Anand Shukla

Anand leads Orbit’s project management team, helping clients and internal teams turn complex digital initiatives into clear decisions, realistic plans and steady progress.

His role goes beyond managing schedules, budgets and deliverables. Anand works closely with clients and project teams to clarify what they are trying to accomplish, understand the realities affecting the work and establish a path everyone can support. He keeps business goals, scope, stakeholder expectations and technical constraints in view, especially when there is no perfect answer.

Anand believes good project management should make complicated work feel manageable. Clients should understand what is happening, why decisions are being made and what is needed from them next. His team should have the clarity, support and context needed to move the work forward with confidence.

At Orbit, Anand is known for listening carefully, identifying the issue beneath the initial request and helping clients and teams stay grounded in what the work actually requires.

Throughout his career, Anand has led complex digital initiatives for organizations across a wide range of industries, including enterprise and Fortune 500 companies. He also writes about project management, leadership, decision making and the gap between what a plan says and what people need in order to move forward.

Born and raised in Chicago, Anand earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Illinois Chicago and an MBA from DePaul University. Outside of Orbit, he writes fiction and essays, cooks, watches movies, explores Chicago and continues working his way through every Major League Baseball ballpark. He lives with his wife, daughters and their dog, Olive.