Devidasa Kawal
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About Devidasa Kawal

Devidasa Kawal is an executive advisor, entrepreneur, and cultural strategist whose work connects institutional leadership with contemporary culture. With a professional foundation in education, nonprofit executive leadership, and institutional strategy, she advises founders, chief executives, and boards on governance, readiness, and the structures that determine whether decisions can be sustained.

As Founder and Principal of Kawal Advisory Group, she focuses on the conditions that must exist before ambition can scale: decision rights, organizational capacity, and the clarity required in moments of consequence. She is the author of The Readiness Gap and publishes The Kawal Brief, a LinkedIn newsletter with nearly 2,000 subscribers that examines how institutions absorb new capability, including artificial intelligence, without losing accountability or judgment.

She is also the founder of Tunie & Co., a high-fashion and lifestyle editorial platform that reflects her interest in visual storytelling, creative direction, and the aesthetics of modern leadership. Her fashion and media work operates in parallel with her advisory practice. Additional initiatives include Boardroom Ready Academy, for which she publishes The Readiness Report (a LinkedIn newsletter with nearly 2,000 subscribers), and Tampa Bay Art Salon, her private, invitation-only cultural initiative. She previously co-founded and co-hosted The White Horse Podcast and has since stepped aside to pursue other media endeavors.

She maintains a presence in both Tampa Bay and New York City, has 15,000 LinkedIn connections, and is available for engagements in either market.

Background

Before founding Kawal Advisory Group, Devidasa Kawal was a New York City public school educator at Midtown West School (P.S. 212), which is run in partnership with Bank Street College of Education and the New York City Department of Education, and at P.S. 98 The Douglaston School. She later worked in a Montessori setting. She holds a reading and writing specialist credential from Teachers College, Columbia University, and studied at the Publishing Institute at Parsons School of Design at The New School. She is the former Chief Operating Officer of Help Us Grow Foundation and the former Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Tampa Museum of Art.

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  • Devidasa Kawal in a floral organza off-the-shoulder gown and rose-tinted sunglasses, standing in a red brick colonnade
    Floral organza, red brick colonnade
  • Devidasa Kawal in a white tweed jacket, wide-leg jeans and sunglasses, seated on marble stairs with her two Pomeranians
    White tweed, marble stairs
  • Devidasa Kawal in a black bodysuit and sunglasses with a pink cardigan over her arms, standing by a rooftop pool
    Black and pink, rooftop pool
  • Devidasa Kawal in a royal blue dress, smiling and holding her white Pomeranian on a lawn by the water lined with palms
    Royal blue, on the waterfront
  • Devidasa Kawal in a pink and yellow shirt and sunglasses, seated on a sofa in a lobby with her two Pomeranians
    Pink and yellow, lobby sofa