Mohini Tadikonda (Mo) is a creative, strategic business leader with twenty plus years of combined experience in design and non-profit, offering a unique perspective into both fields. She has used her extensive experience as Design Director for luxury lifestyle brands and Fortune 500 companies to inform the strategic direction of social impact program development in the non-profit sector and create positive change in the fashion industry. She has conceived, implemented, and executed numerous programs for a corporate foundation, small NGO’s and social impact start-ups, and coached artisans looking to penetrate the western market.

Mo was born in Baltimore and moved to New York City in 1993 to attend Parsons School of Design, where she received the Gold Thimble Award from Donna Karen. Since 1997 she was a successful fashion designer at respected companies including Joseph Abboud, Ralph Lauren, and Isaac Mizrahi.  In 2008 she joined PVH as Design Director and launched The Insignia Dress Shirt division for high-end brand licensing which included John Varvatos, Michael Kors, Elie Tahari, and Todd Snyder to name a few, as well as private label for Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdales.

Her years in the apparel industry exposed her to the unfortunate environmental and humanitarian impact. After the devastating collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, she decided it was time to use her skills and knowledge to “do good” within the industry, and made a career transition to non-profit corporate foundation work at The Tommy Hilfiger Foundation, now The PVH Foundation. 

In 2017 she received an Advanced Diploma in Coaching at NYU and is using it to help others find their true passions and overcome fear of making a career change at any stage of life.

In 2018 she left the PVH Foundation to provide conscious consulting services for businesses, non-profits, and artisans with a focus on uniting environmental and humanitarian sustainability.

Mo is passionate about human rights, the environment, consumer education, and the arts.  She is a NationSwell Council Member and a 2019 Echoing Green Semi- Finalist.