084: Meghana Joshi: Rethinking Impact in Architecture and Motherhood
Meghana Joshi is a Managing Principal at MG2 and an award-winning architect with over 25 years of experience shaping national retail and banking environments. She blends practice, leadership, and lived experience to examine how spaces quietly shape power, access, and belonging. Her work bridges architecture, economics, and culture.
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- We talk about Meghana’s career evolution, from moving internationally and starting her career in tandem with motherhood, to the intentions behind investing in her career development.
- We discuss Meghana’s strategy with her family to redistribute traditional caregiving roles so that she could devote more energy to deepening and expanding her impact at work.
- Meghana shares more about leadership at MG2, Women in Architecture, and other EDI initiatives. She shares more about building teams using a “stay-grow-lead” methodology, crafting initiatives that focus on actionable change.
- The end of our conversation focuses on We also chat about salaries and negotiations vs male and female approaches to each.
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