Shikha Pushpan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of experience in strategic communications
  • Expert in crafting impactful leadership messaging
  • Proven track record in content marketing and public relations
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Communications expert in the SaaS industry with a focus on strategic messaging and content marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic CommunicationsPublic RelationsMarketing CommunicationsContent StrategyContent MarketingEditorial ManagementJournalism

Other Skills

Brand CommunicationBusiness StrategyChange ManagementCommunicationCrisis CommunicationsEmployee EngagementExecutive-level CommunicationFood ReviewHotel ReviewsMessagingOpinion PiecesPersonal BrandingReputation ManagementSocial Media Content CreationSocial Media Strategy

About

Shikha is a Communications professional with 14 years of experience in Leadership Communications, Content Marketing, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Thought Leadership Content, Branded Content, Social Media Management, and Media Writing. She is currently deployed at SAP Labs India where she takes care of Executive Communications for Sindhu Gangadharan (MD, SAP Labs India) covering all aspects of employees, media, and other stakeholder communications. Shikha acts as a dot connector in this role and is tasked with defining and building a modern strategic communications capability within the MD’s Office covering all aspects of communications from the MD. This includes strategic business messaging, creative new engagement ideas, and an integrated approach to all communications and marketing, for the press, investors, customers, employees, partners and social media. Working at the intersection of business, marketing, customers and leadership communications, she helps craft and tell the SAP story in a creative and new-age way. In this role, she gets to closely work with SAP Labs India's senior business leaders to identify thought leadership and story opportunities, translate that, and SAP's vision for the future, through impactful content that is engaging and consistent. She was formerly associated with a travel-tech startup, Pickyourtrail, as Senior Manager, Marketing & Comms, where she spearheaded Content & Comms Strategy for the Brand as well as conceived and executed end-to-end Marketing Campaigns. As an Assistant Editor with Travel+Leisure India & South Asia magazine, the role required extensive travel to engage with business clients in the global hospitality scene. The job primarily revolved around Content Marketing and involved closely working with premium hotels, luxury lifestyle brands, and tourism boards around the world to produce both editorial and branded content. Shikha started off her career as a journalist and was associated with mainstream media organizations, such as CNN-IBN, ANI-Reuters, ZEE and India Today Network, where she worked in different capacities on multiple platforms, including broadcast and digital. Thank you for visiting this profile. Please feel free to drop a message at shikhapushpan@gmail.com 😊

Experience

Sap

3 roles

Fellowship, Executive Communciations, Thomas Saueressig, Executive Board Member, SAP SE

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

Head, Integrated Communications, SAP Labs India

Promoted

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leadership Communications, MD’s Office

Jan 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Crisis CommunicationsSpeech WritingCommunicationStrategic CommunicationsBusiness StrategyOpinion Pieces+10

Customer innovation services, sap

Head of Transformation & Brand Engagement

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Pickyourtrail

Senior Manager, Marketing Communications & Content

Jul 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Crisis CommunicationsSpeech WritingCommunicationOpinion PiecesEmployee EngagementWriting+5

Travel + leisure india & south asia

Assistant Editor

Jun 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

WritingSocial Media Content CreationMessagingContent MarketingEditorial Management

Asian news international (ani)

Copy Editor

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

WritingJournalism

Cnn-ibn/ ibnlive.com

Copy Editor

Jan 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida Area, India

WritingJournalism

Uni tv

Assistant Producer

Apr 2012Dec 2012 · 8 mos

  • I write news scripts.
Writing

Tv today network

Intern

Jul 2011Sep 2011 · 2 mos

  • Projects during the Course:
  • Prepared a documentary on Women and had its screening in a national seminar.
  • Done an entire Research study on ‘RTI Awareness amongst Youth in Faridabad’.
  • Learnt Hindi typing.
  • Prepared pamphlets, brochures on various events.
  • Prepared and recorded Radio, TV and print ads for a product designed by self.
Writing

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford LEAD — Business

Sep 2022Dec 2023

Jamia Milia Islamia

MA Political Science

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Faculty of Media Studies

Journalism and Mass Communication

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Carmel Convent School

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