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Founder and CEO, The Global Leadership Lab
Rupal Patel is an award-winning international speaker, best-selling author, and corporate advisor who empowers leaders to think bigger and lead better, drawing on her unique experiences from the CIA to the corporate world.
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The people who change the world are rarely the ones who fit neatly inside it. Real leadership begins the moment you stop hiding the parts of yourself that make you different.
- Rupal Patel
Rupal Patel is a leadership strategist, author, and former CIA intelligence analyst whose career has spanned war zones, global boardrooms, and executive classrooms. As the founder and CEO of The Global Leadership Lab, she advises Fortune 500 companies, multinational organizations, and business schools on leadership, talent development, and the future of work. Her work centers on helping leaders operate with greater courage, adaptability, and self awareness in environments defined by uncertainty and rapid change.
Before entering entrepreneurship and executive advisory work, Patel served at…
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