#WeLeadComms: Shalaka Kulkarni

Today’s #WeLeadComms honors go to India-based communication leader Shalaka Kulkarni.

Shalaka  is an award-winning author, brand leader, and global speaker who believes that stories are the most powerful currency we trade in.

As the founder of Write Click, Shalaka helps leading VCs, CXOs, NGOs, tech startups, etc. craft brands with clarity and character.

Her debut book, Orenda, was named “Book of the Year” at the Kavishala Awards 2021. Her second, Tadow, a collection of 67 stories born from random word prompts, earned her a national record for “Maximum short stories authored using random words as prompts.”

Shalaka is the recipient of the Women Disruptors Award, e4m’s 30 under 30 Communications and PR, finalist at Globant’s Women that Build and finalist at Digital Women Awards by SheThePeople. She has been invited as a speaker at leading literary festivals, corporates, academic institutes, and forums across the globe, including the Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, LinkedIn, Fujitsu, Brillio, VNIT, Symbiosis, and Lincoln University Malaysia, to name a few.