Nadia Viswanath is the Chief Growth & Operations Officer for the Learning Enterprise at Arizona State University. Nadia’s team builds the systems and processes to support Learning Enterprise as it scales to serve millions of learners across Portfolio Management, Finance, Strategic Planning, Analytics & Impact, Business Operations, HR, Legal, and IT.
Previously, Nadia led go-to-market Strategy & Operations for Coursera's global Government sector. In this role, Nadia led the business performance cadence, directed investments for growth across geos, and informed new partnership models and product development to support public-funded learning programs across the world.
Before this, Nadia served higher education clients in McKinsey & Company’s Education practice. She worked on strategic planning and future of work topics for universities and workforce training organizations. While at McKinsey, Nadia spent a year with Generation.org, a global job training nonprofit organization, where she supported program design improvements across Generation’s 13 countries.
Innovation and access in education is a deeply personal mission for Nadia, a first-generation American thanks to U.S. public universities that provided graduate student funding for her parents to create a better life. Nadia is energized by the role of education & job training in helping people find and land good jobs.