Vimla Appadoo

Co-Founder and Director of Culture Design at Honey Badger and Head of Experience at Culture Shift

A design thinker, international speaker and advocate for changing the way businesses think, Vimla is passionate about embedding change across organisations, to design safe workplaces where everyone can thrive. She has worked across large organisations, small businesses and scaling start-ups, bridging the gap between the public and private sector and using technology, design and culture to align profit and purpose.

Vimla is currently on the Board of Trustees with DiversityUK and is the co-founder Northern Collective: Women in Public Space and SheSaysMCR. She travels the world representing the UK on tech missions and has been featured in The Sunday Times, BBC Breakfast and Sky News.

Vim is a winner of multiple awards, and has been named 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.

Vimla Appadoo

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