Crafting Narratives, Stories& Communication
Helping organisations and leaders communicate complex work and important ideas with clarity, credibility, and influence.
Creator of the Inside Out Narrative™ Approach
About Me
Some ideas and stories stay with us long after we've heard them.
Most dont.
For close to two decades, I have been working on what makes the difference. Today, I work with organisations and leaders to communicate important ideas in ways that create understanding, trust and action.
A TED Global Speaker and Speaker Coach for TED Talks India (TV Series),
Ajit Sharma is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School’s programme on Public Narrative, Leadership, Storytelling and Action.
Services
Three pillars of the practice
Services
Three pillars of the practice
Organisational
Storytelling
This work discovers and shapes the most important ideas, messages, and impact of an organisation. It turns knowledge and expertise into communication that influences the audiences that matter most, through content curation, conferences, research, and knowledge translation.
Leadership Communication
& Coaching
Bringing clarity, authority, and influence to how senior leaders communicate their most important ideas and stories, especially in moments of high-stakes communication.Delivered through workshops, cohorts, and one-on-one coaching.
Narrative
Capability
Building the systems, culture, and internal capacity that let an organisation communicate its work and expertise on its own, consistently and at scale.Engaged through embedded advisory, capability design, and long-term partnership.
approach
The Inside Out Narrative™
Everyone eventually asks the same questions; what should we communicate, how should we do it, and will it work?
What people say
One of the good things about working with Ajit is that he doesn’t walk in with a rule book of public speaking. He allows enough space to bring out the personal narrative by understanding the many stories and ideas that we have to share. I always felt an emotional connect while engaging with him and it reflects in his work as well. He has an incredible ability of bringing ideas to life.
In my weeks of communication while he was coaching me for my talk at a conference in Nepal and then in India, I came to realise his ease in narratives, he speaks as if it were his own. A good storyteller & someone who has a very pragmatic approach. He’s focused, well informed and highly knowledgeable and I see in him a genuinely good person as willing to hear a story as telling one himself. Storytelling is his forte!
Ajit’s hard work on the TED Talks India Nayi Soch series reflected deep commitment and care. I truly appreciated the effort he put in, and I know the TED speakers valued his support and guidance throughout their journey as well.
Ajit does a great job at weaving story patterns into business communications. He incorporates complex information, numbers, and, facts into compelling narratives focusing on the audience's needs. He emphasizes on the key messages and then builds presentations, speech content & delivery around it, which has helped me and my team nail it every time.
Selected Work
TED: Speaker Coach for TED Talks India, TED's first ever TV Series Worldwide
TED: TEDx Ambassador for the world's largest grassroots network for ideas
ADB: Lead Coach & Facilitator for ADB Knowledge & Innovation Talks
GIZ: Storytelling for Impact for GIZ’s SNRD Africa
ADB: Coaching & Curation for Water & Urban Development Talks
Inc42: Leading all editions of the Digital Rajasthan Yatra for the Government of Rajasthan
GIZ: Coaching and producing Restoration Academy Talks for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
