Celia Sandhya Daniels

Growing up as a lonely closeted trans child in a conservative middle-class Christian home in Southern India, Celia Sandhya Daniels writes and speaks passionately about her mental health, gender dysphoria, and social challenges that she faced in her family, work, school, and community both in US and India.

She is a management consultant with over 20 plus years of demonstrated success in operating, growing, and spearheading media, healthcare, and life sciences engagements for Fortune 100 companies like Amgen, Gilead, Genentech, United Health, BlueCross, and Americhoice. As a senior regional executive with companies like IQVIA, Capgemini, Cognizant, and Dun & Bradstreet, she has managed global cross-functional teams, and implemented enterprise strategies, maximizing ROI for multi-billion dollar clients. She has been consistently recognized for customer satisfaction and employee empowerment. She has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in computer science.

She advocates for the LGBTQ+ community with Providers, Payers, Pharmaceuticals, and Policymakers in the U.S. and South Asia. She strives to make LGBTQ+ communities, particularly the trans community, feel welcomed and accepted in all facets of society, from the bathroom to the boardroom.

She reaches across divides to navigate fraught and divisive topics to build consensus among various groups from Legal, ERGs, DEI council, IT, HR, and Corporate Communications to Senior leadership. She courageously uses her personal story to build bridges, challenging her clients to go beyond mere performative gestures.

Daniels advises on global strategies and workshops to implement Leadership Trust, Inclusive hiring practices, Allyship programs, DEI Metric reporting, Pronouns, and Self-ID. She addresses the current challenges in health equity, and clinical trials for transgender and gender-expansive patients within Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Caucasian, and LGBTQ+ intersections.

Daniels brings an intersectional blend of ethnicity, creativity, religion, and corporate experience in her “trans-evangelism”, as she likes to call it. She offers freelance consulting for small to large-size companies and volunteers for a few non-profit organizations, churches, institutions, and community resource groups in the United States and India. She is passionate about supporting marginalized communities and individuals by providing them with a safe space to address various issues relating to bullying, gender discrimination, medical, behavioral, mental health, and suicidal ideation.

She is currently focused on writing policies, educating, and building allies with local communities, businesses, churches, police dept, therapists, doctors, and organizations that fight for civil rights and economic empowerment.