Nina Godiwallais an American author and businesswoman. She is CEO of MindWorks Leadership and the author of ''Suits: A Woman on Wall Street''.

Background and education

Godiwalla, was born and raised in

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. She is an

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background. Godiwalla attended the

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(UT) where she acquired a

Bachelor of Business Administration A Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is an undergraduate degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of four years and typically 120 credits of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of busine ...

in 1997. She later went on to

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

where she earned a

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degree. She also earned a

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in 2006 from the

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at the

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Career

Godiwalla began her career in

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with an internship at

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. Upon graduation from UT, she worked at

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from 1997 to 1999 in the

corporate finance Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...

group. After Morgan Stanley, Godiwalla continued her career at corporate institutions including

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and

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. Godiwalla is now the CEO of MindWorks Leadership, which provides training in leadership, diversity, and stress management.

Involvement

Godiwalla is on ''

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'' Executive Task Force for Women in the Economy, a leadership instructor for

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MBA Program, and a writer for ''Wharton Magazine''. In 2012 she accepted an invitation by the White House, Office of the President, to serve on their Leadership Roundtable. She also served on Texas Governor

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's Business Council.

Writing

Godiwalla's immigrant upbringing, her two years as an analyst at

, and the issues she faced as a woman on

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are the major subjects of her first book, ''Suits: A Woman on Wall Street''. The book reflects an insider's perspective on women working on Wall Street from the outsider’s point of view of a second-generation Parsi Indian immigrant.

Speaking

Godiwalla has spoken internationally at venues including

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, The World Affairs Council, Smithsonian,

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, and TEDxHouston Conference. Her speaking topics include Women and Minorities in Corporate America, Leadership, Diversity, and Stress Management. In 2014, she was the keynote speaker at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston's annual event celebrating Women's History Month.

Awards

Texas Women's Hall of Fame Business Inductee, 2012 Duke University Trailblazer Award, 2012 Wharton School of Business Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award, 2015

References

External links

Official Website

TEDxHouston 2011
(video, 19:17) {{DEFAULTSORT:Godiwalla, Nina Living people American Zoroastrians American women writers Dartmouth College alumni American people of Parsi descent Wharton School alumni McCombs School of Business alumni 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)