Sonal Singh | Squats
Sonal is Indian-born but grew up in Canada, and studied and worked in London. She has worked as a management consultant at Deloitte in London and is now a Director at SQUATS focusing on Corporate Wellness & Women's Health. She is also a coach and mentor building confidence and communication skills, particularly for women. Through her role as a Director at SQUATS, she continually emphasises the importance for women to prioritise their health and wellness above all else. She was selected to be part of the Indian Wonder Women network, a group committed to creating awareness and solutions to end violence against women.
Sonal won the title of Ms. Asia Universe 2016 in India. She then competed at the Mrs. Universe competition in China in August where she was awarded the title of Ms. Universe-Beautiful 2016. She has used her title as a platform to raise awareness about inequalities and violence affecting women in India.
She is the recipient of the REX karmaveer chakra global fellowship award (awarded previously to honourable president Dr. APJ Abdul kalam) for raising awareness on domestic violence in the community and workshops she conducted for low-income women in partnership w NGO Udayan Care.
She is a graduate from the London School of Economics, is fluent in French and has lived and worked in several countries. She published an article with the director of the UNDP in Brazil, worked with the ministry of health in London UK and lived in rural Gujarat improving women's access to healthcare with the Aga Khan Foundation.
An avid writer, Sonal uses her blog to write on wellness and highlight key issues facing women today within India.
Elsa Marie D'Silva | Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Founder & CEO of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) which is a platform that crowdsources personal experiences of gender based violence and abuse in public spaces. Since Safecity started in Dec 2012, it has become the largest crowd map on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon and Nepal.
ElsaMarie is an alumni of the Stanford Draper Hills Summer School, the US State Department’s Fortune Program and the Commonwealth Leadership Program. She is also a fellow with Rotary Peace, Aspen New Voices, Vital Voices and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. She is listed as one of BBC Hindi’s 100 Women and has won Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Dusan Stojanovic (European Angel Investor of the Year 2013), Government of India Niti Aayog’s #WomenTransformingIndia award and The Digital Woman Award in Social Impact by SheThePeople. Recently she was awarded the Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices in the presence of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Prior to Safecity, she was in the aviation industry for 20 years where she worked with Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines. Her last portfolio was Vice President Network Planning & Charters where she oversaw the planning and implementation of 500 daily flights.
Vandita Morarka | Safecity (Red Dot Foundation)
Vandita Morarka is a development policy consultant, legal researcher and gender rights facilitator. Her areas of interest are gender justice, legal reform and youth capacity building. She has worked extensively with organisations, philanthropists, government bodies and politicians towards building development based action plans. She has intensively trained over 500 young persons in varied aspects of social leadership and has been instrumental in creating awareness of laws and violence amongst over 7000+ persons. She is currently engaged at Safecity as their Policy, Legal and United Nations Liaison Officer, India, where her policy led projects have been covered by Sweden TV and have been referred for action by the Railway Minister of India.
She also works at Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights and Red Elephant Foundation as a Legal Researcher towards expanding rights of women in South Asia and writes for various platforms on aspects of gender and mental health. She has won several awards for her commitment towards social service and is setting up her independent venture, One Future Foundation, which aims to create a better future by building up values of human compassion at the intersection of gender, mental health, legal reform and development policy through youth social leadership.
Shivani Pethe | Wonderlab
Divya Singh | DG Pixx
Surabhi Jain | Nutriwell
Dr Surabhi Jain is a celebrity nutritionist and health professional with more than a decade of progressive experience in the sector. Dr.Surabhi is a doctor by training who later, went on to pursue a Masters’ in Business Administration and post-graduation in nutrition from the esteemed Public Health Foundation of India.In the earlier part of her career, as a public health professional, she worked extensively in maternal, child health and nutrition. Her earlier public health stints with professional bodies, government and NGO’s like FHI, UNICEF , HLFPPT, GOI, MOHFW etc. became the drivers of her passion to finding organic and non-medicalized solutions to health issues.
She is the Founder of “NUTRIWELL INDIA”, one of the leading consultancies in Nutrition and Lifestyle Management. She has been the guiding force for team NUTRIWELL INDIA to provide context based, nutrition and dietary solutions for health problems.In partnership with corporates and NGOs, she has led numerous workshops and knowledge sharing sessions. Even to date, with innumerable success stories and testimonials to her account, she drives her passion to give indivualized, patient centric care.
For her invaluable contribution to the field of Nutrition, she was awarded the “EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE” by the World Health Leadership Congress in 2016. She is also FEMINA , WWLC SUPER WOMEN ACHIEVER 17 in the health sector. For more on her, she has been a regular feature on the female show “SANGINI”, "Meri Saheli " ETV.
She is Nominated for Excellence in Health care by FICCI FLO ( Uttar Pradesh Chapter). She is chosen among the few women Entrepreneur in WE CAN Program by Cherrie Blair foundation and US Embassy with DRITI. She is awarded for Excellence in Health care by CWF.She is awarded for excellence in health care by Hindustan Times.
www.nutriwellindia.com
Tumpa Chatterjee | Infosys BPO
Never let go of your dreams, because dreams don’t lie.
Quoting a line from the book I authored – Laughing Daffodils.
If you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe in doing it all passionately. Be it changing rules in school as Head girl, or institutionalizing the placement cell in undergrad, or starting The Literary Club in IMI, New Delhi or working with women, girl children in NGOs. It could also be learning to play the guitar, practicing yoga, travelling to new places or helping youngsters achieve their dreams. Or publishing a book.
Or be it trying new things at work – constantly challenging myself to achieve newer and greater heights. I have worked on several national and international projects that have been awarded both, within the company and outside. I partner with approximately 2000 employees as a People Leader, and my attempt is to augment the value proposition for each employee.
And I believe none of these things are ever possible without a superb support system – a loving family, an amazing team, a wonderful set of friends, and a demanding set of clients – who teach me something, every day.
I believe in a bigger and better world, and I know each of us has a role to play. I dream of a world in which I am in a position of power and responsibility, enabling careers and lives of many people, having authored many more books, the owner of a dog shelter…. and a lot more.
… Miles to go before I sleep.
Khyati Bhatt | Simply Body Talk
Ankita Shroff | SAV Chemicals, Shroff Group
Ankita Shroff holds her Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology and Masters in Management from Imperial Business School London. She pursued an internship with Rolls Royce in London and Germany on a consulting project, ‘how to prioritize manufacturing site investments in global companies? Greenfield vs Brownfield Projects’. She is the Co-Founder and Director of SAV Chemicals Pvt Ltd, a Professional Manufacturer of MXBON branded instant adhesives for consumer and industrial markets. In three year, SAV has penetrated 20 States across India, with 40 different products and a team of 20 young members. A distinct feature at the SAV factory, is that it has 80% women. It has crossed a turnover of Rs 6.5 crores in March’17.
She is the Associate Director at Shroff Group, a real estate developer in Pune, and looks after Marketing, Sales and Project Development. She is also the Founder of Shroff Consultancy Services started in 2017 which aims at Career Guidance for students, Start Up and Strategy Consulting. She is actively involved with P K Shroff Trust, in the name of her grandfather which is dedicated for social cause . She is passionate about Traveling, Fitness, Hiking, Music Technology and Startups.
Dhara Mehta | The Kids Company
Back in 2008, an M.B.A. working in a MNC, I was unaware that the sabbatical taken then to embrace motherhood will be my final goodbye to the corporate world!
While I was raising my son I picked up a very important insight, ‘Play is the work of childhood and the highest form of education’
On observing mommies & children around I realised that while play was a part of a child's routine it was often used by caregivers as a form of relaxation or break from learning. However as a mother I realised that PLAY was the best educational tool an adult could have!
This thought ignited a spark in me - to create a service which could bridge this gap of play & learning. It sounded vague to many but I believed in my dream.
I took up a formal course & worked in a daycare cum activity centre. The formal course & practical experience both reinforced my belief & in 2013 'The Kids Company’ was born.
Today I am a hands on mommy, a qualified E.C.C. Ed & a passionate entrepreneur.
Starting off with just 2 kids, I have reached out to hundreds of kids not only from the vicinity but a lot of NRI kids too.
Being featured in the leading dailes of Mumbai & bagging some Kids & Mothers choice awards with loads of positive parent testimones surely reassures my belief, ‘follow your passion and you will never fail!’