# Shefali Chopra

> Shefali Chopra is a storyteller and three-time TEDx speaker. Twenty years of original work, told to classrooms, campuses, communities, festival stages and boardrooms across India, the Gulf and Southeast Asia.

Shefali Chopra (also known as Ramta Ram) is a storyteller, motivational speaker and three-time TEDx speaker based in Gurugram, India. Her storytelling series is called Kisse aur Kahaniyan. She speaks in English and Hindi, and travels across India and abroad.

## Booking

- Email: shefalichopra@hotmail.com
- Phone: +91 98105 57121
- [Invite her to speak](https://www.shefalichopra.in/#invite): tell her the date, the audience, and what you want them to walk out with.

## TEDx talks

- [Why Stories Can Still Save Us](https://youtu.be/ytjQbr4ZFik): TEDxNIIT University, 2026
- [Let's Crossover to Find the Real You](https://www.ted.com/talks/shefali_chopra_let_s_crossover_to_find_the_real_you): TEDxGoodShepherdIntlSchool, Ooty, 2022
- [It's OK to Not Have All the Answers](https://www.ted.com/talks/shefali_chopra_it_s_ok_to_not_have_all_the_answers): TEDxYouth@JPSChennai, 2020

## Ways to book her

- Keynote (30–45 min): Conferences, festivals, school assemblies
- Storytelling performance (45–60 min): Schools, cultural evenings, community gatherings
- Short course (Multi-session): Storytelling technique, taught to every age group: children, students, professionals, elders
- Train the trainer (Full or multi-day): For teachers building a storytelling practice of their own in the classroom
- Workshop (Half or full day): Corporate teams, leadership groups, speaker training
- Webinar (45–60 min): Parenting groups, distributed teams, student forums

## What she speaks on

- Students and young audiences: No One Can Dance Your Dance; Be the Superhero; Breaking Your Mental Shackles; Body Shaming: Reclaiming the Mirror; Influencers Aren't Born, They're Built
- Parents and families: Helicopter Parenting: Loving Without Hovering; Fill Your Cup of Positivity; Training the Dragon Mind Through Stories
- Corporate and leadership: Leadership Stories; Purposeful Communication; Handling Criticism; Learn to Change the Narrative
- Open and mixed audiences: Endorsing Your Best Version

## About

Originally from Jammu & Kashmir and raised in Oman, Shefali writes, directs and performs her own work. She studied at the Indian School Muscat, read Business Studies in Dubai, and took a diploma in Computer Programming and Critical Analysis at City & Guilds, London. She comes from a family of filmmakers. Storytelling was the language spoken at home long before it became her work.
Her series Kisse aur Kahaniyan has travelled from village schoolrooms and elder-care communities to university auditoriums, literature festivals and community gatherings in Dubai. She speaks on leadership, communication, parenting, resilience and self-worth, always through narrative rather than instruction. Her audiences run from ten-year-olds to corporate teams, and the method holds across both: name the thing, then tell a story that lets people arrive at it themselves.
She also appears on television debates, where she speaks for the ordinary person rather than the panel: the same instinct that runs through her stage work. She trains speakers and educators to build a storytelling practice of their own, writes for digital publications, and is a registered organ donor: a quiet version of the belief underneath all of it, that what you have is worth passing on.

## Where she has spoken (a selection)

- Universities: Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (Jammu); KIIT (Bhubaneswar); SRM University (Vijayawada); UPES, Padhan Foundation (Dehradun)
- Schools: Good Shepherd International School (Ooty); DPS R.K. Puram (New Delhi); The Presidium School; The Suncity School, Sector 37D (Gurugram); Manav Rachna School (Gurugram); St. Xavier's High School (Gurugram); Blue Bells School (Gurugram); Brahm Dutt Blue Bells Public School (Gurugram); Rotary Public School (Gurugram); John Martin School (Dehradun); Him Jyoti School (Dehradun); IDPS (Jammu)
- Festivals: Dehradun Literature Festival (Dehradun); Delhi Poetry Festival (Delhi); The Purple Umbrella Festival (Delhi); Haryana Literature Festival (Second Edition); Literaria (Ambala Lit Fest); FICCI FLO (Dehradun Chapter)
- Corporate & community: IndianOil; Bohra Community (Dubai, UAE); Hotel Amalthea (Thailand); DataFlow Group; SheScapes; CatFit (webinar series); Max Hospital (Saket, New Delhi); Aatma Clinic (Anandpuram); Community storytelling circle (Dharamshala)

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.shefalichopra.in/): who she is, TEDx talks, topics, formats, photographs, venues, poems and contact
- [Quotes](https://www.shefalichopra.in/quotes/): lines she lives by

## Poems

Her poems are on the homepage (https://www.shefalichopra.in/#poems):

- Mirage in the sands
- Magic in the skies
- Beyond words
- I am a dreamer
- I lay still
- Boundaries of the mind
- Not a word is said

## Elsewhere

- [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@storylinesSC)
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/shefalichopra.storylines)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shefali-shiifu-chopra-91b64751)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/share/1F7dRb3eo1/)