Meet Keka

Keka DasGupta

Biography

What do Nike, Disney, American Express, IKEA, Mercedes-Benz and SANTA have in common? They’ve all called upon Keka DasGupta to build their brand strategies. (And if you’re wondering about Santa - it’s true, Keka serves as Santa’s official speechwriter and PR director for The Original Santa Claus Parade in Toronto!)

Keka (sounds like “cake” with an “a” at the end) is globally recognized, having won over 50 international and national awards with her team for marketing campaigns with Fortune 500 companies. She’s also won the “Oscars of the PR industry” twice – first in 2016, and again in 2023.

Today, Keka travels as a global keynote and TEDx speaker, teaching people how to be better leaders by becoming as confident as the world’s top powerhouse brands. She has graced stages across North America and Europe, including the prestigious Global Speakers Summit held in Dublin, Ireland.

Keka’s ability to help leaders unlock self-empowerment and build meaningful relationships with their audiences, has been featured on: TEDx and TED.com, Harvard Business School, Breakfast Television, CBC, and The Globe and Mail, to name a few. Based on her work, she became a Fast Company Executive Board Member in 2023. For seven years, Keka worked in-house at IKEA Canada, running all aspects of the company’s PR and marketing efforts. She then moved onto the reputed multinational advertising firm, DDB, and served as vice president of their PR division, before embarking upon her own entrepreneurial ventures in speaking and consulting. As a mom of two sons, Keka describes herself as a woman who is “mom-ing’ and “business-ing” on her own terms, hence the name of her speaker brand: The Art of Life-ing. After spending 25 years learning to see the magic in brands and leaders, today, Keka can teach you how to see the magic that lies within YOU!

An image of Keka DasGupta speaking on stage at the Socialight Conference, taken from behind the stage at Toronto's famous Winter Garden Theatre

ABOUT THE #ARTOFLIFE-ING

Let's DO life on purpose!

#Mindset #Growth #Happiness???

If I ask you: what you are unhappy about in life, would you readily have a list waiting for me?

What if I asked: what has to change in your life to make you happy?

Really happy, deep down inside? Would that scare you?

Many of us are living life just like that - on autopilot. We are busy. Exhausted. Numb. Living by other people’s rules. Other’s validations. And we can’t answer: WHY?

How can we get to “Destination Happy” in life, if we don’t know where that is? Like traveling on someone else’s road. Lost in fear. Without a map.

But, there are life lessons all around us, every day, pointing to our “Destination Happy.” We just have to start asking questions.

This is the Art of Life-ing.

Where we’re boldly changing the word LIFE from a noun to a verb! We’re DOING life on-purpose!

If you are ready to go on this Life-ing journey too, then join me! Let’s DO this together!

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