#WeLeadComms: Puja Mahaldar

Today’s #WeLeadComms honors go to India-based communication leader Puja Mahaldar.

Puja is a communications professional with over 18 years of experience across journalism and corporate communications.

She currently leads Corporate Communications at Aarti Industries Limited, where she works closely with leadership to shape clear, consistent, and credible communication across stakeholders.

Before moving into the corporate sector, Puja spent over a decade with media conglomerates, working both in the field and in editorial roles. During this time, she covered a wide range of beats including lifestyle, defence, city reporting, information technology, and business.

This experience has given her a strong grounding in storytelling, audience understanding, and the ability to present complex subjects in a simple and relatable, reader-friendly narrative.

In her current role, Puja focuses on aligning communication with business priorities, whether through leadership messaging, integrated and annual reporting, media engagement, or digital platforms.

She has been closely involved in strengthening the organisation’s external narrative and improving the effectiveness of its digital communication channels, including website and social media platforms.

Puja is particularly invested in how communication supports better decision-making during moments of uncertainty. She has contributed to building structured approaches to crisis communication and continues to explore how these principles can be applied more broadly in organisational and everyday lives as well She believes communication works best when it is clear, consistent, and rooted in authenticity.

Going forward, she is keen to deepen her work at the intersection of communication, technology, and stakeholder trust, while continuing to learn and evolve in the profession’s changing landscape.

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