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What’s Your Worth?

by Rashmi Mandloi | Feb 22, 2021 | BD Voice, Coaching, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

I came across an interesting post on LinkedIn, and my first reaction as amplified by others too on that post was ‘it’s so true’ (check the pic). Coaching and consulting leaders over the past decade, I have observed that people who are consistently successful in...

I Inspire – Leadership Lessons for 2021

by Sarika | Feb 2, 2021 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Gender, Inclusion, Inclusion Champions, Inclusion Matters, Inspirational Women, Leadership, Mentoring Matters, Personal Development, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

2020 was a year that has tested our society like few others in recent memory, it’s safe to say that many of us are looking forward to putting this year behind us. We have navigated through incredibly turbulent times and we are not out of them yet, but there does seem...

Meet the world’s first all women SuperMileage team.

by Rajiv Murti | Apr 13, 2019 | Every Day Heroes, Inspirational Women, Woman of Influence

Mechanical engineering isn’t for girls. We beg to differ. Team Panthera is the official supermileage team of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, Delhi. It is Asia’s only all women supermileage team. This team was formed with the aim of...

How diversity as an idea is evolving

by Sarika | Nov 1, 2018 | BD Voice, Gender, Inclusion, Inclusion Champions, Inclusion Matters, Leadership, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

“Mom, we won the match!” shouted my 12-year-old son as he got home from school. “Akshi was too cool. She took the last goal in the last 4 minutes to spare”. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him raving about his teammate who is a girl playing in his school soccer...

Dream Big and Achieve

by Ranjana | Aug 31, 2018 | Change Makers, Empowerment, Gender, Inclusion, Inspirational Women, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

The resignation of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi in early August was kind of unexpected and this leaves us with a huge void which can’t be filled up. This takes the count of Women CEO’s leading Fortune 500 companies to 23 which is less than 5%, down from 32 female CEO’s...

The Cost of Silence

by Sarika | Aug 31, 2018 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Every Day Heroes, Gender, Inclusion Matters, Inspirational Women, Safety, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

For past few days, I had been deeply disturbed by the horrific stories of young girls being raped by the very people who were supposed to be their guardians in the shelter. More disturbing was the fact that many people knew about this, in fact, heard their screams but...