Bio

HR. Storyteller. Author. TEDx speaker. As HR Professional, Kena has over 17 years of experience during which she has dealt with all key employee related portfolios in NTPC, India's leading power giant, in areas of staffing, employee benefits, PMS, IE and IR. She has implemented large-scale HR initiatives like researches, OD & strategic management. Currently, she is a Lead at L&D in NTPC. As a Storyteller: ► She has conducted numerous sessions reaching over one lakh participants, including prestigious B-schools such as IIM Lucknow and IIM Shillong. ► Recognized for Corporate Storytelling skills, she has conducted workshops at Power Grid (PGCIL), BHEL, GAIL, Nokia, Airtel, Maruti, NIPM, ICAI, Microsoft. ► Her storytelling videos on YouTube have crossed 7 million views. ► She is an artist with All India Radio As an author, she writes stories, poetry and HR/OB narratives. She is columnist at Huffington Post, Times of India web besides writing for Cox & Kings, Hindustan Times and runs a personal blog which has 2 lakh plus views. She is co-contributor to four published anthologies while her debut novel is work-in-progress. Kena has moderated celebrity sessions with Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Javed Akhtar, Zeenat Aman, Shabana Azmi, Piyush Mishra, Zeeshan Ayyub, Ashwin Sanghi, S Y Qureshi, Dr. Kumar Vishwas, Smriti Irani, Shubha Mudgal, among many others. She co-curated Asia's 1st Feminist Poetry Festival for She The People in 2020 and 2021. Some of her mentionable includes SHRM Top 50 HR, FICCI FLO Outstanding Corporate Director, NHRD People Excellence Award, Jombay's 100under40, Top 100 HR on Twitter, 100 Influential Power Women at Work by PeopleMatters, She's Mercedes, TOI Write India Winner, NTPC NOCET Champion, NTPC Merit ET conferred by Minister of Power, UGC-NET scholar and University Topper in HR. Kena co-founded an NGO, Manrav foundation in the year 2013 which works for the disowned elderly, aged destitute and victimized seniors. Her expertise lies in: ► Corporate Storytelling ► Leadership Development ► Gender ► Behavioural Psychology ► Threatrical Tools in Communication She is also two times TEDx speaker. It will be a pleasure for her to be able to explore, learn and grow together with you. Follow her on Twitter @kenashree or drop in a collaboration message at shreekena@gmail.com