Pavan Kaushik

Director Corporate Communication at OfBusiness

Delhi, India

Pavan is a legendry Storyteller and Advises Startups on Communication/Media Strategy, Leadership Positioning, Social Media, CSR and ORM. He has worked in leadership role in Vedanta Group, Hindustan Zinc, M3M India, DS Group, NIFT and M/O Information & Broadcasting.

He is Advisor to Startups on Investor Communication and on Advisory Board of India CSR Network and Jarurat Care Foundation.

He is an Independent Consultant to Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (GLG) – Insight Alpha - Atheneum - and advises on Mining & Metals, Real-Estate, CSR Projects, Road Safety, Leadership Positioning and Social Media.

Pavan Kaushik is known for aligning CSR & Sustainability to achieve Business Objectives.

Pavan’s career spans to about 35 years, spreading across central government and private sector, where he has been associated with several prominent social and economic campaigns, including 50 Years of India’s Independence, New Economic Policy, Rural Development, Education, Nutrition, Women Empowerment, AIDS Awareness, Pulse Polio, National & International Film Festivals, Road Safety, Child Care, Health & Hygiene, Water & Sanitation.

Becoming a Gazetted Officer at the age of just 23, Pavan Kaushik has worked in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, National Institute Fashion Technology (NIFT), Vedanta Group, Hindustan Zinc, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI), DS Group, and M3M India.

He has to his credit authoring two books, over 500 stories, 100 authored articles & speeches in English & Hindi both, writing scripts for over 1000 radio programs, 50 short-films, and associated with TV serials and 3000 radio programs.

Pavan Kaushik is a founder of three well-known social campaigns – (1) “Khushi” – that aligned thousands of like-minded people, who were sensitive towards providing nutrition-education-health to deprived children. At one-time “Khushi” had over 3000 child-care centres in Rajasthan alone. (2) “Sakhi” - that worked towards economic empowerment of rural and tribal women. The project established product clusters but also developed an in-house market for the products made by these rural and tribal women. It has been an example and case study for colleges and educational institutions.

His (3) project has been - “Be Safe Zindagi”, that involved direct interaction with over thousands of labourers and mine-workers, their families and school children on industrial and road safety, a necessity in the mining and metal industry. This project got tremendous support from private, government, opinion makers and prominent citizens of the country.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: India
Speaking Topics: Mining & Metals, Real-Estate, Community Service, Motivation and Counseling