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Madame Gandhi

Speaker

Los Angeles, California, United States

Grammy nominated artist, Activist & Stanford Music tech innovator

Madame Gandhi, aka Kiran, is a musician and activist. She joined Oprah on tour and was invited to be a TED Fellow. She also gained recognition as drummer for artist M.I.A., and as the viral free-bleeding runner at the 2015 London Marathon.  Madame Gandhi now produces music that elevates and celebrates empowerment and fluidity. A sought after speaker for all audiences, her storytelling and performances hit on themes of empowerment, gender equality, and wellness. As an influencer, she has partnered with brands like Adidas and The North Face, and is a strong supporter of the “The Future Is Female” slogan – which is all about arriving at a time when femininity is as desirable as masculinity.

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Madame Gandhi in the media January 1, 2025
Forbes | Lessons From Harvard MBA Grad And Feminist Musician Madame Gandhi On Managing A Viral Message February 18, 2018

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I’m Soaring: Flow state and resilience in a digital age

Inspired by her Grammy-nominated album Let Me Be Water, Madame Gandhi shares how the metaphor of water teaches us to navigate constant change in our tech-driven world. Drawing from her journey recording melting glaciers in Antarctica, collaborating with 40+ diverse creators, and building innovative music technology at Stanford, she reveals how embracing fluidity—rather than fighting it—leads to breakthrough innovation and personal resilience.

This powerful session can combine scientific insights from her Stanford research with practical strategies for developing what she calls “emotional fluidity”—the ability to adapt, shift, and flow through disruption while maintaining your core purpose. Presentations may include live electronic music performances and sonic demonstrations, using her signature beats and mantras to create an immersive experience that embodies the very resilience principles she teaches.

As Gandhi says: “How can we exist in a world where: we are listening to the planet, we are contributing value to the planet, we’re coming with respect and we’re motivated from love?”

Key themes Gandhi can explore:

  • How music and technology can make us more receptive to expansion, positivity, and change
  • Finding your center in chaos: practical techniques for emotional regulation in high-pressure environments
  • The power of purpose: Aligning your gifts and joy with meaningful contribution
  • Breaking down walls vs. building them: Staying “soft” and open-hearted in a hard world
  • Reconnecting with nature and source as a blueprint for sustainable innovation
  • Creating conscious messaging and positive mantras for organizational transformation

Audience takeaways may include:

  • Strategies for maintaining groundedness and humility while pursuing ambitious goals
  • Techniques for regulating emotions and finding calm in technological disruption
  • Frameworks for using creativity and purpose to drive positive change
  • Methods for building resilience that comes from love and connection rather than fear
  • Tools for creating more human-centered, nature-inspired approaches to innovation

Ideal for leaders and teams facing rapid technological change who need to build resilience without losing their humanity.

Atomic Living

‘Atomic Living’ is a way to use spontaneity as a productive way to move forward and make decisions in life. While balancing the pursuit of her Harvard MBA, touring as a drummer for musician M.I.A. and managing her own music career, Kiran has used this mindset to help bring success to her life.

Instead of creating a 5 or 10 year plan, Atomic Living prioritizes knowing what matters to you most and accommodating various moments and opportunities in life. Feelings of chaos, pressure, and regret will be reduced while new opportunities become more manageable. Drawing on examples from her experiences, Kiran leads others to identify their core passions and establish pillars to help guide decision-making and the pursue of goals.

Should you change your major or career path? Do you need to attend that social event all your friends are going to? Can you take on that new project right now?

This presentation will teach you how to navigate through atomic moments and make choices that lead to greater success and wellness.

Pleasure is Power

Long before #MeToo, conversations about women’s sexuality have been weighed down by tragedy, fear, and shame. Kiran believes in using sex positivity as a tool to change this narrative and begin to overcome pain with empowerment. To make space for more positive experiences we need to talk more about pleasure and empower women to reject shame, feel powerful in their bodies, and prioritize their own comfort.

As part of Kiran’s mission towards gender equality, this presentation addresses consent, sex positivity, creating safe spaces, and how we can all work together to shift the culture.

Wellness

From quieting out the noise to relying on community care, Kiran shares how she has coped with imposter syndrome, burnout, harassment, social pressures, and other barriers to mental wellness throughout her life.

Inspiring others through sharing her own experience, Kiran gives tangible advice for how to find your path towards wellness and mindfulness.

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Celebrity Partnerships
As an influencer, Madame Gandhi has partnered with brands like Adidas and The North Face, to promote “The Future Is Female” slogan - which is all about arriving at a time when femininity is as desirable as masculinity.

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Speaker Biography

Mme Gandhi aka Kiran joined Oprah on tour, has toured with M.I.A. as drummer, was invited to be a TED Fellow, and is actively engaged with her supporters on social media, finding new ways to share her music and messages in the virtual world.

Today Madame Gandhi travels to speak, DJ and perform internationally. Gandhi’s mission is to use her music and voice as a medium for a message about personal expression, sustainability and thriving.

In 2025 she released her latest work,  Let Me Be Water.  It’s a musical meditation that invites listeners into a journey of emotional fluidity, inner healing, and self-connection. The album’s creation is rooted in the idea that, like water, we are constantly in motion—adapting, shifting, and flowing through life’s challenges and triumphs. Every track is a musical mantra exploring themes of surrender, acceptance, and growth.  Created alongside We Make Noise, a music education non-profit that supports women and gender expansive producers.

Let Me Be Water is a meditation on the importance of resilience, compassion, and the courage to recognize that being soft and open-hearted requires great strength.

‘Let’s create a world that is linked, not ranked. Listen to and contribute to our planet, with respect and motivated by love.’

In 2022, she traveled to Antarctica while pursuing her Masters in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University’s CCRMA to record the sounds of glaciers melting to create awareness and empathy around climate change. These sounds are now featured in her latest song “In Purpose” available on all streaming platforms, where for the first time ever, NATURE is credited as an artist to receive a portion of all streaming royalties. This is part of Earth Percent’s Sounds Right initiative.

In June 2023, she was awarded the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize for excellence in songwriting and leadership. She also won the Jury Award at SXSW for her music video, “Waiting For Me”.

Kiran also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Political Science and Women’s Studies from Georgetown (COL ’11) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (2015), and has used her degrees to run her own musical project as well as advise music companies Spotify, Stem, Bonnaroo and D’addario. Between 2011-2013, Kiran worked at Interscope Records for two years as their first ever digital analyst, studying patterns in Spotify and YouTube consumption behavior. 

In 2015, she ran the London Marathon free-bleeding to combat period stigma around the world, sparking a global viral conversation about how we treat menstruation in various cultures. She now travels often to perform and speak about modern gender equality celebrating the female voice.

Kiran grew up between New York City and Bombay, India, playing drums and attending The Chapin School. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2011 with a double major in mathematics and political science and a minor in women’s studies.

Upon graduation, she landed a job in Los Angeles as Interscope Records’s first-ever digital analyst. Combining her passion for mathematics and music, her job was to understand music consumption patterns on Spotify and YouTube, predict sales trends based on these new volume metrics and create an internal system for how the label could understand the success of an artist online.

In 2013, Kiran linked up with Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A. and began touring internationally with her as her drummer all across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. That same year, Kiran was also accepted to Harvard Business School’s M.B.A. program, and so when she began school in the fall in Boston, was still touring simultaneously with M.I.A. Kiran’s TEDx talk on “Atomic Living” embodies her belief that by knowing and protecting the things that matter to you most, life’s toughest choices become easier to navigate.

As an activist, Kiran uses her voice, music and written work to empower her audiences to be their best and authentic selves. She believes wholeheartedly in the idea that we must strive to live in a world that is “linked and not ranked”, in which each person has something unique to contribute to one another, and therefore we must equip each person with the environment they need to access their fullest potential. Kiran has partnered with various menstrual health organizations to improve women’s access to affordable and safe menstrual care. She speaks often about how menstruation taboo affects women and girls daily around the world, and was part of the early round table discussions that lead to the elimination of the “luxury tax” on tampons in her home city of New York.

 

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