Shobha Dhanwatay

Shobha Dhanwatay is a graduate in BA - English Literature with 30 years of teaching experience in the Public Relations Industry, Corporate Communication & 15 years in CSR. An active life member of PUBLIC RELATIONS SOCIETY OF INDIA, held the portfolio of the Secretary of Nagpur Chapter for 2 consecutive tenures. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

• Excellent reading & writing, speaking and listening skills
• Skills in managing teams and leadership quality
• Skills of anticipating, analysing, decision making, monitoring and evaluation of jobs/tasks/assignments, towards meeting deadlines and closure of the same
• Skills in leading big groups, particularly a classroom of 60 candidates for holding their attention and interest in the communication & discussion regarding any subject and its deliverables
• Skills is setting standards and value to work ethics and ownership
• Skills in customized development of course content as per the market/region demand
• Skills in assessment and understanding the feedback procedure to add value to delivery and impact creation

• Communication
• Public Relations
• Corporate Communication
• Marketing & Sales Management
• Advertising
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Employability Skills Development

• Experience in Academics Academic achievements
• Participated in the National PR Say seminar on 21st April 2024 at Circuit House Nagpur
• Presented an Article on ‘Pochampally- The Dying Weave frm the Silk City’, which is published in The Hitavada, dated 30/06/24
• Participated in the National Public Relations Day online conference on ‘G20- & Indian Values: Public Relations Perspective’ on 21st April, 2023
• Participated in the Maharana Pratap Jayanti 2023, organized by PRSI, Nagpur, on 22 May 2023
• Participated & presented a Paper on “PR for career Counseling & Future” at the Dr CN Rao National Awards function at Hyderabad on 6th August 2023 and won a National Award for Best PR Counsellor
• Participated and Presented a 25 minute talk on ‘Women for Women + Men for Women & Right Time to Rewind: An Initiative of the Mind’ Under the Category “Mental Health & Working Women’, at the National Seminar on Physical, Mental & Social Challenges against Women Health Empowerment at the SKD University, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan on 16th December 2023
• Invited to participate in the celebrations of the RTI Day, 2022 and also a workshop & interactive session on Plus & Minuses of RTI, at Ravi Bhawan, Nagpur on 22 September, 2022
• Invited to participate & present a poem on ‘Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav’s Amrut Sandhya’, on 15 August, 2022, organized by PRSI, National Chapter., on a National Level Event
• Invited to attend & participate in panel discussions of various sessions by contributing inputs during ‘The International Education & Skill Summit-TIESS Virtual 2021’ from 27th to 30th January organized by TIESS and India Didactics Association
• Invited to attend an International Conference on Media Communication & Design – ICMCD-Jagran Lake City University – organized on 25th & 26Th of resented a research paper for publication in the Conference Journal
• Invited to Participate in Face Book Live Webinars by the Air Traveller’s Association as a founder member in March, April & May, 2021
• Attended and participated in a workshop on ”Plagiarism and Cloned Journal’s – a threat to research and it’s implications’-reg. conducted on 23 October 2021 by AMET University, Chennai
• Attended and participated in the National virtual summit on S/He: Inspiring Change-‘Contributing to Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, on 27th October 2021 organized by Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs in partnership with ASSOCHEM
• Invited as a Guest of Honour at the Prize Distribution Ceremony of NCC Air-wing to felicitate their meritorious students on 16 January 2020, @Nagpur
• Invited to present a talk on ‘Reservation System in New India and also to judge a debate competition on the said topic for students of LAD College, Nagpur, organized jointly by Times of India, Nagpur and Save Merit, Save Nation Foundation, Nagpur on 22, February, 2020
• Selected with financial assistance to visit Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh and present a detailed paper ‘Unveiling the secrets of Khajuraho’ by the Indic Society, Department of Indic Today, from March 7th to 15th March 2020
• Invited to participate with a set of questions, in a Webinar on “Preparing Today for Travel and Tourism Tomorrow” organized by FAST- Foundation for Aviation and Sustainable Tourism” on 27 May, 2020
• Invited to participate with a set of questions, in a Webinar on “New Initiative to Rejuvenate Aviation” organized by FAST- Foundation for Aviation and Sustainable Tourism” on 17 June 2020
• Invited as a speaker to present a talk on “Skill Connect-Connecting the dots between demand and supply of skills during Coid-19 – A PR perspective” on 10 July 2020 by SEED
• Invited as a speaker to an Alumni Talk session of one hour by the IICA, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Gurugram, on 14th October 2020 under the “Meet the Alumni” program. Presented a talk on Public Relations for CSR- Creating Value for Social Entrepreneurship
• Invited to address the students of Mount Carmel School on Communication Skills during the Pandemic, an online session on 9 December, 2020 for standards X, XI & XII
• Was invited by PRCI & Manipal University, Jaipur for conducting a workshop on “Communication Beyond Social Media: Social Media as an Engaging Education Tool” at Manipal University, Jaipur, on 15 & 16th of February, 2019
• Invited as a Guest at the National Council Meet & All India Mass Communication Students’ Congress 2019- “Nurturing future of communication! Emerging India-Changing Communication” at IIMC, New Delhi, on 16th March 2019
• Chaired, Co-chaired, moderated and presented a Paper on “Non-verbal communication at your finger tips: A technological facelift – from a craft of emotions to an art of emoticons” at the 2nd National Media Conference organized by the SGT University, Gurugram on the Theme: Media Literacy - Tools, Techniques and Challenges, having a sub theme: Media Literacy in the of Social Media (Manthan-2019) on 12th and 13th April, 2019
• Was invited as a speaker to talk on “Role of Media for Cultural Harmony – A way forward for global peace” at the national Conference organized by ICCS & Ministry of Culture at Hotel Centre Point, Nagpur 0n 16th & 16th of March 2018
• Attended and Participated in a seminar on “ Indian Democracy- Mantra for effective elections” organized by the Public Relations Society of India, on the occasion of a RED LETTER Day of PR- National Public Relations Day
• Invited to Chair, co chair sessions and also as a speaker at the 3rd All India Media Educators’ Conference held at Jaipur, Rajasthan on “The Power of Media and Technology- Shaping the Future” on 6th, 7th and 8th of July, 2018
• Attended The World Congress of CSR
• Attended the Wine Seminar on Wine Making Skills and Wine Industry as Career option
• Attended “The Pinkathon” Nagpur to support women runners
• Attended the Tree Plantation Seminar and Drive at Nagpur
• Attended “My Success story – organized by the Entrepreneurship Forum of VIA, Nagpur
• Attended a 2 day conference on CSR in Mumbai
• Attended a 3 three day conference on Public Relations for Smart cities
• All India National PR Conference at Kolkotta
• Corporate Attachment at L&T for CSR from 5th January 2015, to 24th January, 2015
• Attended a CSR session with Mr.Noshir Dadrawala, CEO, Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy, on 24th January, 2015
• Attended the "IICA International conference on Corporate Governance" scheduled on 28th Jan 2015 at Hotel Taj Land Ends, Mumbai
• Attended the Seminar on National Public Relations Day at Nagpur on “CSR & Governance’ on 21st April, 2015- A Red letter Day in PR
• Attended a conference hosted by IMC at BSE, Fort, Mumbai on ‘Mission Skill Development: Leveraging CSR & Education’
• Attended a Seminar on Skill Development in India, at Hyderabad, organized by MIEC
• Attended the “VCON- Dubai 2014” on Direct Selling & E-commerce at Dubai, 16-20 September, 2014
• Attended and chaired a session at North Zone Conference of PRSI, Shimla on “Corporate Social Responsibility – Corporate Communication
• Attended All India Rose Convention and World Regional Conference at Hyderabad, 29 September – 2nd October, 2014
• Attended the first Orientation Programme on CSR on 8th October, 2014 at IICA, Manesar Campus, Gurgaon, Haryana
• Invited as speaker at a Seminar on “PR in the New Age” at Chennai hosted jointly by Stella Maris and CWC Chennai, December 2014 36th All India Conference at Jaipur on “Sab ke Saath:Sab Ka Vikas” - Inclusive Growth-Marching together-Role of Public Relations
• Attended TIECON 2013 in February, 2013
• Invited as Speaker at the Future Vista Seminar on Education & Careers in India
• Invited as speaker at the INDO-THAI PUBLIC RELATIONS ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE IN JUNE 2013
• Presented paper and talk on “ “Atithi Devo Bhava” – Skilling Public Relations to brand India as a global tourist destination” at Bangkok, Thailand on 12/06/2013
• Attended a 2 day “NLC-PRSI Conference on “ PR, Corp Communication & the emerging trends in CSR” in Chennai, on 13th & 14th December
• Attended 35th All India PRSI Conference 2013 at New Delhi, “ Inclusive Growth through Corporate Social Responsibility- Role of Public Relations
• Attended 34th All India PRSI National conference on “Communication Strategies for Travel & Tourism” at Shimla in September, 2012
• Attended conference on School Education by Global School, Pune in October 2012Attended HR CONCLAVE organized by Raisoni Group of Institutions in December, 2012
• Attended Seminar & Business Interaction Meet with British High Commission & UK Trade and Investment Team, at Raddison Hotel, Nagpur in December., 2012
• Attended a workshop on effective teaching through Case Study Methodology, organized by the Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi from 14th – 16th March, 2011
• Speaker at a seminar on “Fine Tuning Your Communication to Corporate Frequency”, through a “Virtual Presence” through video conferencing on 13th April, 2011,organized by PRCI, Pune
• Conducted a session on “Careers in Public Relations” during the Career Orientation Workshop organized by the Department of Mass Communication, RTMNU, Nagpur on 12th August, 2011
• Attended a seminar on “Enhance Your Employability-EYE” on 1st October, 2011
• Invited as a speaker at the A3C, 2011 Colloquium, by the Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), on 12th November, 2011 on “Soft Skills for Civil Engineering Sector”
• Attended 33rd All India PRSI Conference at Nagpur, 23-25 December, 2011
• Attended a Conference on “ Nagpur – Growth Nucleus” organized by VED on 15,16 January, 2008
• Delivered a talk on “Nagpur- A Paradigm of Art & Culture- An insight”, at the seminar on “Making Nagpur a Tourist friendly City” organized by VED on 21/09/2008
• Attended All India PR Conference at Guwahati, 11 – 13 December 2008
• Attended International Conference on International Relations on Culture and Languages at ICR, Nagpur, on 10 June 2007
• Attended Vidarbha Conference on High School Education, on 8,9 August,2006 organized by ADS Foundation, Nagpur

• Maharashtra State award for Poetry
• International Award for Poetry
• National Award for best Public Relations Counsellor
• Many in local programs, academics, competitions & contests etc.
• Conferred “The National Women Excellence Award 2013” by Women’s International Network,(WIN), New Delhi on 25th November 2013, - “International Day for Eliminating Violence Against Women
• IInd Prize in Photography competition on “Child Rights” at the Indo Thai Round Table Conference, 2013 at Thailand (on Children of Thailand – (Child Labour))
• Times of India and JCI Nagpur’s Women Achiever Award -2016 in the Education Category
• Women Empowerment Awards- Best work in Education award in November 2016 by WEAA India, at Jaipur, Rajasthan
• Award for meritorious recognition and leadership at the World Congress of CSR in Mumbai
• Felicitated for contribution in PR Education at Jaipur by Jaipur Chapter of Public Relations Society of India
• And Many Others