Stuti Shukla

Dr. Stuti Shukla is a consulting senior leadership faculty member and coach at KS Insight, a fellow at the Center of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the founder of Mitti Leadership Consulting, a boutique leadership consulting practice. Stuti brings over 15 years of experience as a leadership educator, coach, and researcher. She is passionate about supporting mission-driven leaders and organizations in expanding their capacity to provide leadership on the complex challenges facing their communities and organizations. She specializes in designing customized learning experiences in which leaders become intimately familiar with the complex worlds of their various identities and the invisible impact this has on their leadership efforts.

Some of her recent projects include working with mid-career professionals at Harvard, emerging and seasoned political leaders, fellows of youth fellowships in the Global South, women entrepreneurs and activists working in climate change in Asia, social change activists, Muslim women and other women of color, senior leaders of leading not-for-profits, and public education leaders. At the Harvard Kennedy School, she has co-designed a signature leadership course, Leadership from the Inside-Out, in collaboration with senior faculty. She is currently collaborating on a book based on this course. Stuti started her career as a grassroots mobilizer for children’s education in India, serving in senior leadership roles and co-founding one of India’s first education leadership initiatives.

Stuti holds a Doctorate and Masters in Education from Harvard University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. She is trained in the Immunity-to-Change map making,  and in facilitating and analyzing the Subject-Object interviews.