Gayathri Shukla

Keynote Speaker | Calgary, Alberta

Human Connection & Inclusive Leadership Expert
Storytelling, Trust & Ethical AI Expert

Gayathri Shukla's Expertise: Inclusive Leadership, Leadership and Change, Organizational Leadership, Change Management, Organizational Change, Leadership Development, Future of Work, Digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Workplace Culture, Storytelling and Employee Engagement.

Gayathri Shukla

About Speaker Gayathri Shukla

Gayathri Shukla, P.Eng., MBA, is a human connection and inclusive leadership expert, award-winning storyteller, bestselling author, and former engineering and digital transformation leader. With more than 20 years of experience across energy, mining, entrepreneurship, and community storytelling, she helps organizations build cultures of trust, belonging, and meaningful engagement during periods of change and technological disruption. She is the founder of Campfire Kinship, bestselling author and editor of Landed and The Fires We Lit, and host of Hearth 2 Heart on CJSW 90.9. Her work has been featured through TEDx, CBC, and Global News. Gayathri Shukla is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal and the SAIA Outstanding Business Award and is currently pursuing doctoral research focused on inclusive leadership and ethical AI innovation.

Gayathri Shukla | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Diversity And Human C

Gayathri Shukla | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Diversity And Human C

Hire Keynote Speaker Gayathri Shukla | Speakers Bureau of Canada

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The One Thing AI Can't Replace | Gayathri Shukla | Tedxcalgary

The One Thing AI Can't Replace | Gayathri Shukla | Tedxcalgary

Scovan International Women's Day Interview Series: Empathy

Scovan International Women's Day Interview Series: Empathy

Gayathri Shukla Biography

Gayathri Shukla, P.Eng., MBA, is a human connection and inclusive leadership expert, award-winning storyteller, bestselling author, and former engineering and digital transformation leader. She supports organizations in building cultures where people feel seen, valued, and able to contribute, particularly during periods of change, uncertainty, and technological disruption. With more than 20 years of experience across energy, mining, entrepreneurship, and community storytelling, Gayathri Shukla brings a multidisciplinary perspective to leadership, culture, and transformation.

Her background in engineering and digital transformation leadership includes work on complex initiatives that required both technical expertise and a strong understanding of people, teams, and organizational systems. Gayathri Shukla is the founder of Campfire Kinship, an organization focused on strengthening trust, belonging, and human connection through storytelling and learning experiences. Through this work, she supports corporate, nonprofit, academic, and public sector organizations in developing inclusive and resilient workplace cultures.

As a keynote speaker and advisor, Gayathri Shukla speaks on inclusive leadership, workplace culture, employee engagement, and ethical innovation. Her work is grounded in practice and research, helping leaders understand how everyday behaviors, communication, and decisions influence trust, psychological safety, and performance. Storytelling is central to Gayathri Shukla’s approach. She explores how stories shape leadership, identity, and organizational culture, and how they can be used as a practical tool for reflection, connection, and meaning-making during times of change.

Gayathri Shukla is the bestselling author and editor of Landed: Transformative Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women and The Fires We Lit: Illustrated Stories of Women Reimagining the Rules. Her books focus on identity, belonging, leadership, and resilience through lived experience. Gayathri Shukla also hosts Hearth 2 Heart on CJSW 90.9, a radio podcast exploring purpose, belonging, and human experience. Her work has been featured through TEDx, CBC, and Global News, with a focus on storytelling, leadership, and inclusion.

Gayathri Shukla is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal and the SAIA Outstanding Business Award. She is currently pursuing doctoral research in transdisciplinary approaches to inclusive leadership and ethical AI innovation. Gayathri Shukla research examines how organizations can integrate human-centered leadership with emerging technologies while maintaining trust, accountability, and ethical decision-making. This includes a focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence, culture, and leadership practice.

Organizations engage Gayathri Shukla for expertise in inclusive leadership, human connection, workplace culture, storytelling, trust, belonging, ethical AI, digital transformation, and the future of work. Her work integrates engineering leadership experience, storytelling practice, and academic research to support leaders navigating complex and changing environments.

Gayathri Shukla Topic Presentations

Gayathri Shukla From Calgary, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Human Connection in the Age of AI

The Art of Inclusive Leadership

Leading Through Change with Storytelling

Books
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  • Landed, Transformative Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women
  • The Fires We Lit: Illustrated Stories of Women Reimagining the Rules
Interviews
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  • Local Book Highlights Journeys of Canadian Immigrant Women
Podcasts
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  • Calgary Eyeopener with Loren Mcginnis, Angela Knight
Articles
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  • Transdisciplinary Graduate Program: Students Grow Through Research Across Boundaries
  • Leading While Grieving: a Hard Lesson in Presence
  • Gayathri Shukla
  • ‘falling in Love with Canada’: New Book Tells Female Immigrants’ Stories

Gayathri Shukla Speaking Testimonials

"Gayathri Shukla’s energy and message are contagious and will stay with me"

"I wanted to let you know what great presentation you gave at the Scovan Women’s day event on Monday! I tuned into about 3 different women’s day events, and you were by far the best speaker. You can really tell that you are quite the “”story teller””! I loved what you said about how the only way to get past certain challenges in life, is to go “”through”” it. I also loved your encouragement for us to “”own”” our stories. I was taking notes and really got a lot out of Gayathri Shukla’s presentation."

"Gayathri Shukla! I just wanted to write you and thank you for your message at the Women’s Day Forum yesterday. I have listened to your talk twice, and have come away so inspired and impacted by your words and your story. There are significant moments in life when a message comes to you at a critical time that has the potential to change the path forward, and yours has done this for me. You have instilled such an important and motivating call to have accountability over choices, values, goals, and success. I am so grateful that your voice is there to inspire and lead women in our community, and feel personally driven to progress forward as a de-centered, compassionate professional..."

"Your presentation was so powerful. Thank you so much for delivering a keynote presentation that was both inspiring but also very human and real. I could listen to you present for hours. We had a number of individuals reach out for your contact information. Thank you very much for your excellent presentation today.   I found you so inspiring and engaging.   Your presentation resonated with me in so many ways.  The themes of hope, humanity and courage were so meaningful.  I am so glad that you delivered the keynote presentation for Discovery.   You were perfect!  You did a wonderful job of setting the tone for the entire event.  I think that you did make it possible for us to..."

"I wanted to send you a quick note to thank you for the wonderful presentation today. I really appreciated your focus on empathy (as a contrast to a pure policy focus). As a queer person, I share your passion for growing inclusion and diversity; in particular within the engineering community. I’m really proud of the work we’ve been able to advance at Stantec on the I&D front over the last five years, but I know we still have a lot of work ahead of us."

"Thank you for an excellent event today. If I may be a bit vulnerable and transparent: I have to confess, over the past few years I have had mixed feelings at the end of International Women’s Day celebrations. My cynicism about this day has grown over the years because I have often felt it is treated as a kind of “Corporate mother’s day”. The well-meaning comments from friends and colleagues I often find are bordering on being patronizing, leaving me to feel that I have been congratulated for being a woman, or worse, commended on doing such fine work AND also being a woman… (I mean, like… is this a surprise?)  I often end the day feeling frustrated. IWD..."

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