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WOMEN INFLUENCERS INDIA INC. Biz Divas Periodical | August 2015 1 TEAM Core Team Sarika Bhattacharyya, Co-Founder, Biz Shilpi Singh is an Executive Coach & ITES, Banking, Financial Services and Divas & Altavis has over 16 years of Hospitality Entrepreneur. Shilpi is also Insurance sectors. As a coach, Garvita experience having worked with firms on Board of Swechha, one of the best has moorings in Performance Coaching such as Merrill Lynch. She is passionate known NGOs of India, working in space and Women Coaching. She is most about economic independence of of environmental issues. She has had passionate about working with women women and giving them a voice. 14+ years of HR experience with some in various stages of the employee Sarika was nominated by US Embassy of the world’s best media companies lifecycle as well as transitioning or for a prestigious Women Leadership – Ogilvy & IMG. She has handled PAN growing entrepreneurs, helping her exchange program (Fortune/US State India responsibilities and challenging clients unleash their full potential. Dept ) where she spent a month in USA global matrix across multiple industries Garvita is an IIM Indore alumnus and a being mentored by CEOs of Fortune including FMCG, Luxury, Bank Telecom, post-graduate in Commerce. 500 companies. She was also felicitated Technology, Manufacturing and more. prestigious “Leadership in Mentoring” She now plays the role of a Performance Namrata Bajaj, Program Manager, Biz award by Hillary Clinton, Vital Voices Catalyst, working with individuals Divas, is the latest to join the team. She & Bank of America in USA in 2014. A and organizations to better their has done her schooling from Modern highly respected speaker on gender performance, profitability and purpose. School, Barakhamba Road and post diversity and related business issues, Shilpi has been trained and certified graduation in Finance from Symbiosis, Sarika has been featured as the Top by Results Coaching System (Australia) Pune. With over 6 years of experience 50 Indian Women to follow in Twitter and is amongst the early believers and working in industries like Education, by WOW Asia. Sarika is an avid reader, practitioners of executive coaching Banking, Insurance and organizations enthusiastic traveler and dabbles in in the country. She is also a certified like Citibank and Max Life Insurance, painting. Emotional Intelligence practitioner. A Namrata brings a rich experience multi-tasker, she also runs a chain of in areas such as human resources, Priyanka Awasthy, is co Founder of homestays in India – Cinnamon Stays, customer services and people Biz Divas Foundation and Altavis Grannys Inn. Shilpi has been working management. She manages backend Consulting. She has over 15 years of extensively in the space of Woman operations, communications and event experience in banks and multinationals leadership since past four years. She execution at Biz Divas. Namrata is an including Citi, Blackrock and Standard is a key player in Biz Divas Foundation. avid traveller and is passionate about Chartered. As an avid campaigner She is specially committed to working fashion. for inclusive leadership and a firm with women entrepreneurs. advocate of women’s economic Ela Gupta, passionate about empowerment, she develops and Rashmi Mandloi is a Diversity empowering people and communities facilitates programs that sensitize and Inclusion consultant with a and instigate social changes, loves to organisations to the needs of diverse professional career of over 14 years work with social entrepreneurs and groups. Priyanka speaks at various with Deutsche Bank, Convergys and change-makers. As a Marketing and forums on inclusive leadership and Standard Chartered Bank in India. She Communications consultant, Ela helps gender issues. She organizes periodic has collaborated with organization in understanding, measuring and round table discussions with industry boards in charting out an holistic articulating Biz Divas’ social impact. Ela leaders on key issues and best practices employee development plan. Via Biz specializes in media, events & content in talent management. She is involved Divas she aims to enable greater strategy. Ela is an alumnus of London in research projects on topics relevant participation of women in the Indian School of Economics, Birla Institute of to inclusion. Priyanka is a Mentor with subcontinent and also create a positive Management Technology and Miranda FICCI for women entrepreneurs. She impact on their life and prosperity. She House. is also involved in various efforts for leads the Biz Divas Bangladesh chapter environment protection. which aims to get entrepreneurial and Dinakshi Arora, after a successful stint professional women connected using with in the IT industry as software Ranjana Deopa, Co-Founder, Altavis technology, sessions, training and other professional with organizations like & Biz Divas, has over 17 years of innovative tools to help them advance IBM, Satyam and Polaris, joined Biz Divas experience having worked with firms in their roles and careers. as Program Manager & Content Head. like Xerox, ABN Amro and ICICI Bank. She then moved to her role as Editor Ranjana successfully established Garvita Chaturvedi is an Executive at Biz Divas. She works as a consultant Altavis Consulting as a preferred Coach and Human Resources for a software company and freelances partner for Executive Search with Professional with direct and in-depth as a writer. Having versatile skills sets, large MNCs. She believes in promoting exposure to a wide swathe of services Dinakshi is an avid reader, blogger and balanced leadership in the corporate industries, within marquee MNCs as writes poetry in three languages. Being world. With that passion, she started well as early stage entrepreneurial very passionate about education, she the practice of Diversity Hiring and ventures. Earlier, in the corporate sector, also takes creative writing and other Women on Boards. A certified scuba Garvita worked in various HR functional workshops for children. She is deeply diver & a marathon runner, Ranjana is roles in People Strategy, Compensation interested in spirituality, wellness and a fitness enthusiast and is also a brand & Benefits, Performance Management exploring life. amabassador for Pinkathon, Delhi. and Content Development across IT/ 2 Biz Divas Periodical | August 2015 CONTENT It’s Time to Claim our Power New Poke Me: In Spite 4 Initiatives Real Estate of being in 2015 is not the a Woman 5 Best or a Man 16 33 Here’s to The Glass Rising of Ceiling Women Within Disrupting Leadership! 17 Maternity Winner Circle 6 Transition 29 18 Blind Auditions – Answer to Diversity Hiring? Do we Canning the Can’ts 20 Rev Up 21 or Slow Down? 24 Ready for Your Creating a Hillary Mind is Successful Brand 30 Your Identity Strength Tips for Buying 27 22 Diamonds 34 Stay Visible, Stay Ahead 31 Diversity Jobs There’s so much to Learn from Bhutan 35 26 Discover yourself Virtual Assistants as a What’s Different in – New Genre of Leader Truly Successful Women Work-From-Home 32 Entrepreneurs Professionals 36 37 Founders Editor-in-chief Printed by Sarika Gupta Bhattacharyya Sarika Gupta Bhattacharyya Akriti Printers Ranjana Deopa Priyanka Devasar Awasthy Executive Editor Dinakshi Arora Contact Us: Layout Design Email: [email protected] Soniya Mathur Website: www.bizdivas.in Biz Divas Periodical | August 2015 3 EDITORIAL It’s Time to Claim our Power n my journey of working with more than 2000 women “women are not a leaders across the globe, I have realized that advancing problem to be solved women is just not the right thing to do or good thing to but women actually do… it is a smart thing to do. No economy, no community, are the solution”. Ino government, no corporations can expect to compete in global markets if they leave half the talent pool out of the In the last few years equation of growth. we learnt something: women leaders are A few years ago Economist magazine published a really multipliers and they pay it forward by mentoring others. Biz interesting article and it said something quite profound – Divas has been identifying and investing in these women. “Forget China, forget India, forget the Internet… women will They in turn have created ripple effect and impacted 2000+ be drivers for economic growth in the 21st century”. Leading women through our various programs. economists term women as Global Reserve. Biz Divas is here because we believe in this substantial truth that women are We have tremendous power, we have tremendous platform, actually the emerging markets. But we also know that reality we have tremendous voice. So I want to ask all of you to join doesn’t really match this recognition. me, there are many things you can do, there are incredible trends you can be part of, and we can all bring about this Around the globe, women represent only 1% of sales to major much required transformation! multinational corporations, less than 1% of the global supply chain. The challenges are great but I think the opportunities are much greater. Just right here in this region of South East Asia, if all women had the opportunity to be a part of growing market, opportunity to grow small & medium enterprises, to be a part of the economy – we would add nearly 90 billion dollars to the economy in just one year. That’s astounding! Sarika Gupta Bhattacharya It’s an opportunity that we simply can’t ignore. Biz Divas Co-Founder was founded on this very simple but very powerful idea that Altavis & Biz Divas Foundation 4 Biz Divas Periodical | August 2015 JOURNEY New Initiatives in 2015 Women on Boards Mentoring Programs Do you think we need a more gender balanced boards in Mentoring is critical to empowering women as leaders. India Inc.? Do you want to serve on boards and committees? Mentoring corresponds with strengths that are often Do you think you have what it needs to be a part of these associated with women: building personal relationships, boards? If yes, Biz Divas brings to you “Women on Boards” creating collaborative working environments and initiative.