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Rachel Mathia
High Performance
Transformational Leadership
Effective Leadership
Transform leadership and company culture with Rachel Mathia, speaker and global leadership development expert. Rachel helps senior executives achieve strategic results across cultural boundaries, leveraging extensive experience with Lululemon, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, and IPO processes.
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Rachel Mathia is a leadership and company culture expert. She was the Director of Learning & Leadership for China at Lululemon, having held various senior roles globally. Rachel helps senior executives develop the leadership skills necessary for achieving strategic results.
Today, she is the global head of leadership development at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty and was previously at Shopbop.
A US native, Rachel has extensive experience working with teams across the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She understands how to adapt leadership to preserve the essence and culture of a global brand. Rachel has also been involved in the IPO processes at Shopbop and Lululemon, giving her insight into scaling culture as a business expands.
As a certified leadership coach, Rachel trained at the NeuroLeadership Institute, Co-Active, and ORSC. She also completed Erin Meyer’s INSEAD Leading Across Borders Certification to better support global leaders.
Topics, sessions and talks
Six key factors drive individual performance in the workplace: Knowledge, Skill, Environment, Capacity, Motivation, and Expectation. Yet, when performance falls short, leaders often default to the idea that their team "needs more training," even though training is the solution in only about 20% of cases, and the remaining 80% can be traced back to gaps in leadership capability. With compelling stories from Rachel Mathia's work with clients and teams, this talk outlines how leaders can accurately diagnose performance challenges beyond the surface and tailor their leadership approach to meet individual needs, even when time feels scarce.
In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to lead across cultures is no longer optional—it’s essential. Drawing on Rachel Mathia's real-world experiences in scaling global brands across diverse markets, this keynote will equip you with the tools to navigate cultural complexity and avoid common pitfalls in cross-cultural management, bridge misunderstandings caused by clashes in communication styles, and build cohesive and productive global teams.
A healthy company culture isn’t just a "nice to have" but a sales strategy that drives sustainable growth. Rachel Mathia explores the role of values in influencing business success, why companies with strong, value-driven cultures consistently outperform in sales and the negative impact on performance, morale, and customer relationships when culture is deprioritised. It will also uncover practical insights into how leaders can embed culture into every aspect of their sales organisation, ensuring alignment between value, actions and outcomes.
Book Rachel Mathia to inspire your team with her expertise in leadership and company culture. Her global experience and proven track record in scaling culture during growth will equip your leaders with essential skills to drive strategic results. Transform your organisation with her insightful, engaging approach.
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Rachel Mathia structures her talks around client case studies drawn from her work in global organisations, using these to illustrate a diagnostic framework for leadership challenges rather than presenting abstract theory.
Rachel Mathia speaks on performance diagnostics and leadership capability, cross-cultural team management, and values-driven company culture. She is currently Global Head of Leadership Development at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty and previously served as Director of Learning and Leadership for China at Lululemon, where she was also involved in the IPO process.
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