Lakshika Verma, Strategic Communications Advisor and Public Relations Consultant, Lakshika Consultancy

Lakshika Verma is the kind of woman who redefines what modern success looks like. A sharp strategic communicator, entrepreneur, and founder of her own thriving consultancy, she has spent years helping brands shape reputations, navigate crises, and tell powerful stories. But perhaps her most compelling story is the one she is living herself — balancing ambition, entrepreneurship, and motherhood with unapologetic authenticity.

Lakshika speaks with rare honesty about motherhood not as perfection, but as a masterclass in humility, resilience, and reinvention. While business taught her planning and execution, motherhood taught her adaptability, patience, and the courage to embrace the beautifully messy truth that growth is never linear. Her perspective is bold, refreshing, and deeply relevant for women trying to do it all without losing themselves.

What captivated TheGlitz was her refusal to shrink in a world that often asks women to become smaller, quieter, or more convenient. Lakshika chooses expansion over apology — owning her ambition, her voice, her motherhood, and her individuality without asking permission from anyone.

She champions a new narrative where women do not have to choose between being devoted mothers and driven professionals. She is raising a daughter while building a business, creating impact while creating memories, and proving every day that women can occupy multiple spaces with strength and grace.

Her words are fearless, her journey inspiring, and her mindset transformative — which is exactly why TheGlitz proudly celebrates Lakshika Verma as part of TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026.

…Because the most powerful women are not the ones pretending to have it all together. They are the ones building empires, raising children, and still showing up as their full, authentic selves.

Over To Lakshika Verma, Strategic Communications Advisor and Public Relations Consultant, Lakshika Consultancy

You wear many hats — mother, leader, achiever. Which role has surprised you the most, and why?

Lakshika Verma – Honestly? Motherhood has surprised me the most, and I say that as someone who came to it with reasonable confidence. I thought I was prepared-I had a career, I understood strategy and planning, I knew how to lead teams and solve complex problems. Then my child was born, and I realized that none of that mattered in the way I thought it would.

What surprised me is that motherhood taught me to be humble in ways that business never did. In my career, I can strategize, plan, and execute. I can control outcomes to a large extent. But motherhood? It’s humbling because you can do everything “right” and still face challenges you didn’t anticipate. Your child gets sick at the worst possible time. She struggles with something you thought would be easy. She needs something from you that you don’t know how to give.

The real surprise is how this humbling experience made me a better leader. I became more empathetic, more flexible, and more willing to adapt my approach based on what actually works rather than what the playbook says. That’s something I never appreciated until I became a mother.

In a world that celebrates hustle, how do you create meaningful moments of pause and connection with your children?

Lakshika Verma – This is something I actively fight for, because the world – and honestly, me too – constantly pushes toward more hustle, more achievement, more productivity. But I’ve learned that meaningful moments don’t happen by accident. They have to be protected. For me, it starts with being intentional about small rituals. It’s 20 minutes we spend together after she wakes up, where we sit together. No phone, no checking emails, just listening. It’s bedtime stories, which I’ve refused to rush through or skip, even on days when I have pending work. It’s weekend mornings where we play, giggle, smile or just lie in bed talking about nothing in particular.

What I’ve realized is that these “small” moments aren’t small at all. They’re what my child will remember. She won’t remember if I closed that deal or won that award on a particular day, but she’ll remember if I was present with her. The hustle culture says that pausing means you’re falling behind.

But I’ve learned that pausing is how you actually stay ahead – ahead in your relationship with your child, ahead in your mental health, ahead in what actually matters. Some of my best ideas for my professional work have come during these seemingly “unproductive” moments with my daughter.

What is one life lesson motherhood has taught you that no business school or boardroom ever could?

Lakshika Verma – The lesson is this: Progress isn’t always forward. Sometimes it’s circular, sometimes it’s messy, and sometimes you have to go backward before you move forward. And that’s okay. In business, we’re taught linear progression. Growth charts, quarterly targets, year-over-year improvements. Everything moves upward and to the right. But motherhood taught me that life doesn’t work that way. Your child has a perfect week, then the next week they’re struggling with something you thought they’d mastered.

You feel like a great parent one day, and the next day you’re questioning everything. You have weeks of perfect routine, then something disrupts it — illness, change, growth-and you’re back to square one.

What I’ve learned is that this isn’t failure. This is how growth actually happens. It’s not a straight line; it’s a spiral. And recognizing that has fundamentally changed how I approach challenges, both in my career and in my personal life.

In the boardroom, I’m now more patient with setbacks. I don’t see a regression as a sign of failure; I see it as part of the process. I’m more willing to embrace uncertainty because motherhood teaches you that uncertainty is the default state of raising a human being. You’re constantly adapting, learning, and evolving. That’s a lesson no MBA program teaches you, but it’s perhaps the most valuable one I’ve learned.

If your children had to describe you in three words, what do you think they would say… and what would you hope they say?

What I think my daughter would say: “Fun, fierce, and free.”

She sees me as someone who doesn’t play small. I run my own PR startup… I’m building something from scratch, making decisions, taking risks. She watches me negotiate with clients, brainstorm with my team, pivot strategies when needed. That’s fierce. She sees the boldness in it.

The “fun” part? That’s everything. I’m the kind of mother who says yes to adventure. We take spontaneous outings together. I dance around the living room with her in my arms. I laugh loudly. I don’t believe in being the stereotypical serious parent who’s constantly worried about doing everything right. I genuinely enjoy my daughter’s company, and she feels that. We laugh together, a lot. Life with me is lively and full of joy.

And “free”— I think she sees that too. I’m not bound by what society expects a mother to be. I’m not performing motherhood or pretending to have it all figured out. I’m doing my thing, building my business, living my life, and bringing her along for the ride. She grows up watching her mother be unapologetically herself, and that teaches her something important about authenticity and confidence.

What I hope she would say: “Ambitious, real, and someone who showed me possibilities.”

“Ambitious” because I want her to see that her mother didn’t settle. I didn’t just take a job — I created my own. I’m building something, scaling something, making an impact in my industry. And I want that ambition to be visible to her, not hidden. I want her to grow up knowing that women dream big and go after those dreams without apology. I want her to see her mother as someone who is unapologetically building her empire while also being her mother.

“Real” because I never want her to think her mother is someone who has it all together or who pretends to be perfect. I’m building a startup, so there are days when things are chaotic — when I’m stressed about a pitch, when a deal falls through, when I’m juggling too much. She sees that. And I want her to remember her mother as someone who was honest about the struggle, who didn’t hide her ambition behind fake gratitude or false modesty. I want her to know that even strong women have hard days, and that’s okay.

And “someone who showed me possibilities”- that’s the big one for me. I want my daughter to grow up knowing that the world is bigger than what she’s told it should be. Her mother runs a business. Her mother is an extrovert who thrives on connection and risk-taking. Her mother doesn’t fit into one box. Her mother is a woman who is fully alive and fully herself.

And if her mother can do that, then she can do whatever she dreams of too. I want to expand her sense of what’s possible for herself as a woman, not just in motherhood or career, but as a complete human being with unlimited potential.

What does being “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026” mean to you in today’s world – perfection, resilience, reinvention, or something else entirely?

Lakshika Verma – If that title means perfection, then I’m the wrong person for it. I don’t believe in perfect motherhood, and I’m deeply suspicious of anyone who claims to have achieved it.

To me, “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026” means something much more honest: it’s about resilience. It’s about showing up, day after day, even when you’re exhausted. It’s about navigating an impossible set of expectations—be a great mother, be a great professional, be a great partner, be a great friend, take care of yourself—and doing your best without believing you have to succeed at all of them simultaneously.

It’s about reinvention too, because motherhood constantly requires you to evolve. The strategies that worked with a two-year-old don’t work with a seven-year-old. The way you balance motherhood and career at one stage of your child’s life is completely different at another stage. You have to keep learning, adjusting, reinventing yourself.

But more than that, it means something deeper: It means refusing to apologize for your ambition. It means being a woman who is unapologetically both—a devoted mother AND a driven professional—without diminishing either role. It means standing up to the narrative that says you have to choose, that you can’t have both, that wanting both makes you selfish or inadequate.

It means using whatever platform you have—whether it’s in your family, your workplace, or your community—to change the conversation around motherhood. To say out loud that mothers are exhausted, that unsolicited advice isn’t help, that parenting should be equal, and that perfect is not the goal.

In today’s world, “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom” to me means a woman who is willing to be real about the struggle, who celebrates other mothers without diminishing herself, who shares her burden instead of pretending to carry it alone, and who raises children (and particularly sons, in my case) who understand that women are multidimensional, complex, ambitious, and worthy of equal partnership in every aspect of life.

It’s not about glitz. It’s about grit. It’s about grace under pressure. And it’s about refusing to apologize for taking up space as a mother, as a leader, and as a complete human being.