Vandita Shukla is an industry professional and an MBA candidate (Batch 2025–27) at the Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, with over 4 years of experience at Infosys Limited as a full-stack developer. She brings hands-on expertise in leading large, cross-functional, and globally distributed teams while driving engagement, performance, and delivery excellence within complex enterprise environments.
At Infosys, Vandita worked across aviation, energy, and telecom programs, coordinating 15+ cross-functional teams across four continents. She played a key role in strengthening employee engagement and collaboration in high-pressure delivery settings by embedding structured communication, feedback loops, recognition practices, and agile working methods. These efforts contributed to a 20% improvement in delivery efficiency, 15% optimisation in global resource utilisation, and sustained team performance across long-running client engagements.
Her work also includes enabling organisation-wide change initiatives, particularly the adoption of AI-enabled productivity tools, which reduced delivery timelines by 25% while improving developer experience and team morale. Vandita has partnered closely with senior stakeholders, HR, and delivery leadership to design engagement initiatives that impact over 4,000 employees, encompassing learning forums, recognition platforms, cultural programs, and large-scale corporate events. She has also driven clarity and alignment through operational playbooks and technical documentation, strengthening accountability and consistency across teams.
In parallel, Vandita is a long-standing leader with Toastmasters International, having served in senior leadership roles including DCP Chair, Division Director, and Area Director across India, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. She has chaired and judged over 300 speech contests globally, delivered leadership and communication workshops for corporate audiences, and is recognized among the top 1% of district performers for driving engagement-led growth and capability building.
Vandita brings a practitioner-led perspective on employee engagement, rooted in real organisational challenges and measurable outcomes. Her speaking focuses on engagement strategies, leadership communication, change enablement, and building resilient, high-performing teams in modern enterprises.