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K Amritha: Stepping Stones Centre Name: K Amritha Business Name: Stepping Stones Centre Location: Bangalore, India Establishment (Year): 2014 Profession/ Specialty: School for children with special needs Website : www.steppingstonescenter.in Socail Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Stepping Stones Centre is an Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) school for children with Autism and other developmental disabilities. Over the past 9 years, they have impacted 750+ children and graduated several of them into regular mainstream schools. They are a multidisciplinary centre with 50+ clinicians including Behaviour Therapists, Speech Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Special Educators, Montessori teachers working by one vision - ONE CHILD AT A TIME! They also have an ongoing research collaboration between Binghamton University (State University of New York) and Christ University (Bangalore) on the treatment plans for children with special needs. They provide certifications for professionals, teachers and parents through our e-learning portal. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: They believe that 'Everyone is Good at Something' and each child should be given the right opportunity. How society treats the disabled is the true measure of its civilisation. They set up a niche special education unit inside a school's premises and facilitate the end to end Inclusion Process. They are working with a couple of schools in Bangalore where 30+ children with special needs are included from grades UKG through Grade7. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs K Amritha recalls that there were several challenges during the establishment and growth of the business: 1. Finding the right set of resources was always one of our constant struggles when it came to scaling up our service. They found that the demand for qualified service is so high that it is not met with the certified professionals. This made them create a training platform for professionals to get their certification in Applied Behaviour Analysis. Today they are the one and only authorised course work provider under the QABA. (Qualified Applied Behaviour Analysis) 2. During their initial days, it was hard to find a place to graduate their children once they are school ready. Schools lacked the right resources and the infrastructure to facilitate Inclusion. Taking baby steps - they created their own Inclusion Platform - a Montessori school, where the transition can be smooth. This environment also helped the children to be included into a regular school and be part of the peer group. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Never Give up. Always believe in yourself. Small but consistent efforts over a period of time will give you exponential results, says Mrs K Amritha.

Karishma Attar: Netrinz World Pvt Ltd Name: Karishma Attar Business Name: Netrinz World Pvt Ltd Location: Mumbai, India Establishment (Year): 2020 Profession/ Specialty: Edtech Website : www.netrinzworld.com Social Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Netrinz World Pvt Ltd is a Digital Academy and Online Coaching for Cambridge Curriculum. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: They are not just a mere tutor, but they coach students who hand hold their grade transformation. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs Karishma Attar remembers that the challenges are faced by everyone each day, each moment... But one must focus on Solutions, and this space might be too small to describe all! Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Mrs Karishma Attar tells all the women entrepreneurs to believe in themselves and get the right mindset to succeed in the game.

Kapila Taneja: Healingworx Name: Kapila Taneja Business Name: Healingworx Location: Gurgaon, India Establishment (Year): 2017 Profession/ Specialty: Counsellor Website : https://healingworx.in/ Company Detail: Healingworx provides a platform for one to one counselling sessions. Personal & customised sessions for Past Regression. Online & Offline Corporate training. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: They customise as per the needs of the customer and empower them for life. The truest meaning of abundance is happiness and Healingworx ensures that for their clients. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs Kapila Taneja says that the challenge was to reach out to more and more people to serve them and the growth of their business. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Mrs Kapila Taneja tells everyone to just be clear with their ethics and values of their services or products as they must solve a problem that their client is facing. ‘Once your motive is to serve, rest everything will follow.’

Keerthana: Dhiran & Associates - construction Name: Keerthana Business Name: Dhiran & Associates - construction Location: Coimbatore, India Establishment (Year): 2017 Profession/ Specialty: Construction Social Media : Instagram Company Detail: With a young and enthusiastic crew of professionals, they do the planning, designing, construction and furnishing of homes. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage Meeting all the basic requirements and customising every nook and corner as to how the user wished for. Though they undertake material contracts, they do keep connected to every single work through WhatsApp groups, discuss with the users and only then proceed to the next stage of work. Challenges Faced During The Journey: As a female and being in the construction field, balancing client and labour when requested for changes in design would have been a harder task but through experience and way of handling people, it keeps moving smoother, claims Mrs Keerthana. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Mrs Keerthana says that if we inculcate our willpower, create a vision of how we should be in the next 10 years and keep on working; we will surely achieve what we need!

Lourdes Piscopo: Living Prospect Real Estate Name: Lourdes Piscopo Business Name: Living Prospect Real Estate Location: Victoria, Australia Establishment (Year): 2017 Profession/ Specialty: Real Estate Website : https://www.livingprospect.com.au/ Social Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Living Prospect Real Estate is a boutique agency based on transparency, customer services and integrity. Specialising in residential sales and property management, where quality is valued more than quantity. Their brand is based on family beliefs, morals and values with a lot of meaning going behind our brand Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Building relationships with their clients and also being very much involved within the community. Offering a nurturing service that helps guide their clients through the processes and doing this with excellence by having passionate staff that share the same values. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Being a small unknown brand Mrs Lourdes Piscopo had to overcome the big brands trying to destroy their reputation. She needed time to prove her worth and show that she is a good and honest company to work with. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Be true to yourself and don't be what others want you to be but be what you want to be. Also make sure you know every facet of the business, says Mrs Lourdes Piscopo.

Malti Lakhani: Kaizen Institute of Training Excellence Name: Malti Lakhani Business Name: Kaizen Institute of Training Excellence Location: Vadodara, India Establishment (Year): 2015 Profession/ Specialty: Training & Coaching Website : www.kaizentraininginstitute.com Social Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Kaizen Institute of Training Excellence is primarily in training students for careers in Aviation, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism, Event, Retail, Dramatics and so on. Parallel to this, Kaizen is also hugely into training Corporates like Soft Skills, Essential Skills, behaviour-based Safety Management, Train the Trainer, Change Manager and offering Business Consultancy and support to Start-ups. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Unlike a standard curriculum delivery, they at Kaizen carefully curate content for each corporate or individual and deliver using engaging techniques. Before a curriculum is designed, they not only listen to the needs of the organisation but also study the needs of the employees. Thus, it is a two-way benefit. Every organisation is unique and has had great intentions while it was born. Kaizen decided to stick to its meaning – Continuous Improvement (Kai-Zen). With this goal in mind, we have ensured to grow each minute, day and year, together. 1. They have had many students from weak financial backgrounds whom Kaizen supported with great discounts and support in studies also giving them internships with us while they learnt. 2. They have had many students pursuing other courses along with Kaizen courses whom we supported by providing them access to our classrooms the entire day so that they could stay back to study for their other courses. 3. They guided a few UPSC exams students, students reappearing for boards by motivating them to study positively and guiding them through during their queries, though this was not a part of Kaizen’s course. 4. They also counsel and continue counselling students who have lost their hopes and have had self-destructive thoughts. Some such students have been placed well in the industry with proper guidance and counselling and have been doing very well since then. Proud to state that they raised hopes and positive mindsets. 5. Kaizen has worked closely with blue-collar employees in the industries and has been able to deliver complex ideas in a very simple manner. No wonder, they have been favourites in the corporate sector, especially for organisations who have tried their services! 6. Kaizen has been helping students with presenting themselves in interviews and bagging jobs. Their students do say that if there was one company that should have been for motivating lives and careers, it sure would be Kaizen Institute of Training Excellence. 7. Kaizen might have missed making money, but never missed collecting blessings! It’s a living entity of heart, body and caring souls. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Challenges have been only another stepping stone, says Mrs Malti Lakhani. But yes, before she overcame them, they have been the struggling milestones for her. She had borne the brunt of the exit of various Airlines which in turn gave us less confident footfalls. Demonetization came as another hitch. On top of all, there was the Pandemic! Yet, The company did not notice much fall in terms of percentage of work they have been doing. There is a fall in the number of projects currently than what we handled earlier. There has been a stagnancy on and off but the word of mouth and repeat clients have saved them in time! It helps to build a “Delighted Client” base for automatic traction in the business. 40 per cent of clients are through Word of Mouth. But, building that rapport is the biggest challenge organisations should serve well. While designing and delivering Self Development content for the Self Help Groups of Maharashtra (under Maharashtra State Rural Livelihood Mission, Maharashtra Government) the biggest challenge was to explain the technical and management terms to the Rural folks. Kaizen took up the challenge to design a very simple and user-friendly curriculum to raise the bar of motivation and excitement in learning. It's not about fitting them into their training. It’s all about fitting our training in them! Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Mrs Malti Lakhani says that if it's not a struggle, it cannot be entrepreneurship. So, to be an entrepreneur one needs to trust. When you begin, all you need is to TRUST in yourself. Trust leads to a persevering approach. That means never giving up. Keep innovating ways to reach your dream if one way fails. There aren’t 100 failed ideas. They are all new ways that did not work in a particular case. They could be used by someone else. So, you document failures to not repeat them for the world will document your success.

Manjiri Gokhale Joshi: Maya CARE Foundation Name: Manjiri Gokhale Joshi Business Name: Maya CARE Foundation Location: Pune, India Establishment (Year): 2014 Profession/ Specialty: Leadership Trainer and social entrepreneur Website : www.mayacare.org Socail Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Since April 2020, after moving on from her last job as CEO of a training company, Manjiri has been focusing on developing a team of persons with disability to take on leadership roles at our charity Maya CARE Foundation, which has provided 10,600 free visits to the elderly since the last 12 years. Over the past 12 years, Manjiri and the co-founders at Maya CARE have nurtured people with no experience or relevant education, to deliver professionally run, high impact projects including the design and distribution of 41,000 co-branded masks to old age homes and key workers across India. Highlights: 1. Team Maya CARE comprising a visually impaired and two wheelchair-bound professionals became the first team of persons with disability to ever-present at the 47-year-old All-India Management Association (AIMA) competition for young managers. 2. Vaccination project managed by 30 persons with varying disabilities - visually impaired persons making calls to the elderly, hearing impaired searching for data, learning disabilities conducting online registration and led by a wheelchair-bound lady from Chandrapur. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Maya CARE is the world's only organization providing free support to the elderly while empowering persons with disabilities to build careers and be leaders. Challenges Faced During The Journey: As a social entrepreneur, lack of funding, support for an "unglamorous" cause like the elderly and seeking a team to demonstrate the passion needed were a few. These were overcome by immense family support, says Mrs Manjiri Gokhale Joshi who is her beloved husband Abhay Joshi and her late mother Dr Vidya Gokhale, both co-founders of Maya CARE. Now, she has a passionate team of 100 persons with disabilities en route to lead Maya CARE. Advice For Other Women Entrepreneurs: Mrs Manjiri Gokhale Joshi has been interviewed on this subject several times and she will always give the same advice - "If you are under 30, prepare to be an entrepreneur by gaining skills and experience. If you are above 30, take the plunge now!"

Manjoo Shree. N: Lifeolicious Name: Manjoo Shree. N Business Name: Lifeolicious Location: Coimbatore, India Establishment (Year): 2013 Profession/ Specialty: Clinical Psychologist Website : www.Lifeolicious.com Social Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: Lifeolicious is 8 years young positive coaching platform and its mission is to guide a million students and women to reboot to their best resilient selves to combat any setback life throws at them by flipping their pain to strength. Mrs Manjoo Shree’s passion is to empower Students and women to discover how to let their full power shine, find inner strength, and play full out. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Lifeolicious Works with a systematic formula BSM to ‘ Bulletproof Your Life ‘researched over 20yrs studies and experience as a clinical psychologist and international life coach. One can do all Of this without digesting big theories, research books or going through a hurdle all by yourself. their short term goals - To reach out to lakh children - generation Z students, parents and teachers by 2022. Long term - To reach out to billion children and women and make our world tomorrow resilient proved to combat any curve ball life May throw at. Lifeolicious is on a mission to let people live with a genuine sense of happiness and joy, free from fear and anxiety caused by the threat of distress, limiting beliefs and rooted emotions. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs Manjoo Shree realized recently that she can be anything if she wants to be - a CEO, singer, author, professor, social worker, organ donor or even a full marathoner - she has finally broken that glass ceiling and it sure looks good from the top. One of the secrets of success is not letting what you cannot do interfere with, what you can do. Today she is recognised as an inspiration nationally and internationally. But she remembers the day when she started, it wasn’t effective. She remembers being fearful. She was an ordinary housewife who fought personal tragedies to become the person she is today. It took her more than 20 years to become comfortable while speaking her heart through her service as a psychologist. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: Stress today is undeniable to an intensity that has become a part of our day to day lives. Through lifeolicious, Mrs Manjoo Shree intends to help realign every teenager and woman need to meet to live a more purposeful life mastering emotional intelligence. PUT FEAR ASIDE AND TAKE SMALL STEPS. Break that glass ceiling. It sure does look good from the top. Give yourself a chance every single time.

Manjulla Manjjotra Nair: A Buzz Co. Name: Manjulla Manjjotra Nair Business Name: A Buzz Co. Location: Pune, Inda Establishment (Year): 2015 Profession/ Specialty: Marketing & Public Relations Consultant Website : www.abuzzco.com Social Media : Company Detail: A Buzz Company is an Outsourcing Chief Marketing Officers Organization with an experienced, talented & capable crew to manage 360° of Marketing & Communication Strategy. Their services include providing:- - Go-to-Market Strategy & Implementation - Marketing & Communication Solutions - Smart Digital Marketing - Media Presence & Media Management - Analyst & Influencer Relations Management - Solutions for Pre-sales on Lead Sourcing/ Lead Generation/ Lead Communications/ Lead Management /E-mailer Campaigns / Monthly Newsletter Management - Corporate Communications strategy enables effective Internal & External Communication plans including Public Relations, Analyst Relations & building the branding of a Great Place to work. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: There are no companies like A Buzz Co. where they don't operate as an agency but more like business partners or even internal teams. That's why they are Outsourced Chief Marketing Officers who provide Go-to-Market Strategy and implementation. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs Manjulla Manjjotra says that she has treated Challenges as opportunities to grow, evolve and expand. The main challenge was to bring Startups to start their Marketing and communication strategy from day one as they noticed most of them need funding only to do marketing and expansion. so, they put in startup mentorships and started coaching startups on Organic growth. They have mentored over 1000 Startups to date and over 10000 students from different Universities across Pune, IIT Roorkee, IIIT on entrepreneurship from campus. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: The sky is not the limit, women with the smallest of ideas can change the way we live. They have taught us how to live smartly whether it's our mothers who nurture us through their life examples or our grandmothers who taught us how to invest in the sugar boxes. The world needs Women to get wiser at work, be emotional towards other people and become smart investors in life. These were some wise words shared by Mrs Manjulla Manjjotra Nair for all other women entrepreneurs.

Meenu Rathore: OneWill Consulting Name: Meenu Rathore Business Name: OneWill Consulting Location: Surat, India Establishment (Year): 2015 Profession/ Specialty: Business Management Consulting Website : www.onewillconsulting.com Social Media: LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Company Detail: OneWill Consulting passionately delivers its Advisory and Implementation Services in the area of business Management & organization development consulting to clients varying from SME sectors to large Corporates. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Every 10 Crore company wants to become a 100 Crore company, every 100 Crore company wants to become a 1000 Crore company, but they do not have the requisite systems, process and people infrastructure in place: • OneWill Consulting designs the processes and works closely with its clients long-term till the time the new processes become a part of the DNA of the organization. • They do independent research and develop customized models for SMEs and Family Managed businesses with an in-depth understanding of the challenges unique to them. With multi-industry focus and experience, today they are considered one of the pioneers of organized OD for SMEs. Challenges Faced During The Journey: They come across many stories about how passion and persistence have played a significant role in the lives of successful people. Yet, few are as inspiring as Meenu Rathore, who had to compromise with family rules but is now running a highly successful Business Management Consultancy firm in Surat, the business hub in Gujarat. Meenu, who hails from an Army family, is the Founder and Director of OneWill Consulting. This firm has helped more than 200+ Companies through its expertise in system and process consulting, strategic implementations for business growth, HR transformation, and training and development. OneWill Consulting is a multi-crore company having a solid national and international client base. Still, the story could have been very different for Meenu, as she recalls. “I was born in an Army family, and I aspired to study hard and become a Company Secretary (CS). However, my parents had other plans and were already preparing for my marriage as soon as I reached the ‘right’ age. In fact, they had already finalized a suitor for me,” Meenu says. She had a big argument with her family about the marriage and even threw away all her books in rage with disappointment. On her father’s advice, she connected with the potential suitor and shared with him her strong aspiration to pursue CS. The suitor readily agreed, and soon the two got married. Soon after the marriage, Meenu landed in Surat and started pursuing her CS finals, followed by a CS articleship and simultaneously enrolled for MBA. To ensure her financial independence, she also started working as an HR manager in a textile firm. Things were good with Meenu, and her life was going along as planned. It took a dramatic turn when she assisted a road accident victim. The person invited Meenu to his office, which proved to be a turning point in her life and the lives of many others. The accident victim was Deepprakash Agarwal, Director of Radhey Weaves, who was highly impressed with Meenu and offered her the opportunity to work as HR in his organization. Meenu, however, turned the offer citing time constraints due to her studies and other work commitments. Mr Agarwal was, however, persistent and asked Meenu to provide HR Business Consulting services to his firm for an hour or two a week, an offer she could not refuse. The association opened a world of opportunities for Meenu as other firms soon approached her for similar services. To overcome the paucity of time on weekdays, she started working on new assignments on Sundays. “This was like a Eureka moment for me. I realized then there was a big market for Business Consulting services in Surat. I saw an opportunity and decided to grab it with both my hands. With Mr. Agarwal’s guidance, I founded my own company, and this is how OneWill Consulting was born,” says Meenu. Today, OneWill Consulting is a multi-crore firm, working with big names Like Torrent Power Limited, Meera Industries Limited, Dharmaj Crop Guard Limited, Radhey Group, JBGO Group, Jindal Group, Navin Group, Vijay Dairy, Sandesh Distributors, Revo International, and several others across various sectors, offering them its multi-disciplinary services. Even as she was scaling new heights, she decided to pursue a PhD in management. Her determination can be gauged because she appeared for the PhD exam while being eight months pregnant. What’s more, she aced the exam. “I got pregnant when my company was doing very well. I was determined I would not take a break from my professional life. I continued working literally till the last hour of pregnancy and was back at work just a week after my daughter was born. Leaving a one-week infant at home was heart-breaking, but I did it as I firmly believe work is worship,” she says. Just at the age of 27, Meenu is a leading Female Business Management Consultant of Surat and a well-known startup mentor, a regional trainer for BNI, support director at BNI, Business Director at JCI, CEO of RMG Maheshwari School, Guest Lecturer at Luthra Institute of Management, Surat, and Visiting Lecturer at Vidyadeep Institute of Management, Kim. Unsurprisingly, Meenu is a role model and inspiration for many women as a highly qualified professional and a successful entrepreneur. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: “I have always believed in hard work, and I am convinced it always pays us in one or the other form. All we need to do is keep following our passion whatever be the situation because challenges are miracles waiting to happen,” says Mrs Meenu Rathore.

Meghavi Vyas - Mega Image Consulting Name: Meghavi Vyas Business Name: Mega Image Consulting Location: Vadodara, India Establishment (Year): 2011 Profession/ Specialty: Personal Branding Expert Social Media : LinkedIn | Instagram Company Detail: Mega Image Consulting provides Personal Branding for working professionals, Image Management for executives, Executive Presence for C Suite. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: A practical approach to suit the individual's personality and not just go by the rule book, tailored solutions to meet the exact need of the seeker. Challenges Faced During The Journey: Mrs Meghavi’s journey started when she was often misunderstood to be a radiologist - this being closest to the word Image. Coming from an engineering background was another challenge in adapting to the poise and polish that this industry required. Not coming from a business background was also a challenge in understanding the way the business world operates. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: There has been no better time than today to start what you want to start. A Leap of faith is what takes you where you aspire to be. These are some words that Mrs Meghavi Vyas shares with other women entrepreneurs.

Monika Sundrani - Self Employed - Career Counseling Name: Monika Sundrani Business Name: Self Employed - Career Counseling Location: Ahmedabad, India Establishment (Year): 2020 Profession/ Specialty: Certified in Career Counseling, training Campus to Corporate, Mentoring Students and Healing Website : http://www.monikasundrani.com/ Social Media : LinkedIn Company Detail: As a professional for nearly 17 years now, Mrs Monika Sundarani has worked with different institutions and firms for 14 years and later started her journey as a women entrepreneur. She is on a journey of guiding and mentoring students through her public skills and counselling. She is a Certified Career Counselor, a trainer, NLP Practitioner and an Access Consciousness BARS Practitioner too. They have touched more than 3000 lives and have a mission to touch more than 5000 lives in the next 2 years. Her vision is to help students choose a suitable career and life path with a correct understanding of their skills and interests. Also, she counsels adults to live a better and happy life with my Counseling sessions. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Mrs Monika Sundari says that her communication style, people skills with knowledge and experience is her USP. Challenges Faced During The Journey: The only struggle Mrs Monika Sundari faced was her health issues which made her career challenging. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: The only advice Mrs Monika Sundari gives - is to never give up and not to lose hope even if you fail many times. The thing always reworks and gives a new start. Keep exploring your skills and also don't look for a big start, may start small and it will take a bigger shape.