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Banks have to leave behind traditional ways of working and become more agile, while leaders must become more flexible.

Nan DasGupta leads Boston Consulting Group's People & Organization practice in Canada, is the People Chair for BCG Canada, and the Leader of the Women@BCG Initiative in North America. She also is a core member of the firm's Financial Institutions practice. Nan has contributed extensively in the Social Impact domain and is one of the leaders of BCG’s Centre for Canada’s Future. In that role, she helps move Canada forward by providing insights and expertise on the country’s most important issues. The centre also aims to convene leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to work together to achieve impact. 

Nan has taken on several firm leadership roles and currently chairs BCG’s Career Development Committee in Canada and leads the firm’s Women@BCG initiative in North America. Nan also serves on Non-Profit boards: Ivey Advisory Board, LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact, and CivicAction Leadership Foundation. 

Nan joined BCG in the Toronto office in 1996 and has worked on strategies in growth, sales force productivity, target operating model, and organization. She has worked predominantly in the financial services and consumer retail industries, and is one of the firm’s experts in the topics of customer experience and women in business—both in terms of inclusion in the workforce and targeting women as customers. 

Before joining BCG, Nan worked at General Electric as a project engineer.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, Richard Ivey School of Business
  • Master’s degree, electrical engineering, University of Toronto
  • Bachelor’s degree, electrical engineering, McGill University

Publications and Videos

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Accelerating Women's Professional Sports in Canada

The evidence is clear: it’s time for a vibrant professional women’s sport market in Canada. Learn more and read the latest insights from Canadian Women & Sport, Canadian Tire, and BCG.
Solving the $290 Billion Care Crisis

Solving the $290 Billion Care Crisis

The US care economy is broken. Getting it right is vital to economic prosperity and societal well-being.
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To Fix the Labor Shortage, Solve the Care Crisis

The US desperately needs workers. Workers desperately need help taking care of their children and (increasingly) their parents.
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The So What Podcast from BCG:
Rewriting the Unwritten Rules at Work

Nan DasGupta played soccer in her youth and worked as an engineer at GE early in her career, so she has firsthand experience in pushing into male-dominated fields. DasGupta, a BCG people and organization expert and Women@BCG leader, talks about the difficulties in breaking down bias at work, how bias prevents men from assuming more caregiving responsibilities, the importance of role models, and why nobody wants to talk about menopause.
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La réalité omniprésente du racisme anti-Noirs au Canada

Le racisme anti-Noirs au Canada est pire que ce que la plupart des Canadiens veulent croire. La pandémie COVID-19 amplifiant les injustices contre les Noirs, il est maintenant plus important que jamais que les Canadiens agissent.
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The Pervasive Reality of Anti-Black Racism in Canada

Anti-Black racism in Canada is worse than most Canadians want to believe. With the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the injustices against Black People, it is now more important than ever for Canadians to take action.
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Small Actions, Big Impact: How to Be an Ally at Work and Why it Matters

Our latest thinking on allyship highlights four questions for reflection to think critically about day-to-day ally actions that can bring about long-lasting cultural change.
It’s Time for Canadian Retail Banks to Fast Forward into the Future

It’s Time for Canadian Retail Banks to Fast Forward into the Future

One in seven institutions will emerge from the crisis with market-leading growth. Not because they’re lucky, but because they embraced COVID-driven changes for their own transformation. Will your bank be that one?
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Prosperity@150

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, BCG takes a look at Canada‘s enormously successful past and bright future. To launch a series of studies advancing a national conversation about Canada’s future we begin with this examination of Canada’s prosperity.
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Beyond Good Intentions: Bringing an Employee Lens to Diversity & Inclusion in Corporate Canada

BCG surveyed over 5000 employees at major Canadian corporations to get a bottom-up view of how women, LGBTQ2, people of colour, Indigenous people and Canadians with disabilities experience diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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Making the Most of Diversity Dollars in Canada

The question is no longer “if” or “why” gender diversity is important, but rather “how to get there.” In Canada, BCG spoke with representatives from 28 companies across major industries and surveyed more than 1,200 employees. The Canadian-specific results provide a clear playbook to company leaders on how to improve gender diversity.
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Customer-Centricity in Retail Banking

To thrive in today’s highly challenging business environment, retail banks need to reaffirm their trustworthiness in the eyes of customers, day in and day out.