DECISION STRATEGIST. KEYNOTE SPEAKER. BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
PARUL SOMANI
Parul Somani is a decision strategist and keynote speaker, and the #1 Amazon bestselling author of The Path of Least Regret: Decide with Clarity. Move Forward with Confidence. Her work helps leaders and high achievers navigate uncertainty, change, and high-stakes decisions with greater clarity, resilience, and intention.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, Parul brings more than two decades of leadership, strategy, and operational experience to her work with organizations and high achievers. She began her career at Bain & Company, where she rose to Senior Manager advising private equity firms and executive teams, and later held leadership roles in Silicon Valley startups. Her signature Path of Least Regret® framework integrates business strategy, behavioral science, and lived experience to help people clarify what matters, evaluate tradeoffs, and move forward with confidence when there is no obvious “right” answer.
Parul’s perspective is shaped not only by conference room experiences, but also by pivotal decisions in her personal life, including a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. Her public blog, “New Job. New Baby. New Cancer.,” reached readers in more than eighty-five countries and became the foundation for her broader work on resilience, intentional living, and values-aligned decision-making.
Leading organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, global conferences, health systems, and top universities, invite Parul to inspire and empower their members. Her work has been featured by Forbes, NPR, Oprah Daily, Psychology Today, MIT Technology Review, Inc., Business Insider, and more.
Parul lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.