Vimla Appadoo
Design Thinker
Vimla Appadoo is passionate about embedding fearless change across organisations, creating powerful creative cultures and designing safe workplaces where everyone can thrive. Through honesty and vulnerability she creates a powerful connection with audiences, leaving them with the insight and the motivation to take change back to their own workplaces.
Biography
Vimla Appadoo is a design thinker, international speaker and advocate for changing the way businesses think: using technology, design and culture to align profit and purpose.
Today, Vimla is a new mum to Devi and the Co-Founder and Director of Culture Design at Honey Badger. She is on the board for the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership and is a Trustee for DiversityUK. Alongside this busy workload, she finds time to travel the world representing the UK on tech missions.
Vim is a multiple award winner, with a spot on the Northern Power Women Awards Future List, Digital Leaders Young Leader of the Year, WeAreTheCity Rising Star and on the Top 100 Asians in UK Tech list. She has been featured in The Times on Sunday, BBC Breakfast and Sky News.
Speaking
Vim inspires audiences with insight and candid personal experience.
Hosting
Vim is an ideal host and moderator for events in tech, design, leadership & culture.
Writing
An experienced contributing writer, articulating clear positions on key issues.
Topics
Vimla is most frequently asked to address issues of workplace culture and its powerful impact on success through good design. But as an expert in service design and design thinking, her expertise can be applied more broadly at events focused on technology, product and service development and business practice.
Vimla is also an experienced host and moderator, frequently asked to host events and panels in the start-up and tech sectors. She can take on this role at your event either alongside her own talk or as a standalone role.
Example Videos
What do you get when you book Vimla to speak?
Vimla is most commonly asked to keynote but she is happy to host, moderate panels or interview other speakers on stage.
Vimla is an experienced speaker with an audience of her own who is happy to work with you to help you promote your event.
This can include:
Pre-event video
Co-operation in pre-event PR and media interviews
Contributed articles for event blogs or programmes
Promotion on social media
