Live & lead consciously

Zainab Patel

Born in Mumbai, Zainab is a transgender person and is one of the petitioners in the National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India case on transgender rights. She currently works with Pernod Ricard India as the Chief Inclusion and Diversity, prior to this she worked with  KPMG as the Director – Diversity and Inclusion, She holds an MBA in HR and was the National Manager Health and Human Rights at UNDP country office in India and was the regional policy analyst on human rights in Asia. Her areas of interest are health and social development issues and comes with over 20 years of national and international work experience.

She currently serves as western India representative in the National Council for Transgender Persons and is Kamal Nayan Bajaj Aspen global fellow.

Yeshasvini Ramaswamy

Yeshasvini Ramaswamy is a Cultural Transformation & Analytics expert with extensive exposure in leading projects for Fortune 100 across UK, US, Australia, Dubai and China. She has represented India among emerging 25 women leaders in the Fortune Most powerful women partnership program hosted by the US State Dept in 2012 & 2017

She was awarded The Super Achiever Award by the World Women Leadership Congress Awards in 2017. She has also been featured in Biz Inked a case study publication of IIM Bangalore and CII’s Bold & Brilliant coffee table book on women achievers in 2018. She was awarded the Times Power Women Award (Excellence in Entrepreneurship) in 2019 and was recognized by I-Create for achieving the milestone of creating 4k entrepreneurs and 12k jobs among the disadvantaged women and army veterans in 2020. Yeshasvini is mentioned in the book “Undeterred : The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies” by Rania Habiby Anderson as a leading Indian Women Entrepreneur. She was awarded the Fellowship by the Institute of Directors in 2021

Relevant Experience
• She is currently the CEO of Great Place to Work® India. Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. In India, the institute partners with more than 1100 organisations annually across over 22 industries to help them build High-Trust, High-Performance™ cultures designed to deliver sustained business results.
• She is the founder of Culturelytics Pvt.Ltd, which has developed the world’s first AI platform that defines and measures the culture of an organization mapping it to a $impact. She started her entrepreneur journey in 2009 by founding e2e People Practices, a respected boutique consulting firm that undertakes large business transformation projects and is involved deeply in building purposeful leadership practices across sectors.
• She was the Co-founder of K-Arogia Advisory Services Pvt.Ltd. a health analytics start up. Founded in 2016, within a year of its incorporation K- Arogia acquired a B2B chain of clinics called White Cross , with a strength of over 300 employees. She grew it to 325 clinics and 800 employees, making it India’s leading chain while exiting it in 2019. She has received awards from FICCI and Asian Hospital Management, Philippines for Innovation in Patient care. The ecosystem managed by her consisted of 30k doctors, 10k hospitals and impacted more than 2mn lives.
• Her initial employment years were with MphasiS and Infosys BPO. She has anchored CHRO roles for the Velankani conglomerate comprising of companies in diverse fields ranging from BPO, Hedge Fund services ,SEZ, Hotels, Tech parks to Food services.
• A contributing member of the IIITB Innovation Centre, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt of India, she has served as the Chief Anchor at the School of Leadership & Entrepreneurial Excellence, that is best known to have launched India’s first entrepreneurial MBA program with committed funding. Now operating under Jain University, within a span of its first 3 years, it catalyzed angel funding through JGI Ventures, incubating 46 start-ups with a combined turn over of more than $ 22mn USD and creation of more than 2k direct jobs within its first 5 years. She has also served as a co-Program Director for the IIM entrepreneur accelerator program.
• She serves as a Governing Council member at ISBR and is a visiting faculty at global business schools and was a keynote speaker on women empowerment at the 99th Indian Science Congress. Having traveled to more than 20 countries, her motivational talks are most awaited events in corporate and leading forums internationally.
• She is actively involved in community work through fund raising and serving on global advisory boards of high impact NGOs in areas of rural entrepreneurship, education and health. She is a popular voice in the press on women empowerment with active industry community contribution through roles in NASSCOM and CII and serves on POSH committees.
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Veda Persad

Veda Persad is the Country Executive for India. In this role, Veda is responsible for resiliency, local statutory compliance, and the local talent strategy to enable business priorities of the organization. Veda brings operational expertise and extensive global experience to the role.
Since joining Northern Trust in 2004, Veda has held progressive roles within the company including Relationship Manager, Canada Chief Risk Officer, Global Head of Control – Income and International Tax, Division Head for India Entitlements and, most recently, Global Services APAC Operations Practice Executive.

In her previous role, Veda was responsible for the execution of client Operational delivery. Her teams included Cash and Payment Operations, Banking & Loans, Asset Coding, Entitlements, Trade & Settlement, Asset Pricing and Capital Markets Operations. Veda has been recognized among the Top 100 Executive Allies by LGBT Great and is a passionate advocate for DEI. Prior to joining Northern Trust, she was Vice President, Client Services and Operations, Clarington Funds Inc. Veda began her career at State Street and IFDS Ltd. and has built extensive
experience in all aspects of custodial, fund accounting and transfer agency operations.

Veda holds a B.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto and is a Six Sigma Black Belt certified professional.

Year Started at Northern Trust: 2004
Year Started in the Industry: 199

Vidya Bala

Vidya Bala is Co-founder and Head Research & Products at PrimeInvestor, a retail investment research solutions platform. PrimeInvestor is India’s first SEBI-registered personal finance platform that is structurally independent with no commission, no advertisements or kickbacks from products and bats only for the investor. Vidya helped build one of the country’s earliest robo-advisory solutions in the country in her earlier role at FundsIndia. She the head of mutual fund research at FundsIndia where she did some path-breaking work in analyzing funds and offering researched portfolios. Her recommendations had a sound track record of beating markets and showcasing consistency. They were followed widely by investors, advisors and media.

A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Vidya began her career as a Senior Internal Auditor for Ashok Leyland. She then went on to work for The Hindu Business Line’s Research Bureau, tracking mutual funds, stock markets, sectors and the macro economy for eight years. She has 20 years of experience, of which over 17 were spent analyzing the markets.

Vaishnavi Viswanathan

Vaishnavi Viswanathan is a vagabond by heart and loves to explore life to the fullest. She loves to dabble in anything creative, play with dogs, spend time with family and friends, learn new things, watch movies and generally to laze around and have fun, especially in nature. 

She is an entrepreneur and founder of two firms with 20+years of experience as a Leadership Skills Facilitator, Expressive Art Therapy practitioner, Life Coach, and a Certified Forest Therapy practitioner. She has conducted over 3000+ Leadership training programs in organizations like L & T Infotech, Oracle, ICICI, Seimens etc and has over 600+ coaching hours with a PCC certification. In her workshops and coaching she combines her knowledge and experience from Psychology, Philosophy, Art and Nature to provide a space for others to dive deep within, to discover their authentic self. 

 She founded ‘Nature Connections’ as a conscious calling, with the purpose of connecting people to Earth’s intelligence and wisdom. She has been a pioneer in India in intuitively conducting Nature based coaching and Nature based Leadership sessions for Corporate leaders. Her style is to experientially engage and enable people to connect with nature at a Psychological and Spiritual level with little or no theories or models. This impacts their overall physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and provides a space to deeply connect with nature and with themselves. Nature connections has facilitated 70+ nature based sessions for over 800 people in 8 cities in India and Mauritius, for corporates like IBM, Capgemini, LinkedIn, FFG Mag, Shenomics etc with a collaborative team of 12 people across India. She was certified by the European Institute of Forest Therapy and adopts their research based framework in conducting nature sessions. She is an International speaker advocating the importance for organisations to engage with nature and expand their consciousness. She also received the GIFEW Global Women Entrepreneur award in 2020 for her work with nature. 

She is a proponent of Conscious living and explores consciousness in as many aspects of her life. Her recent experiment with conscious pregnancy and birthing led to a pain-free labour and no-push delivery at the age of 40 and is now exploring conscious parenting. She believes connecting with nature has been an important aspect for her to live a conscious life, as close to what nature intended it to be. 

Varoon P. Anand

Varoon P. Anand is Delhi’s most experienced Improv trainer and performer. In Delhi, Varoon began teaching Improv in 2012 through Kaivalya Plays, the theatre company he founded, and in 2014 formed CueLess Improv, the capital’s most prolific team of short-form improv performers.

Varoon continued training in improv with many teachers including Saif Ali, of Batlahouse theatre, learning and collaborating from 2015-16. In 2018, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and medical practitioners, Varoon created Unravel, an improv show about mental health that is in production and will shortly travel on a national tour. Along with being the Artistic Director of Kaivalya Plays, CueLess Improv, and El Clavileo (India’s only Spanish language theatre group). As of 2019, Varoon has trained more than 200 performers in spontaneous improvisation, facilitated workshops for over 500 people in improvisation for mental wellness and collaborated with institutions like Embassy of Spain, Embassy of Argentina, Embassy of Ecuador, Indian Habitat Centre, Little Theatre Group (LTG), Oddbird Theatre and Foundation amongst others. He continues to explore new ways to present and teach the techniques of improv, along with his other specialities.

Tanuj Bhojwani

Tanuj Bhojwani is a storyteller who codes. He is the co-author of The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Calm in the Digital World with Nandan Nilekani.

Tanuj holds a chemical engineering degree from IIT Bombay. He also attended Ashoka University and studied liberal arts at the Young India Fellowship. His training in the sciences and humanities allows him to craft narratives about technology that are accessible without sacrificing technical depth. As a Fellow at iSPIRT Foundation, Tanuj works on policy issues related to digital identity, payments, data protection and drones. Prior to iSPIRT, Tanuj has been a VC and an entrepreneur. When not reading or writing, Tanuj spends his time obsessing over board games, digital productivity systems and magic. He lives and works in Bengaluru.

Dr. Radhika Jain

Dr. Radhika Jain is a theatre practitioner, actor and trainer. She is a graduate from the Centre for Playback Theatre, USA. She is also trained in multiple other formats of interactive theatre like Theatre of the Oppressed, Shadow Theatre and Immersive Theatre. As an Expressive Art practitioner, Radhika combines the elements of Expressive Arts with the tools of Theatre in her sessions with individuals as well groups. She has co-founded First Drop Theatre with a select set of actors who have a common interest in theatre and storytelling.
Through First Drop Theatre, Radhika and team use a wide range of interactive theatre techniques to create spaces for reflection and embodied thinking to support people with a nuanced understanding of themselves as well as others.

Swayta Murarka

Swayta Murarka is an Award winning Investment Banker and a Business Leader. She is known for her visionary leadership and strategic thinking and having set up and led various businesses to success. She is an All India Rank holder Chartered Accountant, with 19 years of experience in Investment Banking, Audit and Retail Banking across large organizations like HSBC, Goldman Sachs, PWC and ICICI Swayta is currently heading the Investment Banking, Portfolio Analytics, Business research, presentations and design and transformation team of over 310 employees spread across Bangalore, Guangzhou, Manila and Colombo. Prior to this, she was Co-Head, Investment Banking and Sector Lead, Financial Institutions for the team in Bangalore. Swayta has rich experience in executing strategic
disposals for HSBC and M&A transactions for Financial Institutions and General Industrial clients
globally.

Swayta’s career story was featured by Global HSBC Production house internally and across all social media sites. Swayta has also been recognized through various industry awards, having most recently won the Women Economic Forum award for “Exceptional Leader of Excellence”, WEF – Iconic Women, All India Women Achievers Award by Business Rankers publication house and the D&I Industry Leader award by Community Business in 2019. Swayta is passionate about equal opportunity and founded the first international branch of the Diversity network ‘Balance’ in HSBC and was subsequently nominated as Global Co-Lead for the network. She helped expand this network to over 30 countries and 50,000 employees. Swayta has been instrumental in driving many D&I programs and has been the key propagator for the “Take Two” returnship program. Swayta is currently creating awareness for mental health aspects in the corporate world.

She has also joined the Banking Leadership council in a honorary role to help create opportunities and visibility for women led ventures. She is also now part of the City Mental Health Alliance with a vision to protect, support and create positive mental health for the staff at workplace. She is a funding Lead and BCC Council member for WICCI and has been leading Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs program.

A passionate leader and a transformational coach / mentor for many aspiring women, Swayta has been interviewed for various webcasts, leadership forums and panel discussions, internally and externally. She has also delivered guest lectures at premier B-schools and initiated a campus outreach program called “IB League” which has changed the way investment bankers are selected

Sumeet Mathur

Sumeet Mathur is Vice President and Country Head of ServiceNow’s India Development Centre (IDC), where he is responsible for global product development for Security, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) and ERP Workflow product lines. As a country head of IDC, Sumeet has added responsibility of entire development centre spread mainly across Hyderabad & Bengaluru. He has more than 25 years’ experience in building enterprise software in leadership roles across CA Technologies, Broadcom & Cisco.

Sukriti Sharma

Sukriti is a Performance Studies scholar from Ambedkar University Delhi and trained with Kaivalya Plays. She is also a theatre actor, poet and freestyle dancer, constantly trying to detangle the blurred lines of her identity and the society through all her works.

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Shankar Chugani

He has performed for over 250 corporate shows, amongst other kinds of shows.

Shanti Maria

Shanti Maria is a corporate veteran in the Learning & Development space who firmly believes her lived experiences have always informed her choices. She is a lifelong learner who is happy to admit that she’s a work in progress and that life is as much about learning as it is about unlearning.

One of Shanti’s many guiding principles is creating a positive impact on every person she meets. And, she brings this perspective to her work as well.  As a woman who has spent a significant amount of time in corporate (18+ years to be exact), Shanti cares deeply about diversity, inclusion, and social justice in this space.

In her current role, Shanti creates actionable strategies for organizations to create a ripple effect of diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as give back meaningfully to the communities they impact. For Shanti, growth looks like helping her organization create more equitable spaces and absorbing everything she learns along the way to fuel her own personal development.

Outside the workplace, Shanti’s family is her north star. Spending time with the people she loves, listening to music and baking are the ways she fills up her emotional cup.

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Neha Ranglani

Neha Ranglani is an Integrative nutritionist and health coach practicing for the last 14 years and has helped 20000+ people across the globe to become health independent and take charge of their own health. She believes our body has this innate ability to heal itself provided its fed with the right raw materials in terms of food, thoughts, emotions and actions. She helps people reverse or manage obesity, diabetes, thyroid, PCOS, infertility and any other issue in most natural way possible. In less than 2 years she had authored 2 books in her Reboot Series and wishes to write many more. Neha has been educating people about authentic nutrition and wellness information through her social media, corporate and school workshops, authored articles in reputed magazines and publications like vogue, grazia, mid day and many online portals. Neha’s passion for her work in unparalleled and she makes sure she serves in her best capacity.

Pankaj Rai

Pankaj Rai is the Group Chief Data Analytics Officer at Aditya Birla Group. In this role, he leads the Group’s strategy on Analytics and Data Science enabling its varied businesses, ranging from Cement, Chemicals, Metals to Fashion Retail & Financial Services to enhance their decision-making capabilities using data science.

He also enables the analytics maturity journey of the business teams by creating digital products and platforms that can be scaled across the group and beyond. Before this Pankaj worked as the Senior Vice President, Strategy at Wells Fargo where his key initiatives
included establishing the digital capabilities to enable the Bank’s digital channels and building an internal consulting team to drive global programs. He also worked as the Director of Analytics at Dell where he led a team in business research, data analysis, and statistical modeling across domains like marketing, strategy, pricing, online, supply chain and financial services. Prior to joining Dell, Pankaj was Head, Program Management Office at Standard Chartered Bank in their Singapore regional office wherein he helped grow
their shared service centers in India and Malaysia.

In his professional career spanning 25 years, Pankaj started as a management consultant and then went on to work in the financial services industry in India wherein he worked with ICICI and GE Capital in a variety of roles covering sales, risk management, six-sigma and operations. Pankaj has bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. In his free time, Pankaj enjoys long distance running, cycling, badminton and meeting people in his favorite
Cafe.

Neeta Tewari

Neeta is a professional with 25+ years of experience in leading large client operations. She has experience in multiple industries and specializes in delivering industry-leading outcomes, working with clients to bring best-in-class processes, procedures and policies and brings together high-performing teams. Neeta has a strong Operations and Transformation background and has implemented innovative ideas in her engagement displaying human + technology ingenuity. She focuses on creating strong, sustainable Operations teams and is a believer in solving client pain points and transform processes to make the operations future ready with automation, analytics and artificial intelligence enablers.

She is a firm believer that people are the biggest assets and invests a lot of her time and energy in grooming the Next Generations of leaders in the organization. She is the lead coach of Accentire’s Insights Women Leadership program in India, which focuses on encouraging women to become intentional of their career growth and contribute to improving the gender diversity at leadership level.

Neha Bagaria

Neha Bagaria is the founder & CEO of JobsForHer, India’s largest platform to accelerate women’s careers.  JobsForHer has worked with over 2.5 million women, 8000+ companies, 1500+ mentors and 750+ reskilling partners across India to enable women to start, restart and rise in their careers.

Neha founded JobsForHer in March 2015 after taking a 3.6-year break in her own career when she had her children.  Prior to her career break, she worked at Kemwell, a biopharmaceutical manufacturing company based in Bangalore, where she was involved in the fields of HR, Finance and Marketing strategy for their facilities in India, Sweden and the US.  Before she moved to Bangalore, Neha was the Founder & CEO of Paragon, an educational startup based in Mumbai to bring the Advanced Placement Program to India.

Neha has graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with honours in Finance, Marketing and Management of Information Systems.

Neha has been listed in Forbes India’s WPower Trailblazers list of 25 groundbreaking women achievers as a  game-changer and innovator who is shattering stereotypes, and was also featured as the “10 Most Impactful Women in Tech 2020” by Analytics Insight.

Neha is an avid traveller and enjoys adventure sports like skiing, scuba diving and hiking.  She is also a closet artist and dancer.

Kriti Tula

A trained apparel designer and design manager, Kriti has worked in the global apparel industry for more than 10 years. After pursuing her under graduation at Pearl Academy in Fashion Designing in 2010 and working in the Indian fashion industry for several years; she moved to London for her masters in design management on a full scholarship at the London College of Fashion. After her post graduation, she got a chance to work in London for a few years before coming back to India to expand her label Doodlage. She is the creative brain behind Doodlage. Her journey in sustainable fashion started very early on and has won her many awards and accolades for upcycled, recycled and ethically made fashion.

Kriti started the conversation around sustainable fashion in India in 2012. Her work focuses on creating awareness around the need for alternate fashion economies. With Doodlage her aim is to create India’s first global sustainable and affordable fashion brand; focusing on reselling, repair and upcycling while including ethically made recycled fabrics.
While her work has been covered by many global organizations like Duetsche Welles, Brut, Apple Inc, Fashion Revolution, Sophie Australia, Facebook India. Doodlage is equally publicized by media in India and has grown to be one of the most acknowledged and credible brands for sustainable fashion in India.

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Luvena Rangel

Luvena Rangel is a Bangalore based body positive Yoga Teacher Trainer with a  background in Medicine and Holistic Health. As Founder of The Curvy Yogi that models inclusive and accessible yoga & wellness for all, she seamlessly blends body conversations alongside Emotional Intelligence to support work-life balance and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility. She is the President of WICCI Karnataka Yoga Council & the recipient of the Iconic Leader award from the Women Economic Forum – Bangalore 2020 as well as the first Patanjali Yoga
Institutions Award from eduGLife and the MDNIY / Ministry of Ayush at Teen Murti Bhavan, Delhi in 2021. She is a powerful speaker, panelist and writer on various opinion panels on Organizational Culture, Leadership, & Wellnes.

Dr Jasmin B Gupta

Jasmin B Gupta is skilled in Banking, Sales, P/L Management, CX, Strategic Alliances, Fintechs and Neobanks, Business Management, L&D, Analytics, Digital Banking, Project & Product Management, Leadership & Intrapreneurship. Her initiatives have won the ETBFSI Award for the Best Fintech Alliance of the year & IDC’s Industry Innovation in Omni-experience Award 2021, SKOCH Award & Finnoviti Award 2022. She has been conferred India’s Inspiring Leader Award 2021 and Global Fintech Excellence in Leadership Award 2022 by Elets BFSI as well as APAC BFSI Finnovation Leadership Award 2022 by APAC News Network. She has also been recognised as Top 100 Indian BFSI Marketer, 2022.

A Triple Gold Medalist in MBA, she has done PhD in Financial Inclusion and Digitalization. A TEDx Speaker, she has been invited to speak at many National and International conferences in Europe, US and South East Asia. She is an ardent researcher and author of two academic books. Her research papers have been published in leading International and National journals, books and magazines such as Banking Frontiers, Analytics Insight, Business Manager, Femina, etc. She is a Leadership Speaker & Visiting Faculty in Top Management Institutes like IIMs and IITs.

She is a Top Performing Banker who has been awarded for her achievements at International Conventions in Australia, Switzerland and Thailand. She has been recognised as 101 Top Global L&D Minds by The Economic Times ET Now and World HRD Congress. She has represented India as Youth Ambassador at the Global Leo Meet (Youth body of Lions Clubs International) at Chicago, USA. She has also been a Cultural Ambassador to Osaka, Japan under the Indo-Japan Student Exchange Program between Gujarat University and Otemon Gakuin University.

She has served as President of Leo Club and Leo Youth Director of Lions Clubs International and has undertaken many community service and youth development programs. She is a non-profit Social Entrepreneur who actively works for providing Financial Literacy to low-income and under-educated women & children. She is National President – Financial Inclusion Council, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry WICCI.

She has learnt German, French & Japanese languages. She also excels at Dancing and Fine Arts. A Bharat Natyam dancer, she has participated in many International Folk Dance Competitions in France and Spain. She is positive, confident, creative, committed, passionate, resilient & versatile with excellent communication, business management, people management, coaching & public speaking skills.

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Irina Ghose

Irina Ghose is the Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft India, with the responsibility to drive end-to-end operations. Irina focuses on the go-to- market strategy for Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions in India to deliver on core business parameters and create new growth engines for the future.
A Microsoft veteran of over two decades, Irina has held a variety of Strategy and Sales leadership roles across Enterprise, Solution Sales, Partner Solutions, and Education segments, focusing on Business management, Operations, Partnerships and New business initiatives. In her previous role as the leader of Cloud Solutions in India, she was focused on empowering Cloud Transformation by engaging with customers and partners to envision and architect their digital growth strategy. She is an Electrical Engineer from IIT BHU and an MBA from XLRI. A proponent of Women in Business and Technology, she is a recipient of the ‘Inspirational Women’s Award’ at Microsoft and ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ from IIT BHU.

Besides being a marathon runner and a music lover, she’s a strong champion of Diversity & Inclusion in. She is the founder of ‘MyLittleBit’, a philanthropic foundation, focusing on education and jobs for underprivileged girls. She’s also actively engaged with startups with ‘Microsoft for Startups’ and as a Trustee of SonderConnect, a foundation for women entrepreneurs.

Diksha Lalwani

As a channel of Consciousness through her offerings, in Diksha’s own words, “I am here to share what I know, what I unlearn.”

In 2013, Diksha quit the world of filmmaking to enter the world of yoga and energy healing. A teacher training course from Sivananda ashram (neyyar dam), Sadhna intensive from Sivananda ashram (Uttarkashi), 8 years of Swadhaya (self study), a daily meditation practice and consistent teaching, have laid the foundation of discipline and devotion to God (consciousness) for her. She has been teaching for the last seven years – both studio and private classes, and offering energy bodywork sessions.

For Diksha’s full profile please click here.

Bijoy Balagopal

Bijoy Balagopal has been a theatre practitioner for the last 9 years, Bijoy is a writer, director, actor and poet. Trained in Playback Theatre and Forum Theatre, Bijoy applies the wealth of over 17 years of corporate experience across the domains
of training, people leadership and project management, to the magic of arts

Bhavna Toor

Bhavna Toor is the founder of Shenomics, a Mindful leadership platform helping women realize their highest professional aspirations through a philosophy of leadership grounded in a conscious and non-judgmental awareness of one’s authentic self. Bhavna has been mentoring leaders and entrepreneurs for the last 10 years, including as an Entrepreneur-in-residence at the GSF Global Accelerator and previously as the CEO and Director of the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, helping to create a supportive eco-system for over 10,000 young social entrepreneurs. Prior to that, Bhavna had a 9-year celebrated career on Wall Street, most recently as a Vice President at a top investment firm in New York. As a passionate women’s leadership coach, Bhavna has spoken on various platforms including TEDx, and has worked with high-potential women at leading companies like Societe Generale, Google, Target and Goldman Sachs. Bhavna is a founding member of the Womensphere Global Network, an alumna of GIFT’s Global Young Leaders, the Startup Leadership Program, the Piramal Fellowship, and has an MBA in Social Impact from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Bhavna is also a former Miss India New York, model, actress, dancerand TV Host (Namaste America). Bhavna has lived in 6 different countries, and brings a global understanding and sensitivity to her work. Bhavna is working towards a world where all women can express their highest selves freely and fearlessly, where we uplift and empower one another through stories of our courage, and where the leader that we follow before all others is the leader within.

Aditi Sholapurkar

Aditi is a Co-Founder at SALT, a platform built around women and their money lives. Their mission is to enable more women to make more financial decisions. Before starting SALT, she spent time in various parts of the financial services demand and supply sides. At Goldman Sachs it was early-stage Fintech investing, at BAML and Citi it was Equities and FX trading. She helped build a bank from the ground up at Paytm and led corporate development at global Banking-as-a-Service Fintech Nium. With her unique exposure to payments, deposit and investment products as well as credit, she wants to build for the financial lives of the most discerning customers – women.