8 women workshop facilitators in India for corporate teams
If your company needs someone to run a hands-on session for employees, these eight women workshop facilitators in India cover executive presence, salary negotiation, coaching skills for managers, money habits, nutrition, tech careers, learning design and storytelling. Every woman on this list is a verified Dais speaker who has marked herself available to facilitate workshops, and each section below draws only on her Dais profile.
In short
- Shivangi Shrivastava says she has trained more than 30,000 professionals across 100+ MNCs and universities in 19+ countries.
- Aarti Sharma has delivered executive presence and communication programmes for organisations including SAIL, GAIL, Cipla, PwC and UPS.
- Debeshi Chakraborty is an ICF-PCC and Gallup Strengths Coach with over 1,500 coaching hours who runs workshops on storytelling and manager-to-coach transitions.
- Shailly Seth is a Certified Financial Planner whose Paise ki Pathshala sessions have reached students, government offices and corporate teams.
- Shilpi Mitra, Tanvi Vartak and Prakruti Maniar add sessions on careers in tech, learning design and storytelling online.
Why companies book women workshop facilitators in India
Mercer Mettl's India's Graduate Skill Index 2025, built from assessments of more than one million students across 2,700+ campuses, found that 42.6% of Indian graduates who apply for jobs are employable. For women graduates the figure was 41.7%.
The soft skill scores sit in a similar range. ThePrint's report on the Mercer index puts graduate employability at 55.1% for communication, 54.2% for leadership and 44.3% for creativity. These are the skills most of the women below teach.
Employers are paying for this training. Edtech firm Great Learning's Workforce Skills Evolution Report 2024-25, a survey of more than 100 L&D and business unit heads, found that 58.5% of organisations in India raised their L&D budgets in FY25, as reported by Business Today. The same report says senior leaders were given one to three day capsule workshops that combined new technology training with leadership development.
Learning hours are going up at large employers too. HRKatha's June 2026 review of company annual reports found TCS employees averaged 120 learning hours in FY26, up from 96 hours.
If you also need speakers on stress and burnout, our list of women mental health and wellbeing speakers covers that ground. The eight women below teach presence, negotiation, coaching, money habits, nutrition, tech careers, learning design and storytelling.
Shivangi Shrivastava, corporate trainer and career growth coach at Shivangi Shrivastava Academy
Shivangi is a corporate trainer and career growth coach with over eight years of experience working with professionals on career plateaus, salary negotiations and leadership transitions. She founded the Shivangi Shrivastava Academy in 2018 for mid-career professionals. Her profile says she has trained more than 30,000 professionals across 100+ MNCs and universities in 19+ countries, including Walmart, Amdocs, upGrad, Aditya Birla Group, Mumbai University and IIT.
She has spoken at TEDx and shares frameworks on job search, interview preparation, personal branding and salary negotiation with more than 100,000 followers across Instagram and YouTube. She is based in Mumbai and is available as a speaker, podcast guest, workshop facilitator and for student events. Pair her session with our guide to negotiating salary as a woman in India. Book Shivangi on the Dais.
Aarti Sharma, founder at 360 Degree Image Makeovers
Aarti is an executive presence coach, image consultant and corporate trainer based in Delhi. She has delivered programmes on leadership presence, professional image and communication for organisations including SAIL, GAIL, Cipla, PwC, Amdocs, Thales Technologies, Capgemini and UPS, and has trained senior leaders at CISO level and above.
Her work starts from the idea that after the early years of a career, growth depends less on technical expertise and more on how a professional presents herself and communicates. She speaks on personal branding and executive presence, and is available as a speaker, panellist, podcast guest and workshop facilitator. Her awards include the Exceptional Women of Excellence Award from the Women Economic Forum, London. For more on the subject, read our piece on personal branding for women leaders. Book Aarti on the Dais.
Debeshi Chakraborty, president at ICF Delhi NCR Charter Chapter
Debeshi is a leadership coach with over 1,500 coaching hours, certified as an ICF-PCC and Gallup Strengths Coach. She founded Dezinecareers and has worked with more than 500 mid-level and senior leaders and CXOs. Her background spans design, education and coaching. She is a gold medallist designer, a Commonwealth Scholar from London and a former Fortune 500 professional.
For organisations she runs signature workshops on storytelling and on moving from manager to coach, along with training programmes for high-potential managers. She also runs Design Your Inner Hero, a four to six month leadership development programme for senior professionals preparing for leadership roles. She is based in Gurugram and is available as a speaker, panellist and workshop facilitator. You will find more names for leadership sessions in our list of women leadership speakers in India. Book Debeshi on the Dais.
Shailly Seth, founder and CEO at Twelve Months Finvest LLP
Shailly is a Certified Financial Planner and the founder and CEO of Twelve Months Finvest LLP, where she works on long-term wealth creation, systematic investing and portfolio diversification. Through customised workshops and her programme Paise ki Pathshala, she has run money management sessions for academic institutions, government offices and corporate organisations, for audiences from students to senior executives.
Her speaking topics include portfolio allocation, financial literacy workshops for schools, corporates and public institutions, and managing risk through market cycles. She received the Sanjeevani Award from CafeMutual, was selected for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women programme at IIM Bangalore, and her commentary has appeared on CNBC, Moneycontrol and Dainik Jagran. She is listed as available nationally, as a speaker, panellist, media commentator, podcast guest and workshop facilitator. Book Shailly on the Dais.
Kritika Khurana, clinical nutritionist and founder at Nutrition with Kritika
Kritika is a clinical nutritionist with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Delhi, an M.Sc. in Clinical Nutrition from London and over six years of experience across India and the United Kingdom. She specialises in women's health, habit formation and the prevention of lifestyle-related conditions, and contributed to the UK's National Diabetes Prevention and Weight Management Programmes.
She has facilitated multiple corporate wellness sessions. In May 2026 she ran a workshop with City Girls Delhi on women's hormonal health and nutrition for 26 women, and in April 2026 she was a panellist at Hindu College, University of Delhi, on the question “Are we the sickest healthiest generation?” She is based in Delhi and is available as a speaker, panellist, media commentator, podcast guest, workshop facilitator and for student events. Book Kritika on the Dais.
Shilpi Mitra, principal software engineering manager at Microsoft
Shilpi is an engineering leader at Microsoft Azure Data, where she leads the Hybrid and Migration charter for Azure SQL, with more than two decades of experience in enterprise cloud and security. She mentors women in tech and leads communities through AnitaB, the Women Tech Network and Lean In, and sits on academic advisory boards.
She ran a master class at GHCI 25 and has spoken at WTN25, WTN26 and GHC26. Her recognitions include the Career Icons 2025 award, the Global Mentoring Excellence award and a place on HerRising's Top 10 Women in Tech/Product (2024). She is based in Bangalore and speaks on leadership, career transitions and diversity and inclusion, as a speaker, panellist, media commentator, podcast guest and workshop facilitator. Book Shilpi on the Dais.
Tanvi Vartak, founder and educational game designer at Gammat Labs
Tanvi is a learning experience designer with ten years in learning design, curriculum development and teacher training. She designs learning that works like a game, with clear rules, real stakes and people working through it together. She holds an MS in Games for Learning from NYU Steinhardt, developed curriculum for 50 schools at YLAC, and localised Instagram's Counter Speech Fellowship education programme, taking it from three cities to seven and then online.
At Gammat Labs, which she co-founded, she built Moai, an AI product that helps people reflect on the quality of their relationships, which won NYU's Best Design for Social Impact award. She has spoken at UNICEF New York on building games for inclusive education. She is available to speak, join panels, facilitate workshops and appear on podcasts about education reform, community building and designing products people adopt. Book Tanvi on the Dais.
Prakruti Maniar, founder at Purple Pencil Project
Prakruti is an independent cultural researcher and storyteller who studies how the internet is changing memory, language, identity and culture in India. She leads marketing and storytelling at LearnTube.ai and runs the Purple Pencil Project, an initiative on Indian literature, storytelling traditions and linguistic diversity.
Her topics include Indian languages online, AI and cultural bias, storytelling in the attention economy and cultural preservation. She has moderated sessions at the Le' Chakallas and Yatha Katha film and literature festivals, organises The Screenwriting Corner and has been covered by Mid-day. She is based in Mumbai and is available as a speaker, panellist, media commentator, podcast guest and workshop facilitator. Book Prakruti on the Dais.
How to book a workshop facilitator through the Dais
Tell us the audience, the skill you want people to leave with, the session length and the city or format. Every woman above has marked herself available for workshops on her Dais profile. To see more names, browse speakers by career transitions or leadership and management, or read about female employability in India in 2026. When you are ready, send a speaker request to the Dais team.