With an illustrious career, Elena Tran, Senior Manager of Business Consulting at EPAM, brings a wealth of knowledge to the business consulting space. She drives organizational transformation by assisting employees in client organizations to adapt to new ways of working, such as changes in the company’s structure, culture, processes, technologies or systems.
Since joining EPAM, Elena has maintained her laser focus on delivering client value, leveraging EPAM’s ecosystem of partners and collaborators to enable client success and growing both EPAM’s business opportunities and its people — as well as herself.
Join us as we explore Elena's leadership journey and hear how her experience at EPAM highlights her commitment to leading change for transformative initiatives and cultivating an inclusive, forward-thinking work environment.
The multifaceted leadership track
Elena continues to blaze her path as a leader at EPAM by working with innovative approaches and cutting-edge technologies and continuously learning and improving. “We work in an integrated way across EPAM. Building this integration muscle enables me to be a better consultant, especially with clients that need to break down silos,” she shares.
Current projects
“In the past three years, I have had an opportunity to lead change and transformation in digital twin projects.” Digital twin projects are virtual replicas of physical objects, processes or systems that simulate real-world situations and inform better decisions.
The vibrant EPAM Community
Elena leads the planning of the business consulting monthly ‘all-hands’ meetings and initiatives that foster integration across teams, a strong sense of community, celebration of achievements and keeping the team aligned with EPAM’s goals. Furthermore, Elena mentors and coaches EPAMers as a resource manager for her direct reports.
Her strategic acumen extends beyond the internal community at EPAM. Elena strengthens our external partnerships and facilitates collaborations that amplify both organizations' strengths.
“In addition to Organizational Change Management engagement responsibilities, we are focused on value-driven relationship building with clients and prospective clients,” Elena shares. “We often achieve these outcomes by connecting clients’ strategic priorities to EPAM’s offerings, solutions, partnerships, capabilities and people.”
EPAM: the place for business consultants
“The diverse mix of businesses and industries makes EPAM a great place to learn and continuously find new ways to grow and contribute value,” shares Elena.
Leading change enabled by AI
Companies invest significantly in creating digital platforms. Still, if they do not adopt digital and adapt to the ever-changing tech environment, they will not fully realize the value of their investments.
Elena shared an insightful quote from the brilliant computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, who says, “Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence; it is a tool to amplify human creativity and ingenuity.”
In Elena’s words, “AI will enable humans to master and work alongside machines. It is a valuable enabler. I start my work by asking how I might leverage AI to complete tasks faster and/or better.”
EPAM is integrating AI into its change delivery toolkit. “The future for leading change in an AI-powered environment is here,” Elena shares.
Growing at EPAM
There is no shortage of opportunities to contribute and grow at EPAM. “To be embraced by this community, one just needs to step up, ask a question, form a hypothesis and take action,” says Elena. “Empowerment is real. The support is there, and I feel my leadership, peers and team have my back.”
If you’re interested in working with talented EPAMers like Elena, visit our page on Organizational Enablement at EPAM or apply for an open role at epam.com/careers.
