What is Wildefy
From the Wild, For the World
Learn from the Wild. Lead in the World.
Wildlife storytelling, wilderness leadership offsites and guided expeditions — led personally by Hymakar Valluri, a 27-year CFO turned award-winning wildlife photographer.
Hindustan Unilever◆Vodafone◆United Breweries (Heineken)◆Landmark Group◆Gulf Marketing Group◆National Geographic Recognition◆100+ International Honours◆Six Continents◆27 Years in Finance Leadership◆Hindustan Unilever◆Vodafone◆United Breweries (Heineken)◆Landmark Group◆Gulf Marketing Group◆National Geographic Recognition◆100+ International Honours◆Six Continents◆27 Years in Finance Leadership◆
Hymakar Valluri
Founder, Wildefy · Chartered Accountant (ACA) · Cost Accountant (CMA), ICAI
Why Hymakar
27 years leading people. Two decades reading the wild.
Hymakar Valluri spent 27 years in senior finance leadership — CFO and finance leader across FMCG, telecom, retail, healthcare and education at Hindustan Unilever, Vodafone, United Breweries (Heineken), Landmark Group and Gulf Marketing Group. He led multi-geography, multi-cultural teams across India and the Gulf, and became known less for the numbers than for taking performers others had written off and turning them around. In parallel, he spent two decades on expedition photography across six continents — Svalbard, Rwanda, Kamchatka, Brazil, Ecuador, Borneo — earning 100+ international honours including National Geographic recognition and Better Photography Photo of the Year.
- Leads people, not just numbers
- Multi-geography, multicultural
- Resilience, built rather than preached
- A CFO who has partnered with HR
- Material no one else has
- Proven with 70+ and 100+ audiences
Guided Wildlife Tours
Six continents. Small groups.
South AmericaGalápagos Islands, Ecuador
Galápagos: The Living Laboratory
Island-hopping by expedition yacht through the archipelago that shaped evolutionary theory.
From
₹6,95,200
AfricaMaasai Mara, Kenya
Kenya: The Great Migration
Big cats, river crossings and endless plains — classic East African safari with a photographer's eye and a leader's patience.
From
₹4,57,600
Europe (Arctic)Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard: The Polar Frontier
Ice, polar bears and the Arctic light — a small-group expedition to one of the last true wildernesses on Earth.
From
₹5,98,400
The Journal
Field stories and leadership insight.
Leadership Insight
Resilience Is Built, Not Preached
Why most resilience training fails — and what field conditions teach about steadiness under real pressure.
April 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Field Story
The Ten-Day Search
Ten days without a single usable frame of the animal I'd come for. What that taught me about patience as a leadership discipline, not just a personal virtue.
March 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Leadership Insight
What a Turnaround Looks Like From the Inside
Notes from 27 years of finance leadership on taking performers other people had already written off — and what actually changes the trajectory.
February 18, 2026 · 6 min read
“70 of our senior professionals sat through a leadership session built entirely from someone else's field photography and stories — and it was the highest-rated session of the year. Nothing about it felt like a borrowed framework.”
Head of L&D
Global Consulting Firm · Fortune 500 Consulting
“An audience of over a hundred, and you could hear a pin drop during the ten-day-search story. Hymakar doesn't perform resilience — he shows the receipts.”
Event Director
Annual Leadership Summit · Dammam, Saudi Arabia
“We've run offsites in conference rooms with a view before. This was the first one where the setting actually did part of the teaching.”
CHRO
FMCG Group · India
From the Field
Prints, apparel & field gear.
Bring the wild into your next offsite, town hall or expedition.
Tell us what you’re planning, and we’ll shape the right format — keynote, offsite, or a guided journey of your own.