ANHW Zone 1: Northeast USA and Canada

Zone Chat: How to Zig When Others Zag - The Invisible Inflection Points That Create a Career of Meaning

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Via Zoom

Presented by Kiron Chandy, Founder & Executive Director of Consult Your Community - a national workforce development nonprofit she started in college that has scaled nationwide, mobilizing 1.9 million hours of free business support for small businesses owned by immigrants, women and minorities in 21 cities, while helping college students and early-career talent build workforce-ready skills.

Kiron holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Harvard University and explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, urban design, and public policy. 

With over a decade of experience as a strategist and advisor to senior executives at companies like Google and PwC and public sector leaders like the Mayor of Turin, she specializes in building data-driven organizations and shaping narratives around emerging tech across the private and public sector. 

Kiron’s career has unfolded through intentional zig-zags across sectors. Along the way, she adopted one guiding principle: try to do one thing every year that you think might be impossible.

This talk invites you to realign ambition, risk, and timing with your sense of purpose. It also invites you to trust that curiosity and courage compound in ways we often only see in retrospect.