Dr. Steph Sharma is a sustainability strategist, systems-change researcher, and consultant with extensive experience in strategy, human capital, and organizational transformation. She leads Symbio Strategies, where she supports mission-driven leaders and organizations in navigating complexity, building strategic resilience, and making balanced decisions in uncertain environments. Steph also teaches graduate courses in sustainable strategy and management and serves as a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hult International Business School, where her research explores adaptive resilience through complexity science, effectuation, and responsible artificial intelligence.

Steph’s work integrates systems thinking, governance, ethics, and data-driven insight, drawing on concepts such as adaptive imbalance and effectual logic to help organizations learn through tension and change. Her approach is informed by natural systems, Indigenous principles of reciprocity, and decades of experience in leadership development and stakeholder engagement, enabling organizations to align purpose, people, and technology in enduring ways. As a Senior Executive Fellow in Healthcare Innovation at The Digital Economist, Steph contributes her expertise to advancing sustainable, equitable, and future-ready healthcare systems. She collaborates with global stakeholders to design frameworks that embed responsible AI and systems thinking into healthcare strategy, supporting innovation that is both ethically grounded and resilient in the face of complexity.