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I turned seventy-five recently. My life has had three distinct phases to it. The first phase was spent learning & developing skills. This was followed by my stint in the corporate world, where I le…

“There were two turning points in my career. The first came when I gave up my regular job with SRF NipponDenso to start my entrepreneurial journey, and the second was when our entrepreneurial ventu…

I have been in the corporate world for 26 years in the hospitality industry. I was a CEO of a large multinational company for 11 years before I quit and started an NGO with my lifetime savings, fro…

My journey has been very Organic. I am a Microbiologist by training having earned a doctorate in Microbial Genetics in the US after which I returned to India and served as faculty in the Dept. of M…

A postgraduate from IIT and IIM, Atul Bakshi was born and schooled in Delhi. His early life laid the foundation for a remarkable journey filled with service, sacrifice, and a relentless commitment…

My professional journey began at J Walter Thompson, where I spent 25 years as Senior Vice President and Managing partner. For 15 years, I headed 2 of the 5 nationwide offices – Kolkata, and Chennai…

I grew up in Madhya Pradesh and moved to Hyderabad for my higher education with no set career plans, till our neighbour seeded the idea of Government Services in my mind. Soon after, I prepared for…

I am a passionate Marketing Communications professional with 24 years of experience, having spent more than 2 decades at Sony Electronics. While I started in the Travel function, I was offered an o…

Post-nationalisation, the banking sector was in the throes of generational changes in the early 1970s when I joined the State Bank group. The transition from class banking to mass banking was ably…

“I got married at 19 and moved to a small city of Visakhapatnam. After 12 years, when my boys came of age, they went to boarding school. Once I had some time to myself, my mother egged me on to be…

I graduated from IIT Kanpur and IIxM Lucknow and started as a trainee in the IT industry. I rose up the ranks to eventually be Managing Partner of MGS, a consulting company, based in California. Po…

I qualified as a Chartered Accountant at a time when there were very few qualified women Chartered Accountants around. I was the only girl in my examination centre both during Intermediate and fina…

I knew I wanted to be a writer at age 11. I wanted to live in the mountains, have 12 children, dogs, and horses. Well, achieving one ambition out of three is not bad! Success came early, at 23, I w…

I started my professional career when I turned 46 years old, and I never looked back. I joined Fabindia in the year 2000 and spent the next 9 years learning everything that came my way. A turning p…

“I studied Music Education and Teaching Methods in the USA. Apart from Piano teaching, in which I hold a Licentiate degree in Piano Performance and theory from Trinity College London, I also hold a…