Ravishankar Iyer

Ravi helps leaders sharpen their storytelling skills. Since 2016, he has trained over 9,000 mid-to-senior leaders at clients such as Accenture, Amdocs, Boston Scientific, Fidelity, Flipkart, JP Morgan Chase, Shell and Unilever.
Ravi has also guided over 150 nonprofits on crafting a better pitch, enabling them to secure tens of millions of rupees in funding. Beyond his workshops, Ravi shares storytelling insights through his website, LinkedIn, and a popular weekly newsletter. He also hosts a podcast on storytelling featuring conversations with distinguished storytellers including Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar, Sajith Pai and Rama Bijapurkar.
A Chartered Accountant (rank-holder, 2001) and MBA graduate from IIM-Ahmedabad (2005), Ravi spent twelve years in finance, consulting, the social sector and… a startup that tried to make history exciting for tourists (spoiler: it didn’t work!). Ravi lives in Pune with his wife, father, son and daughter.