Applying Resilience: A Conversation with Swati Bhatia

"Do you want to be safe or do you want to be free?" 
As a child, Swati learned from her parents about resilience. With a father who lived through refugee camps to a mother who taught her about pushing through regardless of experiences, Swati learned early to fight for what she wanted. 
After taking time off to care for her children, she put her foot down and followed her principals. Unwilling to take a step back after a break, Swati stuck to her values and would not compromise. 
Join in on the conversation with Pratima Gluckman and Swati Bhatia as they discuss how to use your support systems and apply resilience and find the purpose to keep moving on. 
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Swati Bhatia is Chief Payments Risk Officer at Stripe Inc., where her team’s responsibility is to ensure that financial losses are minimized across Stripe’s platform, financial crimes are mitigated, and to ensure Compliance.

Prior to Stripe, Swati held various Vice President positions at PayPal. In her last role, she headed a global team of 700+ associates comprising Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Program Managers and Back-end Fraud / Credit Operations Associates. Her team was responsible for managing losses and risk experience for PayPal’s Payments business globally.

She has built her career as someone who solves business problems and creates impact at scale and who knows that impact created through an inspired and aligned team is far scalable and enjoyable than attempting to create impact through individual brilliance. She strives to inspire the people around her to be their best. She is adept at building and leading cross-functional teams and driving cultural change.

Swati holds an M.S. (Finance) from Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani (1993-97).  She is married with two sons aged 14 & 11, and lives in Palo Alto CA.