Bhakti Mittal | Euphoria Edu World
I am the founder of Euphoria Edu World. I am the luckiest and proudest female entrepreneur, or rather a 'Mompreneur'. I have the support of my very strong and sweet family, comprising of two smart children and a very supportive husband. I belong to Delhi, but started and established my business from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a well-known city for business expansion. I believe that God gives everyone a motive and a passion to live the life happily. From my teenage years, I was passionate about working in the education sector to fulfil the huge gap between real life and school. My motive behind Euphoria Edu World, is to focus on continuous development in early child education to improve the quality education with all around growth, development and innovative solutions.
Euphoria Edu World is an initiative towards enhancing the learning and education processes with the sole objective of bringing a meaningful transformation to every human life by exploring the true potential of their brain. A lot of educational institutions and companies have focused on quality academics with co-curricular activities but only Euphoria Edu World have come up with the solutions for authentic, scientifically designed and age appropriate education pattern and motivational, creative or innovative educational solutions for quality education and business development.
Uniqueness is also highlighted by the applied concept of a beautiful blend of the rich culture and promising values of Indian heritage, with the modernized logistic thought-process and the way of education, so that anyone walking out of our institution stands beaming into the rough and arid environment of today's new world.
We do not embark on word of mouth alone - seeing and believing would be the proof of our efforts.
Shabia Walia | Wild Earth
Shabia Walia has been a media professional for the past 24 years. She has performed various roles as a witer, creative director, producer and even as an author of a book called 'Mamma Mania'. Her venture, 'Tattva by Shabia Walia', was founded in 2014, with the sole intention of providing natural body products, free from harmful chemicals to one and all. Started with humble savings, tattva (now called 'Wild Earth') has grown to be a trusted and credible brand in less than two years. Apart from a business venture, 'Wild Earth' is also a socially conscious organisation which believes in giving back to society. A significant part of 'Wild Earth' proceeds go towards spreading smiles amongst the underpriviliged through her social initiative, 'The Bluebells Community'. Shabia is also a 'Rex Karmveer Chakra' awardee for her contributions in social work and inclusiveness of all sections of society. To know more about 'The Bluebells Community' and the work it does, visit https://wildearth.in/pages/the-bluebells-community.
Kavita Bhangdia | Barclays
I was born and raised in a small town called Bhilai. My father was a Central Government Employee and mother a Housewife. I completed my Master's degree with a specialization in Finance from the State University of New York, Binghamton. After staying in the US for several years, I returned to India to be close to my family.
Currently I work as a risk professional in the investment banking domain and have worked extensively with Market Risk, Quantitative Finance and Front Office risk with various investment banks such as Barclays, Nomura and Deutsche Bank.
I am very passionate about what I do and eve became an GARP certified FRM ( Financial Risk Manager) this year, which is a globally recognized certification.
Spending several years in America has made me realize just how different the rights and empowerment of Indian women are. Gender diversity is very close to my heart and gender empowerment is especially important for a country like India, which is a typically a patriarchal society. Moreover, the very poor women ratio in Barclays, Pune led me to dedicate myself to this cause - to at least try and make things better around me. Since then, I have launched WiT ( Women in Technology) in Barclays Pune. I have also led WiN (Women's Initiative Network) and currently leading a HeForShe Campaign.
Devhuti Minocha | Dhrohar
Devhuti completed her Master's in Business Management and then went on to work in different capacities with various multinational organizations in India. With an experience ranging beyond 12 years in the Software/IT industry, she made her first entrepreneurial bootstrapped venture, www.Dhrohar.com, a successful e-commerce business. It is only fair to consider her the best in the business. It is through her hard work, commitment and sincerity, that she laid the founding stone of Dhrohar. Devhuti is an entrepreneur who juggles work and two beautiful kids smoothly and believes that prioritizing work is the key to success.
Dhrohar is a brand of contemporary handloom and handicraft products focused on providing apparel, accessories and home furnishings, inspired by the rich Indian heritage and legacies. The brand is focused on making natural fabric products popular and bridging the gap by providing stylized handloom products that goes well with current fashion trends.
Somewhere in between too-tall stilettos and pajama-like sweatpants, there's a middle ground full of comfortable clothes that are office-appropriate and actually wearable. That is the segment that Dhrohar captures. We want to experiment with handloom and see how this comfortable fabric can be used to the best of its potential.
Malini Lalit Bansal | Aasmaa Foundation
I was born on 15th August 1976 in Delhi, to a family where social and moral values were always the priority. I completed my schooling at Manav Sthali School and was an above average student. I got married in 1998 into a family which was again one of the notable family known for charity works. With a park-facing house, it came to our notice that maids who worked in nearby areas left their young children unattended, exposing them to accidents and unhygienic conditions. It then struck my heart that I should do something for these children. I began Aasmaa Foundation in 2016, with my sister-in-laws and started a simple setup of school in park with just seven kids in February 2011. Soon our group expanded and we had to shift our day education centre to Haiderpur. Today, we have almost 84 children with us and we are also running a vocational centre and soon plan to begin a computer training centre.
Paromita Bardoloi | Independent Writer & Theatre Activist
I am an independent writer and a theatre activist. My writings over the years have been published in many national websites and magazines, including the Huffington Post, National Geographic, Women's Web, YourStory, Bonobology, Femina, The Quint and so on. My writings have mostly dealt with women empowerment. I strongly believe it's not only laws or education that can empower our women. Empowerment is an inner process that includes self love and self esteem. Over the years, many women have benefitted from them. Thus my work continues to create an equal better India. I am also invited to be part of panel discussions and guest lectures.
Nandini Ashokumar | P.S.B.B.S.S. School
Nandini Ashokumar has been a primary teacher since 2006 in P.S.B.B.S.S School Chennai, where she completed her schooling. As a teacher, she believes in continually updating and equipping herself to meet the demands and challenges of the modern era. A trainer of process drama workshops, she conducts workshops for teachers on various critical problem solving processes that are predominantly interactive with new technology and tools. With her passion in both theatre and teaching, she makes every classroom and workshop experience unique and inspires young minds to think creatively.
Her innovative teaching practices earned her the Best Teacher Award, South Zone 2008, EQFI. Recently she received a Certificate of Commendation from The Global Education Leadership Foundation (TGelF) as a finalist in the Primary Teacher category. As a GSP Coordinator she has visited a UK school as part of the exchange program.
Mrs. Nandini is also game for other activities. A cycling enthusiast, she has participated in several long distance (100 km) cycling races. She is also a passionate runner who has completed 17 half and four full marathons. She is the winner of 4X1200m women's relay and has won accolades in several interschool sports and dance competitions.
She is the Chapter Coordinator for the running club 'Chennai Runners Pillar Pacers (CRPP). She runs with the corporation school kids to channelize their energy and help them dream big. With her group members support, she has helped those affected during Chennai floods.
Being a mother of two lovely teenagers, this ebullient 38 year old youngster believes excellence is achieved by doing small things perfectly.
Sushmita Das | Barclays
I am an IT professional working predominantly in the Banking domain from last nine years. I have done my Bachelors in Telecommunication (B.E.) and pursuing a MBA degree in Finance & Marketing.
I have been active in citizenship activities and was chosen as one of the Finalists for Mrs India - Queen of Substance pageant in 2016. I won the coveted title of Mrs India Trendsetter and also honoured by the life membership of World Peace Development and Research Foundation by ASIAN SOCIETY OF FILM & TELEVISION. I am associated with SNEH Foundation, which works for child education and health. I have conducted sessions on Cleanliness and Hygiene for people residing in slums or households of odd job workers, to create awareness and importance of it. I regularly work for donation drives for the NGO and raise charity funding. I am part of D&I and Citizenship initiatives conducted within my organisation and have been actively contributing to by conducting events for charity.
I love writing poems, playing badminton and enjoy fitness dance forms like Zumba.
Sonal Pawar | Foundation for Mother and Child Health
Sonal Pawar is 38-years-old, born in the slum community of Dhobi Ghat Mahalaxmi. She married Santosh Pawar at the age 18 and became mother of two sons at age of 21. Her education was discontinued after 10th Std to take care of her siblings and the household chores.
My interest was to work for the issues of community because of my passion and determination to bring about change even if lacked support from family. As a result, I got opportunity to work with Pratham, NGO as a preschool teacher and library incharge. In 2009, I joined the Foundation for Mother and Child Health as a cook. I utilised every opportunity dealing with community mobilization in FMCH, as I believe it is first step to bring about change and in 2013 was promoted to field officer with responsibilities of building relationships with community and conducting programs.
Today, I'm working as Field Coordinator in FMCH with the added responsibilities of networking, conducting trainings, coordinating the field programs of two intervention sites. While in FMCH, I completed my paraprofessional course in Social work and counselling course from Care institute. Now I am pursuing my higher education so that I can complete my Master in social work course.
Nidhi Joshi | BlackRock
I have over nine years of experience in the financial services sector and am currently leading the Institutional Client Businesses Team and BlackRock Solutions team within Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) in India, at BlackRock, the world's leading Asset Management Firm. Having worked in finance Industry for so many years I have had the opportunity to work in diverse finance domains including financial planning & analysis, Stock Audit, MIS, Automation & process improvements projects, Cost Benefit Analysis Projects as well as people management.
I have earned a MBA degree with dual major in Finance & Accounting and Human Resources and attained distinction in all the subjects from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan in 2007 and B.Com from Garhwal University, Dehradun in 2005.
I started my career journey with the Indian Retail giant Future Group in 2007, and was working as the stock auditor for the entire north zone stores. I joined Ameriprise Financial in 2009, where I was working as a Team Leader Ameriprise Financial in the Analytics department of Advice & Wealth Management Group. At Ameriprise, I was leading a team who was responsible for providing financials of the various products offered by the firm, Variance Analyses, Dashboards/Scorecard preparation and presentation to the ELT members and verbiage writing for the quarterly release to the Wall Street Journal.
I joined BlackRock on 29th September 2014 and in my current role I support many critical processes, including the production of the weekly flows reporting for senior management to measure BlackRock's ability to execute on its organic growth goals, and a large portion of month-end reporting for all regional Institutional Sales teams. In this role, I am supporting a global process which requires me to have frequent interactions and manage stakeholders across various regions including NY, London and APAC, as well as COO / Business Management teams.
On the personal side, I am a mother of four and a half year old, who keeps me busy after my work hours. In my free time I enjoy, reading fictional books, cooking and watching Hollywood sitcoms and movies.