Priya Kumar

Priya Kumar is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, with over thirty years of corporate training experience.
She has worked with over 2,000 multinational corporates across fifty-one countries and has touched the lives of over 3 illion people through her workshops and books.
Priya has written eighteen inspirational books, which have won forty-six international book awards, making her the first Indian author to have done so.

Priya has received several awards by The Times Group for being India's best inspirational author.

She is India's first certified firewalk instructor and has conducted over 2,000 firewalks across the globe.
With over 700 published columns for national and international publications, Priya's work has been extensively featured by the media in India and abroad, and she has been invited as a celebrity guest on several business, entertainment and reality shows.
Known as the biography specialist, Priya has penned the biographies of leading industrialists, legendary businessmen and industry icons, such as those of Mr O.P. Munjal; Mr Pullela Gopichand, the chief national coach of the Indian badminton team; Mr A.M. Naik, the group chairman of Larsen & Toubro; Shri Shashi Ruia, owner of the Essar Group and many more lined up for release.
Having turned filmmaker and screenwriter, Priya made her digital debut with the web series The Final Call, streaming on the OTT platform Zee5, based on her novel I Will Go with You.
Priya is the founder and CEO of Firelight Films, a niche production house. She also runs Butterfly Media, a digital marketing company that helps authors and speakers build their brand and promote their work and business.
Priya resides in Mumbai with her husband, Sandeep Mishra, her mother, Sona, and her three Yorkshire terriers, Chiki, Muffin and Cookie.