Dr. Shukla has consulted with entrepreneurial firms at all stages— business plan, inception, growth, succession planning, going public, and liquidation.
Dr. Shukla has served/serves on the Board of Directors of: the Orange County Forum, Orange County Innovation, the Harvard Business School Alumni of OC Entrepreneurship Conference, the City of Orange Economic Development Committee, Orange Chamber of Commerce, the Friends of the Villa Park Library, and the Board of Directors of the Orange County Mental Health Association. Dr. Shukla is currently an Independent Board Director for PopWhite (with industry leading B2B and B2C products for teeth whitening) and Saahas For Cause. He served on the Advisory Board of StudentBusinesses.com, a social network for entrepreneurship students and investors co-founded by Harvard University Alumnus Vivek Ramaswamy (a Billionaire in 2023 and Republican Party candidate in 2023 for United States President). Dr. Shukla served on the advisory board of Advanced Predictive Analytics, Inc., which was a big data analytics firm and served on the board with Dr. Arthur Laffer who is considered one of the top economists globally.
Dr. Shukla was selected in 2019 to receive a Marquis Who’s Who in America Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023 and 2024, Dr. Shukla was nominated for an Innovator of the Year Award from the Orange County Business Journal. In 2024 Dr. Shukla received the Chapman University Martin Luther King Junior Community Faculty Award (only 1 awarded to a faculty member campus wide) for his community building from the Chapman University Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In 2024 Dr. Shukla received an Innovative Pedagogy Grant for new course development. In 2024 Dr. Shukla received the Argyros College of Business Outstanding Faculty Award for Service.
Dr. Shukla serves Chapman University as the inaugural Shah Family Endowed Chair in Innovativeness. The objective of this position, with a gift from Manu and Rika Shah, is to prepare the next generation of high-thinking business leaders in low-tech industries nationally. Dr. Shukla, as The Shah Family Endowed Chair in Innovativeness, teaches a Creativity and Innovation Corporate Entrepreneurship Course to prepare students nationally via dissemination of research and teaching findings on how to increase their creativity and high-tech thinking. As Chair, he oversees an Innovative High-Tech Thinkers Speaker Series. Dr. Shukla also is the director of the annual awards program: The Shah Awards- Recognizing Leaders Applying High-Tech Thinking to Low-Tech Industries. He is creating a collection of video interviews of leaders in low-tech industries who applied creative high-tech thinking to their industries. Dr. Pradip K. Shukla previously served as Vice-Chancellor for Entrepreneurship at Chapman University.
Dr. Shukla has also been appointed Interim Director of APIDA Heritage and Achievement in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of Chapman University. The director provides leadership, vision, and management for the campus-wide effort responsible for APIDA recruitment, belonging, retention, engagement, and success to foster and cultivate a supportive and inclusive University community for all in alignment with strategic goals of Chapman University’s 2023-2028 Strategic Plan.