Ananda Akers

Ananda Akers

Senior Director, Organizational Change Management and Deployment
DaVita Kidney Care

Dedicated change leader and practitioner with over a decade leading change at scale for Fortune 500 companies. I have a passion for storytelling, performing with an Improv group in London in the early 2010s and leverage this skill set to build highly collaborative and cross-functional teams, bring Fun and create a narrative for change that creates momentum, while acknowledging what’s ahead. I currently lead our team of 30+ C&T specialists, which also gives me fulfillment. I am a PROSCI Certified Strategic Change and Deployment specialist, with a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins in 2020, bringing a strong analytical focus to integrating the case for change into realizing project ROI.