Niharika Shukla
Legal & Corporate
Iterate Legal
Since earning her law degree and becoming a member of the Bar Council, Niharika has been actively involved in writing and negotiating contracts while keeping governance, processes and documentation in check for businesses. She's also focused energy on building relationships with institutional investors and other high value client relationships. Beyond law, Niharika has worked on strategic sourcing and planning, budgeting and market studies. Along the way, she's gained extensive and varied knowledge of specialized commercial deals and has handled a wide array of commercial contracts of general corporate nature.
Niharika has been -- and continues to be -- fortunate because she works with her family's business which manages and develops large scale land tracts in Mumbai, India. In India, she was also able to participate in various TiE panel discussions and growth opportunities for residential housing.
Niharika holds a keen interest in exploring different parts of the world and she combines this passion with experiencing diverse cultures. Her thirst for helping others keeps her active in doing social work and generally contributing towards betterment of society and environment.
Patents
Patent Pending
Dynamic and Automatic Agreement Generation and Modification [Legal Self Serve]
United States of America
A.Wichern, F. M. Frazzini, N. Shukla
Patent Pending
Dynamic Landscape Creation on Collections [Technology Opportunity Mapping]
United States of America
More About Niharika Shukla
My most successful innovation work ...
ESQuick
An a-ha moment that changed my way of innovating was ...
I tried to start a Kids Shuttle Service. I was unable to pull it off due to various reasons. I learned - There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons and; to embrace risks as my best friend.
My most inspiring project at Iterate ...
Prior to Iterate - Creating legal frameworks for various Turnkey Projects, Conducting Seminars in Schools on consitutional right awareness, Social Work Projects, helping family business in a real estate development projects. At Iterate - ESQuick.
Qualities of an innovator
- Create Ideas – The idea of creating things you wished existed
- Evaluation of Ideas – Define a framework, flowchart and structure
- Execution of Ideas – Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. If ideas are the seeds, think of execution as the water. Without water, a seed will never grow. So no matter how brilliant your idea may seem at the time, an idea alone is never enough to guarantee the growth of your business -- but execution can
Honors
- Niharika Shukla, a lawyer by training and a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (India) holds degrees in Bachelors in Science, Bachelors in Law, and Masters in Law.
Fun Tidbits
Why work with Iterate?
Culture, Collaboration, Challenges and Work-Life balance.
You may not know about me ...
Prior to Iterate, I co-founded a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to be able to promote environmental, social, advocacy and human rights work. In my free time, I love listening to music and dancing. I also enjoy entertaining friends and cooking nice Indian Food.
Most inspiring Leader-Innovator(s) ...
Mahatma Gandhi and Jeff Bezoz
What school did NOT teach me ...
In school you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Free Time
Travellling, meeting friends, dancing and spending quality time with family.
Favorite Quotes About Innovation