Kavita Appachu
CEO of Moves The Needle | Converting Customer Risk into Revenue
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As CEO of Moves The Needle, Kavita helps Fortune 500 companies and early-stage founders drive growth through customer-centric collaboration and validated experimentation. With experience both in-house and as a consultant, she partners with organizations of all sizes to solve complex growth challenges while building leadership capability and a culture of continuous innovation.
Kavita has unlocked the entrepreneurial spirit in leaders and teams at organizations including Intuit, Target, Roche, Charles Schwab, AARP, USAA, Audible, and P&G, while helping founders acquire paying customers. She coaches teams to embrace change, take informed risks, mitigate uncertainty, and deliver value-driven solutions.
She serves on the advisory boards of UC Riverside’s Executive Design Thinking Program and UX Speakeasy San Diego, and mentors student entrepreneurs at the University of San Diego School of Business, San Diego State University, and Cal State San Marcos—guiding them to create solutions that transform how we think and live.