Kamales Lardi
SHE / HER / HERS
Kamales Lardi is an award-winning advisor and keynote speaker on Digital Business Transformation with over 21 years of experience in cross-industry business advisory. She was recently named by Thinkers360 as one of the “Top 10 Global Influencers & Thought Leaders in Digital Transformation”.
Breaking barriers of business, mindset, and perception.
Popular Talks
The End of Business As Usual: Navigating Disruption in the Global Business Landscape
The traditional rules and assumptions of business are no longer valid in the new digital economy. Emerging technologies have triggered a shift in the global consumer market, resulting in the urgent need for brands to adopt transformative approaches to customer engagement, organization structures, and business models. This keynote presentation awakens curiosity and widens perspectives on the latest trends and technologies impacting the traditional business landscape, and motivates audiences to explore innovative approaches that accelerate success in digital business transformation.
The Human Side of Transformation
People are the most powerful drivers of transformation. As companies increasingly adopt digital solutions and emerging technologies to drive productivity, innovation, and revenue, the risk of losing touch with the people who drive the business success grows. This keynote presentation highlights effective approaches to identify behaviors, mindsets, and skills required to realize successful digital business transformation in traditional organizations.
Consulting, Workshops & Keynotes
Digital Business Transformation Strategy & Implementation
We provide seamless end-to-end support to help your company accelerate its digital business transformation journey and quickly realize its financial upsides. Our three-step approach offers a pragmatic digital business transformation:
– Assess exactly where you are today and where you need to be.
– Define a clear, measurable transformation program and align key stakeholders.
– Support execution of the program and monitor metrics to ensure success.
Visioning & Learning Programs
Inspiring and dynamic session designed for busy senior executive teams and board members who want to understand the latest disruptive trends and how digital technologies create opportunities for business and revenue generation.
The Digital Mindset Leadership
The Digital Mindset Leadership training are personal coaching sessions designed specifically for leadership teams and senior executives. During the 1:1 coaching or group training sessions, we will work together to develop solutions and behaviors that unleash your full potential as digital leaders.
Customer Experience Design
We help design experiences that delight customers at every step of the decision journey and drive top-line growth. We help you deep-dive into customer journeys to identify digital and physical touchpoints, as well as opportunities to engage with customers and create value-added experiences.
Keynote Speaker
Kamales is a dynamic and experienced keynote speaker with over 100 keynote presentations across Europe and Asia under her belt. She regularly presents at conferences and industry events, sharing her insights to digital business transformation, new technology trends and social media. Extensively experienced in corporate strategy, business process optimization, and technology implementation, Kamales expertly combines future-focused opportunities with real business challenges to inspire, engage, and educate.
“Kamales runs an independent strategic business consultancy and has in-depth knowledge in enterprise social media and new digital business ventures. We’ve worked closely together on a strategic program where she delivered great results – on time and in line with the agreed cost budget. Kamales knows how to work within complex organizational settings and easily manages deliverables across countries, work cultures, and time zones. She is also very well connected and manages very effectively virtual knowledge networks to the benefit of any strategic initiative.”
— Patrick Kramer, Ex-Head of eChannels, UBS AG
”Kamales was a keynote speaker at our Swiss market research flagship event and spoke about digital transformation in fast-changing times. She’s an engaging speaker with strong background knowledge on current trends in various industries and able to perfectly integrate that knowledge in her speaking topic, outlined together in the briefing. Her speech was engaging and the feedback from participants was very good – the speech indeed delivered real insights into what is soon to be the new business opportunities in our industry as well as in others.”
― Lukas Haeusermann, Marketing Director CH/LI at Neuroth
“Kamales developed a collaboration strategy for SAMBAplus based on user requirements assessment to determine the member’s needs (online and offline). In doing so she clearly delivered against all targets and provided spot-on recommendations. We will definitely work with her and her team again!”
― Benno Marbach, Co-Founder & COO guuru
“Above all, she demonstrated that digitisation develops from the mindset and leadership, from technology. I also liked the well-chosen examples that show that new, out-of-the-box thinking, is necessary, and how disruptive trends and digital technologies create business opportunities. For me, the Digital Maturity Assessment, or the picture that emerged from our assessments, was very impressive. Without a common understanding of the questions, the different images are not surprising. Nevertheless, it has shown that it is imperative that we start activities to first get a common understanding on this topic and then jointly start the “Digital Business Transformation Journey” for our company that she mentioned. In the quadrant, she showed us that this should start with mindset and leadership.”
— Carl Elsener, CEO, Victorinox
Kamales Lardi is a bold and strategic thinker in digital and business transformation. She combines over 21 years of deep cross-industry experience with the latest digital and technology solutions.
Kamales was recently listed in the “Top 10 Global Influencers & Thought Leaders in Digital Transformation” (Thinkers360). She often says, ‘technology is not a silver bullet solution; a clear value proposition should drive any transformation effort’. This approach resonates well with many business leaders and has helped her stand out in the digital space.
Since establishing Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH in 2012, Kamales has advised many multinational companies across various industries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
She believes in the transformative impact of emerging technologies, and has developed deep knowledge and practical experience in a range of emerging technology solutions, such as blockchain, AI, virtual and augmented reality, 3D-printing, IoT and sensor technologies, and robotics process automation among others.
Kamales is a Teaching Fellow and Chairperson of the MBA Advisory Board at Durham University Business School, and she was recently appointed Chair of the FORBES Business Council Women Executives.
She is a dynamic and influential keynote speaker on Digital Business Transformation and presents regularly at corporate and industry conferences.
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