India
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Falguni Nayar

Nykaa
Founder and CEO
Contributors
Phoenix Baker
Product Manager
Lana Steiner
Product Designer
Drew Cano
Frontend Engineer
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Situational Background

Falguni Nayar, founder and CEO of Nykaa, is a trust builder who blends curation, customer empathy, and disciplined growth. She communicates with warmth and clarity, favours transparent pricing and education, and turns community voice into product choices. Nayar’s style is steady, respectful, and quality-minded. Distinctive for earned credibility and patient brand-building, she shows how clarity, care, and consistency create loyalty across industries.

Practical Leadership Principles

1) Trust through transparency.


Make choices—and trade-offs—clear.


Behaviours to model:

  • Explain value and pricing in plain language.
  • Share sourcing or curation standards.
  • Publish “what changed and why” updates.

2) Community as advantage.


Listen in public; act visibly.


Behaviours to model:

  • Host regular user forums; commit two fixes.
  • Elevate authentic customer stories.
  • Close the loop on feedback with dates.

3) Disciplined, human growth.


Quality over noise; grace over haste.


Behaviours to model:

  • Set guardrails for promotions and promises.
  • Protect service standards during expansion.
  • Recognise frontline excellence.

Call to action

Choose one policy or page to clarify, one community request to ship, and one frontline recognition you’ll make this week.