Anjali Kumar

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Advisor, Author, Founding General Counsel at Warby Parker, Senior Counsel at Google

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Anjali Kumar Biography

Anjali Kumar is an advisor, author, attorney, speaker, angel investor, and idea acupuncturist. She works with entrepreneurs and C-level executives in all stages of business, focusing on early-stage tech, consumer products, and luxury fashion companies with a social conscience. She recently founded an advisory firm focusing on legal counsel and business strategy for entrepreneurs, executives, talent, and brands.

Prior to that, Kumar held several foundational roles including Chief People Officer and General Counsel at Cheddar, Founding Head of Social Innovation and Founding General Counsel at Warby Parker, Founding General Counsel at Acumen, and Senior Counsel at Google. At Google, she curated and hosted the @Google Speaker Series on the NYC campus, bringing thought leaders like Anthony Bourdain and Questlove to Google's global audience. Her extensive experience also includes her role as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University.

Kumar's influential TED Talk "My Failed Mission To Find God—And What I Found Instead" has reached a wide audience, garnering over 2 million views. Her book, "Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In," has been translated into multiple languages, reflecting its global impact. She is also working on a new book titled "From Google to God," further exploring themes of spirituality and belief. Additionally, Kumar is the co-creator and host of the forthcoming podcast "Unsearchable" and the web series "Questlove Presents: Slightly Reserved with Anjali Kumar." Her board memberships include Happy Money, GloScience Professional, Amplifier Foundation, Edible Schoolyard NYC, and American Documentary (AmDoc). She continues to serve on the Guggenheim Museum’s Global Innovation Council.

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Anjali Kumar Speaking Topics

  • Anjali’s lectures often deal with question around innovation and diversity. As an “idea acupuncturist” Anjali brings a spiritual approach to the business world. She doesn’t give black or white answers to businesses or problems, she looks at a se of issues and works on pressure points using different interventions to help keep the energy flowing into an idea or business. Anjali had been featured as a keynote speaker at TEDX, Seattle Interactive Conference, The Connecticut Forum, and Diane von Furstenberg’s International Women’s Day Speaker Series. She has participated in fireside chats with Danny Meyer (Union Square Hospitality Forum), Ezra Klein (Washington Post), and Neil Blumenthal (Co-CEO/Founder of Warby Parker). In November 2017 she spoke at TEDWomen. Her “beautiful inspiring, and funny” talk “My Failed Mission To Find God • And What I Found Instead”, based on her book Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In, has been watched by over 2 million people around the world and translated into over a dozen languages.

    Anjali’s talks also deal with redirecting the conversation around diversity and gender equality in the workplace by embracing ideas of non-absolutism. Anjali wants to stop framing diversity in the business from a moral obligation and start thinking about diversity as an untapped and proven means for businesses to increase creativity, jumpstart innovation, and produce higher revenues.

Anjali Kumar Videos

  • My Search for Something to Believe In | Anjali Kumar | Talks at Google
    A spiritually omnivorous exploration, "Stalking God," humorously chronicles Anjali's attempt to answer questions she can't Google the answer to for...
  • My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
    Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes us...
  • Anjali Kumar - General Counsel at Warby Parker
    Anjali Kumar of Warby Parker talks to DSI about culture. Global Guest Lectures Series, Fall 2014

Anjali Kumar Books

  • Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In
    Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In

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