Benish Shah

Strategy & Growth Expert meets
Workplace Design Operator

Award-winning COO/CMO. Go to Market Exec and Expert in Team Architecture. Writer, Speaker.Benish is an award-winning, industry-agnostic go-to-market leader and workplace design expert with more than 10 years of experience taking companies and products to market and growing organizations. Known for growing nascent industries with first-mover initiatives, she's worked across CPG, SaaS, media, web3, non-profit, DTC, and fashion. Her work has won awards including Fast Company's Innovation by Design Award, multiple CLIO Awards, and Digiday and Webby honors. She also won the 2019 Amazing Women in e-Commerce Award.Currently, she's advising The Other and Motivote, while serving on the Board of Greyston and the Advisory Board of Hello Neighbor. She's writes a column at The Muse on identifying and working through toxic workplaces.Benish is represented by Arc Literary Management and is working on her next book.You can book Benish for speaking engagements by reaching out through the contact page.

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Speaking, Press, and Writing

Benish shah
Benish shah

EXPERT TOPICS FOR SPEAKING + PRESS
Anti-Toxic Workplaces
Designing Startup Work Cultures
Leadership & Diversity
Marketing in a Crisis
Leading Brand Transformations
RECENT PODCAST APPEARANCES
Designing Your New Life Blend
Harvard Business Review
iHeartRadio
SELECT VIDEO FOOTAGE
Salesforce - Women Leaders
Amazing Women in eComm - 2020
Allyship & Action
Watch Benish on CheddarTV
Breaking the Concrete Ceiling - WorkIt
R29 Beauty Challenge
R29 Asian Americans in Media
R29 - State of Our Union
SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Moderator, GamesCom Germany (2022)
Moderator, Games4Change NY (2022)
Moderator, NFT.NYC (2022)
How Inspiring Women Leaders Create Their Own Careers - Salesforce (2021)
Salesforce Stories of Resilience with Daymond John - 2021
HBR Anxious Overachiever Podcast - 2020
Amazing Women in eComm - 2020
Allyship & Action - 2020
Ad Week - State of Story Summit, 2019
Splash - Creating Powerful Customer Experiences, Moderator 2019
Empathy Labs: CX & Marketing, 2019
Alt Summit, 2018 & 2015
Product Course: Building Product Marketing, 2018
Empathy Labs: Empathy Design, 2018
WildFang StoryTelling, 2018
FearlessCon, 2017
WeWork Creator Awards NY, 2018
CMO Summit San Francisco Keynote, 2017
Digital Market Innovation Summit NY Keynote, 2017
Her Brain on Digital San Francisco 2017 & 2016 Keynote
Digital Summit LA Keynote, 2016
General Assembly 2015, Women in Tech, Moderator
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Amazing Women in eComm Award (2019)
Eco-Excellence Awards - Raised Real (2018)
Society of Publication Designers - AltMoji App (2017)
CLIO Award Winner - Daughters of Paradise Multimedia Experience (2016)
CLIO Award Winner - 29Rooms Experiential Event (2016)
CLIO Finalist - This AM App (2016)
Digiday Finalist - Daughters of Paradise Multimedia Experience (2016)
Webby Honoree - Daughters of Paradise Multimedia Experience (2016)
Webby Honoree - This AM App (2016)
SELECT PRESS EXAMPLES
Forbes - Marketing Executive Benish Shah Explore's Crypto Gaming's Subculture
Forbes - For Isolated Covid-19 Patients Nearing The End, Creating A Final Connection
Fast Company - 8 Ways to Make Long LastingChanging for Black Owned Businesses
Forbes - Resilience Building Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs
Moneyish - Feeling Unworthy on Graduation Day
Forbes - The Secrets to Changing Your Career by Women Who Have Done It
A+E SheReports – On Earning Trust and Understanding Women (as shoppers)
Alley Watch – How Refinery29 is Redefining Influence
Elle – 16 Successful Women give Advice for your First Job
The Guardian – Crowdfunding Fashion
Rank & Style – Profile
SELECT ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS
[The Muse - Column, Is it Toxic?] (https://www.themuse.com/advice/is-it-toxic-column-supportive-manager-180-grilling-nitpicking-micromanaging)
Forbes - Customer Centricity as the Key to Engagement
How Technology has disrupted the Corporate Gifting Landscape
How to Talk Trauma & Protests at Work. The (very non-definitive) Guidelines
Noteworthy - How to Market During a Crisis. Short answer: Don’t.
Thrive Global - Compassionate Leadership is a Crucial Skill
Thrive Global - The Feel-Good Science of Paying it Forward
Forbes - Using Office Decor as Team Building
Forbes – Chipping Away at a Concrete Ceiling
Refinery 29 – Brown Girl’s Guides to Beauty and Style
Touro Law Journal – Lost in the Gender Maze: Placement of Transgender Inmates in the Prison System
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change – Social Media Censorship

About

Benish is an award-winning, industry-agnostic go-to-market executive and consultant with more than 10 years of experience taking companies and products to market and growing organizations.Known for growing nascent industries with first-mover initiatives, she's worked across CPG, SaaS, media, web3, and fashion. Her work has won awards including Fast Company's Innovation by Design Award, multiple CLIO Awards, and Digiday and Webby honors. She also won the 2019 Amazing Women in e-Commerce Award.Currently she's advising several startups including The Other and Motivote, while serving on the Board of Greyston and the Advisory Board of Hello Neighbor. She's also working on her next book and writes a column at The Muse on identifying and working through toxic workplaces.Benish served as VP of Marketing at Stardust.gg, spearheading brand and messaging transformation that landed standalone articles in Bloomberg and Venture Beat and a $30 million Series A raise while helping grow the company from 10 to 50 people in less than 12 months. Prior to that, she served as the Chief Growth Officer at Loop and Tie taking the company from 5 to 20+ employees and 3x revenue within two years. She's a founding member of COVID Tech Connect, a non-profit that raised $10M+ in less than 6 months to help during the COVID 2020 crisis.Before the SaaS space, Benish was the VP of Marketing at Raised Real (acquired by Once Upon a Farm), where she took the company national, revamped the brand, grew revenue by 800%, and brought on Hollywood's Nikki Reed as an investor and advisor. Before RR, she was the Head of Product Marketing at Refinery29 where she created the Product Marketing, User Research, and Product Strategy functions. At Refinery29, she launched R29's first app, revamped affiliate revenue strategy, drove revenue generation through technology and proprietary data & research, and led marketing for the company's premier 29Rooms experience. Benish was an advisor to DoSomething.org and VentureForce Global. Winner of Emory University's Humanitarian Award in 2008, Benish advises on marketing and fundraising strategy for non-profits, including She's the First's 10th Anniversary Gala, DoSomething.org, Chicken & Egg, CAMP-NY, Iqra Fund, and more.Previously she led market strategy at Say Media, co-founded and ran Before the Label, served as Head of Strategy for Eva Khurshid, a NY based fashion line, and exited her first startup – an online mag called Neem Magazine. She launched the first-ever Product Marketing course at General Assembly to help more women into the technology and product field.In addition to authoring two children's books, Benish has been published in Touro Law Journal, Forbes Women, Inc., University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, Huffington Post, Forbes, and more on entrepreneurship, technology, and marketing strategy.Benish has a JD from Emory University School of Law and a BA from The George Washington University.

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