Bonita Banducci

President of Banducci Consulting Genderwork, Lecturer in Graduate Engineering Program, Santa Clara University

Bonita Banducci is the President of Banducci Consulting Genderwork, based in Hayward, California, and teaches Gender & Engineering in Santa Clara University’s Graduate Engineering Program. Her work focuses on understanding the role of gender in leadership, innovation, engineering, and the global marketplace.

Her original research, “What is the Contribution Women Make that Could Be the Competitive Advantage in the Global Marketplace,” developed for a vice president of a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley, led to her specialization in Unmasking the Gender Effect and the language of Gender Competence®.

Bonita has been recognized for her contributions to gender equity and leadership, including being named a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2014. She has also led workshops and presented at the UN Women Parallel Forum in New York City, the Kern Family Foundation KEEN Conference, and institutions including Santa Clara University, USF, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Stanford’s Clayman Institute.

She is a founder and faculty member of the SCU Global Women’s Leadership Network and the Women Leaders for the World program. She also co-authored an Executive Handbook for the Royal Bank of Canada, “Making the Differences Work: Closing the Gender Gap—What We Can Do,” developed as a guideline for the bank’s commitment to gender equity.

Through her writing, Bonita aims to advance conversations on gender competence, women’s leadership, diversity, innovation, and creating more inclusive and equitable workplaces and societies.