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School of Business invites you to a distinguished talk on “Living a life of ROI” by Professor Malavika R Harita, Founder & CEO, Brand Circle.

About the Speaker: 
Ms. Harita founded Brand Circle in 2018, a Consultancy Firm working in the areas of Digital Communication, Storytelling, and Mentoring Start-ups, Women Entrepreneurs, and Corporate Leaders. She is a Resident Mentor at the NSRCEL of IIMB where she is actively involved in mentoring start-ups in the profit and non-profit sectors. She has also mentored start-ups at various other incubators including Kerala Start Up Mission, T-Hub, Gopalakrishna-Deshpande Foundation at IIT Madras, IIM Field Vishakapatnam, and IIM Lucknow Incubation Centre.

In her earlier avatar she founded and ran Saatchi & Saatchi Focus in India for 25 years where she worked on brands like Bosch, Coats, Reliance Polymers, Infosys, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, Mead Johnson, AIS and Novo Nordisk amongst others. She has 40 years of experience in communication and entrepreneurship. Brand Consultancy, Strategic Planning, and Training are her focus areas.

Ms. Harita is the first woman to win the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIM Bangalore, the first woman to deliver the Founder’s Day lecture at IIMB, the first woman President of the IIMB Alumni Association, and the first woman alumnus to serve on the IIMB Board in 50 years of its existence. She is also a TEDx Speaker.

She is on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Vishakapatnam, on the Governing Council of Mount Carmel College, and on the Advisory Board of the NSRCEL of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Ms. Harita was President of the IIMB Alumni Association and the Advertising Club Bangalore.