Building Stori | Head Personal Branding & Content Marketing | Personal Branding Strategist | Managing Brands & People

I’m a marketing strategist with 4+ years of experience working across personal branding, influencer marketing, content strategy, and creator-led storytelling.
I’ve worked closely with coaches, founders, and creators - helping them shape narratives, build personal brands from the inside out, and show up online with clarity and confidence.

Over the years, I’ve interacted with countless influencers and digital creators, understanding deeply what drives visibility, trust, and audience loyalty.
This experience has shaped the way I approach marketing:
not as a loud performance, but as a human conversation.

For the past two years, I’ve also been building and strategising a newsletter from scratch.
A big part of this work involves researching how real people communicate - digging into Reddit threads, analysing LinkedIn posts, studying creator patterns, and speaking to people who show up authentically online.
From all these insights, we create simple, actionable prompts that make personal branding feel less intimidating and more accessible.

And then there’s my other identity - the writer.
For the last 1.5 years, I’ve been working quietly on my personal blog, where I talk about emotions, womanhood, the things we internalise, and the feelings we rarely articulate.
It’s where I’ve discovered that sharing honestly creates space for others to say, “I feel that too.”

My work is strategy.
My writing is honesty.
My brand is a blend of both.

If you’re someone who values storytelling, authenticity, emotional depth, and marketing that feels human - we’re speaking the same language.

Shivi Jalota

Stori 

•Stori Ventures works with start-ups, entrepreneurs & investors to develop Seed to Series A level funding businesses. 
• Identify & evaluate new start-up opportunities across technology, entertainment, consumer goods & wellbeing  
• Pre-launch consumer insight investigation, feasibility studies & consumer proposition development 
•Funding appraisals & investment strategies 
•Building startup eco-system, community events & new innovation partnerships

Head of Stori Ventures

• Stori is an Influence led full service brand agency that guarantee's results across all social platforms including LinkedIn, Instagram & YouTube.
• I Develope and implement LinkedIn B2B influencer marketing initiatives, including strategies for lead generation, brand recognition, and market share expansion.
• Work closely with brands for development of interactive, direct marketing, media, Podcasts, creative, sales promotion, generate B2B leads and PR strategies.
• Manage sales and marketing including developing strategic business plans, ensuring overall profitability, revenue growth, maximum market penetration, brand awareness, sell-through, and client satisfaction.
•Responsible for devising strategies to meet and exceed sales targets; map potential customers and generate B2B leads for the organization
• Lead campaigns with big Indian and International clients in Tech, Gaming, FMCG and Entertainment

Director of Marketing and Brand Partnerships 

•Expanded client communities and assisted in locating target audiences by proposing social media strategies
•Collected and researched data to compile into analytical reports in order to take the next step in brand awareness for the client

Influencer Marketing Manager

Giantview Private Limited

Negotiate influencer contracts for all influencer collaborations, including annual partnerships,
working together with the legal team and negotiating terms with external agencies for Platform like
(YouTube, Instagram, Blog etc.)
•       Worked together with other teams across to develop 360 marketing campaigns featuring
influencers
•       Track record of persistence and meeting aggressive Marketing goals
•       Good experience in fields like Brand strategy, Communications, Partnership development, Business
development, Contract negotiation, Digital marketing.

User Growth Operations Executive

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

•	Provided quality assurance for Home Entertainment and Theatrical releases for Subtitling, Audio and Video formats (SD, Blu Ray, UHD and 3D)
•	Documented and executed detailed test plans, test cases, and defect reports for Client review. Worked with team leads to determine resources necessary to see projects through to completion.
•	Performed quality assurance checks on data for over 34 languages.
•	Completed over 200 projects as QC engineer for top clients like Disney, Paramount, HBO, FOX, Universal etc.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Forbes Marshall

1)Worked as a Management Trainee and Group Leader for the team.
2)Learned the various Manufacturing and Process management systems.

Management Trainee

An experienced professional with a history of creating high impact and engaging ways to drive customer behaviour. Passionate about start-ups, tracking new innovations & developing new ideas.  

I focus on using customer data & business insights to build saleable start-up models. This could be across our portfolio investments, brand partners or own in-house incumbents. 

Experienced in creating complete start-up launch programs that include Consumer research, Brand strategy, Creative and Social/Digital Strategy along with Product development. 

Always interested to meet entrepreneurs & new start-ups to learn about new ideas, trends & innovations. More recently focused on learning & experimenting in the possibilities of shifting traditional industries towards onto the blockchain. 

So if you ever want to bounce ideas off of me, please feel free to contact me: harshawardhan@stori.co

Harshawardhan Khamkar

A ₹2 Lakh Mistake In Week 1.

Recently saw founder of Gully Labs share an incident where a new hire allegedly created 100% discount codes, ordered ₹2L worth of products, sent them to friends and quit shortly after.

Wild story.

Sharing this not to highlight a mistake but to highlight a pattern.

Because honestly, this isn’t about one bad employee.

It’s about something most early startups quietly ignore.

In the first few months, everyone gets access to everything.

Backend panels.
Coupons.
Refund approvals.
Admin rights.

Because you’re small.
Because you trust each other.
Because speed matters more than structure.

And that works… until it doesn’t.

We obsess over growth systems: ads, content, distribution, performance.

But internal controls?

That conversation usually happens after something breaks.

Early-stage teams rarely struggle because of one “bad apple”.

They struggle because systems were built for momentum, not protection.

Trust is culture.

Permissions are infrastructure.

If you’re building right now, here’s a simple question:

If someone joined your team tomorrow, what could they access on Day 1?

#StartupFounders #StartupLessons #Entrepreneurship #StartupIndia #DistributionThinking #Business #Marketing #Gullylabs

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