Guppy Ahluwalia

Guppy Ahluwalia is a fractional operations executive specializing in driving hardware and software teams to deliver strategic programs at scale. She partners with leadership teams to turn strategy into high-impact programs, operating practices, and measurable business value. A published researcher on perception and former Head of Design & Research Operations at Dropbox, Guppy brings deep experience building the systems, governance frameworks, alignment, and decision-making structures required to scale emerging technology responsibly. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is learning Italian.

Presentations

Leadership By Design 2026

Token times: Organizational practices in a resource-constrained environment.

Re-orgs, reductions in force (RIF’s) and LLM’s are only some of the tools in our operational toolkit. Building swiftly at scale requires leaders to let go of headcount-heavy org charts and adopt enterprise -wide processes that are strategic, responsible and lightweight. This talk will discuss two case studies where teams shape-shifted their thinking to design new practices, the lessons learned plus a framework that could be extended to your team’s token optimization strategy.