolled out multiple market leading internet services related products on HPUX. She was on one of the key leader responsible for setting up Global IT teams offshore centre in India in 2004. She has managed a team of 3000+ technologists delivering for IT, across multiple technologies and multiple business areas enabling HP(E)’s business. She has successfully lead and delivered multiple IT transformation projects. She has also lead the people transformation to move towards digital technologies in alignment with the market trends and business needs. She has had a short stint of 2 years at EY as the Engineering leader for India, in Client Technology, building on Product engineering and delivery capability. In the recent past she was the Global Program Manager for HPE’s industry leading Next Generation IT transformation program. She leads the Global Delivery Services organisation, which is the internal the delivery engine for GIT. She is also the India leader for HPE’s Global IT. Arundathi has led several initiatives in people transformation towards digital transformation, customer centricity and employee engagement. She is passionate about building teams and leaders who are future proof and future safe. She has a strong passion towards building women leaders in technology and mentored and coached many women through focussed initiatives. She has also had a stint as the chairperson at HP for Prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace. Arundathi has as Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore and Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM). She is a certified coach. During her free time, Arundathi loves to teach, coach, travel and read.

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A real natural with Arundathi Rao is an episode from Software People Stories by PM Power Consulting.

This episode is 52:41 long.

This episode was published on Apr 18, 2026.

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