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Shweta Kulkarni is a seasoned product development consultant with over two decades of experience driving innovation in the Talent and Learning industry. With an exceptional track record of working with global technology leaders like Microsoft and Learn.com, Shweta brings deep consulting expertise and a product strategist’s mindset to every engagement. At Harbinger, she has been instrumental in not only developing world-class customer solutions but also architecting Harbinger’s suite of intelligent products that demystify the entire engineering lifecycle—from ideation to scale.

Shweta specializes in guiding organizations through the rapidly evolving landscape of modern product engineering. She coaches cross-functional teams and product leaders on how product development has matured—from monolithic systems to modular cloud-based architectures, and now to AI-driven, cognitive-agile ecosystems. Her insights into the structural and cultural shifts necessary for this transformation make her a trusted advisor for companies navigating ambiguity.

Her consulting engagements often revolve around key themes: the evolution of product development models (Waterfall to Agile to Cognitive Agile), the AI-driven redefinition of team roles and methodologies, and the art of risk-aware decision-making in fast-paced innovation cycles. Shweta’s practical approach ensures teams not only understand these shifts but can implement frameworks and toolchains that align tightly with business objectives.

Shweta is a firm believer in storytelling as a means of transformation. She often shares real-world stories of how Harbinger’s customers have successfully adopted cutting-edge practices—be it embedding AI in their talent platforms, re-architecting legacy systems for cloud-native deployment, or enabling agile maturity across distributed teams. These narratives form the basis of her speaking engagements, podcasts, and mentoring sessions, where she champions a modern engineering ethos grounded in empathy, agility, and outcome-orientation.

Whether helping a customer choose between iterative and outcome-based models, implementing engineering metrics, or shaping a cognitive-ready product organization, Shweta blends strategic clarity with hands-on engineering acumen. She is a sought-after speaker at industry events and is known for her thought leadership on the future of product development in learning tech.

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