How TIAA’s Sastry Durvasula Leads Transformation, One Reinvention at a Time

About this episode

Sastry Durvasula shares his journey and insights on leadership and transformation in the financial sector.

In this episode, we are shining the light on a leader whose journey truly plays out like a movie. Sastry Durvasula has one of those rare stories that blends technical mastery, human-centered leadership, and bold reinvention. After starting out as an engineer, his career journey has included leading transformation for a number of big brand organizationizations. He’s now the Chief Operating, Information, and Digital Officer at TIAA , a $1.4 trillion, 100+ year-old financial institution. From film knowledge to navigating AI, uncertainty, and large-scale change, Sastry’s expertise knows no bounds, and now, you’re getting a front-row seat to tap into all of that leadership knowledge and insight. Tune in for expert advice from Sastry’s playbook, including: The challenge of solving yesterday, today, and tomorrow all at once How he uses reinvention as a superpower How to know when transformation has turned the corner Navigating decision-making in the fog of uncertainty and leading with conviction Featuring submitted questions from: Sathish Muthukrishnan, Chief Information, Data, & Digital Officer, Ally, Episode 50 Guest Eileen Lash, Chief Administrative Officer, TIAA Neal Sample…

People in this episode

Guest: Sastry Durvasula

Topics covered

• leadership
• transformation
• reinvention
• AI
• decision-making
• human-centered leadership

Keywords

• transformation
• leadership
• reinvention
• AI
• decision-making
• financial institution
• human-centered

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Organizations: TIAA, Ally, Best Buy, Deluxe

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