Shruthi Vijayakumar is passionate about education, leadership development, and enabling businesses to be more purpose-driven and contribute to social and environmental outcomes. To this end, she runs her own coaching and facilitation business, in addition to working for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, running impact and leadership programmes for MBA students.

She began her career as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, advising large corporate and government clients in Australia. She has since led operations for an education start up in India, managed a social enterprise accelerator in New Zealand and run various environmental campaigns.

Shruthi has been recognised as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and was a semi-finalist for the Young New Zealander of the Year Award. She completed her Masters in Business Administration on full scholarship at Oxford University.