Kalpna Sanders

CEO, CITI Limited

As CEO of CITI Limited and CITI Virtual Learning, Kalpna (Kay) Sanders has grown the business to not only be a challenger, an education provider and niche consultancy, but by focusing further on value added services, business critical support and leadership driven interventions, CITI’s professional project enablement portfolio delivers with an ethical, sustainable and social conscious ethos at the forefront of everything they do. CITI is now certified B Corp, gaining an outstanding grading for being a socially and environmentally conscious organisation.

Kay is passionate about empowering people to achieve their full potential and think outside of the norm, her passion for encouraging developing inclusive cultures, understanding difference and embracing change provokes new thinking and creates the formation of communities, centres of excellence and professions that support creativity balanced with appreciating experience.

As an Occupational Psychologist, Kay understands the strength of fusing PPM and Change with commercially savvy leadership who are empowered and confident to makes safe business and people decisions to achieve their personal and organisational strategic goals. Kay hosted the Women in Engineering Society Centenary Year Celebration in 2019 at Sellafield, frequently hosts the CITI Communities of Expertise Clubs (CofEe Clubs) and has been invited to share her knowledge and experience at various business and change conferences over the years.

Kay has an outstanding reputation within the learning and development community with over 25 years’ experience working with organisations and their leaders to support the complexity of balancing behavioural risk, change and capability development, Kay brings a wealth of global experience and understanding of how organisations operate, sub-cultural differences within companies and how to adapt to changing demands. She is an advocate and champion for future leaders and engages in many pro bono and charitable coaching activities with future leaders, in Socially conscious projects, conversations about the future of work, sustainability, AI and ethical use of technology, creating equitable and inclusive opportunities and pushing the envelope for developing self sustaining communities, which make CITI a DDO (Deliberately Developmental Organisation) under Kay’s lead.