Anika Gakovic

Anika Gakovic serves as Chief People and Culture Strategist for AI adoption consulting company Phyusion. She is a coach and business psychologist who helps leaders and their teams to advance strategic goals and better serve their customers by facilitating actionable problem-solving as well as delivering learning and change solutions that create impact based on client priorities. She is highly regarded for her ability to build long-term relationships, navigate stakeholder complexity, and adapt to ambiguity. She focuses on coaching leaders for peak performance and career growth, aligning teams for collaboration and impact, driving change and innovation.  Anika’s whole-person approach helps pressured leaders to think, plan and execute strategically, resulting in higher confidence, clearer decision-making, and increased alignment to reach shared outcomes.

Anika has twenty years of corporate experience in advancing skills and creating transformational change in high-performing enterprises. As Director of Learning at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she enabled the people side of digital transformation for the organization and modernized the learning strategy. As Executive Director for Leadership Edge at JP Morgan Chase, Anika designed and executed global management programs to shape culture, drive engagement, and adopt technology. In her roles as Head of Organizational Effectiveness for OppenheimerFunds and Talent Executive at New York Life Insurance Company, she coached executive leaders and high potential employees, enabled salesforce transformation, and facilitated senior team offsites to drive strategic enablement. Earlier in her career, Anika created and implemented professional development, employee engagement and change solutions as talent program manager at HSBC Private Bank and UBS Wealth Management.