Kavita Lakhani

Kavita is among India’s most respected comms leaders with nearly 3 decades in PR & Digital. She is known for her work positioning companies, CEOs and senior management as leaders and changemakers in an era of disruption and accelerated transformation.

Besides her role as Director-Operations, Weber Shandwick, Kavita is Co-Chair India, IPG Women’s Leadership Network. She is National President-PR & Digital Marketing Council, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Kavita sits on the Advisory Board of Finlabs India, a new-age fintech company.

Kavita was awarded: ‘Leading Woman in Media’ – Women in Leadership Forum India, 2011, ‘Women Leadership Award’ – World Women Leadership Congress, 2014, ‘Woman Agency Head Of The Year Award 2020′ – adgully.com, ‘Superwomen2020’ by socialsamosa.com, SheThePeople.TV ‘40 Over 40 Awards’, Indian Television.com ‘WonderWomen 2021’. Kavita was recently listed by exchange4media among ‘Top 20 communications professionals to watch out for in 2021’.

Kavita works with clients, to provide innovative solutions to the toughest customer experience challenges. She enjoys structuring best-in-class servicing systems and teams to deliver scale value-driving ideas to clients at lightning speed.

Her expertise in brand building, message development, public education, crisis management using social/traditional media, make her a sought-after senior counselor. Kavita is a risk management specialist. Kavita worked at Ogilvy PR and Lintas, prior to WS. Her clients include Philips, Britannia, Cadbury’s, World Gold Council, McDonald’s, ICICI-USAID (ORS Campaign), Unilever (Domex, Lifebuoy), Emirates Airline, Marriott Hotels, Wartsila, Sony, Visit Victoria, Etihad Airways, Principal, Siemens, Porsche, Lamborghini, Starbucks, Sun Pharma, Rotary Foundation, among others.

Kavita is faculty at institutes like XIC, Symbiosis, MET, EMDI, ISDI-WPP School. She is Jury for industry awards-PRMoment 3030 (2018 to 2021), EMDI Sparklers (2018 – 2020), Social Samosa Superwomen 2021.

A finance post graduate, Kavita is a certified Independent Director, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. Kavita topped her batch in Strategic Management, IIM Calcutta. She has done an Advanced Program in Digital Marketing, IAMAI and Transformational Leadership, ISB Hyderabad.

Kavita sings Gurbaani (devotional), Sindhi folk (kalaams), Sufi and Bhajans. Proficient in playing the harmonium and tanpura, she performs live at charity events to raise funds.