Gunjan Kedia on education
From Gunjan Kedia, U.S. Bank - Closing Keynote - DS4A: Women's Summit 2020 Finale · · CorrelationOne
“I entered engineering as an act of defiance — in the 1980s in Delhi girls were 'supposed' to study medicine or economics, and I wanted to do something else.”
On , Gunjan Kedia, President & CEO at US Bancorp, spoke about education during Gunjan Kedia, U.S. Bank - Closing Keynote - DS4A: Women's Summit 2020 Finale on CorrelationOne.
About Gunjan Kedia
Gunjan Kedia, Vice Chairman of Wealth Management & Investment Services at U.S. Bank, delivered the closing keynote at the Data Science for All: Women's Summit in November 2020. During the address, Kedia discussed her career journey, noting that she entered engineering in the 1980s in Delhi as "an act of defiance" against expectations that girls study medicine or economics. She described moving to the U.S. after her father joined the World Bank and earning an MBA at Carnegie Mellon, where she said she learned "the meaning of diversity and that being different is not wrong." Kedia offered advice to aspiring data scientists, including that they should "bring a positive attitude" to being the only woman in a room and that they should "seek to understand why the business was successful without you" before introducing new ideas. She also spoke about work-life balance, saying that after her son was born she made a deliberate decision to change to a job that "let me go home" rather than quitting entirely. Kedia addressed impostor syndrome, stating that while it is not specific to women, "women tend to be harsher on themselves," and she cautioned against clinging to the skills that made someone a "star doer" when moving into management.