Janaki is a thought-leader in design-led innovation in the enterprise. She is committed to delivering award-winning products and services that help businesses transform the way they work. She is a proven leader in building, coaching and inspiring high performance design teams, leveraging design-thinking, customer empathy, and co-innovation.
She is an active writer and speaker on Innovation and design. She is the co-author of Gamification at Work – Designing Engaging Business Software. She was a speaker at a TEDx conference in 2014. She is a co-instructor at Stanford’s Graduate School Business LEAD course on Customer Experience Design: A Neuroscience Perspective. She has guest-lectured at Stanford d.school, Carnegie Mellon University and San Jose State University. She is the inventor on over 20 patents. She has a Masters in Information Systems from Boston University, and attended the Executive Leadership Program at Stanford University.
As a community leader Janaki is part of several non-profit organizations. Sheis currently a Board member at Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, she is one of the founders of the Business Women’s Network in SAP Labs Palo Alto , an innovation coach for an NGO in India to address early childhood education and nutrition, women entrepreneurship, community health, youth scholarship and job placement. She was a Keynote speaker and volunteer at GirlsSmart4tech, an organization to help middle school girls explore computer science through hands-on activities.
In 2016 Janaki was Named a Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Adding to her accolades are the following:
- 2016 Red Dot Award: Concept Design, Citizen-Centric State Government Portal 2016 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) | Bronze in Digital Design, Citizen-Centric State
- Government Portal 2016 Red Dot Award | Communication Design in Interface,
- Consumer Insight 365 2016 Red Dot Award | Communication Design in Apps,
- SAP Perfect Meeting for CRM 2016 Fast Company | Innovation by Design Apps
- Finalist, SAP Tennis Analytics for Coaches 2015 UX Award – People Choice, SAP Tennis Analytics for Coaches 2015 Red Dot winner:
- Communication Design 2015 Germany Land of Ideas 2015:
- Best German Innovation for a Digital World 2015 German Design Award: Interactive User Experience 2015 IF Design Award 2015:
- Apps & Software 2015 Interaction Design Award 2015:
- Optimization 2015 Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2015,
- SAP Fiori 2014 Core 77 Design Award 2014:
- Strategy & Research 2014 Gold award for Best Enterprise Experience 2014, Consumer Insight 365 1998 ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award