Anju Bhargava is a Senior Vice President at Bank of America. She launched Global Synergy Associates, an international management
consulting firm working at the intersection of Enterprise Risk Management,
Business Transformation and Organization Management through a combination of
both business and human levers. She is currently a member on President Obama's
Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and is a convener of Hindu American Seva
Charities..
Anju
began her career over two decades ago as a banker and has held senior level
positions in Corporate America. She is a people, process, technology and
bottom-line oriented creative self starter with experience in a broad range of
markets and services. Anju has worked at and consulted for diverse companies
including Bear Stearns Asset Management, BB&T Bank,
Anju has provided
management consulting and thought leadership to alleviate customer pain points.
She has worked extensively in enhancing enterprise/operational and credit risk
management infrastructures, She created efficient and effective
customer-centric, end-to-end, process models to facilitate delivery of products
and services supporting cross-functional continuous improvement, process
innovation and measurement l(KRIs, KPIs) leveraging outsourced
capabilities. She is an
At NatWest, Anju was
tapped by Office of the Chair to evaluate enterprise wide credit processes.
She identified major control break points and quantified causal factors
of loan/credit losses of over $1billion. The high impact, internationally
cited study, “An
Experiment in Capturing the Most Valued Intangible: Knowledge” was well
received by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC). It was
published by RMA Journal (2001 in US, 2003 in
At NatWest, as a
Commercial Banker, Anju managed lending relationships to leasing companies in
the Mid-West. She evaluated the domestic emerging market and identified
opportunities for Fleet Bank to gain market share through increased outreach to
diverse ethnic and minority communities in its footprint. (She received Fleet’s
prestigious “Strategies for Success” Award). At
Anju has coached and
mentored talent and enhanced leadership development both in the Corporate and
Community arenas. She is a pioneer in addressing issues facing women and Asian American professionals. Early on in her career, she developed the first Indian
professional network with Executives in Corporate America. She has
developed an Executive Education program, Chakravyuhu or the
labyrinth, a program for mentoring women to make the "step-change" in
their careers in the Corporate World. She launched the program at Genpact (India). Anju taught Organization Management at
A change catalyst
pioneer, Anju Bhargava has worked to build healthy American communities. Her
distinctive research based approach leverages best practices from many spheres
- education, government/politics, civic/social, religious/faith based,
corporate/business. Anju was the only Indian-American to serve in the Community
Builder Fellowship, President Clinton’s White House initiative. She conducted
the first comprehensive assessment of immigrants need in
Anju is a graduate of
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Community:
Over the last two decades as a change catalyst pioneer and social entrepreneur she has worked to “make a difference” on many fronts.
Anju has worked
extensively promoting multiculturalism and diversity in many arenas, including
The Conference Board, AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), City of
In the community arena,
Anju served as a Community Builder Fellow, for President Clinton’s White
House initiative (1998-2000) where she fostered partnerships, facilitated
economic, workforce and business development leading to employment of over 100
people. She was recognized
by the Partnership for
She has advised Livingston Township and the Board of Education in
developing diversity and inclusion strategies to integrate multicultural
residents while enhancing the Township’s image and resulting property
values. She has organized community based affinity groups and created a
language and cultural education infrastructure to facilitate adaptation and
integration. First
and only Indian-American elected to Livingston Township’s Democratic Council Committee (1996 –
2000).
Anju initiated/developed
the 1st Indian-American women’s organization in North America, Asian Indian Women in America (AIWA) which,
with the City of New York, organized the 1st job fair for new
underserved communities in 1986; formed the 1st networking forum in New York
for South Asians in Corporate America in 1988; with Asia Society,
formed the 1st leadership symposium "Connecting with America" for
South Asian American Women in 1999. She was a founding member of NJ
Corporate Diversity Network, an initiative formed with Partnership for
She co-started Asian
Indians in Livingston and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. initiative. As a Steering Committee and
co-founding member she worked to have a holiday to honor Martin Luther
King and to make it be a day of community service as a “Day on, not a Day
off” in
Anju is a Pujari
who is bridging
philosophy and rituals. She has served in the
Currently she
assisting in expanding CHOW – Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse. (
Anju recently
co-founded Hindu American Seva
Charities Its aims as a coalition of
Contact: apbhargava@aol.com