Challenges apart, these lady leaders have shown the way
They have carved a niche for themselves by turning those challenges into avenues of opportunity
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These women entrepreneurs can set an example for host of other aspiring women aspirants who have been nursing a dream to leave a trail blazing for others to follow
Mumbai: Being a woman becomes a challenging term when it comes to industry. Still, there are women, who have carved a niche for themselves by turning those challenges in to avenues of opportunity.
Tanuja Gomes and Dharini Upadhyaya, co-founders of Furtados School of Music (FSM), began their journey when they were in their teens. aTanuja is a business leader, enthusiast and innovator with 18 years of banking experience behind her. An MBA from prestigious NMIMS, her professional experience includes leadership positions with blue-chip banks such as HSBC, Standard Chartered and Barclays. On the other hand, Dharini is a finance wiz and music lover.
As per their dream, five years from now, FSM will be one of the largest music and arts education companies in both the digital and physical space offering quality universal access to learners across all geographies at the most affordable price point.
Meet Lakshmi Murthy, chief people's officer, ITM Group of Institute. According to her, no situation is a challenge. In her earlier days, Lakshmi used to live in a small suburb of Mumbai and travelling to workplace used to take time (almost 1.5 hours by the local train).
Apropos Lakshmi, "I had two school-going children and lived in a joint family. One had to always plan a lot of things, to an extent that my work at office and work at home had a fixed schedule. Everything used to happen as a clock work. And if something went wrong and did not go as per schedule, then one had to discover a stop gap arrangement on the go."
In spite of the issues, she never gave up and continued to find solutions and alternatives. Most important thing Lakshmi did was that everything cannot be perfect, and I am not a superhuman.
"At the hindsight, the 30 years of career as a HR professional was worth it," she says.
Nidhi Agarwal, Founder & Chief Learning Officer at Book A Workshop strongly believes that online learning market is only going to grow in the coming years.
Challenges are there in the way of Nidhi in forms like reaching out the right learner target audience and reaching out to more experts and celebrities globally. But, she is undeterred by these challenges.
Talking about her business, Nidhi says, "We are a non-funded company that was started in June 2020, in 8 months we've reached a turnover of Rs 15 lakh and are looking at a turnover of Rs 1.2 crore towards the end of 2021."
Aarti Notiyal is a journalist turned communication professional and her current assignment is director, Bubble Communication.
Recollecting her old days, Aarti says, "Back in 2002, you would rarely come across 1 or 2 women placed at leadership positions in the entire news industry and this always was a question left unanswered for me, till years later…when the situation gradually started changing, not that today we have equal male & female ratios but a change has begun and which was crucial."
Yes. These women entrepreneurs can set an example for host of other aspiring women aspirants who have been nursing a dream to leave a trail blazing for others to follow.
