s an integrated society, we all are collectively witnessing a time period where women are being cherished for their pivotal contributions in every jargon, catering to any industry.
Today, working their way up, women from every walk of life account for an essential part of a system that contributes to the development of humankind as a whole. The term 'Taking up Space' has never looked so powerful and inspiring!
The collective effort of women in the past and that of the present has paved the way for other women and made it possible for women in the future to relish the gift of sovereignty and
equality. As one might look behind, the instances where women were praised particularly for their dedication were limited due to the fact that they were provided fewer instances to showcase themselves.
But now, the times have changed to the extent that not only women are walking head-to-head with others but also blazing a trail for themselves that is marked by their talents. This propels them to the pinnacle of achievement and positions them to lead others.
It is important to celebrate and acknowledge these women leaders' contributions and to support and encourage more women to take on leadership roles. Their resilience, determination, and unwavering
commitment to their causes serve as an inspiration to us all.
In its newest edition, The Powerful Women Leaders in Indian Education, 2023 , The Knowledge Review highlights the contributions of powerful women leaders in India and recognises their accomplishments so that others can be inspired and learn from their experiences. Through this edition, you will gain insight into the lives of these remarkable women and be motivated to strive for your own goals and ambitions.
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The Powerful
W o m e n Leaders in Indian Education, 2023
Hiral Chavda
Organisation / Social Media Handles
Teacher, The Village International School
Founder and Chairperson, Sri Ashiyana Public School
Bindu Pramod Unni serves as a distinguished teacher at The Village International School. With her experience, she leverages excellent pedagogical methodologies for student's benefit.
Dr Bhuvana Saravanan focuses on providing quality education to students who are economically deprived and physically disabled. She has more than two decades of experience in the education sector.
Professor,
Keerthi Purnima
Director,
Mansi Thakkar
Neeru Sood
Rashi Rohatgi
Founder and Proprietor, Prep4Success
Hiral Chavda is an esteemed professor at C.U Shah University. She elevates the dynamism of the education sector with her vast knowledge and talent.
Keerthi Purnima is an influential leader who addresses the problem in her region regarding the lack of awareness about music, dance, painting, and literature education.
Mansi Thakkar is a Leadership Trainer and a Professional speaker with nine years of experience in the training and development industry. She is a dynamic young professional with training as a focal endeavour.
A coach, consultant, and strategist, Neeru Sood has over 19 years of experience in consultation and marketing. She also has ten years of corporate experience in the brand management domain w.r.t. healthcare and pharmaceutical industry.
Head of Teacher Education, Leeds Beckett University
Pinky Jain is a Head of Teacher Education, who has research interests in trainee teachers, exploring how they can be developed and supported to attain criticality, be reflective and become research-informed practitioners.
Associate Professor, Nord University
Sonal Kathuria
Junior School Headmistress, GD Goenka Signature School
Associate Professor, SR Group of Institutions College of Engineering, Management and Technology
Rashi Rohatgi's expertise is in world literature, with a particular focus on the literature of the Indian Ocean region, translation, and cross-cultural communication. She has further interests in religion and poetry, comparative pedagogy, and creative writing.
Sonal Kathuria has a decade of experience in the education sector. She has been serving as a Junior School Headmistress for GD Goenka Signature School for the last four years.
Swati Dwivedi is an associate professor who is responsible for the academic success of students in the SR Group of Institutions College of Engineering, Management and Technology.
Swati Dwivedi Bindu Pramod Unni Dr S. Bhuvaneshwari (Bhuvana Saravanan) Pinky Jain Influencial Leader and Founder, Little Star and Surepalli Ramulamma Youtube Channels C.U. Shah University WindPlus Pvt. Ltd.Ateacher is a person who generates curiosity and imbibes knowledge and wisdom in students. In our life, there is always a teacher who motivates and inspires us to move towards the bracket of ever-changing success in life!
We all face many professional and personal challenges, and there are times when we don't understand what to do in that particular situation. A teacher in the form of a guide always tends to guide us to the right path at
any stage of life, and there is always one teacher from our school and college whom we fascinate and look upon for their guidance in every situation.
Teachers act as the engine that takes the education system forward; they play a vital role in nurturing and preparing the future generation to become capable leaders. They are the greatest influencer in the education space and helps in shaping the child's future.
All teacher are the powerhouse of abundant knowledge and wishes to see their students grow in every phase of life. Catering to that need for leading a stable holistic life, Dr Bhuvana Saravanan established Sri Ashiyana Public School , in which she focuses more on providing quality education to the students who are economically deprived and are physically disabled.
Being one of the most influential and powerful women educators in the country, Dr Bhuvana always believed that education is the fundamental right of every child, despite any uncertainties. She aims to establish various branches all over Tamil Nadu and in the rural areas where education facilities are the need of the hour.
While interacting with The Knowledge Review , Dr Bhuvana Saravanan, the Founder, and Chairperson of the Sri Ashiyana Public School shares her opinions and experiences and asserts her vision for the school's future
The Background Story
Dr Bhuvana Saravanan and Mr. S.R. Saravanan founded Sri Ashiyana Public School in 2015. The school is under the flagship of 'Guru Raghavendra Trust', and the founder and chairperson of the trust is Dr Bhuvana Saravanan.
The school was incepted with a vision to ensure that the underprivileged, especially-abled children and women from the backward community, get the proper education and employment opportunity to achieve their career goals.
Through Sri Ashiyana School, Dr Bhuvana Saravanam aims to provide the ultimate result in the education sector and also focuses on the freedom of learning, which generates interest and makes the learning process more accessible to students.
Dr Bhuvana started her career in 1996
Creating a society where every individual is treated equally without any bias or religion or cast.
as a nursery teacher after working in several schools and learned new teaching methods such as Montessori, play way, vehicle, and many more.
While working, she felt that something was missing, and many teachers couldn't understand the psychological aspect of individual students. Due to lack of attention, some students could not perform well and labeled as slow learners.
Most schools want their yearly performance to be the best. However, in the race to achieve their success, sometimes they fail to focus on an individual student's interest in education, and in order to cater to the best school accreditation, they avoid the student's interest and treat students like a robot.
Dr Bhuvana acknowledged the issue and established the Sri Ashiyana School, which focused on providing education to the underprivileged, physically disabled students and women from backward communities. Her role model is the late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalitha. Dr Bhuvana always felt that she was a single woman who handled every situation positively when male leaders headed the country.
Insights, Reliability, and Ideologies
After sharing the pedagogical journey, Dr Bhuvana also sighted the vision, beliefs, and core values of the school.
Insights-
"To create a society where every individual is treated equally without any bias or religion or cast."
Sliding her beliefs or reliability, she mentioned, "We as a mentor can guide and show them the correct method of
learning which will help them to become an independent individual."
The school is achieving great success because of its belief in its core values, which is to create a society where everyone, irrespective of their shortcoming, should be treated equally. Other than providing quality education to its students, the school also sees that through its charitable work for community development and welfare, it benefits the underprivileged through social, educational, economic, and medical activities.
Appreciating Pupil Aptitude
Dr Bhuvana's priority is to provide the fundamental right to education and bring out the students' hidden talents from rural areas of the country.
Due to poor economic conditions, few students don't get a chance to explore their intelligence and talent. Similarly, the school provides education to such
students, educates them individually, respects them, and prioritizes their feelings.
Every child has unique talents and can shine if they get the proper platform and inspiration to achieve their goals. The school has made it a primary objective, which helped them to create a different education method, that is very significant for differently abled and economically deprived students.
While talking about the modern pedagogies, Dr Bhuvana shared her personal opinion on the online learning system and said, "As per my views, I feel offline classes are better than online classes, because in offline classes the child will interact with the teacher and students, which is not possible in online classes. But during the pandemic online classes helped the children to be connected with their subject and syllabus."
Dr Bhuvana faced many challenges and struggled a lot while establishing the school, and the major challenges she came across were implementing new techniques in education, as parents and people didn't believe in the new methods of education.
Highlighting some of the challenges Dr Bhuvana encountered in her educational venture, she highlighted, "Sometimes the parents do compare other pedagogical schools and try to find the flaws, which demotivates her to bring new techniques to the school. Also, the parents are more concerned about the academic performances of their children than their interest in learning."
Concerning education, Dr Bhuvana shared her experience of how she has been empowering education in society. While saying so, she says, "Education is considered a tool of empowerment,
Education is considered a tool of empowerment, we make sure that children from underprivileged are also given the same education as the other children.
we make sure that children from underprivileged are also given the same education as the other children. So, during the pandemic, we visited more than 22 villages in and around MADURAI and provided the children with stationery and took classes as these children can't afford phones or laptops to attend online classes."
Ensuring all the initiatives and their challenges, Dr Bhuvana also mentioned the school's achievements with us, she listed out the awards-
Ÿ ISA GLOBAL AWARD 2019.
Ÿ SIWAA AWARD 2019.
Ÿ INDIAN ICONIC EDUCATION AWARD 2021.
Ÿ INDIA INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN AWARD 2021.
Ÿ HUNAR RATNA AWARD 2021.
Ÿ GLOBAL TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD 2022.
When we asked Dr Bhuvana about any message to the upcoming education leaders, expressing her views, she asserts, "Education field is a very vast field, those who want to step into these should learn new things, should be ready for criticism and should be ready to take an innovative step to develop the institute."
Sri Ashiyana Public School was established to provide education to economically deprived and disabled students, as everyone has an equal right to education in the world. And for the past eight years, the school has been striving to provide quality education at a very low cost to underprivileged students and those who cannot afford to pay the school fees.
The Sri Ashiyana Public School aims to open its branches all over Tamil Nadu state and even in villages with very rare schools.
and Chairperson, Sri Ashiyana Public School
The high capabilities of women
have barely been part of contemporary organizations. Due to countless adversities, women barely represented the corporate world, and female leaders handling businesses looked like a distant dream. However, the current inclusive work environment trends have created more opportunities for women to be included in the workplace.
To accommodate ethical values, businesses are also prioritized now, which gives rise to new opportunities for women. The wage structure is also more uniform now. These favorable conditions create optimism among women, who are more open to accepting these opportunities. Women and their potential will reshape the business world in the future.
Personal branding has been an excellent way for women to express themselves. The availability of digital opportunities allows women to share their inspiring journey and build an audience. The roots of these platforms have been widely spread, and women can communicate globally. Having a personal brand is also an excellent idea to enhance professional lives.
Through personal branding, women can share their struggle stories. This can help them connect with likeminded people, and these people can help each other. Social media is also a more accessible communication tool to personal branding. Women with their brands are likely to get better opportunities in the workplace.
Gender equality practices in the workplace are on the horizon. There are equal opportunities available irrespective of gender. It has become possible with the inclusion of women leaders. The wage structure in the current times has become uniform and transparent. It is an optimistic sight to witness that wages are distributed according to employees' capabilities, not their genders. Since it is easier to get access to the information on wage structure, it is transparent now. To create a positive work environment, organizations are also keen on
supporting them emotionally in times of distress.
Women in the current times are open to accepting opportunities like remote work. The inclusion of women leaders has generated the need for remote working. Traditionally, it was a grave task for women to leave their houses to pursue professional interests. The availability of digital resources has revolutionized the corporate world, and women greatly benefited from that. Remote working is becoming efficient not just for the employees but for the organizations as well. Organizations can minimize the maintenance budget by allowing workers to work remotely. Homemakers can carry out their daily work and professional work simultaneously.
Remote working is also vital in saving expenses since these women will not have to travel to pursue their dreams. Considering these benefits, remote working will likely be a mainstream way of business operations, and women are about to grab the perks of it.
Successful women are often considered role models in society. These women can inspire others to follow their professional dreams. Having women as leaders will also initiate ethical changes for women's empowerment. It will include a transparent wage gap and better gender equality practices. In the future, likely, women will broadly represent every sector irrespective of its nature. So, it is time for women to welcome the opportunities available in the current times and follow the path paved by digital resources.
Along with being integral parts of already established businesses, the number of female entrepreneurs has also increased. With their innovative ideas, many employment opportunities have been created. More women will likely be open to working at organizations developed by women.
Seeing women at the top of the workplace, irrespective of the nature of the business, it has become a familiar and pleasant sight. Traditionally, it wasn't the same. This revolution occurred majorly after the unprecedented time of COVID-19 pandemic. Women have crossed all the hurdles and are now ruling the corporate world with passion, determination, and resilience. But along with these qualities, global gender equality awareness has also worked as a catalyst to enhance female growth.
Organizations provide emotional and monetary assistance to women and welcome them to pursue their professional goals. The wage structure is transparent and uniform, and the conditions are more favorable for women. The collaboration of technological advancement and ethical awareness about women's empowerment results in these changes. These changes indicate a bright future for women.
WWhat a miraculous time has arrived! A time when women are indigenous yet powerful to face any challenges that stop them from becoming successful leaders.
Every woman is born with leadership qualities, yet they never realize their innate skills and sometimes hide their abilities because sometimes they get punished for being powerful women in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
However, the women of today's era are able enough to claim their powers, and in just a few generations, women stand equal to men.
While trailblazing women's power, Amy Tenney says, "The World needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will."
Presently, women are strong and lifting others through organizing groups and addressing the issues. Similarly, among the other powerful women, Keerthi Purnima is the influential leader who addresses the problem in her region, Telangana, where there is a lack of awareness about music, dance, painting, and literature education.
Thus, she started teaching music, dance and painting at 23. During her second year post-graduation, she started a YouTube Channel called 'Little Star' and 'Surepalli Ramulamma'; she emphasizes children through this channel.
Apart from this, she has a keen interest in literature and writes poems, articles, and stories. Some of her stories are published in anthologies and edited by renowned writers of Telangana.
While searching for The Powerful Women Leaders in Indian Education, 2023 , we encounter Keerthi Purnima to know her contribution to the Indian education space.
Let's dive into knowing insightful information about trailblazing women leader Keerthi Purnima.
A Zestful Spirited Woman
Keerthi Purnima has loved literature and related services since her childhood. Still, due to some adversities in her region, she didn't get proper guidance and facilities in the literature field, yet she decided to move forward and clinched the opportunities.
Keerthi's zeal for literature drove her to choose a nobel profession: teaching. Since childhood, she learnt that humans are blessed with a brain where
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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they can store abundant knowledge and that knowing all the art requires huge potential and talent. However, she keeps on learning and teaching all the art forms like dancing, music, painting and many other skills.
She has completed her education in B.Ed., M.A in Telugu language. In her second year, she analyzed the need for this art education in her region, yet she decided to provide education in these fun arts to students.
Apart from teaching, she is a YouTuber and beautician; she also likes painting and crafting. All these arts keep encouraging her to learn and indulge in various skills in herself. When we discussed encouragement, Keerthi asserts, "Encouragement can be given to those who want to learn at any cost and introduce their talent to the world. It should be given to those who think about achieving success in life."
"Very few teachers want to learn various artistic skills in their careers. And those with innate unique talents could not present them in the world. Because of this, many talents prevail hidden; due to a lack of understanding, students and teachers couldn't explore their innate skills. Education helps people to know their hidden talents and look for opportunities to upscale and encourage themselves to work hard to enhance their skills," she further adds.
She has always been enthusiastic and wanted to help as many people as possible. When she thought about educating people across the country; she came across with an idea and started a YouTube channel and taught by making videos on various topics.
Without charging any fees, she encourages her viewers and everyone. Keerthi also organizes several competitions, so students can participate online and show their talents to the world.
Keerthi has two YouTube channels, and the primary aim of these channels is to encourage people to participate in competitions. The channel caters to children worldwide, 'Little Stars' , and the other is 'Surepalli Ramulamma', which is associated with Women welfare Charitable Trust. As the children are the citizens of tomorrow and women play an important role, if they are educated, they can upbring their children with a competitive spirit.
Keerthi emphasizes hiring excellent teachers in music, dance, painting, crafting, and fashion designing and can teach students for free and make it accessible all across the country. The motive behind this channel is to provide accurate information through social media, as it is the fastest way to spread awareness and information rather than a newspaper.
Apart from making videos, she writes articles and poems and is placed in a popular magazine, 'Bala Parmalam' , for running a summer resort for children. Keerthi also wrote prizewinning stories that were published in anthologies.
Awards are like Applause!
Ÿ She received a cash prize of one thousand rupees in the Momspresso competition for writing the best story, 'Atta Oka Nati Kodale.' Also, she won five hundred rupees for creating an excellent vlog for their app.
Ÿ She received an encouragement gift for the 'Darpanam' drama, which was included in the M.S.R. story collection in 2020.
Ÿ She also wrote a story called Stri Svecha (nannies),
which Dr Pellakuru Jayaprada later edited in 2021.
Ÿ She wrote 'Shikhandi Story' for it; she won her second cash prize, i.e., two thousand rupees. And later, in 2022, the story was modified in the Katha Logili anthology under the editorship of Dr Vairagyam Prabhakar.
Ÿ Apart from these gifts, Keerthi won first prize in an essay writing competition organized by TUTF 2014 in the Adilabad district.
Ÿ She also received the second prize of two thousand rupees in Karimnagar's state-level consumer law painting competition in 2015. The same year, she won another one thousand rupees as the first prize in an essay writing competition on the same topic.
Ÿ In World Telugu Cultural Fest 2021, Keerthi was listed in the top ten candidates.
Ÿ IIFL and Story Mirror organized a poetry competition in 2020, where she won first prize for her story. In 2021, she received the award in the first story category in another competition organized by the same organizations.
Ÿ In 2021, she also received a special prize in ' Akhil Bhartiya Sahitya Parishad's' poetry competition.
Since the second year of her postgraduation till now, she has won up to twenty prizes in various competitions at the school and college levels; at that time, she used to write articles and interviews in some newspapers.
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.
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- Nelson Mandela
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"If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone—your husband, other family members, or your boss,"
- Indra NooyiMs. Mansi admires Indra Nooyi when it comes to women in leadership positions. Mansi has had the great fortune to come across the ideal mentors who have helped her career take off.
To implement these teachings, one must be able to analyse and comprehend them, which can only be done through education. Because education provides people perspective, diligence, and awareness of other points of view, it is a fundamental human right.
Despite the fact that people are aware of how powerful education is, some parts of the world haven't yet seen its light. Several pioneers have emerged in an effort to address everyone's needs and inform the world about it.
Director of WindPlus Pvt. Ltd. Ms. Mansi Thakkar is one such industry pioneer. She is a capable and honourable woman who thinks that
leadership development and education can empower people everywhere. Young and successful in her job, she has established herself as a capable leader and citizen of the globe.
Saga Story: Ms. Mansi Thakkar
Ms. Thakkar holds a diploma from Shah and Anchor Polytechnic College. She received her BE.IT degree from Pillai College of Engineering in New Panvel, University of Mumbai. As a result of her interest in enhancing people's personal growth through motivational speaking, she upskilled, took public speaking and train the trainer courses in 2010 and 2011.
In addition, she continued to conduct training sessions. This enabled her to advance in her information technology career at Pillai College of Engineering.
"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability in you than you see in yourself and helps bring it out of you."
- Bob ProctorShe perceives meeting her mentor to be one of the most significant events in her life. Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai, India's No. 1 business author, met Ms. Thakkar. Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai mentored her during her postgraduate academic career, guiding her on the
path to becoming a leadership coach and working for youth and women's leadership development.
She earned her MA in Leadership Science from the Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies, University of Mumbai, thanks to his invaluable guidance.
Ms. Thakkar was invited to guide, direct, and disseminate knowledge to members of leading educational institutions, pioneering industries, the community through development programmes, the youth through skill development programmes, service organisations, start-ups, and much more, using all of her learning skills, practical experience, and expertise.
Past and Future Stepping Stones Her ambition is to cultivate one million female and young leaders in India, where she was born. Integrity, passion, humanism, devotion, and consistency are a few key characteristics that Ms. Thakkar possesses as a person who is aware of and understands the significance of values. These values will help her on her future journey.
According to Ms. Thakkar, personalization imparts knowledge and
improves people's skills so they can sharpen their viewpoints in new dimensions. She sets goals for herself and pursues them relentlessly in order to benefit her clients.
In order to craft and hone her delivery and effectively reach and guide the learning community, she has made an effort to understand the psychology of its members.
She delivers in several languages, taking into account audience members' needs, carefully selecting the time slot, and committed to her audience, regardless of size, because she is aware of the linguistic hurdles. She states her wish to be accessible for upskilling programmes that are extremely innovative and given in a customised way, even on weekends.
Failures and difficulties have both been components of success, and Ms. Thakkar explained both from a very personal perspective. It was difficult to
learn new initiatives after failing in her two years of engineering. But throughout those two years, she underwent training, developing a more resilient attitude.
As she continued her impressive educational journey, this two-year adventure also helped her realise the significance of education, the need for upskilling, and the necessity of integrating strong principles like continuous learning into the educational system.
Exposing the Potential to the World Windplus has adhered to 33 per cent of women's employment reservations ever since it was founded. Many wind energy businesses have received the seven business leadership pillars of Chanakya from Windplus.
Mansi Thakkar makes sure that aspiring youth entrepreneurs are trained in leadership development and family run business through keynote
speeches, entrepreneurship conferences, content creation for social media, and personal coaching, while at Windplus, training is delivered on wind energy, technical trainings, leadership development, business psychology, and personal growth to prepare the youth, working professionals, and wind energy entrepreneurs for global exposure and the enhancement of their industries.
Ms. Thakkar is a passionate youth speaker who inspires and encourages young people to become extraordinary leaders. She is now capable of progressing because she understood the importance of investing in her own training and finding the right mentors to help her reach her maximum capabilities. She loves learning new things, which provides her with a unique perspective on how to continually relearn, unlearn, and learn new things.
Mansi Director, Windplus Pvt. Ltd. Podcaster and Leadership CoachPersonal growth leads to professional growth.
Thakkar
She quotes herself: "I have been blessed with many mentors who have redirected my path into a transformative journey."
In order to encourage students' personal development, several highly interactive free training sessions are being held in colleges.
Furthermore, paid online and offline programmes are run simultaneously. She has conducted various online training and coaching sessions, and she intends to offer self-paced, prerecorded courses in the future. Currently, her content creation on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook is adding value and inspiring many aspiring leaders.
Ms. Thakkar advises all students around the world to "keep learning, always be humble, find the right mentors, become a role model for others, don't compromise on integrity, build your character, and push humanity forward."
Ms. Thakkar, a well known leader in Indian education, has received numerous honours and awards. She
was interviewed as a youth speaker by Fever 104 FM and has trained over 3 lakh youth and women across India in 9 years. She received the 'National Awards Businessmint' 30 under 30 inspiring entrepreneurs award in the leadership training category, as well as the 'Grand Queens Global Leadership Award 2022' for education and training.
She has received over 100 speaking awards and has been featured in several prominent Indian newspapers. Dr Karunamoorthy designated her for the Windplus Pvt. Ltd., Board of Directors. He believes Ms. Mansi is a woman of substance who can add a lot of value. She was selected to be a content creator at Bigbrainco. She is currently the podcast host of Chanakya Unscripted with Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai.
Ms. Mansi is currently working on the Windplus LinkedIn page, Dr Karunamoorthy's personal branding, and the future Windplus YouTube channel to share wind energy wisdom and experience while also providing leadership development for aspiring professionals.
She intends to launch her personal branded YouTube channel, Mansi Thakkar, in the near future, which will feature podcasts with masterminds and informative videos on Personal Growth, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and other topics.
"It will include mastermind podcasts, keynotes on digital leadership and business psychology, leadership book reviews, and research based learnings on leadership, personal growth, and entrepreneurship," she says. "I aspire to publish my book on leadership and personal development for aspiring youth leaders in 2023."
"I want to serve society and share authentic knowledge in a variety of ways," she continues.
Business website: www.windplus.in
Official website: https://mansithakkar.in
Serving for youth leadership development is serving my country for the future.
W hard work and talent beat all the hurdles and emerge as the keys to success in any environment. Their grit, determination and skills are being celebrated all over the world. The struggle for women to succeed in their professional lives has been a significant challenge to overcome.
omen have proved that
However, the graph of female success stories has just gone upwards; it is a souvenir optimistic change for other women. Women represent half of the world's population, and using their potential will be a great idea to achieve a utopian future.
Recently, there have been significant movements like female reservation and female safety for individual job posts to strive towards gender equality. These steps can motivate women to fight for their professional goals. Thus, women, in the current times, are creating their own brands and giving a new meaning to women empowerment. By making personal brands, women have shown their capabilities and created an environment of gender equality for everyone. From their efforts, it is evident that there is no scope for biases in workplaces.
Women have done exceptional work to emerge against inequality. Today, it is a familiar sight to see women leading organizations and performing significant duties. It became possible because the women were open to showcase their talents and strengths. The current environment is ideal for women like never before; they have access to opportunities from all over the world with countless working facilities such as remote working.
They can share personal stories in front of the world and inspire the world. These inspiring stories of women indicate that hard work and talent are valued everywhere and can be the solution against all odds.
As a leader, it can be a task of priority to create a workplace that is ethical and unbiased. It is said that the ideal leader is one who nurtures others to be future
leaders. The job of developing future female leaders can be done effectively by current female leaders.
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Striking the right balance between professional and personal life has been a matter of concern for all employees. Women who fulfil many roles, from being homemakers to mothers, have to perform household duties along with being professionally available. The remote working method has worked miraculously for these women. These women do not have to invest time in travelling to offices. It minimizes stress for working women since travelling can be time-consuming and stressful.
Some women have also chosen to work as freelancers to strike a balance. Freelancing can be done according to convenience and can be a perfect alternative option for some women.
Women run multiple female leadership development programs. The motive of these programs is to empower women to fight for themselves. These programs do not just train women to be capable of performing professional duties but also to fight for themselves in personal issues. Independent and confident women do not just take themselves to higher positions, but they ensure the combined success of their families. Through these programs, trainee women also become more aware of their rights and policies, which are helpful for them. The knowledge of these aspects helps in fighting better and being independent.
As a leader, it can be a task of priority to create a workplace that is ethical and
unbiased. Leaders are expected to provide a safer environment for employees. Female leaders are the ones to convince other women to be included in the workplace. They ensure other women about safety and unbiasedness.
Workplaces are likely to be diverse. People from all walks of life are expected to work together. Creating an inclusive work environment with zero scope for discrimination can become tricky. Hence, female leaders are a dot between diverse employees to ensure gender equality.
Since success makes it easier to influence people, successful women in each field have the capability to enhance gender equality and female inclusion in those respective fields. The graph of female success is expected to go only above in the future, thanks to their efforts.
Women deserve to be praised for their efforts to emerge victorious against all the barriers. They have set a new trend of equality which will pave a path for other women in the future. Opportunities in the current times are abundant, but women have created the most part for themselves, like branding themselves on the internet and empowering other women through programs.
"Educated woman is the light of society guiding it through the darkness."
India has a long history of women's struggles. Especially when it comes to education, the struggle has been one of the hardest. Playing different roles in her life and being a nurturer by nature, a woman’s education is an important factor in influencing the family’s overall progress and thus society.
Excelling in the field of education, women have made a place for
themselves. One of the few names excelling in the field of education in the Indian educational society is Neeru Sood, Founder and Proprietor of Prep4Success . A coach, consultant, and strategist, Neeru has over 19 years of experience in consultation and marketing.
Let's know more about Neeru, a woman who has paved her path on her own and understands the journey to destination.
Journey: From the Beginning Born and brought up in Delhi, Neeru
Sood has always excelled as a student in Secondary and Sr Secondary classes. She passed out of Birla Vidya Niketan in 1995 and completed her B. Pharma and MBA specialising in Marketing and Finance from reputed Delhi University Institutes. She has a corporate experience of 10 years in brand management domain w.r.t. healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and has later accomplished projects in different industries which has further led to her holistic experience in brand management and marketing across subjects and industries. Thus, she has a mix of corporate experience of 10 years and an additional 10 years of entrepreneurial experience making her attain higher levels of success.
She is a Management Consultant and Digital Marketing Strategist with a team of subject matter experts. She has been working with start-ups, SMEs and MSMEs and has been assisting them with their strategic marketing efforts.
From assisting these organisations in conceptualising their digital image to strategizing the digital efforts and finally translating it to successful digital implementations across social media channels, websites, and online forums. This ultimately leads to achievement of result-oriented efforts.
Her business's core competency is identifying the client company’s
One needs to break through the clu er when promo ng yourself, and marke ng campaigns with incen ves can do that.
Neeru Sood Founder and Proprietor, Prep4Success
business lifecycle stage and analysing key growth drivers through market research and thorough analysis.
Working on the projects all by herself, she has paved her career path. Starting from three personnel and projects from Pharmaceutical and Healthcare to the team of 15 personnel, she has successfully executed projects in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Wellness and Lifestyle industries respectively. She has closely networked with women empowerment communities, organisations, and entrepreneurship groups and has conducted several workshops and training sessions across these platforms.
Neeru looks forward to coaching and consulting entrepreneurs along with handholding and steering them through different steps of their respective business success journeys.
As a business consultant, she wants to ensure accomplishment of targeted success milestones for start-ups, women entrepreneurs, SMEs, and MSMEs. She consults on Strategic Business Growth by strengthening Digital Marketing Efforts for their respective ventures.
As a professional business consultant, helping businesses and people reach their goals and excel, Neeru has realised that the will to learn, improve and adapt are the keys to success. She strives to help individuals and businesses seeking success to learn the art of succeeding by handholding and guiding them through these essential phases to success.
Prep4Success is focused on achieving the prime objective of coaching and upgrading the skills of various
individuals and professionals. It ensures the achievement of domestic as well as global reach, which is by the subsequent launch of her Web Portal and YouTube Channel. This digital venture by Neeru stays close to her heart. Through this platform, she strives to extend coaching and impart learning to individuals and professionals in order to help them not just understand different stages of their business but also get aligned to their business requirements and accordingly streamline their marketing efforts so as to achieve targeted milestones while driving the growth of their respective business. Being a Business Coach herself, Neeru Sood understands the power of social media and through her Facebook page Prep4Success (www.facebook.com/Prep4Success123 4) and Instagram handle, she is building a community for building a better future.
Hurdle Puddle
"The core idea to start the business was to use my learning from the corporate world-brand management experience in healthcare and pharmaceuticals and integrate it with knowledge process outsourcing
experience helping offshore and onshore clients with specific business growth and business development objectives," Neeru highlighted explaining some of the experiential challenges she faced.
Growing out just after the month of starting her business, Neeru encountered minimum business financial risks. The prime reason for the same was infrastructural costs being primarily linked to communication and operational working and execution initially.
However, it was tough for her to create a team she currently has and accounting while keeping track of financial growth. Neeru believes that at times it was extremely challenging for her to keep her team motivated and at the same time to also bring in new clients through marketing her previously accomplished projects.
Neeru provides women entrepreneurs, businesses, SMEs, MSMEs, and corporates with training and development as well as motivational programs.
The brand management programme curated by Prep4success (#Prep4Success) aims to help individuals, company owners, business owners and entrepreneurs to gain a holistic view of strategic brand management, intended to help them through their brand's journey, whether it is related to developing a new brand identity, repositioning an existing brand, ongoing control of an established brand, or personal branding and identity.
Neeru believes that marketing campaigns are the perfect way to reach customers, clients, and leads. They could be the game-changing move that secures meetings with customers or prospects. Producing campaigns with a series of touchpoints would grab someone's attention better than a single advertisement. One needs to break through the clutter when promoting oneself or one's business, and marketing campaigns with incentives can do that.
As suggested by Neeru Sood, the following steps can be taken:
Ÿ Determining the need for a product through consumer research and by observing and quantifying sales patterns of similar goods in the marketplace.
Ÿ Modifying existing products or creating new products to match consumer wants and needs.
Ÿ Determining how best to reach potential customers to make them aware of your products and persuade them to buy them.
Ÿ Creating marketing campaigns based on your determination of the most effective way of reaching customers.
Ÿ Confirming customer relationships via follow-up sales campaigns and loyalty programs.
Neeru has noted the prowess to understand the changing marketing dynamics and adapt the marketing initiatives while mentoring the organisation in its brand-building and digital marketing efforts.
Her venture is instrumental in devising digital marketing plans for organisations at various stages of their growth path. It is measurable and encourages cooperative and collaborative marketing initiatives with like-minded partners. It also has wellarticulated and timed digital campaigns, SEO and internet marketing activities, and social networking opportunities. With all these achievements, Neeru is proud of the brand building, management, and digital efforts of many organisations, SMEs, MSMEs, Start-ups, Organisations and Entrepreneurs to fruition.
Snack For Energy
Neeru believes in providing her clients
with the best solutions creating credibility. Along with this, she maintains her discipline regarding the deadlines based on the dynamism of the client and the energy that a project or a business requires.
Integration of the three aspects: 'Strategic Analysis', 'Brand Building Guidance', and 'Digital Marketing Steering' has helped Neeru come up with a holistic solution for her clients.
Advice for Buds
Her advice for young students is, "An individual evolves professionally and personally, their skills refine, and thus they become better adapted. The only person you are destined to become is the one you actually decide to become, but you must adequately prepare for it!"
After a total of 19 years of experience, even today, Neeru is preparing for the next achievable milestone in her professional career. Thus, she strongly believes that success is definitely a journey, not a destination.
Preparing, Improving and adapting are the keys to success!
Awarding Neeru!
Neeru was nominated for Small Business Award 2019 organised by Entrepreneur. She represented Delhi Management Association as Healthcare Ambassador from Team Magicka. Along with this, she has actively participated in many summits and conferences while being felicitated on many occasions. She has been invited as Key Note Speaker, Motivational Speaker at many educational summits and conferences and she has also moderated and steered several panel discussions and active discussions on subjects related to her forte.
An individual evolves professionally and personally; their skills refine and thus they become be er adapted. The only person you are des ned to become is the one you actually decide to become, but you must adequately prepare for it!
