About us
Iconic Women Podcast is a platform that brings you stories of remarkable women who have challenged the status quo and pushed boundaries, leaving an indelible mark on history and continuing to shape the present. Started as a re-enactment project narrating stories of untold, forgotten historical women, Iconic Women Project has grown into a podcast sharing stories of contemporary women.
Exploring Horizons
To consistently celebrate the resilience, courage, and indomitable spirit of women.
Stories That Inspire
To revive and reclaim the narratives of women that have often been overlooked or forgotten while shining a spotlight on their diverse contributions across different fields.
Meet the team behind the podcast
Kadambari Misra
Kadambari Misra, the host of the Iconic Women Podcast, is a design leader and principal brand architect from NID Ahmedabad. Invited to be a TEDx Speaker multiple times, Kadambari has led high-impact creative mandates at companies like Coffee Day, Ola and Titan. In her capacity as Creative Director, she has built several brands, creating authentic stories that have endured on a national level. She has crafted and conducted several leadership workshops for design-led businesses aimed at enhancing brand experience. She is the cofounder of Eternative Design, a Bangalore-based brand studio contributing to global creative conversations. Kadambari has built the Iconic Women Project, a passion project that has evolved into a conversational platform for inspirational women’s stories across geographies. As a design practitioner with a keen interest in design education in the country, Kadambari has been a visiting faculty, mentor and jury at prestigious institutes like NID, NIFT, Srishti, Pearl Academy and several others.
Bala Kumaran
Bala Kumaran brings incredible dynamism to
everything he does, from business strategy, to
brand and digital enablement.
In his career, Bala has a track record of building
businesses from scratch and scaling them into
thriving enterprises poised for further growth.
His experience of various market landscapes such as India, the Middle East, the US and Australia helps bring targeted and strategic success across businesses. He has founded and scaled several successful companies such as BrandStory Digital, Origin UX and Picture Quotient among others, impacting more than 500 brands across geographies through creative and strategic approaches. His latest venture, Eternative Design is a premium design studio, with which Bala comes full circle in charting a journey that is poised to become synonymous with design excellence worldwide.