Anish Majumdar
Executive Advisor | Strategic Communications & Leadership Development
I’ve spent most of my career working at the intersection of people, communication and possibility—helping accomplished leaders get to the heart of difficult problems, communicate what matters, and find new paths forward when the conventional one isn’t working.
Over nearly two decades, I’ve advised more than 2,100 leaders, built a $2M+ expert business, developed and commercialized proprietary IP, and built a professional audience of 21K+.
An Unusual Professional Foundation
Before—and alongside—my work advising leaders, I built careers in some seemingly different worlds.
I spent 12 years as an award-winning journalist, conducting nearly 150 interviews and writing reported features, profiles and investigative pieces for publications including American Way, Hemispheres, Maclean’s, Toronto Life and Saturday Night.
I’m a professionally trained actor with experience across film, television, theatre and voice, including work for Warner Bros., IFC, BBC Worldwide, Global Television and Nelvana. After an extended hiatus, I returned to professional theatre in 2025.
And I’m the author of The Isolation Door: A Novel.
Those experiences gave me very different ways of understanding people: how to ask better questions, find the signal inside complexity, understand what moves an audience, and communicate something so that another human being can actually receive it.
Where I Work
My work sits at the intersection of three domains:
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
Finding the essential idea inside complicated information and helping leaders communicate it with greater clarity, authority and impact.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Helping accomplished leaders strengthen how they communicate, influence and operate in the room when the stakes are high and the margin of error is 0.
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Working directly with leaders on difficult human and strategic problems—particularly when the obvious route has stopped producing the expected result.
Selected Work & Results
2,100+ leaders advised across career inflection points, leadership challenges and high-stakes communication.
$500K+ custom-created SVP & Chief role secured by repositioning a leader around organizational problems rather than conventional job openings.
$60M initiative approved after strengthening a senior leader's communication and authority under pressure.
$2M+ expert business built, reaching ~$600K annually at peak.
~45 published articles / nearly 150 interviews, including award-winning investigative and feature journalism.
Let’s Talk
I’m open to conversations around strategic communications, leadership development, executive advisory, facilitation and other interesting problems where my experience may be useful.
U.S.–Canadian dual citizen. Available for work in both countries.