AI Educator  ·  Creator  ·  Conscious Entrepreneur

Lekhana
Reddy

Data in my mind.
Poetry in my soul.

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The story

I didn't plan
to be a creator.

I spent years as a data analyst cleaning datasets, building dashboards, writing queries in silence. I was good at it. But the gap I kept seeing wasn't a technical problem. It was a communication problem. All this powerful work, invisible to the people it was meant to serve.

"I started Storytelling by Data because I believed data could be humanized. I still do."

In 2022, I started creating on the side. SQL tutorials. Python walkthroughs. Data storytelling frameworks. Built it post by post, reel by reel. Still showing up to a corporate job by day, building an audience by night.

Then in 2024 I wrote a LinkedIn post. Three words: SQL IS DEAD. It hit 10 million impressions. And everything changed. Not because of the virality, but because of what the comments told me. People were hungry for an honest voice about what AI actually means for their careers.

Later that year, I left corporate. Fully. Finally. I pivoted Storytelling by Data toward AI education for real people. Non-technical professionals who need practical tools, not hype. Today the community sits at 160K+ across platforms. And I'm just getting started.

160K+ Community across platforms
10M SQL IS DEAD impressions
4yr Building Storytelling by Data
7yr In data analytics & education

Recognition

✦Named to Edelman's AI Creators to Know, alongside Andrew Ng

✦Featured speaker, Indiaspora Global AI Summit 2026, Bangalore

✦Brand partnerships with Kimi AI and enterprise collaborations

✦M.S. Data Science · 7 years in data analytics

✦Co-Host, Mindful Of podcast · 2024–2025

What I'm doing now

Teaching AI
like it's real life.

Storytelling by Data has evolved from a data education brand into something bigger. A platform for helping real professionals understand and actually use AI in the work they already do.

Not theory. Not hype. Not another course that teaches you ChatGPT prompts you'll forget in a week. I build education around specific human moments. The brief you're stuck on. The client email you're dreading. The workflow you've been doing manually for three years.

And alongside the AI work, something new is taking root. Becoming a mother in 2025 opened a part of me I didn't expect. I'm deeply drawn to conscious parenting and the intersection of how we raise children in a world being reshaped by technology. I'm exploring what it means to hold space for parents navigating this and whether coaching is the path I want to walk into next.

Content · Daily

AI Education on Social

Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Practical AI breakdowns, honest takes on what's changing, and tools your non-technical colleagues will actually use. No jargon.

Substack · Newsletter

The Conscious Entrepreneur

Writing about building with intention. The inner work that makes the outer work sustainable. What it means to be a founder, a mother, and a person still figuring things out in public.

Courses · Cohorts

Practical AI Programs

Structured learning for creative and service professionals. Interior designers. Event planners. Coaches. Consultants. People who want AI to work for them, not overwhelm them.

Emerging · Coaching

Parenting in the Age of AI

Something I'm growing slowly and with care. Working with parents who want to raise grounded, curious children in a digital world without fear or rigidity as their compass.

The journey

Every role
was a chapter.

Sep 2023 Present Storytelling by Data

Founder & CEO

This is where the work lives now. What started as a data education brand became an AI education platform courses, cohorts, content, and community built for the professionals everyone else was ignoring. 160K+ following. Growing every week.

160K+ community built in under 3 years

AI Education Content Creation Community Building Personal Brand
Feb 2022 Present Self-employed

Founder, Storytelling by Data

Started building on the side while still in a full-time corporate role. Early content, first followers, first proof that people were hungry for this. For two years I held both worlds the 9-to-5 and the thing I was actually building toward. In 2024, I let one of them go.

Product Development Personal Branding Entrepreneurship
Jun 2024 Feb 2025 Mindful Of · Dallas, TX

Co-Host

Co-hosted a talk show at the intersection of mindfulness and modern life. A season of honest conversations about work, wellbeing, and the space between ambition and rest. It reminded me why storytelling not data is always the thing that moves people.

Talk Show Hosting Storytelling
Jan 2023 Mar 2024 ServiceLink · Remote

Senior Data Governance Analyst

Reduced data preparation time by 17% through standardization and automation. By this point Storytelling by Data was growing fast the audience, the content, the conviction. March 2024 was the last day of corporate. The leap everyone talks about happened quietly, on a Tuesday.

Left corporate March 2024 full-time creator

Data Governance Process Automation Project Management
Jun 2020 Jan 2023 ServiceLink

Data Governance Analyst

Implemented a business glossary into SharePoint, built out workflows, managed AD groups and data permissions across the organization. The unsexy, essential infrastructure work learning how data moves, breaks, and gets untangled inside large systems.

SharePoint Data Governance Workflow Design
May 2018 Jun 2020 ServiceLink

Business Intelligence Analyst

Developed KPIs and scorecards to improve corporate profitability measures and comparative financial analysis using PowerBI. This is where data started becoming story when I realized a dashboard is only useful if someone understands what it's telling them.

PowerBI Financial Analysis Operations
Sep 2017 Apr 2018 BlastPoint · Pittsburgh, PA

Data Analyst

First job out of school at a data startup making analytics accessible to mid-market companies. Data munging, cleaning from messy sources, writing Python scripts to keep databases alive as data changed. The messy, humbling, formative beginning of everything.

Python Data Cleaning Analytics

Beyond the work

Raising a child
in the age of AI.

"The question isn't whether our children will grow up with AI. It's whether we, as parents, will be conscious enough to shape that relationship."

In April 2025, I became a mother. And everything I thought I knew about AI, education, and intentional living suddenly had a new lens a tiny, five-weeks-early, completely life-changing human being who will grow up in a world I can barely predict.

I practice Montessori-aligned, screen-free parenting. I believe in biophilic environments, unhurried sensory play, and a child's right to be bored. I also believe AI is not the enemy of childhood how we introduce it is everything.

This sits at the heart of something I'm building slowly and deliberately education experiences for parents and educators on how to raise digitally literate, emotionally grounded children. Kids who can use technology as a tool without being shaped by it.

01

Screen-free early years

The first years are sacred. Natural materials, Montessori principles, and unhurried sensory exploration before any screen enters the picture.

02

AI literacy as a life skill

Not coding. Not fear. Teaching children to understand what AI is, where human thinking stays irreplaceable, and why curiosity matters more than answers.

03

Parents as the first educators

You don't need to be technical to guide your child through a digital world. You need presence, intention, and honest conversations at the dinner table.

04

Reggio Emilia meets the digital age

Learning environments that honour the whole child drawing from Reggio, Waldorf, and unschooling while preparing them for a genuinely complex world.

✦ Live experience

Parenting in the Age of AI

A 2-hour masterclass for parents navigating the digital age with consciousness and care. Family AI agreements, age-appropriate introductions, conversation starters for every stage and a framework for raising humans who work alongside AI, not in its shadow.

Let's talk
about real things.

Collaborations, speaking, brand partnerships, or just a conversation about what AI is actually doing to the industries you love. I'm here.

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