Leena Jain

About Leena Jain

I build knowledge for businesses so they can take decisions with confidenceCurrently practicing as a Research Director at PeepalDesign, one of India\'s first experience design agency, now a global company as a part of Resight Global, I bring in a holistic approach from my experience in branding strategy, service and experiential design and writing. At the core of it, I have always been driven by curiosity and plurality of narratives. Currently living in my 11th city (Bangalore), my ancestral roots originate from Kutchch, Gujarat, while I was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh and grew up across the country, having stayed in Indore, Chennai, Nagpur, Raipur, Mumbai ( & Navi Mumbai), Gandhinagar, Mithapur, Ahmedabad, Delhi, and Pune. These constantly evolving surroundings around me led to a fascination with culture and it\'s nuances from multidisciplinary lensesRooted in research and expressed through words and visuals, my work has ranged in the area of branding, research and strategy. I have worked across domains of lifestyle, luxury, crafts, business, technology and policy. I have also facilitated, and curated several experiential design workshops and often dabble in creative writing and visual art. I write foresight pieces, opinion pieces on gender and personal experiences with mental health on Medium.

Experience

1. Research Director

   PeepalDesign

   Apr 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading an experimental research innovation mandate, managing a team of highly capable junior, mid-level, and senior researchers - facilitating growth, improving professional competence and building a culture of open-minded, experimental, and brave innovation - Accelerating AI-integration into our workflows, creating protocols that make the audit trail of synthesis from observation to insight clear and machine-readable, and ensuring thick data doesn\'t get flattened but maintains nuance with speed and scale- Intrapreneurship for new ways of doing, consuming and making research valuable for the world - Strategic business and team planning, innovation in the craft of research and the business of doing strategic consulting, qualitative research and design + everything else that I did in my previous role :)

Education

• Sheth Karamshi Kanji English School

  Secondary School

  2004 — 2012

• Shrimati Sulochanadevi Singhania School

  High School, Sciences

  2012 — 2014

• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY, GANDHINAGAR

  Bachelor's degree, Fashion Communication

  2014 — 2018